Sentences with phrase «as further global warming»

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Trump's positions are further complicated by a recent Politico reportthat shows his organization cited global warming as justification to build a coastal structure to prevent erosion at a golf course in Ireland.

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

As with global warming, so too with the lawlessness in our society: the debates over its causes are far from finished.

The 75 - minute session filled most of the 80 seats in the far hallway of the Baltimore convention center as the panel shared their idea: to feed the craving for coordinated industry action to address global warming.

One aerosol, black carbon, is of increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change in the far north, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

As protesters rally, corporate boardrooms struggle over how to prevent further global warming

For heavy carbon - emitting companies, global warming policies are typically a threat to their operations, while greener rivals often view such policies as a way to further insulate themselves from the competition.

Interestingly, some scientists argue that without the cooling effect of major volcanic eruptions such as El Chichn and Mount Pinatubo, global warming effects caused by human activities would have been far more substantial.

Tree mortality can radically transform ecosystems, affect biodiversity, harm local economies, and pose fire risks, as well as further increase global warming.

In so far as some sceptics and deniers are proclaiming that carbon dioxide - induced anthropogenic global warming may be «the scientific fraud of the century» then surely the issues surrounding it must be the scientific debate of the century.

But, already, it is clear that global climates not much warmer than present are enough to thaw even more permafrost — as far north as 60 degrees latitude.

«I am sure that those global leaders were driven by a primitive fear that the present ambient warm weather is somehow caused by humanity; and that fear — as far as I understand the science — is equally without foundation,» he said.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

Now, with regional climates shifting as a result of global warming, it is unclear just how far — and how fast — organisms will need to travel to keep up with moving climates.

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.

Leaving politics aside, for the people around the world who inhabit as much as 71 % of the world's coastlines and are surrounded by oceans, this is not just a statement on a piece of paper, but a commitment of world leaders to take the wellbeing of our further generations to heart, to tackle the burning of fossil fuels and global warming collectively.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

As the graph above shows, despite everything they have done so far, we are on a clear course to extreme global warming.

«The results imply that reforestation projects and efforts to avoid further deforestation are of the utmost importance in our pursuit to limit global warming to below 2oC, as stated in the Paris climate agreement.»

Another unexpected finding: Among people who were aware of global warming, those in the poorer nations tended to judge it as a far bigger threat.

Although one might expect earthquakes and eruptions in Antarctia due to reductions in ice loading caused by global warming, since they would be far from civilisation they would not recieve the same intensive reporting as those in populated areas.

Further, I assume they all agree on anthropogenic global warming as per Oreskes» research.

But the scare over pythons on the Everglades brought some new twists to the old tale; federal officials warned that, given global warming, the pythons could spread as far as San Francisco within 50 years.

Global warming is still in its infancy, as far as issues go.

Am I that far off to say that the average reader who agrees with George Will is likely use their own experience of local weather as a guide to Global Warming?

Today that projection has changed to 2012, thereby proving emphatically that this Global Warming process is happening Exponentially, which has been further advance by our current Administration's policies such as the «Clear Skies Initiative», which as most of us know is nothing but a «wolf in sheep's clothing».

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

Then we absorb more solar energy which further warms the region (Arctic Amplification) which further exacerbates the global warming as a strong feedback... This is not really in question as far as I can tell?

I would go as far to say that the majority of the educated American public knows that the people who suffer the most from climate change and global warming at not those who contribute the most to the problem (i.e. the United States).

As Christopher Horner, author of «The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming,» says: «All this accomplished was to legitimize the agenda, wrench the political center of the issue far to the left, and leave some very good men and women out there hanging.»

As the environmental effects of global warming increase, the disruption to the economy will be far worse than that caused by banning the use of unnecessary transport.

As far as I know, the 2 main sources of satellite data for temperatures in the lower troposphere are UAH and RSS, and they vastly differ in their trends in the tropical troposphere, with RSS's trend being twice as warming as the UAH trend, although they show the same trends in the remaining troposphere, resulting in a Global difference of only 0.035 C / d trenAs far as I know, the 2 main sources of satellite data for temperatures in the lower troposphere are UAH and RSS, and they vastly differ in their trends in the tropical troposphere, with RSS's trend being twice as warming as the UAH trend, although they show the same trends in the remaining troposphere, resulting in a Global difference of only 0.035 C / d trenas I know, the 2 main sources of satellite data for temperatures in the lower troposphere are UAH and RSS, and they vastly differ in their trends in the tropical troposphere, with RSS's trend being twice as warming as the UAH trend, although they show the same trends in the remaining troposphere, resulting in a Global difference of only 0.035 C / d trenas warming as the UAH trend, although they show the same trends in the remaining troposphere, resulting in a Global difference of only 0.035 C / d trenas the UAH trend, although they show the same trends in the remaining troposphere, resulting in a Global difference of only 0.035 C / d trend.

