Sentences with phrase «beneficial effect on weather»

They see forests as having a beneficial effect on weather and agriculture, the value of which can hardly be estimated.

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CFACT's position on climate change is CO2 is «beneficial» to plants and wildlife and therefore, «Regulating carbon dioxide may be profitable for certain industries and governments, but will impose enormous costs on society — while having no effect on our weather and climate.»

A physicist is no more likely than a sociologist to know what human emissions will be 50 years from now — if a slight warming would be beneficial or harmful to humans or the natural world; if forcings and feedbacks will partly or completely offset the theoretical warming; if natural variability will exceed any discernible human effect; if secondary effects on weather will lead to more extreme or more mild weather events; if efforts to reduce emissions will be successful; who should reduce emissions, by what amounts, or when; and whether the costs of attempting to reduce emissions will exceed the benefits by an amount so large as to render the effort counterproductive.