Sentences with phrase «against global warming as»

Top European leaders pledged Thursday to keep fighting against global warming as U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of the Paris climate accord, they but rejected his suggestion that the deal could later be renegotiated.

The two most vivid examples on my mind at the moment are «It's Global Warming, Stupid,» a much - shared essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, and an effort by Anthony Watts, inspired by a ridiculous U.S. News Sandy - warming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm's cause.

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Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, also testified, as did the National Council of Churches, the Episcopal Church and a group of evangelical Protestants who signed a statement warning against global warming.

One hot summer, as I said, is no more proof of global warming than one raging winter is proof against it.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

Pro-nuclear activists want lawmakers to treat the Clinton plant and other fission reactors as some of the most powerful weapons in the fight against global warming, a rationale that would give them a new lease on life.

Also, it is quite likely that, as global temperature rises, diseases that were previously found only in warmer areas of the world may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas, where people have not yet developed natural defenses against them.

We like to think of green, carbon - absorbing vegetation as our ally in the fight against global warming.

Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity's few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.

Although some correspondents seemed eager to jump to the exact global warming — denying conclusions Keppler and Röckmann had cautioned against, others expressed a more thoughtful attitude as to how this discovery might affect our understanding of global climate change.

Southern Ocean sperm whales have emerged as an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from 40, cars each year thanks to their faeces, a study has found.

Also, regarding the satellite measurements: they do not themselves argue against the idea of anthropogenic global warming, as you may have suggested.

«I believe firmly in global warming and it is something we as people, as governments, have to take measures against.»

These present tough challenges, such as scenarios where ship or airplane travel has stopped, global warming has increased or even trying to win against humanity when it already knows about the virus and has developed powerful vaccinations.

Today, in times of resource scarcity, global warming and impending nuclear conflict, this claim is being boldly asserted once again — in the form, however, of a private - sector undertaking driven primarily by US tech billionaires from the new space industry, not least — as they claim — in order to secure the survival of mankind against home - made planetary collapse.

Fractured Figure projects our millennial moment as one of fragile bodies pitched against a restless, dysphasic backdrop, in which terrorism and global warming impinge as daily realities.

Also, regarding the satellite measurements: they do not themselves argue against the idea of anthropogenic global warming, as you may have suggested.

Just wanted to let you know that I have filed a class action lawsuit on global warming in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, against all current leaders on all nations on Earth, in behalf of all future generations not born yet, forever and ever, as long as this human species shall last...... and for US$ 1 billion in damages, to be donated if case is accepted and won to groups fighting global warming now!

I contend that people should not point to the recent extreme warmth as evidence of global warming any more than they should point to the extreme cold of February as proof against.

If you want to label me a skeptic or claim that I «argue against global warming,» then so be it, but I don't consider my position as such.

Quoted as saying that «I'm not one though who would attribute it [global warming] to being man - made,» Sarah Palin, 44, has made a habit of pitting herself against environmental safety.

Environmental advocates and landowners along the route have mounted noisy protests against the project, including a large demonstration in Washington last month, and view Keystone as a test of Mr. Obama's seriousness about addressing global warming.

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

This amounts to a real betrayal of all those who counted on the EU to do the right thing, and amounts to a capital crime against the environment, because millions will die as the result of unchecked global warming.

This is contributing to all of us going down the tubes together as a result of global warming skeptics and deniers who are playing around with the well known casino rule of «gambler's ruin» by always betting against the house.

After reading the piece, Crowley sent a note under the title «Tales of Brave Ulysses» (as per Cream), alluding in part to an essay he wrote for The Guardian in 2007: «In the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change; to tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.»

Probably everyone has heard this argument, presented as objection against the findings of climate scientists on global warming: «The climate has always changed!»

The fact that the increase in damage cost is about as large as the increase in GDP (as recently argued at FiveThirtyEight) is certainly no strong evidence against an effect of global warming on damage cost.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

The polar bear has become the mascot of all we could lose to climate change and it is critical that we fight to save this species even as we wage a larger battle against global warming.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

Fighting against global warming is human being new issue, we are better doing as long as learning to find best and effective way.

Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.

Western academia's supposed «97 % consensus» — a form of revanchism against growing skepticism of global warming and AGW theory — is the biggest backfire in history if in the end it paints 97 % of academia as hopelessly clueless.

A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as «Climategate,» continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.

Considering recent news about the Exxon corporation sending out document retention request letters against those who accuse it of hoodwinking its shareholders about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, there is perhaps some chance that my work may be used as a guide on «who» needs to preserve «what» in such efforts.

Or is Paul defending against the charge by making a numbers argument — the scientists in question are on the same side as the consensus, so to challenge any aspect of global warming science or politics is to make a statement about «the majority of scientists» (many of whom are in fact social scientists)?

If the public ever saw scientists who push the idea of man - caused global warming as fringe elements unable to support the merits of their argument against withering criticism, the issue would implode.

Shrouded in darkness many of the world's major landmarks stand as symbols of hope against global warming during Earth Hour, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Gold Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Colosseum in Rome.

In any case, as one of those rare contrarian climate scientists, Spencer is in a good position to present the best arguments against the global warming consensus.

The IPCC actually cites measurements of stratospheric cooling as evidence against the hypothesis that global warming would be caused by increased solar activity, as in such case the entire atmosphere would have to show a warming trend, including the stratosphere.

At best, shorting oil companies as a way to wager against global warming is inefficient.

As the French mathematical society, SocietedeCalculMathematiqueSA wrote in a recent paper that Putin will know about titled, «The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade.»

But 24 articles in 18 different journals, collectively making several different arguments against global warming, expose that claim as false.

Fires so intense that they consume millions of acres of trees and scorch the soil on the forest floor have become the kind of extreme disruptors that are remaking the boreal forest and transforming its role as one of the world's great protectors against global warming.

But water can be enlisted as an ally in the fight against global warming.

The satellite data does raise some issues — for example it shows that the link between tropospheric and surface level temperatures is not as tight as was once thought, but the idea that it represents serious evidence against the hypothesis of human - induced global warming has been thoroughly refuted.

If we start taking serious steps against global warming, the stage will be set for Europe and Japan to follow suit, and for concerted pressure on the rest of the world as well.

Organisations who deny or reject current science on human - caused climate change, such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK and the Heartland Institute in the US, have published critical reports, and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the consensus research on Capitol Hill.

It seems as if every gathering of more than two political leaders these days is being trumpeted as an opportunity to advance the fight against global warming, and when those said leaders go home without having secured any sort of promise or commitment on that front, the meeting is seen as a failure.