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But he stressed that climate change could not be reversed unless India embraced cleaner fuels.
A key phenomenon is serious wind curtailment, where potential clean wind power is abandoned and the associated environmental and climate benefits could not be fulfilled.
But since such a rise cannot be accurately predicted, the report conceded that the direct effects of a climate change could not be predicted confidently either.
An early exploration of the topic by John Broome shows how the economics of climate change could not be divorced from considerations of intergenerational justice and ethics (Broome 1992), and this has set the scene for subsequent discussions and analyses.
Yet the contrast between China and the US on climate change could not be clearer.
"Henry David Thoreau said, 'what use is a home if you don't have a tolerable planet to put it on?'" quoted Merkley, introducing Cantwell, who said that the time for climate change could not be more challenging.
Leaders from Italy and Germany joined the French president in a separate statement released Thursday, saying they regret Trump's decision and noting that the Paris climate agreement could not be renegotiated.
Because the impacts of major meteorologic phenomenon such as global warming on temperature and precipitation are varied and occur over long time periods, the effects of climate shifts could not be evaluated in this study, which is designed to assess the effect of meteorologic variations on a shorter time scale.
The researchers, led by Professor Francis Zwiers at the University of Victoria, Canada, found that increases in intense rainstorms over land in the northern hemisphere, as measured by rain gauges, mirrored the projections from climate models and could not be explained by natural climate variability.
