Sentences with phrase «benefits from a warmer climate»

What I do not understand is how any potential benefits from a warmer climate always seem to be down played, assumed to be transient in this case, yet all of the identified harmful effects are talked about, with no mention of them possibly being transient.

The bigger issue is that it is robustly unprovable or logical that so many negative effects will happen because of a change in temperature of even 2,3,4 degrees because as temperature has risen human life and other life seems to benefit from warmer climate.

While there may be some benefits from a warmer climate, it seems almost certain that upheaval on this scale would make the United States, and the world as a whole, poorer than it would be otherwise.

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Lead researcher Prof Rachel Warren from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA said: «Our research quantifies the benefits of limiting global warming to 2 °C for species in 35 of the world's most wildlife - rich areas.

«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing methane emissions can bring great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air quality, and that many of the sources can be controlled at low or even negative cost, we still need better data on emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.

The Premium Plus trim also benefits from the addition of the optional Warm Weather package that was previously available only on the Prestige and includes four - zone climate control and rear - side window and rear window sunshades.

Passengers also benefit from those warming and cooling options, as well as dual - zone climate control to ensure both driver and passenger have control over their respective environments.

The Villa is in the perfect location offering only benefits from the warm Mediterranean climate.

There is definitely more to learn about how climate behaves and there are now data sets for ocean warming and carbon dioxide distribution that could benefit from better surface temperature measurements.

On a lone and desolate promontory clings one last living human who shrieks into the maelstrom a final defiance even as the pitiless rain clogs his throat: «In the church of climate alarmism, there may be no heresy more dangerous than the idea that the world will benefit from warming.»

There may well be a small number of people who will benefit during their lifetimes from warmer temperatures and a changed climate, but that is dwarfed by the number of people who will suffer by losing their property, their livelihoods, their health, and their lives due to climate change.

One reason for advertising it here at an early stage is that the denizens of Climate Etc. seem well motivated to poke holes in theories of global warming, which I view as a positive benefit of skepticism, as distinguished from flat denial.

However, because of the high global warming potential of methane (CH4, the major component of NG), climate benefits from NG use depend on system leakage rates.

This puts me roughly in the same camp as James Annan, though possibly I am less skeptical that there could be benefits for moderate warming, and I am probably more skeptical of claims about the supposedly significant level of damage from the current level of anthopogenically induced climate change.

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While Republican lawmakers in Washington have fought to protect coal - fired power plants, opposing President Barack Obama's efforts to curtail climate - warming carbon emissions, data show their home states are often the ones benefiting most from the nation's accelerating shift to renewable energy.

According to The Guardian, a July study by researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science found that» [t] he economic benefits for a country from tackling climate change easily outweigh the costs,» and» [c] ountries stand to gain more than they would lose in economic terms from almost all of the actions needed to meet an agreed global warming limit» of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

No policy to abate global warming by controlling CO2 emissions would prove cost - effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation.

Carbon Brief reported that Ridley made a wide range of claims throughout, touching on subjects from ocean acidification and climate sensitivity through to energy subsidies and the «benefits» of global warming.

They have assumed that global warming will bring more losers than winners and have overstated the benefits, understated the costs and largely ignored any unintended consequences that could occur from the «global climate policy targeted at [GHG] stabilization».

This benefit from reduced exposure to cold can be further attributed to people migrating to warmer climates.»

I've never disagreed with the possibility of climate disruption from anthropenic activities I've only argued that disruption is very likely to be overshadowed by net benefits like modest warming when the earth has been in a ice age for 4 million years, more warming in the higher latitudes and less in the lower exactly where most people would wish for warming (or lack thereof), and fertilization of the atmosphere with CO2 (plant food).

In fact, the Yohe paper that Romm cites suggests that additional warming of up to 2 °C, may be on the whole a net benefit to humanity, even though, like others, it seems that study doesn't fully consider the increases in adaptive capacity and secular technological change, consideration of which would reduce future damages from climate change, effectively increasing the temperature beyond which climate change would result in net losses globally, and reduce the benefit - cost ratio for mitigation.

And it's not because of any wish of the climate scientists» that global warming has been so heavily politicized — the only ones who have benefited from that are the interests of carbon - polluting industries like coal and oil.

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