However, many GHGs in the atmosphere and dissolved in the ocean from past and ongoing human activity are long-lived and will drive climate change for years to come, a process termed "built-in" climate change (Solomon et al. 2009).
These settlements, comprising long houses built in warmer climate of the 12th and early 13th century, may already have become less sustainable due to the onset of the cooler climate that began to emerge at the end of the 13th.
Retirement communities are often built in warm climates, which make the winters much easier on seniors.
He told the govt. in Madras that a superb health-giving retreat for the British in S. India could be built in the cool climate.
Soon they'll also be able to see another pioneering Kiruna project, the world's first passive house built in an arctic climate.
March 6 Twelve Russian scientists whose research station was destroyed when the ice shelf on which it was located began breaking up are rescued from an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean; the station had been built in April 2003 to study climate change.
As Stoddard does, it warns of the dangers of storm surges, which are just one of many threats to the Turkey Point power plant, which was built in the 1970s, before climate change was even a concern.
Largely because of all the coal-fired power stations that China, India, and other countries have built in recent years, many climate-change experts now believe that, regardless of what happens in the next couple of weeks, this ceiling will be breached.
Comparisons of buildings in similar climates built in accordance with different regional construction practices and building rating systems can provide useful insights in sustainable design practices.
Built in 1986, the glasshouse has climate controls that allow it to contain 10 plant habitats under a single roof.
"The very first climate models built in the 1990s showed this kind of variability, so we have known about this for a long time," said Hawkins.
