Sentences with phrase «address whether climate change»

It says Congress should put a priority on policies that enable innovation and that could lead to clean sources of energy, but it does not specify what policies those are and does not address whether climate change is real.

Nor does it address whether climate change will make mega-heatwaves more frequent or more intense.

Not exact matches

Seven in 10 Americans — including some of those who aren't sure whether climate change is actually happening — think it's a problem that the U.S. government should be working to address.

Top advisors to President Donald Trump are in a tug of war over whether to sign an accord that would address climate change as he publicly delayed during his trip to Europe whether he would sign it.

«The aim of the house party series is to get to know all the wonderful folks that make up this district in its many neighborhoods, to get neighbors to meet each other to share food and laughs, and to share my campaign's message that whether it is addressing climate change, fixing our broken government and economy — together we can get it done,» Platts said.

And he noted that Mulvaney's views on climate could influence whether he would support spending to address climate change.

Through many of those years, Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human - caused, or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to address.

«For one thing, every point of view has its own science and economics to support its contentions, whether it be pro- or anti- pesticide use, free - roaming cats, bird collisions with glass or towers, conflicts with fisheries, land conversion, wind energy, mining, timbering, climate change, or any other issue we consider in addressing bird conservation...» [2]

Well, I didn't address whether or not there was one, I only pointed out that using weather forecasts to explain climate change is a bad idea.

It was disappointing both sides didn't address the issue of whether anything actually should be done in the face of climate change, be it human - induced, sun - induced, or whatever.

Pielke is problematic, because he has never said whether he really believes climate change will just go away if all his concerns are addressed.

Do you sense that there has been any shift away from feeling the need to re-engage in debates over whether climate change is real or not, and instead toward addressing questions of what to do about it?

Today, the President will be giving a speech at Georgetown University on climate change issues, with announcements of initiatives that will be taken leveraging the powers of the Administrative Branch because the Congress is unable (and, to a large extent, unwilling) to take meaningful action to address climate change: whether mitigation or adaptation.

We should be addressing the meanings that divide us on an issue like this, because they divide us on lots of things — not just the use of violence by individuals of one race on those of another, or even the use of it by the police against private citizens, but also matters as diverse as whether climate change is occurring or whether schools should vaccinate pre-adolescent girls against HPV.

It would be very interesting to ask McIntyre whether Lindzen's statistics were sounder than Mann's, and as a baseline calibration also the Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act to which Lindzen addressed his views.

Tell me, too, how someone who sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.

Business News Americas Governments around the world must decide whether they are truly committed to addressing climate change.

Watson, former chair of the defunct Texas Air Control Board, now part of the commission, pressed Shaw on whether the agency had addressed climate change or even prepared for U.S. regulation of heat - trapping gases.

Overall, Pew's research finds that only 33 percent of U.S. adults think climatologists understand «very well» whether the climate is changing, and only 19 percent of respondents think climate scientists know the best ways to address climate change.

We hear so often that climate change will be worse for the poor, but we never interrogate this claim to ask whether it might be better to address the issue of poverty than to attempt to make other people's lives better by driving less.

Among those who have taken some interest in addressing climate change, there have over the last decade or so been discussions about whether a focus on curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industries or a focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels is the right single or leading method to move society into a transition away from fossil energy.

The detection of climate change impacts addresses the question of whether a system has changed beyond its expected behavior in the absence of climate change.

Nor did he address whether Exxon had adequately disclosed the material risks of climate change to its own business in regulatory filings during the time when its scientists were discussing those risks in detail with top management.

Whereas the detection of climate change impacts addresses the question only of whether or not a system has changed as a result of climate change, attribution addresses the magnitude of the contribution of climate change to such changes.

Ninth International Conference on Climate Change The Ninth International Conference on Climate Change is expected to attract nearly 1,000 speakers, scientists, and guests willing to question whether man - made global warming is a problem worth addressing.

Whether or not we agree that humans have changed the climate, farmers will plant the crops they need to stay in business, and leaders in coastal cities will make real changes to address rising sea levels.

Whether such adaptability is sufficient to address the challenges of climate change depends both on the speed of climate - induced changes and on the degree to which Native communities are supported rather than constrained in the adaptive measures they need to make.147

«Specifically, the workshop sought to compare the evolution of public attitudes and legal strategies related to tobacco control with those related to anthropogenic climate change, fostering an exploratory, open - ended dialogue about whether we might use the lessons from tobacco - related education, laws, and litigation to address climate change.»

I am not sure whether we should COPt out and go search more effective ways to address the fact that our climate is already changing.

Dingell, who until last November chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee, asked Gore whether a cap - and - trade plan or an energy tax would be preferable as a means of addressing climate change.

«Previous analyses linking observed impacts to climate change have been generic in nature, addressing whether there is an influence of human - related warming on impacts globally, without an inference to individual impacts,» says Hansen.

Don't get me wrong I'm committed to fighting anthropogenic climate change — by addressing the human behaviours that cause it, and whether we succeed or fail there is always the possibility that life will adapt, obviously any such possibility is made more unlikely the more «climate change» we create.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said Anthony Swift, director of the Canada project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«What the long term looks like [for tar sands] really depends on whether we move to address climate change or whether we adopt failure,» said

Whether or not Polar Bears become extinct because of Global Climate Change or other reasons, we need to address the larger question of: Do we care and why?

The Network published a book this year arguing that «humanity has until at least 2035 to determine whether or not mitigation will also be a necessary part of our strategy to address climate change... attempting to control it through global regulation of emissions would be counterproductive».

Figure 2 shows that the lifetime of the adaptation decision is a key factor determining whether planning needs to address a relatively certain set of changes, or allow for diverging, and potentially very different, climate futures.

In this way, I think it's important for McCutcheon vs. FEC to be framed as a fight not just over campaign finance, but also over the future of climate change and whether we'll have a chance to see major action taken to address this crisis in this generation.

The only question is whether things change so that we address all the threats that confront us, or do we screw it up and do a half - assed job by ignoring development, climate change, water quality, soil depletion, or any of a number of threats that confront us.

What I am talking about is, that it seems to me that with regard to climate science, this blog spends far too much time responding to the phony, trumped - up «debate» fueled by denialist drivel, and not enough time addressing the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to prevent global warming and climate change that will be catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.

The knowledge of climate and its variability during the past centuries can improve our understanding of natural climate variability and also help to address the question of whether modern climate change is unprecedented in a long - term context (Folland et al. 2001; Jansen et al. 2007; Hegerl et al. 2007; Mann et al. 2008 and references therein).

[7] Whether the United States decide to carry out their withdrawal plan, it is for the world's nations to work in concert to close the gaps and address the issue of global climate change.