Sentences with phrase «term challenge of global warming»

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WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

Leaders must also take a long - term approach to the management of oil wealth to ensure the region can meet the challenges of food and water shortages, rising population levels and global warming.

We can write down a simple recipe for the GHE, but it is indeed challenging to reconcile a presence of a negative feedback with our observations, or explain the current observed global warming in any other terms.

In his memorandum, Luntz urges that the term «climate change» be used instead of «global warming,» because «while «global warming» has catastrophic communications attached to it, «climate change» sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.»

So one of our first challenges as educators and activists is to bring the global warming issue to people in terms that they'll understand.

«Global warming may profoundly affect animals, plants, and coastal communities around the world,» von Weizsäcker added, «and Bren School researchers have been at the forefront in terms of clarifying the challenges and presenting attractive responses to them.

And because heat can be stored in places other than at the surface, a lack of surface warming for a decade tells you almost nothing about the underlying long - term warming trends... I judge that there is virtually no merit to suggestions that the «hiatus» poses a serious challenge to the standard model [of human - caused global warming].»