Concern about climate change following Hurricanes Sandy and Irene means that companies are beginning to make investment decisions based on climate change more than ever before.
According to a recent survey by PwC, most bosses believe that resource scarcity is a bigger threat to their medium-term prospects than climate change more broadly.
As a result of the power of compound interest, the choice of discount rate used to estimate the potential economic costs of climate change is more important for purposes of understanding the trade-offs associated with competing climate-change policy options than perhaps any other single issue in climate change economics.
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According to Lovelock, this is why his predictions on climate change are more extreme, but also more accurate than those of leading scientific bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which he claims is limited in its assessment because it is made up of specialists whose focus is too narrow.
Against this backdrop, the debate is slowly migrating from partisan wrangling over the existence of climate change to more productive efforts to think creatively about how to prepare for it.
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More importantly, construing the climate-change problem in this manner may unintentionally and indirectly hamper the success of more comprehensive climate-change policies.
Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.
There could be few clearer illustrations of the shifting contours of the quarrel between rich and poor countries over who is more to blame for climate change and who should do more to arrest it.
Nonetheless, the proposal would still be a net positive for addressing climate change, albeit more modestly.
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It claimed climate change would mean more extreme weather and an increased risk of a marine accident.
Airliners that are cheaper to run and contribute less to climate change may be more attractive than silent ones.
The drive towards renewables is not being pursued in any one country, but across Europe, with climate change commitments made more widely.
But as Brazil has come to take the issues of both climate change and deforestation more seriously, so its opposition to such a programme has moderated.
That said, subtler effects of climate change such as more sudden rains and particularly hot days with disproportionate effects on yield are left out, which might mean the study underestimates the effects.
Since the Arctic as a whole is responding to climate change earlier and more acutely than the rest of the planet, we should think of it as an early warning system -- a proverbial canary in a coalmine.
It concluded that, thanks to carbon emissions from fertilisers and processing, some biofuels may cause more climate change than petrol.
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If and when climate change promises to claim more casualties than poverty and starvation, the world will begin heeding their calls.
She is passionate about leveraging innovation to transform our energy use so as to combat climate change and to encourage more women in technology leadership positions.
However, we do need to realise that these are the numbers which are being fed into the climate change models (perhaps more accurately, that these are the numbers that will be) and thus produce those IPCC reports.
Climate change will bring us many more heat waves, hurricanes and droughts in the years to come.
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The science of climate change is becoming firmer, more widely accepted and, in some areas, more worrying.
In South Asia, for example, climate change is likely to bring more water to a perennially thirsty region.
The Bush administration has begun talking more about climate change, just as China is putting the best public face on its efforts.
Ann Daniels from Whimple and Pen Hadow from Dartmoor will be studying the Arctic sea ice to help scientists understand more about climate change.
But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
In some countries the effects are particularly large: climate change means Russian wheat yields are more than 10% down.
Ironically, Americans appear to agree more on climate-change science than other high-profile scientific controversies like the safety of genetically-modified organisms.
During Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, the president urged Congress to do more to combat climate change.
MOSQUITOES, which carry malaria parasites, like the warm and wet conditions that are expected to become more common with climate change.
As climate change evolves and weather patterns become more intense and unpredictable, new tech initiatives have popped up to help farmers predict the future.
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