"A healthy reef that is resilient to the future impacts of climate change needs clean water.
Opinions were divided on the dismal topic of past and future impacts from war and terrorism.
A sense of what will happen in the future impacts on the present.
"The contribution of possible man-made warming is uncertain as are the extent and timing of potential future impacts".
At the site off New Jersey, I got good and seasick in a fishing boat full of scientists assessing future impacts on benthic life.
Nevertheless, astronomers – many gathered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston this weekend – have been quick to reassure the public that they have plans to provide better warnings of future impacts.
Frey and Osborne are contributing to Oxford University's programme on the future impacts of technology; at Cambridge, Observer columnist John Naughton and David Runciman are leading a project to map the social impacts of such change.
The letter invokes one of the foremost principles of medical ethics, asking the Trust to "do no harm" because of the current and future impacts of climate change on global public health.
The review will see the government updating worst case scenario planning, considering the future impacts of climate change and carrying out a risk assessment of critical infrastructure such as electricity substations.
"Based on the current inability to precisely project future impacts of climate change to runoff throughout the Colorado River basin at the spatial scale needed," it said, effects of climate change were not considered.
It's not as though the facts aren't there: the global scientific community has warned us for years about the present and future impacts of climate change linked to fossil fuel use.
