Sentences with phrase «americans see climate change»

Most Americans see climate change as a distant problem — distant from them in space (not here), in time (not yet) and in terms of species (not us).

Given other surveys suggesting Americans see climate change as a serious issue but put it near the bottom of their priority list, these estimates sound about right.

Knowing what I know, I have felt a responsibility as a U.S. citizen to help Americans see climate change as an ethical problem and the U.S. response for twenty years as an ethical failure.

Only 35 percent of Americans see climate change as a serious problem, according to a 2009 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

Not exact matches

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.

Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.

In the analysis — this was [all] originally published as a scientific paper in Nature last fall and then we see it again here in Scientific American in a more a distilled form — what we show is that in terms of climate change, in terms of nitrogen pollution into our waterways and oceans, and in terms of biodiversity loss, we have already caused irreparable harm to the planet.

Scientific American spoke with Gore about his ongoing inspiration to tackle climate change and what actions he sees as the biggest hope for our warming world.

You can expect to see lessons in propaganda as the educational norm — teachers will be obliged to extoll the wonders of free market capitalism and the American business system; they will be forced to speak in favor of the nation's latest wars; and perhaps there will be lessons devoted to creation science and the lie of global climate change.

From the data they collected, we can see that, overall, 70 % of Americans believe climate change is currently happening but that number varies when looking at individual counties.

Combine that mix of shapes with the «Six Americas» bubbles illustrating the wide array of views of climate change among American citizens and you can see the challenge.

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American Human: Even the most hardened climate alarmists will agree that if everything in the Paris Accord were adopted we would not see any change in the amount of change, only a massive transfer of wealth.

(See related story: «Federal Climate Change Report Highlights Risks for Americans.»)

The U.S. and the Saudis, to be sure, hold prominent positions, and just behind them are the rest of the usual suspects: ExxonMobil lobbyists, the American Enterprise Institute, The International Chamber of Commerce (whom journalists complain is so predictable as to be boring, and therefore useless), the skeptics - cum - denialists, the anonymous scum who distributed counterfeit editions of NGO newsletters (they weren't, actually, very funny) and fake - byline flyers ridiculing the third - world victims of climate change (you have to see them to believe them).

One significant factor, he suggests, is that Americans can finally see and feel climate change happening.

We're the seven out of 10 Americans who see our climate changing and want our government to act.

Todd Stern, who leads the American climate change negotiating team, said he was pleased to see China and India sign on.

A panel of top American scientists declared today that global warming was a real problem and was getting worse, a conclusion that may lead President Bush to change his stand on the issue as he heads next week to Europe, where the United States is seen as a major source of the air pollution held responsible for climate change.

Latinos see climate change as a consequence of human activity at higher % than other Americans.

If Americans are not well - enough informed to successfully tackle issues like climate change, Otto contends that seeing political leaders directly address the issues will foster greater public interest in the topics, help Americans distinguish scientific finding from rhetoric, and encourage our children to devote their education to the subject.

To clear things up, here's a 10 - question quiz to see how well you understand the basics of climate change — and how it plays out in American life today.

The committee's reference to the climate and environmental impacts of a person's diet excited environmentalists, who saw it as a way for the federal government to educate the American public about food's — and specifically meat's — link to climate change.

Americans seem to be getting the message; an annual survey found we are starting to see climate change as an immediate problem, thanks to this year's devastating weather.

The man slated to gain the Senate's top environmental gig, James Inhofe, sees little difference between the EPA, which he'll be overseeing, and Nazis; and has called climate change not just a sham, but the «greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.»

«Over the years we have seen clearly the value of careful and consistent monitoring of our climate, which allows us to document real changes occurring in the Earth's climate system,» says Keith Seitter, executive director of the American Meteorological Society.

Let me see does «lessor efforts» and «flaccid» sound like Americans are «bored» with climate change?

It is too bad, as Andrew Price notes, that the «need to stop climate change» is not seen as an effective enough argument to convince Americans to rally around clean energy legislation.

With regard to the wider public «debate» about AGW, though, I don't see how it is a «bad idea» to name names of politicians who deliberately and aggressively LIE to the American people about the reality of anthropogenic global warming and climate change, and who engage in vicious and dishonest attacks on climate scientists.

Read the full Pew results: Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming: Overview Global Climate Change We Believe Global Warming is Happening, Just Not Necessarily To Us Which of Global Warming's Americas Do You Live In?

But that target may be too high to avoid dangerous climate change, Diffenbaugh said, noting that millions of Americans could see a sharp rise in the number of extreme temperature events before 2039, when the 2 - degree threshold is expected to be reached.

Two of the Institute's Member Societies have taken positions on climate change; see the American Physical Society's statement and the American Geophysical Union's statement (pdf).

The latter can be describes as a new form of environmentalism, where «one sees action to address climate change as an imperative to protect both the American and world economies.

This obligation would likely impose a need to discuss the financial and operational impacts of environmental protection and climate change legislation on the issuer's business, which may include such things as the recent legislation and proposed legislation in B.C. (see a summary of climate change legislation here), Ontario (see, for example the proposed Environmental Protection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken to account.

The US government has taken a sceptical stance towards climate change, and many ordinary Americans see civil action as the only way to make the state take notice.