Sentences with phrase «believing in climate change for»

alfonse, perhaps you can explain what is logical about believing in a god for which there is no evidence and what is logical about not believing in climate change for which there is a mountain of supporting evidence.

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John Horgan and the B.C. New Democrats believe that, in order to move forward, LNG development must include express guarantees of jobs and training opportunities for British Columbians, a fair return for our resources, benefits for First Nations, and protection of our air, land and water, including living up to our climate change commitments.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical who: dismisses evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «climate change is real and caused by humans»; think that «the founders were evangelicals who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children; believe in traditional roles for the sexes; think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.

Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your in - law who doesn't believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

Cuomo, who has had to cope with the aftermath of two major storms in his two years in office — Irene in 2011, and now Sandy — says the state could be better prepared for climate change that the governor believes could be the new normal.

Voters in the four - county district said they believe that climate change is a significant threat (74 - 20 percent); favor a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (66 - 27 percent), consider themselves 2nd Amendment rather than gun control supporters (54 - 43 percent) and support keeping Obamacare in place (50 - 45 percent).

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

«We believe that there is a huge economic opportunity: for countries, for business, for people in taking action on climate change,» Mr Blair said.

«It is absurd to leave someone in charge of a department whose role is to protect the country from a growing climate crisis who himself believes that «people get very emotional about this subject, and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries».

Event attendee Chris Karmosky of Treadwell, a climatologist who teaches meteorology at SUNY Oneonta, said the climate is changing and though many in his profession believe that humans are to blame for accelerated climate change, the general population does not believe that is the case.

These ragged, spidery clouds began appearing in the late 1800s, and their increasing frequency and geographic spread are believed to be a marker for climate change.

The world's largest organization of physicists clarified its position on climate change last week, and it no longer believes, as it did in 2007, that the evidence for global warming is «incontrovertible.»

He'll believe in the brand of climate change that mainstream scientists warn of if temperatures rapidly rise for another 30 years, he said.

In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.&raquIn half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.&raquin part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.»

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

Still, he believes there's room for the candidates to talk in positive terms about climate change, even if it's driven by strategies of self - promotion.

Andrew Hoffman and Jenna White at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, recently argued this, saying it would create «political cover for emerging Republicans to upend the notion that you can't be a conservative and believe in climate change».

Who's to Blame To avoid price gouging, consumer advocate Newton and scientist Mills urge insurance companies to be transparent about the models they use for setting premiums — specifically how they factor in catastrophes believed to have been brought on by climate change.

I also believe that hydrologists and meteorologists should be making efforts to account for climate change in meteorology and hydrology, modeling and predictions.

If your corporation believes in a bottom - up, cost - effective approach to financing nature for positive impact, join us on our worldwide tour to debut the Shared Value Platform, launching in Paris at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at the end of November 2015.

«Developing a warmer socio - emotional climate in the classroom... requires teachers... to believe that their role is that of a change agent — that all students can learn and progress, that achievement for all is changeable and not fixed, and that demonstrating to all students that they care about their learning is both powerful and effective.»

NJASL believes that professional development is essential for School Library Media Specialists, especially in the current, ever - changing climate.

Only 49 % of the people in Emery County, Utah, for instance, believe in global warming, while 72 % in Grand County, Utah, a neighboring country, think climate change is happening.

The gist is that most Americans have heard of Global Climate Change but believe that the effects will be slow in coming so we should take slow, cheap steps for now.

Using «weather» (hurricane season forecasts, for example) to demonstrate «climate change» can backfire, and I believe it has in this specific instance.

We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern and central Amazonia at 20 - 25 % deforestation.

You'll find people who will tell you the flaws in a lot of methods (for example, issues in Mg / Ca temperature proxies) but that doesn't mean they dismiss everything out of hand, or that there views on Mg / Ca somehow means they don't believe in climate change.

By last April he was questioning the basic science of climate change itself, offering this mealy - mouthed attempt to placate the anti-science right wing without going whole hog into the denial camp: «Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe.»

Some issue advocates have argued that the term climate change is more likely to engage Republicans in the issue, however, the evidence from these studies suggests that in general the terms are synonymous for Republicans — i.e., neither term is more engaging than the other, although in several cases, global warming generates stronger feelings of negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States.

I think that story is example of the the ways in which climate change attribution can be overstretched in ways that I believe undermine science, misdirect resources and weaken the social support for addressing climate change.

I believe that I was harassed by my supervisor and others in NWS for over a year after the suspension, related to my concerns on climate and hydrologic change as that can affect hydrologic modeling which NWS river forecast centers uses for flood and water supply forecasting.

On the other hand, there is no reason to believe that the Walker circulation should change smoothly as a function of climate forcings; perhaps the potential for change builds up over many years, and manifests itself all of a sudden, in the fashion of an avalanche.

I believe it's time for Rajendra K. Pachauri to take a new approach to discussing climate change or leave the chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after nearly a decade in that poclimate change or leave the chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after nearly a decade in that poschange or leave the chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after nearly a decade in that poClimate Change after nearly a decade in that posChange after nearly a decade in that position.

I have some sympathy for the second, although I believe it is misplaced given the likely consequences for the global economy of climate change simply in terms of this century considered by itself.

a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.

Your reading of my work as neutral on the question of anthropogenic climate change — and the need for a big response / / j.mp / eQuest — is so divorced from reality that it's hard to believe you read anything I write, or have written, in covering this issue since the mid 1980s.

So, whether you believe in climate change or not, those are three good economic and health reasons for a war on coal.

In other words, it feels to me like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu, like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in climate change or the need for our changeIn other words, it feels to me like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu, like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in climate change or the need for our changein climate change or the need for our change).

Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection spent over $ 300 million to promote «consensus messaging,» which was featured in Gore's 2006 movie Inconvenient Truth (no doubt the organization gave a $ 1 million to an advertising agency, which conducted a focus group to validate its seat - of - the - pants guess that «reframing» the organization's name as «Climate Reality» would convince farmers to «believe in» climate cClimate Protection spent over $ 300 million to promote «consensus messaging,» which was featured in Gore's 2006 movie Inconvenient Truth (no doubt the organization gave a $ 1 million to an advertising agency, which conducted a focus group to validate its seat - of - the - pants guess that «reframing» the organization's name as «Climate Reality» would convince farmers to «believe in» climate cClimate Reality» would convince farmers to «believe in» climate cclimate change).

Bob Inglis, from the farming state of South Carolina, for example, announced that he «believed in» climate change and wanted Congress to address the issue.

Regardless, for a man who believes in climate change, McAuliffe's boast is exasperating.

Not surprising as she long ago sold her soul to the oil industry in a pathetic attempt to hang on to power in a province where the majority of citizens don't believe in climate change and have voted PC for over a generation.

Foreword by Dr, F, James Rutherford American association for the Advancement of Science «Astronomical Cycle: Scientists believe astronomical cycles touch off changes in the ocean - Atmosphere system that drives the world's climate.

However, if you look closely, you'll see that the evidence for the latter argument comes in one way or the other from people invested in the exact activities pointed to as being the main culprits of climate change — people who can fabricate as many believable evidence as they can — and if you believe they wouldn't do this, then, well, there's not a lot of hope in convincing you.

But realizing that the damning evidence was available for everyone to see (via a tweet that remains in Trump's twitter feed), his campaign sought to quickly clarify the next day that, despite what he might have stated in the past, he no longer believes climate change to be a hoax.

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