(c) Climatic conditions

It depends on warm temperatures, and thus is largely a tropical malady.

Doggers were slow but sturdy, capable of fishing in the rough conditions of the North Sea.

Agriculture in Mali also needed to be protected against the uncertainties of climate, in particular through mechanization and the improvement of farming practices.

We all stand to suffer significantly from the effects of climate change, including increased droughts, floods, and other extreme weather conditions.

It is crucial for an activity, like agriculture, that is so dependent on climate conditions to clearly identify these changes and to find out how to tackle them.

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Aware of the high vulnerability of Afghanistan to natural disasters, in particular drought or flooding, and emphasizing the need to prepare the population for extreme climate conditions through, for example, winterization measures,

After all, if left unchecked, global warming has the potential to degrade and destroy the climactic conditions that underlay and made possible the rise of human civilization over the last ten millennia.

This advantage is largely lost in warmer climates, except in those cases where very hot water is desirable, e.g., for commercial processes.

Successful deployment of these technologies in other countries will depend on good understanding of communities and ecosystems and of the functionality of these technologies under the climate conditions in those countries.

Some Parties noted advances in research on climate processes, climate modelling and prediction, including detailed assessments of the likely contribution of human activities.

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Maybe the terrible floods in Pakistan and China are not the direct result of climate change. But the evidence seems to suggest that variations in climactic conditions are increasing in scale and frequency.

The military action of 2003 did little damage to Iraqi agriculture because of favorable weather conditions, in that year grain production was 22 percent higher than in 2002.

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Demonstrators drew red lines along Avenue de la Grande Armée to honor the victims of climate disasters and express their fight for climate justice.

Mr. Elmer Holt, CTI, highlighted CTI experiences in supporting countries to prepare their TNAs. Noting that CTI aims to foster rapid development of climate technologies, he stressed that TNA needs to be followed up and implemented.

Nuclear plants located by the sea do not face similar problems in hot conditions, because ocean waters do not heat up anywhere near as rapidly as rivers or lakes.

C. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Those efforts have sometimes been strained by a lack of adequate international financing for relief efforts, at other times by adverse weather or Darfur's weak infrastructure, and often by security failures resulting from armed groups' lack of commitment to the ceasefire.

Changing weather patterns and the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events will require substantial investments if farmers are to adapt successfully.

Climate changes can influence a planet's geological history.

It occurs because dryland ecosystems, which cover over one third of the world's land area, are extremely vulnerable to over exploitation and inappropriate land use.

Syria submitted information indicating the days on which weather conditions would have supported movements of smoke laden air masses from Kuwait to Syria, together with a map of Syria depicting the number of days when there was smoke overhead in different parts of the country.

It's a condensable in the atmosphere, and so recognizing this circumstance brought to the fore a whole world of bizarre possibilities. You can have methane clouds, OK, and above those clouds, you have this hundreds of kilometers of haze, which prevent any sunlight from getting to the surface.

Climatic, geographic, demographic and land use profiles, natural resources endowment, energy mix and economic structures are among the most important aspects of national circumstance affecting the profile of a country's GHG emissions, its vulnerabilities to climate change and other challenges it is facing.

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Noting that climate variability, rather than climate change, is an ever present regional concern, he said that coping with present day variability would go a long way down the road towards adapting for climate change.

2. Declares its solidarity with the Government and the people of Djibouti, who continue to face critical developmental and humanitarian challenges owing, in particular, to the scarcity of natural resources, coupled with harsh climatic conditions and the acute issue of water supply impacting on the development aspirations of the country

Late ice age climatic changes caused plant communities and animal populations to change.

As the sky gets darker, and the outside air temperatures drop below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the most environmentally hostile segment of Helios's journey has gone by without notice, except for being recorded by specially designed data acquisition systems and their associated sensors.

So CO2, methane, and ice sheets were feedbacks that amplified global temperature change causing these ancient climate oscillations to be huge, even though the climate change was initiated by a very weak forcing.

Coca Cola is phasing out all use of climate polluting hydrofluorocarbons.

(d) Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating and adapting to climate variability and change

Consider what the IPCC had to say about extreme weather events such as intense hurricanes.

It concluded with a call for action to manage climate risk and capture opportunities.

In its first assessment, in 1990, the IPCC commented that observed temperature increases were broadly consistent with predictions of climate models, but it is also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability.

African countries, as parties to global negotiations, have crucial contributions to make to climate politics.

That would be a shameful legacy one that could be avoided by re thinking climate policy.

Harsh weather conditions are experienced by millions of peoples all over the world, causing despair and suffering.

Perhaps it is because we experience the downside of excessive traffic regulation or security measures every day, while the downside of bad climate policy is more of an abstraction. It shouldn t be, for the risks posed by bad climate policy deserve just as much attention as the risks of worse than expected climate impacts maybe more.

The long history of climate change shows the risks of dramatic and abrupt changes over the course of but a few decades

That world has been replaced by a multilateral world, which includes AIDS, unemployment, energy and climate crises, and so on.