Sentences with phrase «while slowing climate change»

In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agreement.

Not exact matches

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Dr. Benestad states: «In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

While mechanisms involving ocean currents might help to intensify or reverse the effect of climate changes, they are to slow to explain the almost instantaneous operation of the Antarctic climate anomaly...»

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

While humans may be largely to blame for the rapid changes in climate, the key to slowing it down also mainly lies in human hands.

Climate change, water stress, land deterioration, and a shrinking backlog of unused agricultural technologies all are playing a role in the slowing growth in world food supplies, all while populations are growing.

«To put it bluntly, climate change and its likely impact are proving slower and less harmful than we feared, while decarbonization of the economy is proving more painful and costly than we hoped,» they write.

While only a few recent species extinctions have been attributed to climate change, natural global climate change at rates slower than current anthropogenic climate change caused significant ecosystem shifts and species extinctions in the past millions of years.

It might slow things down for a while, but the climate change we're seeing now — and it's real, folks — is more than enough to take on a little temporary cooling, especially local cooling.

In a world that is in dire need of action on climate change some are denying that it is happening, others want to support mining and the fossil fuel industry for short - term economic or selfish reasons, still others are in favour of renewable energy anywhere other than near them, while Dr Pierpont, Ms Laurie and those like them are slowing adoption of sustainable energy because of ignorance and delusion.

While some worried this could undermine the country's efforts to save its forests and slow climate change, Pungky Widiaryanto of the State Ministry of National Development Planning says the change makes sense, and will lead to a more efficient implementation of REDD.

Recent climate and clean energy policy developments at the state and city - level policy developments could potentially accelerate last year's pace of emission reductions, while recent federal regulatory changes could slow that progress.

«This plan will clean the air we breathe while helping slow climate change so we can leave a safe and healthy future for our kids.»

While it is true that not all disasters are caused by climate change, extreme weather and slow - onset events can be clearly attributed to climate change, he says.

My conversation with Bill was back in 2010, and while I'm proud of what has been accomplished with the People's Climate March, arrests at the White House, and delays in the KXL pipeline, the truth is we haven't managed to slow down emissions, much less change our fundamental lifestyle.

While most of the world's nations have agreed to tackle climate change, to date actions have done little to slow emissions growth.