Sentences with phrase «worst climate impact»

However, the studies also show that without additional action, the INDCs are insufficient to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

When the most important thing in your life is two sons under the age of 3 and you have a good chance of living well into the second half of the century, the fact the worst climate impacts will not be felt for decades is little comfort.

Finally, the agreement should ensure that countries» commitments are fair and equitable — in many cases, countries that are currently experiencing the worst climate impacts are those that are least responsible for causing the problem.

That is what gives shale gas «fracking» a worse climate impact than coal.

The international community has adopted a goal to limit global warming below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels (and consider 1.5 degrees C) in order to avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

Countries» new climate plans will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory, but they still don't go far enough to limit warming to 2 degrees C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

Why wouldn't you prepare to ensure the decline is as non-disruptive as possible, but also fast enough to avoid the worst climate impacts?

Collectively, the studies make it clear that the INDCs will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory below our current path, but still don't go far enough to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

The report — the most comprehensive climate science review ever produced — emphasises how current climate action is dangerously inadequate, and will fail to stabilise climate pollution or avoid the worst climate impacts.

Many of the worst climate impacts could still be avoided by holding warming below 2 °C, but the window for action is narrowing rapidly.

We all know that the window of time that we have to prevent the worst climate impacts from happening is in fact narrowing, and it is closing fast.

Not exact matches

Fraser Surrey Docks aims to boost US coal exports; opponents warn climate impacts worse than Northern Gateway.

Worse still, we're missing out on opportunities to innovate, to make our economy cleaner and more competitive, to reduce pollution — and its public health and climate change impacts — and to export our metals and minerals to a growing global marketplace.

Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.

Mass Audubon is uniquely suited to demonstrate and advocate for actions that prepare for climate change and avoid the worst impacts.

Mass Audubon supported its passage in 2008, and as we advocate for implementation of the GWSA, we are working for future generations to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

However, rising water scarcity — made worse by climate change — could impact the Indian manufacturing sector's future ability to meet Chinese consumer demand.

'' I'm optimistic that we can avoid the worst impacts of climate change and feed the world — if we act now.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The third example, the «Keep It in the Ground» fossil fuel divestment campaign, was launched in March 2015 by British newspaper The Guardian to «keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground» to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Catherine Matacic — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate change, but make them even worse if it were ever turned off.

It will also minimize some of the worst impacts of climate change: drought, heat waves, heavy rain and flooding, and sea level rise.

Doesn't this mean that we're too late to avoid the worst impacts of climate change?

Dr. Martin added: «These are just few of the human responses to climate change that, if left unchallenged, may leave us worse off in the future due to their impacts on nature.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

«Emissions from land use represent a significant piece of the problem and must be addressed if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate change,» said Boucher.

The report from the Commission on Health and Climate Change lays out the health impacts of a warming world and offers policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse.

«Given the scale of greenhouse gas reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, are we prepared to eat beef analogs that look and taste like beef, but have a much lower climate impact?»

But the discovery suggests impacts from climate change will be worse, and that they will get worse more quickly than earth models had previously indicated.

«Habitat loss is still the main driver whose results we are seeing,» says Cagan Sekercioglu, a Stanford ornithologist who contributed data to the new report, «Climate change is building momentum... so it's going to have worse and worse impacts.»

Nevertheless, they wrote, «The asteroid - threat community has been much more successful than the climate change community in characterizing the dominant worst - case scenarios and communicating them to policymakers, the media and the public — even though the climate change threat is more than a thousand times greater..., [therefore] quantitative comparison of climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both threats into perspective.»

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

In addition, while the death of small trees may affect the dominance of trees in a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate's health, especially due to the important role that trees play in the carbon cycle.

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«Even when global efforts fail, we show that local policies can still have a positive impact,» Tol said in the statement, «making them at least a useful insurance for bad climate outcomes on the international stage.»

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

The worst impacts of climate change on the world's poorest fishing communities can likely be avoided by careful management of the local environment and investing in the diversifi...

The premiere installment, «Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change,» featured UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas and the Engagement Project, which examined the most effective ways to encourage apartment users to reduce their energy use at home and the impact of «gamifying» energy savings.

The report concludes that global emissions must peak then decline rapidly within the next five to ten years for the world to have a reasonable chance of avoiding the very worst impacts of climate change.

But whether the impacts are viewed as «good» or «bad», climate science is studying them all, both in models and in the real world.

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

«It's always alarming to hear that things are going to get worse,» said Paul Marshall, a private industry scientist who previously led high - profile research into climate change's impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.

Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

I often wake up thinking of a daunting fact: We will have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 % by 2050 to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted films.

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Now, scientists have discovered that manmade GHGs and associated climate change are likely to have a severe adverse impact on human health as bad as — if not worse than — the hole in the ozone layer.

He stressed a point I've made here for a long time — that the first step to cutting impacts from the worst that the climate system throws at us is getting out of harm's way.

The use of incentives and investment to spur intensified research on nonpolluting energy choices is not going reduce GHG emissions by 80 % by 2050, which is what the vast majority of scientists say is needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change on human health and the environment.

We can argue about how to deal with manmade climate change and we can argue about how bad the impacts will be but arguing about whether there is global warming or whether humans are causing it is, quite frankly, absurd.