Sentences with phrase «global greenhouse people»

Global greenhouse People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas.

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Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Pointing out that it can be difficult for people to make a link between what they eat and our warming world, he told the Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan: «I think people naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them and they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and the idea of greenhouse gases.

An Australian wildfire has killed at least 135 people, and some experts are blaming global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions for this and other recent blazes.

«It is nearly certain that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases,» she says, and «the best way to convince people of this is to also explain what we do not yet know and why it is so difficult to get those answers.»

Perhaps an increasing number of teary - eyed, sneezing, sleep - deprived, wheezing people who are missing work and school will generate sufficient political will in the wealthiest nations to stop greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize the global climate.

Global temperatures are increasing in part because people are dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

But if people continue to pump greenhouse gases into the air at current rates, global temperatures could increase by as much as 7.8 °C (about 14 °F) by 2100, the new report points out.

The crazy thing is that if people followed the whole foods plant - based diet advocated by Dr. G. and others, we would save trillions of dollars, get rid of our worst health problems, and solve the global warming problem (since 50 % of greenhouse gasses due to animal «agriculture»).

The New York Times Magazine is running a long profile of Freeman Dyson, the independent - minded physicist and polymath from Princeton, N.J., who has come into the public eye of late because of his anti-consensual views of global warming — which are also different from the views of many people in the variegated assemblage of climate skeptic / denier / realists (depending on who is describing them) fighting efforts to curb greenhouse gases.

This all jibes with earlier posts here on what is perhaps the most unnerving, and under - appreciated, body of science related to problems like the greenhouse - gas buildup — the sociological work showing how poorly people deal with looming risks (from global heating to Social Security insolvency) and exploring ways to improve the situation.

# 82 Jon Keller: «I think people have recommended to you Weart's Discovery of Global Warming and I will also heartily recommend it, specifically the section entitled «The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect».»

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

When people understand the GHE from this greenhouse or car analogy and from such simple images, then it becomes very easy to understand that adding more GHGs to the atmosphere will increase the global warming.

Yes, there was work for geoscientists in diversified areas before «global warming» became known to average people and they would have gone into any number of subjects as a graduate student if human induced changes in greenhouse turned out (after calculation and experiment) to be unimportant at a global scale.

So even as humanity is in the midst of conducting the vast «geophysical experiment» of rapidly altering the global greenhouse, a growing array of people — scientists, communicators and campaigners in their various realms — are also experimenting with new ways to consider and respond to this problem (or issue, in the parlance of the White House).

The range of numbers used to determine greenhouse effectiveness or Global Warming Potential (GWP) suggested people were just creating numbers — it was not scientific.

Accordingly, unless action is taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could cut the projected improvement in food availability by approximately a third by 2050, which in turn would lead to average per - person reductions in food availability of 3.2 %, or 99 kcal, fruit and vegetable intake by 4.0 %, or 14.9 grams per day, and red meat consumption by 0.7 %, or 0.5 grams per day.

Taking a figure 25 % above this global poverty line, we illustrate the implications of the Greenhouse Development Rights approach based on calculations relative to a development threshold of $ 20 per person per day ($ 7,500 per person per year).

But it's pretty edgy, given 10:10's aim of asking people, businesses and organisations to take positive action against global warming by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 % in a year, and thereby pressuring governments to act.

Agriculture must feed 7bn people, and to do this already emits somewhere between 25 % and 33 % of all greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to drive global warming and put future food supplies at hazard.

The Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework is a Equity Reference Framework that is designed to support an emergency global climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.

«Before he died in 1991,» reports Findley, «Revelle produced a paper with [former NASA climate scientist Frederick] Singer suggesting that people should not be made to become alarmed over the greenhouse effect and global warming.»

People obviously see though Jerry Brown's feeble attempt to quash this by naming the initiative «Suspends Air Pollution Control Laws Requiring Major Polluters to Report and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions That Cause Global Warming Until Unemployment Drops Below Specified Level for Full Year.»