due to co2 we are already living in a greenhouse.Whatever one does in that greenhouse will remain in the greenhouse.INDUSTRIOUS HEAT will remain in the greenhouse instead of escaping into outer space; this is a far greater contributor to global warming than other factors and far more difficult to reduce without reducing economic activity.Like warm moist air from your mouth on cold mornings so melting antarctic ice will turn into cloud as it meets warm moist air from tropics the seas will not rise as antarctica is a huge cloud generator.A thick band of cloud around the earth will produce even temps accross the whole earth causing the wind to moderate even stop.WE should be preparing for this possible scenario»

It's a good PR gimmick for the Guardian, and I mean that is a positive way: the story will get lots of ink and will be picked up by the international wire services like AP and Reuters, spreading the word far and wide, and the blogosphere will pick it up as well, and the news of the Guardian's picks will be useful in helping to make more and more people aware of the very real problems of climate change and global warming.

I particularly enjoyed the slides that, when combined (1) provided an overview of hotter and cooler CO2 molecules as it relates to how they are seen from outer space and from profile — because this will make it easier for me to explain this process to others; (2) walked through the volcanic and solar activity vs assigning importance to CO2 changes — because this another way to help make it clearer, too, but in another way; (3) discussed CO2 induced warming and ocean rise vs different choices we might make — because this helps point out why every day's delay matters; and (4) showed Figure 1 from William Nordhaus» «Strategies for Control of Carbon Dioxide» and then super-imposed upon that the global mean temperature in colors showing pre-paper and post-paper periods — because this helps to show just how far back it was possible to make reasoned projections without the aid of a more nuanced and modern understanding.

As far back as the 1950's, when instructional science filmmaking was in its heyday, Frank Capra did a film on weather and climate that included a section on carbon dioxide and global warming that plays like a compressed version of «An Inconvenient Truth,» replete with flooded American landscapes and crumbling ice sheetAs far back as the 1950's, when instructional science filmmaking was in its heyday, Frank Capra did a film on weather and climate that included a section on carbon dioxide and global warming that plays like a compressed version of «An Inconvenient Truth,» replete with flooded American landscapes and crumbling ice sheetas the 1950's, when instructional science filmmaking was in its heyday, Frank Capra did a film on weather and climate that included a section on carbon dioxide and global warming that plays like a compressed version of «An Inconvenient Truth,» replete with flooded American landscapes and crumbling ice sheets.

A note came back from the Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who has lately been pressing for the United States to intensify efforts to limit a danger both far more concretely understood than global warming and far less in vogue as a serious threat — the reality that a very large rock will inevitably head on a collision course for Earth.

Promoting polar bears as endangered due to global warming is one of the dumbest ideas the environmental movement has come up with so far.

So, if one wants to claim that only long terms trends really count, then I see nothing to take seriously as far as «global warming» is concerned, since I see no long term trend at all........

I think the inflation would be a consequence of that fact that (except for some things), in so far as the efficient market hypothesis applies, we would be operating optimally now except for global warming and ocean acidification; applying the tax pulls us away from that optimum, the economy will then not be as efficient (ignoring externalities); but we should want to do this because the economy is now more efficient when including the externalities.

The science behind human - induced global warming is far stronger, as documented by the latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

You're right — global warming «Dismissives» are far more likely to describe themselves as «born again» or evangelical (55 percent vs. the national average of 27 %).

As far as I remember, she discusses the MWP only in the context of Europe which doesn't contribute to the argument concerning the global extent of the warminAs far as I remember, she discusses the MWP only in the context of Europe which doesn't contribute to the argument concerning the global extent of the warminas I remember, she discusses the MWP only in the context of Europe which doesn't contribute to the argument concerning the global extent of the warming.

So far, global warming / climate change has been relatively benign for many people (while anything but benign for others), but keep in mind that it is not yet as warm as it will be based on only the increase in CO2 so far, never mind that the increase continues unabated.

Mercer further commented that the loss of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, as has since been observed, would be an indicator that this process of ice sheet loss due to global warming was underway.

And of course the basics were clear as far back as 1988, when I touched on equity and China and emissions in my first long article on global warming, in Discover Magazine:

I think you have missed the mark as far as understanding why John Q. Public does not worry about global warming.

Although one might expect earthquakes and eruptions in Antarctia due to reductions in ice loading caused by global warming, since they would be far from civilisation they would not recieve the same intensive reporting as those in populated areas.

As far as costs, the cost of switching to a renewable energy based economic system is far lower than the costs of global warming over the next centurAs far as costs, the cost of switching to a renewable energy based economic system is far lower than the costs of global warming over the next centuras costs, the cost of switching to a renewable energy based economic system is far lower than the costs of global warming over the next century.

This would actually not be true at sufficiently high latitudes in the winter hemisphere, except that some circulation in the upper atmosphere is driven by kinetic energy generated within the troposphere (small amount of energy involved) which, so far as I know, doesn't result in much of a global time average non-radiative energy flux above the tropopause, but it does have important regional effects, and the result is that the top of the stratosphere is warmer than the tropopause at all latitudes in all seasons so far as I know.