Sentences with phrase «warming response act»

Responding to various new scientific reports questioning the concept of global warming, Assemblyman Michael Doherty today called on Governor Corzine to hold off on proposing any new regulations associated with the state's Global Warming Response Act and urged the Legislature to repeal that act when it returns to legislative business after Labor Day.

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«We are acting in response to this catastrophe we are facing,» Sopariwala said, referring to global warming.

[Response: That is a positive feedback that acted during ice age cycles: when it got warmer at the end of an ice age, this led to release of stored CO2 from the deep ocean, thus raising atmospheric CO2 levels.

For myself, I call into question not the «basic radiative transfer physics» but the completeness and accuracy of the atmospheric models: all of the equations are approximations, the response of clouds to CO2 increase and warming are not well known, yet AGW proponents act as though a slight increase in temp following a long increase in CO2 is a sure thing.

that cloud response to warming acts similarly to the eye's iris, opening to let more heat radiate out to space as temperature rises and closing to hold more heat in as temperature falls, and generally supports the understanding that Earth's climate is self - regulating and therefore not prone to a «tipping point» or a «runaway greenhouse effect» or «catastrophic warming.»..

May 22, 2013 — In response to our 2007 petition, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to deny protection to the American pika under the California Endangered Species Act despite the grave threatsit faces from global warming.

Solar forcing is the only known natural forcing acting to warm the climate over this period but it has increased much less than greenhouse gas forcing, and the observed pattern of long term tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling is not consistent with the expected response to solar irradiance variations.