### action:

Climate change
* affect water supply and the availability of other natural resources.
* affects all ecosystems and social structures
  - living things on planet Earth
  - corals on many levels
  - ecosystems today, as it has in the past
  - everyone and everything
  - many aspects of life on Earth
  - physical processes on the Earth
  - the entire globe
* big threat to all pikas.
* brings about a global redistribution of the costs and benefits of the weather.
* can also affect coastal regions
  - aid in the dispersal of plant and crop disease
  - effect biological diversity in several ways
  - mean more storms, droughts, and violent weather
  - negatively impact temperate penguin species
  - alter fitness landscapes in several ways
* can cause abrupt stepwise transitions in cool-coniferous and subarctic ecosystems
  - other environmental changes
  - happen for many reasons
  - have a range of impacts on physical, mental, and community health
  - increase food market volatility by affecting both supply and demand
  - influence a planet's geological history
  - mean warmer weather
* case in point.
* causes extinction by altering the habitats of organisms
  - more dry years
* challenge facing both business and policymakers.
* change in the average weather of an area
  - that a given region experiences
* collective problem, and it demands collective action.
* comes from burning fossil fuels, as released carbon traps heat in the atmosphere.
* common concern of humanity.
* complex issue for which there are no simple solutions
  - with numerous variables
* complicated phenomenon, involving more than temperature changes.
* crisis resulting from many human-induced factors.
* critical global problem requiring global solutions.
* detonates the ideological scaffolding on which contemporary conservatism rests.
* encompasses systematic alterations in a variety of abiotic and biotic factors.
* global issue requiring global solutions
  - issue, and as such can only be effectively dealt with globally
* global problem that requires a global solution
  - which needs a global agreement
  - problem, and requires a global solution
* goes beyond borders and governments.
* gradual shift in the average weather.
* happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years.
* has an impact on the susceptibility of forests to infestation, as does deforestation.
* has many parallels with fire suppression
  - possible adverse effects on health, the economy and agriculture
  - potential impacts for international security as well
  - strong geopolitical consequences
  - the potential to either aggravate or alleviate an area's water situation
* hits the insurance industry.
* includes both warming and cooling conditions.
* induces demographic resistance to disease in novel coral assemblages.
* is about how humans use energy.
* is also a factor in emerging and re-emerging diseases
  - matter of both economic and intergenerational justice
  - an issue of intergenerational justice
* is also likely to affect the highly urbanized centers of the Northeast in many ways
  - make for warmer winters that produce less snow and more rain
  - only one threat to species diversity
  - among the most serious threats to rainforests worldwide and to much else besides
* is an action
  - air problem, a water problem, and a land problem
  - existential challenge to our contemporary worldviews
  - increasing concern across the world
  - international problem
* is an issue that business takes very seriously
  - requires a long-term, global perspective
* is another serious threat to the mountain pygmy possum
  - threat affecting populations
  - any significant change in the climate lasting for decades or longer
  - arguably the greatest threat facing humanity
  - attributed to land use for two main reasons
  - but one of many signs of environmental stress
* is caused by industrial emissions
  - the emission by humans of extra greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere
  - due to have severe negative effects on employment in Africa
  - feared to have significant direct impacts on human health and on ecosystems
  - highly relevant for anyone studying adaptation
  - inevitable, and the ocean major factor in that change
  - likely to have a devastating effect on biological diversity
* is likely to have a significant impact on the global environment and human society
  - negative effects on the psyches of individuals
* is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse effects on human health
  - mostly adverse impacts on human health
  - impact on seabird populations
  - modify rainfall patterns and their interaction with the soil
  - linked to the ocean processes
  - more than a warming trend
  - much more complex than local pollution
* is now a scientifically established fact
  - one of the leading threats to wildlife
* is one factor amongst many that affect coastal ecological systems and societies
  - that appears to be driving increased outbreaks of bark beetles
  - of the biggest challenges facing the world in the next century
* is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today
  - threats facing the planet today
  - major threats to biodiversity at both the species and ecosystem levels
* is one of the most important environmental issues facing humankind
  - global issues facing the world today
  - threatening environmental crises facing today's world
  - sector that provides obvious opportunities
* is perhaps the gravest calamity our species has ever encountered
  - greatest threat to our quality of life on a global basis
  - predicted to have many impacts
* is projected to have far-reaching environmental impacts both domestically and abroad
  - increase the frequency of extreme precipitation events
  - real and is already having an impact on the sustainability of our communities
  - regarded as one of the factors resulting inthose declines
* is seen as a political issue among nations
  - to be the result of major deforestation in parts of Asia
* is the biggest environmental issue ever
  - chief driver of glacio-eustatic change
  - current day global issue
  - effect on the natural climate caused by human activities
  - greatest environmental problem facing mankind
  - last, and failing, rationale to comprehensively regulate energy
  - latest emerging threat to biodiversity in Africa
  - main threat to polar bears today
* is the most challenging global environmental issue of our time
  - critical environmental threat facing the world today
  - serious environmental issue facing our planet today
  - number one environmental threat facing the world
  - primary threat to narwhals
  - single greatest threat to the Arctic
  - variation in global or regional climates over time
  - viewed as an overriding, all-pervasive threat
* local issue.
* major environmental policy challenge.
* means much more than higher temperatures.
* modern theory that warns about the danger of too many greenhouse gases.
* natural event that has occurred throughout history
  - occurrence
* new and growing threat to wildlife migrations in the East African savannas.
* occur over shorter periods, as well.
* part of nature
  - the Earth's history
* plagues the island states of Micronesia.
* poses a threat to the control of pest and disease invasions
  - an unprecedented challenge to human society
  - another threat to krill populations
  - one of the greatest moral challenges humanity has ever faced
  - perhaps the greatest long-term threat to snow leopards
  - profound global economic, environmental and social challenges
  - significant risks to human health, the environment, and the economy
  - threats to resources both domestically and internationally
* presents a significant challenge, particularly to developing countries
  - real risks for the future of mankind
* problem that transcends borders.
* provides basic facts and figures about our changing climate.
* puts another stress on agricultural systems
  - real and huge costs onto everyone
  - taigas in danger in different ways
* raises complex environmental and energy issues.
* reduces yields by increasing the frequency of droughts and floods.
* refers to any significant change lasting for an extended period of time
  - the impact of human activity on our global climate
* remains of major global importance
  - one of the most important environmental issues of our time
* represents a change in long-term weather patterns.
* resulting from greenhouse gas emissions poses the potential for abrupt change.
* seems to be cyclical.
* serious consequence of man's appetite for fossil carbon.
* shifts the curve to the hotter side, moving the average over.
* threat to all people and all of creation
  - sustainable development
* threatens human health and well-being in the United States
  - life on our planet
  - more than mega-storms, floods and droughts
  - polar bear food supply When temperatures rise, ice melts
* threatens to redistribute water around the globe
* topical issue in New Zealand and around the world.
* unfolds over centuries.
* violates moral and religious principles of justice.