Sentences with phrase «worst impacts of a changing»

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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.

The dramatic changes that happened to us in the course of the band's success also coincided with the impact of the arrival of HIV and AIDS, which was a catastrophe — the best of times and the worst of times.

You choose to do what you did and in that action held the seed of change... might i add that if one was to change all it takes is (normally) a different outlook on life — and so with that you could have tried anything as long as you thought full heartly that it would have an impact on your life and the way you view things (whether good or bad, poistive or negitive).

Obv there were scheme changes that impacted production as well but it's not like any of us are super confident with a secondary that was one of the worst in the league.

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.

The nature of the proposed changes to pensions and pay are likely to impact badly on the question of retention.

'' 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?»

Yamamoto has always been opposed to NSF's broader impacts criterion, but he says that the proposed changes will only make things worse by «threaten [ing] the foundation of really fundamental investigation» whose broader impact can not be determined from the outset.

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.»

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.

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).

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 a recent analysis of 10 studies examining the impact of eating avocados, blood cholesterol, total cholesterol, LDL - cholesterol (bad cholesterol), and triglycerides fell by 20 to 30 mg / dl on average while HDL (good cholesterol) did not 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.

The Judge Steps Out (Boris Ingster, 1949) Laughter in Hell (Edward L. Cahn, 1933) Afraid to Talk / Merry - Go - Round (Edward L. Cahn, 1932) Woman in Hiding (Michael Gordon, 1950) Mr. Skitch (James Cruze, 1933) Union Depot (Gentleman for a Day, Alfred E. Green, 1932) A House Divided (William Wyler, 1931) The Son - Daughter (Clarence Brown, 1932) Cover Up (Alfred E. Green, 1949) Le code a changé (Change of Plans, Danièle Thompson, 2009) Alina (Giorgio Pàstina, 1950) Parachute Jumper (Alfred E. Green, 1933) We Were Dancing (Robert Z. Leonard, 1942) Die Somme - Das Grab der Millionen (The Somme, Heinz Paul, 1930) Conrad in Quest of His Youth (William C. de Mille, 1920) Transatlantic (William K. Howard, 1931) Cry of the Hunted (Joseph H. Lewis, 1953) L'Engrenage (Louis Feuillade, 1919) No Man's Woman (Franklin Adreon, 1955) Time Table (Mark Stevens, 1956) The Lone Hand (George Sherman, 1953) The Threat (Felix E. Feist, 1949) Hotel Berlin / Vicki Baum's «Hotel Berlin» (Peter Godfrey, 1945) Confidential Agent (Herman Shumlin, 1945) Roger La Honte (Trap for the Assassin; Riccardo Freda, 1966) Pierrot Pierrette (Louis Feuillade, 1924) Getting Mary Married (Allan Dwan, 1919) The Idle Rich (William C. de Mille, 1929) Kiki (Clarence Brown, 1926) The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey, 1948) Yoru no tsuzumi (Night Drum, Imai Tadashi, 1958) She Couldn't Say No (Lloyd Bacon, 1954) Confession (Joe May, 1937) This Could Be the Night (Robert Wise, 1957) Ex-Lady (Robert Florey, 1933) Front Page Woman (Michael Curtiz, 1935) The Great Jewel Robber (Peter Godfrey, 1950) Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998) Within the Law (Frank Lloyd, 1923) Prime (Ben Younger, 2005) Forged Passport (John H. Auer, 1939) So Young So Bad (Bernard Vorhaus & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1950) The Forbidden City (Sidney A. Franklin, 1918)

Such change must be supported and championed at the top, since leadership teams have a powerful impact on school culture — and since a failure of leadership can leave employees rudderless and allow «venting» to devolve into something far worse.

The lessons are as follows: Lesson 1 - Intro to climate change Lesson 2 - Climate Change, real or hoax Lesson 3 - The Ice Age Debate Lesson 4 - Worst Case Scenario Lesson 5,6 - Impacts of Climate Change Lesson 7 - Impacts on the UK This content is suitable for year 9 but is taught to a high level and is more than suitable to use forchange Lesson 2 - Climate Change, real or hoax Lesson 3 - The Ice Age Debate Lesson 4 - Worst Case Scenario Lesson 5,6 - Impacts of Climate Change Lesson 7 - Impacts on the UK This content is suitable for year 9 but is taught to a high level and is more than suitable to use forChange, real or hoax Lesson 3 - The Ice Age Debate Lesson 4 - Worst Case Scenario Lesson 5,6 - Impacts of Climate Change Lesson 7 - Impacts on the UK This content is suitable for year 9 but is taught to a high level and is more than suitable to use forChange Lesson 7 - Impacts on the UK This content is suitable for year 9 but is taught to a high level and is more than suitable to use for GCSE.

Of course, influence is inevitably linked to impact, to discernible changes in policy or practice (for better or for worse).

The psychology behind colors, fonts, shapes, and words can be both good and bad for professionals influencing human emotions and affecting their actions helps you stand out as well as change the impact of your message negatively.

Kindle Unlimited alone evolved significantly last year, and whether the impact of those changes was good or bad depends on your perspective.

bad debt & impairment provisions, plus amortisation)-- so it's reasonable to expect the impact of this accounting change will be easily absorbed under most scenarios.

According to Elaine Pendlebury, Senior Veterinary Surgeon for the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), changes in seasons can have an impact on pet moods, as do periods of extended bad weather.

These changes are going to have a serious impact on how many miles we're all going to be earning and most of us are going to be considerably worse off.

Despite the improvements these games make, there were also plenty of things that, as I've stated, changed for the worse, or things that were changed for no real reason, but that didn't really impact me one way or the other.

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.

Without greater understanding of the nature of the problem, he says, it will be hard to convince the public of the need for big, prompt, costly changes to the energy system, even when the worst impacts are projected to come later in the century.

And the only way to do that is with technical fixes that can be applied as quickly as possible — evolutionary changes in the way that human beings relate to the rest of the Earth's biosphere can not possibly have any impact in the very short time frame that is required to prevent the worst outcomes of global warming.

The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (whose reports are conservative by nature), and a range of other assessments all conclude with high confidence that — for better or worse — the long - term Arctic trend for summer sea ice is down, given the projected buildup of greenhouse gases and tendency of the Arctic to amplify warming.

Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

«But the longer we wait, the more likely it will become that we will need to deploy some forms of carbon dioxide removal to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.»

The Stern Report also estimated that reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change can be limited to around 1 % of global GDP each year.

In a speech in Vienna, John Kerry called the HFC agreement, «one of the single most important unitary steps that we could possibly take at this moment to stave off the worst impacts of climate change...»

To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to reach net - negative emissions, a point at which we're actually removing more carbon from the air than we're putting in.

Vulnerable populations are likely to suffer the worst impacts of climate change, according to environmental justice advocates.

David Keith disagrees, insisting that the most profound danger is inaction and that geoengineering may be the world's only chance to fend off the worst impacts of climate change.

A UN report in October said that even fully implementing its goals would deliver only one third of what is needed for the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Among developed countries, however, «Australia is expected to be one of the first and worst impacted,» says Victoria McKenzie - McHarg, [7] climate change program manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation, «because we have such an extreme climate very vulnerable to changes in temperature.»