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It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (營養(yǎng)不良)and heat-related health problems.

But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions

Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change.

But the report, he said, "will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的)

He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.

Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases

More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.

It was challenged by some climate and risk experts

How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced.

How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards

You can't deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings," says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.

A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.

Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.

I think it's about how climate change affects everyday life.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

Some climate impacts may already be discernible.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.

But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations.

They are better able to cope with the global climate change.

There must urgently be a meaningful mobilisation of the policies outlined in the agreement if we are to achieve national emissions reductions while helping the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded a new era for climate action.

The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing climate justice can be best described as sketchy.

Securing these funds, and establishing who is responsible for raising them will also be vital for the future of climate-vulnerable countries.

On the flip side, there are many forced riders, who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.

Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.

And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.

We should take our future into consideration in making decisions concerning climate change before it is too late.

We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

To find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what motivates people to make change.

The road to climate hell is paved with our good intentions.

The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.

The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in — and measuring us against - our peer group.

Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.

Politicians are beginning to realise the importance of enlisting psychologists' help in fighting climate change.

Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.

By the time we wake up to the threat posed by climate change, it could well be too late.

A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is setting up one of 1,100 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmental campaign aimed at trade unionists.

Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon.

In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

"The project has two sides," says Xavier Serrat, Neurice project manager and researcher at the University of Barcelona,"the short-term fight against the snail, and a mid- to long-term fight against climate change.

"We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change," says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

Actually, it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climate change problem and reduce emissions.

And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.

As I said, we need to understand the best ways of avoiding climate change and this will involve a huge transition to low-carbon energy systems and the transition is a tremendous priority.

As trees outgrow their ideal habitats in the face of climate change, these flying ecosystem engineers could be a big help in replanting trees.

But today's report is the starkest warning yet of the potentially devastating impact of climate change and human exploitation on the Antarctic's delicate ecosystems.

Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal welfare, climate and health benefits: Grass-fed animals live longer out of confinement.

Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.

Co-author Céline Le Bohec, from the University of Strasbourg in France, warned: "If there're no actions aimed at haling or controlling global warming, and the pace of the current human- induced changes such as climate change and overfishing stays the same

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate "free-riders": causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan

Earlier this month a separate study found that a combination of climate change and industrial fishing is threatening the krill (磷蝦) population in Antarctic waters, with a potentially disastrous impact on whales, seals and penguins.

However, the importance of effective communication with a general audience is not limited to hot issues like climate change.

In the flip side, there are many "forced riders", who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.

Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.

Many scientists believe that El nio events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

Perhaps the most dramatic example of the negative consequences of poor communication between scientists and the public is the issue of climate change, where a variety of factors, not the least of which is a breakdown in the transmission of fundamental cli

Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly, even friendly to life.

Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks.

Sommerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.

The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the Earth's climate system and it's deteriorating faster than expected.

The issue of climate change also illustrates how the public acceptance and understanding of scienceor the lack of it can influence governmental decision-making with regard to regulation, science policy and research funding.

The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in—and measuring us against—our peer group.

The report, published on Tuesday, comes amid growing concern about the impact of fishing and climate change on the Antarctic.

This is troubling as climbing Arctic temperatures combined with rapid sea ice loss are creating a new type of climate feedback loop, which could accelerate Arctic warming.

Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change.

Adaptation to climate change is challenging.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor (因素).

Climate change is a continuing process, so Norphel's ice reserves will not last forever.

Climate change will fuel the growth of phytoplankton in some areas, while reducing it in other spots, leading to changes in the ocean's appearance.

Every college discussion about community values, social climate and behavior should include recognition of the developmental importance of student autonomy and self-regulation, of the necessary tension between safety and self-discovery.

Here I will stress some smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation.

Human beings will continue to adapt to the changing climate in both ordinary and astonishing ways.

In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.

Many businesses started up by college students have taken off thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.

Phytoplankton have been used to control global climate.

So even if emissions were to begin to decrease today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming.

This is why, in part at least, the US national climate assessment says that: "There is no ‘one-size fits all' adaptation."

Until we don't stop climate change, many animals and plants in the world will be gone.

When it comes to adaptation, it is important to understand that climate change is a process.

When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate.

Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today's global challenges, including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.

Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change.

Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords "environmental change" or "climate change" have increased rapidly since 2004.

California is leading the way, as it does on so many climate efforts, in figuring out the details.

Forests give us shade, quiet and one of the harder challenges in the fight against climate change.

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today's economic climate.

The climate change we are hastening could one day leave us with forests that emit more carbon than they absorb.

The pace of change in energy sources appears to be speeding up – perhaps just in time to have a meaningful effect in slowing climate change.

We need to adjust to this changing climate.

While climate is a key element, Morita says, it shouldn't come at the expense of the rest of the equation.