«(3) Because they induce global warming, greenhouse gas emissions cause or contribute to injuries to persons in the United States, including --

Although many people have accepted with half - believing and half - doubting the view that the emission of greenhouse gases is the primary factors in global climate change, many scientists are skeptical about this view, they have refuted this view with plenty of evidence.»

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

In all, that means 18 plants — a fifth of what many people used to see as a cornerstone industry of America's energy future and a key ally in the global fight against climate - altering greenhouse emissions — have been closed since 2013 or will be closed over the next seven years.

They include: (1) a 35 year US delay on climate action has made the problem extraordinarily challenging to solve, (2) US greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions are more than any country responsible for rise in atmospheric concentrations to present dangerous levels, (3) US ghg emissions not only threaten the US with climate disruption but endanger many of the poorest people around the world, (4) the Obama administration's pledge to reduce ghg emissions is far short of the US fair share of safe global emissions.

Given the importance of the scientific consensus on human - caused global warming in peoples» decisions whether to support action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the public lack of awareness of the consensus, we need to make people aware of these results.

We call on all people and nations to recognize the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses.

Ozone depletion Acid rain Global warming / greenhouse effect Population Trends / most problematic topic Questions the legitimacy / relations between various peoples allows sharing experiences, resources, and insights so that those who have learned in one way or another can share their knowledge convey their culture to the world and by co-ordinating actions for solidarity and enhanced effectiveness.

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released as people burn fossil fuels.

The earth is facing a very alarming problem, one of this was the «global warming» or the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gasses released as people burn fossil fuels.

Awareness of the scientific consensus on human - caused global warming is a key factor in peoples» decisions whether or not to support action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Just three days before the United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, signed what could be a ground - breaking agreement to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas pollution, Oliver was telling the La Presse editorial board (in French) that, «I think that people aren't as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees.

That increased quantities of greenhouse gases will lead to global warming is as solid a scientific prediction as can be found, but other things influence climate too, and some people try to escape confronting the consequences of our pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by supposing that something will come along miraculously to counteract them.

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The average person has been misled and is confused about what the current Global Warming debate is about, greenhouse gases.

Most of the comments come from people with their own «ax to grind» and with little or no scientific knowledge acquired by studying the scientific literature about global climate changes including those caused by greenhouse gases.

I had not even paid attention to claims of global warming myself before late 2009 (I don't know if I even heard of it before that), yet within a year I had disproved the «greenhouse effect» being foisted upon the people of the world as «settled science», and shown that climate scientists should have done the same 20 years ago, if any had been competent in their field.

They are a powerful device to further sustainability goals and to tell impactful stories about sustainability, communities, and technology that is reducing the global warming potential of harmful greenhouse gases in ways that benefit people, planet, and profit.

Dealing with Congress and federal agencies, Mr. Bookbinder helped lead efforts on both global warming legislation and greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act, and has testified in front of House and Senate committees on these issues (and may be the only person ever invited by both Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe).

Another plan would reduce global average annual greenhouse - gas emissions to about 2 metric tons per person.

7 % of People = 50 % of Carbon Emissions Dividing up responsibility for that over-consumption, and translating it into greenhouse gases, we find that some 500 million people (7 % of world population) are responsible for 50 % of global CO2 emissions, with 3 billion of our brothers and sisters responsible for jusPeople = 50 % of Carbon Emissions Dividing up responsibility for that over-consumption, and translating it into greenhouse gases, we find that some 500 million people (7 % of world population) are responsible for 50 % of global CO2 emissions, with 3 billion of our brothers and sisters responsible for juspeople (7 % of world population) are responsible for 50 % of global CO2 emissions, with 3 billion of our brothers and sisters responsible for just 6 %.

Faced with a perceived conflict between expanding global energy access and rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions to prevent climate change, many environmental groups and donor institutions have come to rely on small - scale, decentralized, renewable energy technologies that can not meet the energy demands of rapidly growing emerging economies and people struggling to escape extreme poverty.

A doubling of the pre-industrial levels of atmospheric CO2 of roughly 280 parts per million, which could occur within decades unless people curb greenhouse - gas emissions, could eventually boost global average temperatures by around 9 degrees C.»

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.