Sentences with phrase «better than no climate change»

What motivates them is a vague sense that some climate change action is better than no climate change action, that it's probably quite useful to keep the Caroline Lucas fringe onside, and that there might be some green jobs in it for someone somewhere.

In fact, if a cabal of evil psychologists had gathered in a secret undersea base to concoct a crisis humanity would be hopelessly ill - equipped to address, they couldn't have done better than climate change.

Not exact matches

Situated on the Blagdon Estate owned by Matt Ridley, a peer and Conservative politician who has said climate change has done more good than harm, Shotton has been mined by Banks since 2008.

Unfortunately, being better than Donald Trump on climate change is a very low bar.

He is only slightly better than most any other Republican when the issue is Afghanistan or climate change.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

The UK would be «rather better» at regulating fracking for gas than the US has been, the elected chair of the climate change select committee says.

«Who knows better than paleontologists what can happen when the climate changes?»

Some subpopulations of yellow warblers may be genetically better equipped to adapt to climate changes than others, according to a new study in the January 5 issue of Science.

«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

«They're a good example of a species that will likely adapt to global climate change better than other less behaviorally flexible whales,» Pyenson says.

California regulators may rule that the biofuel is no better — and might be worse — than petroleum for solving climate change

Preparedness is a good idea, but is much broader than just «climate change» (e.g., earthquakes).

One of the key goals of the subsidy is to prevent the emergence of resistance against ACTs, which would be a major crisis; for individual countries, investing in such a common good is no more attractive than investing in measures to prevent climate change, he adds.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«By showing some people that they might be better off than their neighbors... maybe this kind of undermines their motivation to do anything about climate change,» he said.

By delaying our ability to respond in time to climate change, it's doing more harm than good,» he says.

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

«The chances of correctly predicting such variations are much better than the weather for the next few weeks, because the climate is far less chaotic than the rapidly changing weather conditions,» said Latif.

BRUSSELS — To get into the spirit of innovation at the European Commission's Innovation Convention here this week, one needed look no further than orange - haired punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood quizzing Chinese business professor Xue Lan and Olivier Oullier, an expert in behavioral and brain sciences who advises the French government, on how best to address the problem of climate change.

OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.

Although not generally stressed about climate change, those with high levels of altruistic concern, or concern for the well - being of others, also engaged in some environmental coping strategies and pro-environmental behaviors — more so than those whose environmental concerns were mostly egoistic.

But the transformation towards a sustainable future not only includes a rapid response to climate change — now more than ever we need systemic approaches that can bring integrated solutions with multiple benefits and reduced costs, on climate change as well as other areas of sustainable development.

These are the erroneous predictions ascribed to the most recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- a document reviewed by some 2,500 scientists and other experts as well as vetted by more than 190 countries.

In the drive to survive changing climates, larger herbivores may fare slightly better than their smaller competitors, according to new research from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

This geographically - changing SRM geoengineering could conceivably do a better job of more comprehensively compensating for human - induced climate change than with an identical amount at all locations over the globe.

It is well - established in climatology that different causes and mechanisms have caused climate changes in the past (orbital variations, plate tectonics, solar variability, volcanic eruptions, etc.), so that a cause - effect relationship has to be determined for each individual case, rather than looking for one overall «driver».

For the glacial period, comparisons to the Hulu Cave chronology demonstrated that WD2014 had an accuracy of better than 1 % of the age at three abrupt climate change events between 27 and 31ka.

Take a look at nuclear power, best safety record of any form of energy (even safer than wind), and even in the face of CO2 induced «climate change», they still are going to phase it out.

Transforming «greenhouse» gas into solid rock may be better than other methods at fighting climate change

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

«We may notice more hurricanes and heat waves than usual and become concerned about climate change, but we don't always know the best ways to reduce our emissions,» Lacasse said.

Lindzen and Giannitsis (2002) pose the hypothesis that the rapid change in tropospheric (850 — 300 hPa) temperatures around 1976 triggered a delayed response in surface temperature that is best modelled with a climate sensitivity of less than 1 °C.

But arguably more impressive than the pretty food on the plates is that this ambitious LEED Gold Certified restaurant has taken an often talked about aspiration in the food world — fighting climate change through better dining choices — and made it a reality.

Yes, I know, not the best way to introduce how to wear satin but I thought I'd get that out of the way because some of you who read this blog live in tropical climates but for those of us who are now moving into Spring, it is nice, for a change, to wear satin elsewhere other than in bed (wink, wink).

Earnest messages about bad climate change and good parenting skills have been replaced by a we - all - share - a-planet sense of fun that's more «Finding Nemo» than National Geographic.

In parallel to the Rio +20 gestation process, the UN Secretary - General and his senior advisors, after more than two years of wholehearted efforts to bring about a major global agreement on climate change, had come to the conclusion that climate change was part of a broader package of global sustainable development challenges, and could probably be better addressed in conjunction with the rest.

Climate change needs more attention in schools and communities as well as global efforts, action and collaboration to protect the environment better than before.

When discussing various observers» attitudes towards some body of objective data, such as the data underlying the science of climate change, those who evaluate the data without undue ideological bias might better be described as «impartial» rather than as «objective».

The AGU statement says that the «not natural» climate changes being recorded — perhaps best exemplified (albeit, I'll admit, overly simple) by the cascade of recent years all warmer than anything else since 1850 — are «best explained» by the increasing accumulation of man - made greenhouse gases and aerosols.

He actually said «The best projections tell us that we have less than one hundred months to alter our behaviour before we risk catastrophic climate change, and the unimaginable horrors that this would bring.».

«Somewhat counter-intuitively, a land — sea surface warming ratio greater than unity during transient climate change is actually not mainly a result of the differing thermal inertias of land and ocean, but primarily originates in the differing properties of the surface and boundary layer (henceforth BL) over land and ocean (Manabe et al. 1991; Sutton et al. 2007; Joshi et al. 2008 (henceforth JGW08), Dong et al. 2009) as well as differing cloud feedbacks (Fasullo 2010; Andrews et al. 2010).»

I'd already been covering climate change and other environmental issues for more than two decades, and blogging seemed like a great way to cover gaps that didn't fit well in a standard news article.

NONE of them have questioned the science behind climate change for more than a decade; they may argue about which policies are the best way to address the problem, what mix of government regulations and private sector actions is best, but not one challenges the science.

In 2008, I asked the Bush administration's climate treaty team whether the world would have been better off signing a Framework Convention on Technology Change back in 1992 than one on climate cChange back in 1992 than one on climate changechange.

Raising livestock contributes to climate change and environmental degradation in other ways as well: it takes far more grain and land to produce a calorie of food for humans by feeding grains to animals than directly to people.