That said, subtler effects of climate change such as more sudden rains and particularly hot days with disproportionate effects on yield are left out, which might mean the study underestimates the effects.Some people will be surprised, even dismayed, that comparatively modest climate changes are already doing measurable damage.
The politicians could then turn to tax reform, immigration, gun violence, maybe a modest climate-change measure, and substantive oversight.
Last year, a far more modest climate-change bill fell well short of a simple majority in the Senate.
He has just emerged from Copenhagen having brokered an agreement, however modest, on climate change.
Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change, with poor nations and communities particularly at risk.
Populations may be able to respond to modest rates of climate change, particularly in mountainous areas, by migrating short distances among microsites, slope aspects, or elevations, but predicted rates of climate change will likely exceed the scale of local environmental heterogeneity in the longer term in many cases.
As a result, economists sometimes come to the conclusion that relatively modest efforts to tackle climate change are adequate for now.
CANCÚN, Mexico (Reuters) — Nearly 200 nations were to meet in Mexico on Monday to try to agree on modest steps to slow climate change, a United Nations gathering overshadowed by global economic problems and strains between the top two emitters, the United States and China.
The accomplishments of this year's meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change were modest, but so were its aims.
Climate change While modest temperature rises may increase food yields in some areas, a general warming risks damaging all regions of the globe.
City Hall admits that, as well as reducing congestion, the charging scheme first introduced by Livingstone in 2003 has also resulted in some modest reductions in emissions of climate change gases and environmental pollutants from vehicles in the zone, and encouraged people travelling in the area to use public transport, to walk or cycle.
