Sentences with phrase «warming forcing u.s.»

Lester R. Brown, «Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland: An Estimated 250,000 Katrina Evacuees Are Now Climate Refugees,» Eco-Economy Update, 16 August 2006.

Lester R. Brown, «Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland,» Eco-Economy Update (Washington DC: Earth Policy Institute, 16 August 2006); water and power from Connie Kline, «New Orleans Looks Like Katrina Hit Yesterday; U.S. Needs to Step Up,» Ventura County Star, 6 August 2006; garbage collection from Susan Saulny, «Despite a City's Hopes, an Uneven Repopulation,» New York Times, 30 July 2006; telecommunications from Gary Rivlin, «Patchy Recovery in New Orleans,» New York Times, 5 April 2006; sewer system from «Katrina Recovery Deemed a Mixed Bag,» Associated Press, 15 August 2006.

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Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and said it was invented by the Chinese to undermine U.S. manufacturing, has said he wants to cancel the 2015 Paris Agreement among almost 200 nations that entered into force on Nov. 4.

Discontented with the federal response to global warming, environmental groups joined forces with three cities, one U.S. territory and a dozen states, led by Massachusetts, to challenge the EPA in court.

Last year, a federal effort to coordinate research, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, found ocean warming already was forcing a migration of some species.

I think you and others could do more to change attitudes in the U.S. on global warming by joining forces in putting pressure on NOAA administrators and NWS supervisors to educate the 5,500 meteorologists in 120 National Weather Service offices so the NWS scientists can help other government people and other meteorologists who enter people's private living rooms better understand climate change.

Not only is the data deeply suspect after the U.S. government was repeatedly accused by experts of fudging the temperature record to show warming when none existed, both of the agencies in question have been forced to back down from similar «warmest on record» claims on multiple occasions in the past.

The forced component of SAT trends shows warming everywhere, with magnitudes of 1 — 2 °C over Europe, northern Africa, Greenland and the eastern U.S., and slightly larger warming (2 — 3 °C) over Russia and Canada, with the largest SAT increases (3 — 4 °C) surrounding Hudson's Bay (Fig. 2b).

In other words, the U.S. is leading all industrialized nations in CO2 reductions — the greenhouse gas responsible for three - fourths of global warming, according to this report — and is also reducing methane emissions that represent a relatively minuscule contribution to the overall GHG radiative forcing (i.e. global warming) identified in this report.

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«If it comes to a choice between measures to curtail global warming under the 2015 Paris climate accord and growing the U.S. economy, economic considerations would prevail,» Cohn told reporters on Air Force One Thursday.

Until now, most public discussion about global warming has focused on how to prevent it — for example, by implementing the Kyoto Protocol, which comes into force internationally (but without U.S. participation) on Feb. 16.

Such fires across the northern U.S. and Canada — which last month forced the evacuation of 80,000 from the Alberta tar sands town of Fort McMurray — were projected to increase over the coming decades as the climate continues to warm.

Weather conditions similar to 2012 occurred in the winter of 1942, when the U.S. Midwest was unusually warm, and when the Wehrmacht encountered the formidable forces of «General Frost» in a Russian winter not unlike the one Russians just had.

In a 2007 CNA Corporation report on climate change and national security, retired U.S. Navy Adm. T. Joseph Lopez predicts that global warming will bring on» [m] ore poverty, more forced migrations, higher unemployment.

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.