University College London (UCL) climatologist Mark Maslin called it "the Stern report for medics", referring to the 2006 review that outlined the future impacts of the climate change situation in economic terms and advocated comprehensive, early-stage action to address it.
The Climate Vulnerable Forum, a grouping of some 20 countries, has released a report on the likely future costs of climate change.
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The flood risk is predicted to increase in the future due to the effects of climate change.
According to the report, communities around the globe are not organized to develop an overview of their "total climate risk, " a situation that includes a combination of three key factors: climate risks today, the value of future economic development and the effects of on-going climate change.
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Yes, we reduce our resources now but we increase them by more in the future as a result of reducing climate change and thus avoiding some of the damage from it.
Future climate change could change the profile of tropical forests, with possible consequences for carbon storage and biodiversity, a study says.
Dinosaur extinction, the evolution of mammals and future threats from climate change will be discussed at the conference, the university said.
Carried away by confirmation bias, scientists modeled the future worsening of malaria, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change accepted this as a given.
The real value of renewable energy lies not in low costs (though lower costs are certainly a laudable development), but in its environmental benefits the cleaner air, water, and land that we all enjoy, and the hope of a future without catastrophic climate change.
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Mr Kim has often warned of the dangers of climate change on future growth.
The results of the study have important implications for efforts to combat future climate change which are likely to take place alongside attempts to lower air pollution levels.
Rarely addressed in the context of climate change, future population trends could make the difference between success and failure in the long-term balance of human activities, atmosphere, and climate.
We see it in the students and teachers, the scientists and researchers who are unlocking new innovations, including the clean, renewable energy sources that we need to combat climate change and create the industries of the future.
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He said UNFCCC calculations had taken into account only half of the extra disease burden due to emerge from climate change, assumed low levels of future development in Africa (so giving less infrastructure to protect), used low estimates for sea level rise and had not included the economic costs of nature loss.
The researchers say that emissions are the largest contributor to future climate change and a strong indicator of potential future warming.
In return, Guyana has promised to guarantee the preservation of the forest in the immediate future, preventing illegal logging and mining and thus helping to put the brakes on climate change.
Many countries in the Mediterranean basin could face a future of significant food and water shortages as climate change bites and deserts spread.
The likely fate of the Amazon under climate change came under focus early last year when, as one of a series of attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sunday Times newspaper accused the panel of having included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40% of the forest could be affected by climate change in future.
But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
Population and ConsumptionToo little consumption is the biggest challenge climate-change policy will face in the future, eclipsing the signifiance of over-consumption.
"Heat pumps will be a crucial component of our low-carbon future, provided they perform well, " said David Mackay, the Department of Energy and Climate Change's chief scientific adviser.
Scenarios for future climate change are almost always developed using powerful three-dimensional models of the earth and its atmosphere.
As Mr. Grant and colleagues -and tens-of-thousands of employees know so well, climate change will not make agriculture any easier in the future.
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.
No less than the future of our planet is at stake, and this is really our last best chance to address global climate change and reduce our carbon emissions.
Given the concern over climate change and the looming shortage of fossil fuels and uranium which overshadows our industrial future, geoscientists are focusing more on renewable energy these days.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations, " he said, warning of a "long and sometimes difficult" path to sustainable energy sources in a nation dominated by its fossil fuel industries such as oil and coal.
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The US will probably need to explore novel sources of fresh water in the near future, with rivers in the southwest extracted beyond sustainable limits and with climate change threatening to push them further into the red.
Now, with the issue of climate change, we face the most serious choices we have ever faced about our impact on future generations.
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