Sentences with phrase «big climate challenge»

Scientists say that even though the cooling effect from aerosols is real, the biggest climate challenge from the tar sands is their carbon dioxide emissions.

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«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.
The legal challenge comes as Democrats and environmental advocates vow to aggressively challenge the Trump administration's plans to weaken the vehicle rules touted by the Obama administration as one of its biggest climate actions.
She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.
If Canada wants to benefit from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about exporting to multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.
Church leader and author Pete Greig has dubbed climate change as the biggest challenge of our genera... More
«Our biggest challenge is the climate.
Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your in - law who doesn't believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today.
Washington (CNN)- Newt Gingrich is amplifying his call for Secretary of State John Kerry to resign over his comments that climate change represents the biggest challenge «of our generation.»
Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.
The Liberal Democrats believe that climate change is the biggest challenge facing our world today.
A first step in the fightback is being taken by Greg Barker, the climate change minister, who writes in a Guardian article that the government will help drive down energy costs by prising open the energy market to challenge the «big six» suppliers.
«One of our biggest challenges was to make it possible to compare various measured data and climate archives from a wide variety of regions and filter out the natural noise that can greatly distort the signal of climate archives.»
Exposing «carbon bubbles» The big challenge — and a critically important first step goal — is the «hardwiring of climate risk into governance structures.»
This represents a big challenge for projecting future climate changes because we have no good comparison from the past,» said Zeebe.
The biggest challenge to come from climate change is a hotter, drier country.
One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.
A disruption as big as climate change is bound to challenge numerous species.
«One of the big challenges we always face in getting people engaged and take action on climate change is they keep thinking this is going to happen to someone else, somewhere else, or to someone in the future, far away,» said Susanne Moser, an independent social science researcher on climate change analyzing the project's results.
Meeting today's biggest challengesclimate change and energy independence, for example — will take major scientific breakthroughs.
India's growing population, soon to become the biggest in the world, faces challenges of resource sustainability made worse by its vulnerability to climate change, the paper argues.
Climate variation is one of the big challenges, especially if the recruitment forecasts turn out to be repeatedly too high, as we saw following NAO events.
And that could help them cope with or even thrive under another big challenge: climate change, Gibbons says.
This ubiquity, Bales shows, means that all of us have a role to play in ending slavery and that doing so will also help remedy some of the biggest environmental challenges on earth, such as climate change.
Combine two of the biggest planetary challengesclimate change and public health — and you've got a problem as huge as Rupert Murdoch's.
The ice sheets themselves are the biggest challenge for climate modelling since we don't have direct evidence of the many of the key processes that occur at the ice sheet base (for obvious reasons), nor even of what the topography or conditions are at the base itself.
On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earth.
Teach kids about critical thinking, let them understand that to try to find the human fingerprint on climate is a big challenge
But they do highlight a big challenge for climate modellers, and present major research opportunities both for modellers and for climate scientists who work with proxy data.»
Symphony of Science - Our Biggest Challenge (Climate Change Music Video) Climate change and health.
CGIAR scientists wielding big data tools to blunt the impacts of climate change on Latin America's rice production have been named one of two winners of the Big Data Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City, U.Sbig data tools to blunt the impacts of climate change on Latin America's rice production have been named one of two winners of the Big Data Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City,climate change on Latin America's rice production have been named one of two winners of the Big Data Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City, U.SBig Data Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City,Climate Challenge at the recent United Nations Climate Summit held in New York City,Climate Summit held in New York City, U.S.A.
«One of the big challenges with climate change is figuring out what is the crisis, what is the burden of proof, and what is the demonstrable evidence.»
I echo the other comments about his broad - stroke dismissal of the media but also, one of the biggest challenges we face and our children will face is climate change and it's weird that that didn't come up.
Boston, MA About Blog Conservation Law Foundation forges solutions to New England's biggest environmental challengesclimate change, clean water, healthy communities — for all.
If you are interested in getting involved, whether this be putting on an event, or participating in the 2012 Climate Week Challenge, you can contact us now to ensure that 2012 Climate Week is bigger and better than ever.
The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.
The Climate Week Challenge Registrations are now open for the Climate Week Challenge, Britain's biggest ever environmental competition.
The search for yield is perhaps the biggest challenge investors» face in today's interest rate climate.
Our aim was to create greater transparency and accountability in terms of what countries are doing — or, in some cases not doing — on some of the biggest challenges our world faces today, such as climate change, water, energy, conservation, and the management of our natural resources.
Packing for multiple climates is one of the biggest challenges when travelling with just carry - on luggage.
Boston, MA About Blog Conservation Law Foundation forges solutions to New England's biggest environmental challengesclimate change, clean water, healthy communities — for all.
The best part of the series is its interrogative approach, and its embrace of the reality that, with the climate and energy challenge, the biggest questions remain unanswered.
President Bush, in a Rose Garden speech on climate change, challenged the world's biggest (and most polluting) countries to immediately end trade barriers on energy - related technology, beef up a fund to help bring less - polluting energy options to poor countries, and commit to curbing their greenhouse - gas emissions.
There's no reason to think that bigger Government, higher taxes, higher cost of goods, and less freedom of movement isn't a solution to living on Earth with our potential new weather and climate challenges.
We have probably written more stories on global warming — including special reports like the ground - breaking «Big Melt» series on the Arctic in 2005, the ongoing «Energy Challenge» series, and our «Climate Divide» package earlier this year — than any newspaper in North America.
Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prClimate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.
We are facing the biggest challenge in human history, and our media only has the guts to mention in obscure blogs like this and tip toe coverage like NPR's Climate Connections.
My initial impression is that this game could expose more Americans to the realities of the climate - energy challenge (and opportunity) than another big science report.
Getting a better understanding of the forces that will shape these features of the climate system in coming decades is a big research priority, but also a very tough challenge given the many factors in play.
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