Sentences with phrase «about damages from climate change»

So no, uncertainty is no one's friend, whether we talk about damages from climate change or the costs of mitigation.

It's always fun to read articles about the damage from climate change, then see at the bottom mention of factors as large or even larger — but not as trendy!

Not exact matches

Say what you will about Exxon's long - time climate change denial, about the lingering damage from the Exxon Valdez disaster, about the fact it's the archetype of Big Oil.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

If the judge does get it, he or she may start asking questions about how the equations are derived which will create more things to have to justify, and will remove discussion even futher away from the damage climate change is causing.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

The main damage that I see is that it could take money from people who want to really do something about climate change and waste it on «offsets» that are unproven, at best.

Mr. Stevens has recently expressed deep concern about the apparently growing damage in his state from climate change.

Not Bob, but Haiti has already failed, and while it's not only about climate change, it is mostly because of environmental damage from the Antropocene.

While Japan's reneging last week on its Copenhagen targets was damaging, and the signals from Australia deeply troubling, those of us that are actually serious about tackling climate change must forge ahead with purpose.

I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.

This puts me roughly in the same camp as James Annan, though possibly I am less skeptical that there could be benefits for moderate warming, and I am probably more skeptical of claims about the supposedly significant level of damage from the current level of anthopogenically induced climate change.

This paper examines future economic damages from tropical cyclones under a range of assumptions about societal change, climate change and the relationship of climate change to damage in 2050.

Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.

Yet norms about responsibility for damages from human - induced climate change are well established not only by most ethical theories but also in a variety of international agreements, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN, 1992b), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN climate change are well established not only by most ethical theories but also in a variety of international agreements, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN, 1992b), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN 1change are well established not only by most ethical theories but also in a variety of international agreements, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN, 1992b), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN Climate Change (UN 1Change (UN 1992a).

Three years ago in La Jolla, California, ACU sponsored a meeting of high - level environmental activists and organization heads, titled «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control,» an obvious nod to RICO investigations used to accuse tobacco companies of a large scale conspiracy to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking.

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

However, the social cost of carbon (SCC) is higher (by about 15 %) under uncertainty than in the certainty - equivalent case because of asymmetry in the impacts of uncertainty on the damages from climate change.

As the world wobbles The issue of increased damage from extreme weather driven disasters as a result of climate change is attracts the same polemic that the gallery previously observed about climate change and global warming.

We would have added words about the importance of climate change preparedness, i.e., proactive steps to limit the damage from «the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.»

We're here to tell you why Washingtonians who care about climate change, who care about clean air and water, who care about lifting people out of poverty, who care about making big polluters responsible for the damage they cause, who care about helping working families, should be passionately shouting from the rooftops in favor of I - 732.

I've appreciated the no - nonsense tone that some negotiators have taken so far this year, opening meetings that are normally filled with self - congratulation and fake formality are being filled with strong statements about the conditions for success or failure of this meeting, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) stated that if we do not establish a mechanism to address Loss and Damage from climate change that addresses compensation at this meeting they will consider it a failure, I sincerely hope they hold strong to that position.