Sentences with phrase «addressing global climate disruption»

And if the models are good enough to accurately model the effects of geoengineering, then perhaps we should trust what they tell us about addressing global climate disruption, namely that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the best way to curtail overall climate disruption.

Beyond some unions that legitimately fear harmful effects on their members, the attacks on the Clean Power Plan are coming from the same anti-union corporate polluters that have sought to destroy the labor movement and fought any attempt to address global climate disruption for decades.

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The science is clear: To prevent major disruption, the global community must take steps to address climate change.

In this case, the strongest and best available data supports the proposition that humans are driving global climate disruption, that the disruptions to the Earth's climate will continue to worsen this century, and the sooner we address the root causes of climate disruption, the better.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

President Obama took a major step in the right direction when he made responding to global climate disruption a central commitment in his second Inaugural Address yesterday.

In his State of the Union address President Obama failed once again to give the American people some straight talk about global climate disruption.

Economists have studied how much it will cost the global economy to address climate disruption, and they've concluded that it will cost between 1 % and 3 % of the global economy.