Sentences with phrase «with slowing climate change»

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And he met with the governors of California and Washington to discuss steps to slow climate change.

Compared with weather events like floods or cyclones, the droughts are a slow - onset manifestation of changing climate.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

Reducing emissions of black carbon and methane can be done today with existing technologies, and could significantly slow climate change

Evolution is a slow process, however, so any adaptation would not save us from the imminent problems associated with climate change.

The effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching, become slow - motion disasters, with knock - on effects for years

Lead author Dr Orly Razgour, of the University of Southampton, explained: «Long - lived, slow - reproducing species with smaller population sizes are not likely to be able to adapt to future climate change fast enough through the spread of new mutations arising in the population.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

A weaker sun might slow human - induced climate change slightly but when the sun eventually recovers force, global warming would heat up with even more of a vengeance.

Now researchers say they have actually found a way to make such a scheme work with forests across the desert — and to slow climate change in the process.

But two groups with the power to do something about slowing down climate change — the politicians and the industrialists — do not yet recognise the urgency of the situation.

The study examined the benefits of global and domestic GHG mitigation on US air quality and human health in 2050, comparing a scenario with no global action to reduce GHGs with an aggressive scenario that significantly slows climate change.

Some species will be able to keep up with the changing climate, but others will be too slow, or they will have their path blocked by a valley, a mountain, a city or even a single road.

President - elect Trump on Tuesday rounded out a potential dream team of anti-environment cabinet members with the chief executive officer of ExxonMobil, among the world's 10 largest companies and one that has profited from global warming and worked to slow the fight against climate change.

The best strategies, Loarie says, will be those with a two - pronged approach — those that slow climate change and expand viable habitats.

Savannahs, though they are not jam - packed with carbon - absorbing trees, nonetheless help to slow down climate change, according to a new study.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

It appears that the climate changes according to a repeating 60 year or so pattern with 30 years of general warming and 30 years of general cooling, this pattern superimposed, we hope, on a very slow longer term warming trend.

Highlights include chocolate paintings that could be traded for fair trade chocolate, a city comprising foam buildings that morphed due to climate change, and an opportunity to take time to slow down with your family along a lazy river.

Guemas et al. (Nature Climate Change 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years can not be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the Climate Change 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years can not be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the mChange 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years can not be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the mchange in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the mchange in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the models.

FYI, I am in the «undecided» crowd — as in undecided on how much warming is natural vs anthropogenic, undecided whether or not warming is good vs bad, undecided whether or not warming can be catastrophic (and at what level of GHG such a thing would happen), undecided whether or not man can significantly slow - down or reverse warming, undecided whether or not we should be concerned with trying to fight climate change vs preparing to deal with it, etc..

The challenges that the world faces in the next decades regarding climate change will likely have to be addressed by changing consumption patterns and technological innovations; changes in population size in the most developed countries, with the possible exception of the United States, is a relatively slow process that occurs over many decades and that will unlikely to have a significant impact on how the world resolves the challenges of climate change and resource constraints.

(For another example, focused on the tremendous potential for slowing climate change through action on soot, see the last issue of foreign affairs for an article co-authored with two colleagues here in La Jolla, V. Ramanathan and C. Kennel.)

I really hope the Keystone XL pipeline is not approved, but as Friedman says, with the right kind of grassroots reaction, perhaps enough political pressure can be placed on the President and members of Congress to actually get some significant legislation passed to slow climate change.

It's slow to build and slow to get regulatory approval and has high capital costs, so these things alone mean its hard to see it dealing with dangerous climate change problem within the time constraints of the next 30 — 40 years.

Through science, humans are slowing becoming aware of planet - scale changes to ecosystems and the atmosphere with potentially enormous and long - lasting implications for climate and biology.

Once the ice reaches the equator, the equilibrium climate is significantly colder than what would initiate melting at the equator, but if CO2 from geologic emissions build up (they would, but very slowly — geochemical processes provide a negative feedback by changing atmospheric CO2 in response to climate changes, but this is generally very slow, and thus can not prevent faster changes from faster external forcings) enough, it can initiate melting — what happens then is a runaway in the opposite direction (until the ice is completely gone — the extreme warmth and CO2 amount at that point, combined with left - over glacial debris available for chemical weathering, will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, possibly allowing some ice to return).

Another question we must ask is: will greater numbers of hurricanes of Category 4 or 5 strength make landfall as a result of climate change (due to SSTs warming along with, but at a slower rate and with some time lag as, the atmosphere)?

