«[C] limate change policies come at a high economic cost while having
no actual impact on the climate change,» Inhofe wrote at The Daily Signal.
Not exact matches
Among the factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or
climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the
impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report
on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports
on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
Stefan Rahmstorf at the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research in Germany, and colleagues, compared the predictions made in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change with the
actual subsequent data.
A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to
actual impacts of
climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.
But like Jeff, I would like to know why the Times doesn't believe reporting more
on the
actual impacts of
climate change (higher wheat prices, persistent political destabilization in
climate impacted regions, etc....)
«Although the
climate change impacts of palm oil production
on tropical peatland are becoming more widely recognized, this research shows that estimates of emissions have been drawn from a very limited number of scientific studies, most of which have underestimated the
actual scale of emissions from oil palm,» said study co-author Ross Morrison of the University of Leicester.
«It would seem that Richard Muller has served as a useful foil for the Koch Brothers, allowing them to claim they have funded a real scientist looking into the basic science, while that scientist — Muller — props himself up by using the «Berkeley» imprimatur (U.C. Berkeley has not in any way sanctioned this effort) and appearing to accept the basic science, and goes out
on the talk circuit, writing Op - Eds, etc. systematically downplaying the
actual state of the science, dismissing key
climate -
change impacts and denying the degree of risk that
climate change actually represents.
Unfortunately, despite this clear empirical evidence, the
climate change and global warming doomsday alarmists attempt to portray the 2017 season as a sign of CO2 - induced
climate catastrophe - and that is not being well accepted by the
actual hurricane experts (here, here, here) who have been
on the front lines of tropical cyclone activity and
impact research.
And, according to author and environmental activist Amy Larkin, the environmental
impact of
climate change is an
actual financial issue: «Would you rather federal, state, and local governments spend our money
on preventing extreme weather in the future or
on recovering from extreme weather?