Worse yet, as with the melting of the Arctic, so the drying-out of Amazonia is likely to feed into climate change, heightening its intensity and so sparking yet more tipping points on a planet increasingly close to the brink.
Their government insists that man-made climate change is heightening the risk of typhoons, but scientists are not so sure (see article).In this section Worse than hell The new normal?
Dr. Garbelotto said that he worried that climate change could heighten the fungus-related effect of sudden oak death and Dutch elm disease, which already are felling millions of trees around the globe.
Throughout the Pacific, climate change is heightening the intensity of extreme weather events, driving sea levels up and exacerbating droughts.
The new data further renews climate change concerns heightened by the unprecedented destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in late October.
As climate change has heightened concerns about the global decline of mangroves, a study released this week found that such ecosystems along the desert coast of Baja California may be more important than previously thought for keeping heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
The science is clearer, many industrialized countries have embarked – slowly but steadily – on transforming their economies, and the global awareness of climate change impacts has been heightened by its first signs around the world.
Climate change is resulting in heightened incidences of plant heat stress episodes.
Meeting these growing demands is a tremendous challenge, given competing needs for limited resources amid heightened climate change effects.
And those changes, coming in an age of mind-numbing congestion and heightened climate change worry, will benefit New Yorkers long after the L train shutdown is over.
