Sentences with phrase «year as a result of climate change»

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

Harvard University researchers has found that the Earth's rotation on its axis has slowed during the past 100 years as a result of climate change.

Save the Children claim that 250,000 die each year as a result of climate change.

To give his government's policies moral legitimacy, she had thrown at him the figure that, according to the UN, 150,000 people die each year as a result of climate change, for which the UK would be culpable if it failed to act on climate change.

Thus, we read on page 14 that, «According to a WHO study, as many as 160,000 people are dying each year as a result of climate change.»

Not exact matches

These models currently predict that as a result of today's global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Sensitivity is a measure of how much species» numbers change as a result of year - to - year changes in the weather — each species is sensitive to different aspects of the climate, such as winter temperature or summer rainfall.

To get a sense for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes as a result of unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

The second enormous challenge that we need to face as a result of the events set in motion 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture is climate change.

Environment Canada research estimates that, in addition to the impacts of climate change and habitat loss, 130 to 433 million birds a year die as a result of people.

In a news release, Peter Stott of the climate center described how the odds toward having warm years have been progressively tipped by the buildup of greenhouse gases: «As a result of climate change, what would once have been an exceptionally unusual year has now become quite normal,» Dr. Stott said.

The Middle East has already seen decades of drying, which is expected to intensify for the next 20 years and beyond as a result of climate change.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change is refusing to reconsider the situation at a Norwich Township wind power project, where it was acknowledged during the appeal last year that the endangered Little Brown Bat was present, and would die as a result of the presence of wind turbines.

The announcement by Peabody came as a result of a two - year investigation by the New York Attorney General Office for not disclosing the impacts that climate change regulation would have on its business to investors.

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

Every year thousands of people die of easily preventable water - related diseases, and as a result of climate change and unplanned shrimp farming the area experiences frequent natural disasters, erratic rainfall and a steady increase in the salinity of the water table.

«As a result of climate change, sea ice is melting earlier and forming later each year, leaving polar bears less time to hunt.

Indeed, strong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.Direct human impact is through changes in the concentration of certain trace gases such as carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and water vapor, known collectively as greenhouse gases.

«As a result, policymakers and the public are not being fully informed of the worst potential consequences of climate change,» he wrote last year.

If, just over a year ago, had you proposed a film to Brian Cox, which took issue with the claims that climate change would massively reduce crop yields in Africa, or that the hundreds of millions of people living beneath the Himalayas face chronic water shortages as a result of glacial recession, you would, in his view, be a «maverick».

This now - widely - known truth was confirmed in September in a leaked report, the result of six years» work by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, touted as the world authority on climate change and its supposed Climate Change, or IPCC, touted as the world authority on climate change and its supposed cChange, or IPCC, touted as the world authority on climate change and its supposed climate change and its supposed cchange and its supposed causes.

Gibbs: Worldwide Record Cold Result of Climate Change When it was (incorrectly) asserted that 1998 was the hottest year on record, that was to be taken as proof that the Earth was warming and Mankind was responsible.

The latter is a politico -(pseudo) scientific construct, developed since the late - 1980s, in which the human emission of «greenhouse gases», such as carbon dioxide and methane, is unquestioningly taken as the prime - driver of a new and dramatic type of climate change that will inexorably result in a significant warming during the next 100 years and which will inevitably lead to catastrophe for both humanity and the Earth.

Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25 years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a year as a result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens of billions of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.

Each five years of delayed action on climate change now could result in as much an additional eight inches of sea level rise by 2300, stark new research shows.

Because that's when Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum launched its much - publicised report (pdf) revealing that it's actually 300,000 people per year dying as a result of climate change.

Indeed, that same misleading and inaccurate information becomes central to the environmental cause, forming the basis of, for example, Kofi Annan's much - publicised report «demonstrating» that 300,000 people per year are dying as a result of climate change.

Given the extreme wildfires the Western U.S. has suffered over the past several years as a result of extended droughts and higher temperatures, results of changes in our global climate system, it is easy to crack a smile when reviewing these credos.

Over the next 80 + years these could result in a reduction of atmospheric CO2 by year 2100 of 60 to 80 ppmv, out of an anticipated «business as usual» level of 640 ppmv to a «worst case» high - coal, high - forcing high - end climate change scenario of 750 ppmv (IPCC RCP 8.5).

One Meter Sea Level Rise by 2100 Likely We think about this now because our knowledge of global sea level rise as a result of human - caused climate change has grown rapidly in recent years.

First, substantial global warming is already «baked in,» as a result of past emissions and because even with a strong climate - change policy the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is most likely to continue rising for many years.

It's a finding that should be reflected in current climate models to help scientists make more accurate predictions about future Greenland melt — and could become even more important in the coming years if cloud cover over the ice sheet were to increase as a result of climate change.

For example, the US spends about $ 80 billion per year far the Navy to monitor the Gulf region, about $ 80 billion per year in subsidies to fossile fuel companies (far greater than geen subsidies, BTW), and then thet cost of climate change as a result of this carbon is not factored in, etc., etc., etc..

Flood damage as a result of rising sea levels over the next 100 years, are expected to impact over $ 900 billion worth of homes in the U.S.. This, according to a recent report by Zillow that analyzes the types of homes that could be underwater by 2100, based on recent climate change estimates.