Sentences with phrase «about the global climate problem»

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And while the meeting was frank about the major problems facing the planet while being relatively upbeat about solving at least some of them, one side session also showed the darker side of global deliberations with a look at some of the options being offered by intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate through geoengineering from dumping iron filings into the ocean to seeding clouds and pumping «designer particles» into the stratosphere.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

A «Parexit» would send a clear signal to the rest of the world: «The United States does not care about the global problem of human - caused climate change.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

NBC News / Wall Street Journal polls found that about one - quarter of respondents in 1999 agreed that «Global climate change has been established as a serious problem, and immediate action is necessary.»

Students are not exempted from the challenges faced by adults, and in their education, they learn about intractable problems such as economic inequality or global climate change.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

Under a 1990 law, presidents must submit a report to Congress every four years summarizing what is known about impacts of climate change and other global environmental problems on the United States.

No, Roddy wants to make a movie about the impact of climate change and global warming in the distant future, and he wants the Hollywood production to serve as a wake up call for humankind — to take action on climate change problems now!

Exploitation of fear about environmental problems kept shifting from ozone depletion, acid rain, desertification, rainforest destruction, global warming, sea level rise, climate change, and climate crisis, among others.

Climate change has emerged as one of the most talked - about problems, yet global negotiations have fallen apart, and we are barely any closer to cutting carbon emissions than we were 10 years ago.

In the early 1990s, a group of sceptics claimed that Roger Revelle, one of the first climate scientists, had changed his mind about global warming and no longer believed it was a serious problem.

We should be more optimistic about introducing market - based instruments for «new» problems, such as global climate change, than for existing, highly regulated problems, such as abandoned hazardous waste sites.

Brad DeLong expresses qualified Skepticism Toward the Skeptical Environmentalist I think there's a much more fundamental problem in Lomborg's argument about global warming, as I argue here The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites a range of model estimates of the costs of implementing Kyoto using market mechanisms.

It is a potent climate pollutant responsible for about a quarter of today's global warming, and can be associated with public health problems, such as the headaches, nausea and other symptoms that have been reported by residents of the nearby Porter Ranch neighborhood.

In addition, if climate change is a moral problem, even assuming counter-factually that there is considerable scientific uncertainty about whether humans are causing serious global warming, those who are putting others at risk have duties to not endanger vulnerable people without their consent.

«What's ironic about this kind of paper is that it effectively denies how climate change is a global problem that requires global action,» Everley continued.

«Perhaps the most interesting finding in this poll, aside from the precipitous drop in the number of Independents who believe global warming is a problem, is that the more Americans learn about cap - and - trade, the more they oppose cap - and - trade,» says Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), a longtime skeptic of climate - change warnings.

The apparent attempts to cover up problems with temperature data from the Chinese weather stations provide the first link between the email scandal and the UN's embattled climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent dclimate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent dClimate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent decades.

Yes, and that's where this thing ends up with a weirder problem courtesy of the same Ozone Action place where Gelbspan and their people simultaneously somehow «obtained» the documents which have long been used to accuse skeptic climate scientists of accepting fossil fuel industry bribes in exchange for lying to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

«Climate change is a serious problem, and yet some in the coal industry deny that the problem of global warming even exists and have contributed to organizations that spread doubt about science and policy,» Markey said.

Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance — as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale.

But it looks like an increasingly desperate move when seen in the light of mainstream scientists scratching their heads about the global warming hiatus, and the non-manifest problems that climate change orthodoxy of yesteryear promised we should be expecting by today.

In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced climate change, (b) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for policy that follows from understanding climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a global solution to climate change in international climate negotiations, and (f) the failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized climate change disinformation campaign.

In short, that treatise provided the proverbial under - the - hood look at the inner workings of today's state - of - the - art climate models that provide the basis for the belief that global warming is a problem and that something must be done about it.

(The global climate has sadly refused all such efforts at intimidation, stubbornly refusing to do anything the Church of Global Warming predicted it would do, but evidently that's not much of a problem for the new politicized «science» if everyone is afraid to talk abouglobal climate has sadly refused all such efforts at intimidation, stubbornly refusing to do anything the Church of Global Warming predicted it would do, but evidently that's not much of a problem for the new politicized «science» if everyone is afraid to talk abouGlobal Warming predicted it would do, but evidently that's not much of a problem for the new politicized «science» if everyone is afraid to talk about it.)

In spite of troubling predictions about Earth's climate, many young people are addressing the problems in positive ways, according to Lynne Cherry, acclaimed author of 30 - plus environmental books for children, whose latest book explores the science of global warming at an eighth - grade reading level.

TONY JONES: If you were to speak to a group of scientists and they were to convince you that climate change is a problem, that it's caused by global warming and that global warming's caused by emissions, would you think differently about it?

When I wrote about Dr. Lomborg's proposal to focus less on climate change and more on problems like malnutrition and disease, he told me: «I don't think our descendants will thank us for leaving them poorer and less healthy just so we could do a little bit to slow global warming.

Over the past few months, there have been a number of articles about how the climate science community could have presented their message differently, or responded differently, so that they could have avoided the problem they're now facing with the halt in global warming.

And as Judith Curry points out about the current climate, there are many problems with the claim that «more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together» — far from speaking for itself, the statement needs unpacking and its premises interrogating.

The index combines responses for three survey questions that ask about the extent to which people believe global climate change is a serious problem, is harming people now and will impact them personally at some point in their lives.

By June 2001, Piltz had been a senior associate at the Coordination Office for the US Global Change Research Program for six years, responsible for editing and producing scientific reports written by federal climate scientists scattered over about a dozen agencies working on the problem.

Without bringing dietary issues to the forefront of conversations about environmental issues, then we, as a global population, don't stand a chance of solving the enormously terrifying problem of climate change.

The problem is that Professor Wensch is unhappy with being quoted in a manner that gives weight to his proper and appropriate concern about the uncertainty of global climate «science» and the high potential for bias.

A departing message before I go away: One Russian colleague e-mailed me this AM about his travels to London starting today - with the following addendum: «In the Russian variant of Scientific American (N 10) the paper by Yuri Israel about Climate and Global Warming problem was published.

Now the question is what can be done about it Dr. Kevin Trenberth (National Center for Atmospheric Research) lays out the problem, while EcoEquity's Tom Athanasiou links climate change to global justice.

The discussion shouldn't be about the climate science, but rather about the technical solutions to an extremely severe global problem that — if it isn't already obvious to the experts, then they shouldn't be trusted with any of the credible solutions.

He did not apologize for stating that niether he nor NASA had any opinion about whether global climate change constitutes a problem.

To this point Dr. Curry stated that there is ignorance about what is known and what is not known about natural climate variability and the feedback processes, IOW whether human - induced global climate change is a real potential problem for humanity and our environment or not.

It's a lazy lie because it serves the status quo (an endless round of never - ending global climate talks in which everyone gets to feel that they are doing something about an important problem) and ducks the challenge of the far greater threat now facing us all.

Although most people think of climate change as a fossil fuel problem, agriculture, forestry, land - use change, and other land uses, (the «land sector»), account for about 24 % of global greenhouse gas emission.

What really concerns me is that the climate alarmists may be right, but they are too freaking weak, incompetent and dishonest to convince about 7 billion people that global warming is a big problem.