Again, natural variability has been ignored in order to support a particular point of view, with climate change advocates leaping on the acceleration to further their cause and the climate change sceptics now using the slowing down to their own benefit.

In relation to the above posts, and the drip drip drip effect of climate change, taking place so glacially - slow and yet very very real — and perhaps with huge ramifications for the future of humankind — I coined a new word the other day... and the inspiration for it came directly from this blog.

With «fast» action we can loose only our comfort, with «slow» or no action we can loose comfort and much more... There is no single proof for cigarettes causing cancer and there is no (and never will be) single proof for CO2 causing climate chaWith «fast» action we can loose only our comfort, with «slow» or no action we can loose comfort and much more... There is no single proof for cigarettes causing cancer and there is no (and never will be) single proof for CO2 causing climate chawith «slow» or no action we can loose comfort and much more... There is no single proof for cigarettes causing cancer and there is no (and never will be) single proof for CO2 causing climate change.

In a study published in the journal Nature the researchers say analysis of sea surface temperature data shows that the AMOC has slowed down by roughly 15 % since the middle of the 20th century, with human - made climate change a prime suspect.

Sciencedaily: With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of the environment to slow warming's damage to the planet.

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has an ambitious plan to scale up green infrastructure, using green roofs, land conservation, permeable pavement and other approaches to help slow and absorb water during the extreme precipitation events that are becoming more common with climate change.

The crux of Bates» claim is that NOAA, the federal government's top agency in charge of climate science, published a poorly - researched but widely praised study with the political goal of disproving the controversial global warming hiatus theory, which suggests that global warming slowed down from 1998 until 2012 with little change in globally - averaged surface temperatures — a direct contrast to global warming advocates» claim that the earth's temperature has been constantly increasing.

Unambiguous detection of climate change is likely to be a painfully slow process, involving much more detailed comparison of climate model results with observations.4 There is no climatic counterpart to the Antarctic ozone hole.

SkyPower, the world's largest developer and owner of utility - scale solar energy projects, is proud to announce its landmark partnership agreement with COP21, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which delegations representing over 150 countries will attend in Paris for 12 days with the objective of reaching a universal agreement on how to slow the rise of global temperatures.

• establishing an international mechanism on loss and damage associated with climate change impacts — extreme and slow onsets, and includes non-economic and socioeconomic losses.

The survey finds both support and skepticism for major efforts to reduce climate change on the first day of a Paris summit, with international leaders aiming to forge consensus on measures aimed at slowing the rise of global temperatures.

Alertnet: The international climate community suffered a rocky finish to 2012 with slow progress, lacklustre ambition and a leak of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) authoritative Fifth Assessment Reportclimate community suffered a rocky finish to 2012 with slow progress, lacklustre ambition and a leak of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) authoritative Fifth Assessment ReportClimate Change's (IPCC) authoritative Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).

After talking with dozens of climatologists and related researchers, David Wallace - Wells writes about what will happen to the Earth and human civilization without taking «aggressive action» on slowing climate change.

In fact, making the changes necessary to deal with climate is going to mean a lot of «strong and slow boring of hard boards,» integrating climate into the ordinary business of government, assembling and disseminating information, drawing in new partners, and building up constituencies.

With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing hypotheses.

Climate change communications, including government communication campaigns, should work to normalise public displays of frustration with the slow pace of political change.

Women within the community are among those being trained as masons to install biogas digesters in Kereita area, providing households with cheap, clean energy and helping to slow climate change by replacing wood, gas, or kerosene.

The report is framed around communicating about climate change effectively — but read more closely and you'll quickly see that the reason we need help here to begin with is that humans have some pesky attributes, ones that render us pretty poor at grappling with slow - moving, long - range, collective problems like climate change.

As the toll from global climate change becomes apparent for all to see − with whole populations displaced by rising seas, millions dying from famines due to crop failures attributable to climate change, and millions more struck down by diseases associated with a transformed climate − these 11 men and one woman will be accountable for Australia failing to play its part and for slowing down international efforts.

That it will cause ecological change is beyond doubt, but ecological change, slow or fast, is a reliable constant of the earth's climate and most species of flora and fauna have evolved to deal with this.

This is certainly true of three major ethical dilemmas now complicating the climate change debate: how to balance the rights and responsibilities of the developed and developing world; how to evaluate geo - engineering schemes designed to reverse or slow climate change; and how to assess our responsibility to future generations who must live with a climate we are shaping today.

It's an appropriate name for a group that's attempting to slow some of the runaway misinformation about climate change, by doing what scientists do with their published work: review it.