Sentences with phrase «u.s. than global warming»

250 millennials, or 48.5 percent, think the $ 1.41 trillion student loan crisis is a more serious issue for the U.S. than global warming is.

The fact that virtually half of them believe the student loan crisis is a more serious threat to the U.S. than global warming, which may wipe out entire cities, is a telling indication of the severity of this country's educational debts.

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European Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters in Brussels he deeply regretted the U.S. pullout from the pact to fight the dangers of global warming, which was signed by more than 190 countries, and said it could not be renegotiated as Trump has suggested [B5N1G8011].

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

While more than 95 percent of the world's climate scientists attribute global warming to human causes, only about half of U.S. adults agree.

With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than later.

Their findings, based on output from four global climate models of varying ocean and atmospheric resolution, indicate that ocean temperature in the U.S. Northeast Shelf is projected to warm twice as fast as previously projected and almost three times faster than the global average.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

March 2009 U.S. Senate Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man - Made Global Warming Claims

Last week, a separate study by U.S. researchers found that the odds of a reduction in corn and wheat production are 20 times higher than they would be without human - induced global warming.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the greenhouse gas methane is highly efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere and a significant contributor to global warming, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

However, with winters overall heating up because of global warming, the precipitation that falls during the season is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow in the U.S..

Unlike the first question regarding global warming, millennials left no doubt that they think the student loan crisis is a bigger threat to the U.S. than is North Korea.

«Expect global cooling for the next 2 - 3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been» By Marc Morano A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun.

Environmental leaders delivered a petition with more than 350,000 signatures to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch Thursday afternoon calling on her to launch an investigation into whether ExxonMobil misled the American public on global warming.

One result is that in their efforts to provide «balanced coverage,» U.S. media have given disproportionate attention to the skeptics, creating the impression of less scientific consensus on global warming than exists within the mainstream scientific community.

This makes coal mining in the region responsible for more greenhouse gases than any other activity in the U.S., making it a root contributor to global warming.

A global median of 54 % say that rich countries such as the U.S., Japan and Germany should do more than developing countries to address global warming, because they have produced most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions so far.

This updates the 2009 U.S. Senate Report: «More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man - Made Global Warming Claims.»

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

Yan's research group reported in a 2015 paper that some coastal oceans (e.g., U.S. East Coast, China Coast) responded faster to the recent global surface warming rate change than the global ocean.

Homer - Dixon says that even if global warming hits Canada harder than the U.S., the Northerners might deal with it better than the individualistic, entrepreneurial Americans.

I conclude that for the past 33 years there has been an increase of no more than 0,3 deg C, which would represent a «global warming» trend of around 0.9 C per century, due to unknown factors related to the Sun, and surly nothing to warrant a huge economic disruption caused by a fanatical U.S. war on carbon aimed at driving up the cost of conventional fuels aimed at unnecessarily reducing their consumption.

Nov. 3, 2017 7:08 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP)-- A massive U.S. report concludes the evidence of global warming is stronger than ever, contradicting a favorite talking point of top Trump administration officials, who downplay humans» role in climate change.

«A massive U.S. report concludes that evidence of global warming is stronger than ever and that more than 90 % of it has been caused by humans.

Dr. Gray's research is featured on page 155 of the 2009 edition of the 255 - page «U.S. Senate Minority Report Update: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man - Made Global Warming Claims»

These were: the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) hypothesis is invalid from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data, the draft TSD was seriously dated and the updates made to an abortive 2007 version of the draft TSD used to prepare it were inadequate, and EPA should conduct an independent analysis of the science of global warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's reGlobal Warming (CAGW) hypothesis is invalid from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data, the draft TSD was seriously dated and the updates made to an abortive 2007 version of the draft TSD used to prepare it were inadequate, and EPA should conduct an independent analysis of the science of global warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's rWarming (CAGW) hypothesis is invalid from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data, the draft TSD was seriously dated and the updates made to an abortive 2007 version of the draft TSD used to prepare it were inadequate, and EPA should conduct an independent analysis of the science of global warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's reglobal warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's rwarming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's reports.

Dr. Robinson organized the Petition Project, a statement firmly rejecting global warming alarmism signed by more than 31,000 U.S. scientists.

«U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man - Made Global Warming Claims Scientists Continue to Debunk «Consensus» in 2008» (PDF), U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, December 11, 2008.

The data tampering at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is even worse than we thought: over the last century it has exaggerated «global warming» in the U.S. by as much as 2.5 degrees F.

Featured on page 168 of the 2010 Special Report updated from U.S. Senate Report: SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man - Made Global Warming Claims — Challenge UN IPCC & Gore:

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«Luetkemeyer's legislation would prohibit U.S. contributions to the IPCC, which is nothing more than a group of U.N. bureaucrats that supports man - made claims on global warming that many scientists disagree with... Meanwhile, our very own Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that we are undergoing a period of worldwide cooling.»

The U.S. ranks lower than other countries in public concern about global warming and the results are stratified: among Republicans, the party more fully dedicated to the interests of wealth and corporate power, it ranks far lower than the global norm.

The percentage change in the number of very hot days can be quite large.11 Global warming boosts the probability of very extreme events, like the recent «Summer in March» episode in the U.S. in which thousands of new record highs were set, far more than it changes the likelihood of more moderate events.12

Last week Morano posted again on the subject: an update to a U.S. Senate Minority Report with a title that explains its content: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man - Made Global Warming Claims: Scientists Continue to Debunk «Consensus» in 2008 & 2009.

A report compiled by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and presented to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun last December quotes more than 1,000 scientists refuting the idea of anthropogenic (human — caused) global warming (AGW) and specifically contesting what they call Gore's scientifically unsound allegations.

He chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, representing more than two dozen non-profit groups in the U.S. and abroad that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.

The devastating rise in Alaska's wildfires is making global warming even worse than scientists expected, U.S. government researchers said.

She also led the largest youth gathering on global warming in U.S. history — POWER SHIFT 2009, a conference of more than 12,000 youth representing all 50 states which culminated in the single largest lobby day on Capitol Hill focused on global warming.

A recent survey of school teachers in the U.S. found that although two - thirds of them accepted a major human role in recent global warming, less than half were aware of the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists.

For example, Climate Central recently found that the coldest two weeks of each winter across the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada have been warming even more quickly than the global average temperature rise.

Meanwhile, the Paris Agreement went into force on November 4th, far sooner than anyone ever expected, signaling a new era of international climate action — but, just a few days later, the United States, the second - largest emitter in the world, elected a new president who has called global warming a hoax and pledged to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement as soon as possible.

Global warming emerged as the primary driver of more than half of Western U.S. heat waves by the end of the 2020s.

U.S. and global annual temperatures are now approximately 1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than at the start of the 20th century, according to NOAA.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on WednGlobal emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednglobal warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednesday.

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.

The data tampering at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is even worse than we thought: over the last century it has exaggerated «global warming» in the U.S. by as much as 2.