Sentences with phrase «big problems of climate change»

Not exact matches

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is on the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually.

There are lots of problems to pick apart here, but let's tackle the big one: climate change.

Environmentalist Paul Hawken calls on the food industry, as a big part of the problem, to lead the way against climate change.

Then I try to remember that there are bigger things going on in our world, like the intense problems of global climate change, for one thing.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

You're suggesting it's not that big of a problem, even though the scientific consensus is that it has contributed to the climate change.

Michael E. Mann set out looking for a big scientific problem and wound up at the center of a political storm over climate change.

This annual climate change handbook provides analyses of and solutions to one of the biggest problems of our time.

As if these problems weren't enough, climate change also looms as one of the biggest threats of all to dolphins.

Climate change is a big problem for corals, the colony - forming animals that provide a home to an estimated 25 % of marine life.

«I think part of the problem is Republicans think about climate change and say, «Oh, my God, we're gonna have higher taxes, more Obama, more big government, EPA shutting down factories,»» Pataki said.

Combine two of the biggest planetary challenges — climate change and public health — and you've got a problem as huge as Rupert Murdoch's.

On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earth.

No industry has a bigger impact on climate change than agriculture and food, both as a source of the problem and as a solution.

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

Then, usually, one finds out (by listening to the more detailed report, or going to the source document itself) that the scientist involved doesn't really disagree that climate change is happening, that human activity is a substantial cause, and that some sorts of big problems will likely result.

The main reason I cover climate change issues so relentlessly is because any meaningful solution to this problem will cost big bucks and the current economic environment will not allow us to spend that kind of money.

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prClimate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

On this particular issue of climate change, the Times will have to shift, in my view, from the normal journalistic paradigm (e.g., try to give equal coverage to both «sides» of a story; communicate stories in a muted way by avoiding most words that convey passion and weight; rotate the news so that even important topics only see the front page once in awhile; keep views to the back pages; avoid upsetting big advertisers too much; and so forth) to what might be called a «wisdom paradigm» (face problems, understand problems, communicate your views loudly and up front, address problems, and so forth).

Alexander, certainly you are right, but the question that troubles you, does not solve our problem which is to know who is responsible of the present day climate changes; I fear that changing our Hydrocarbon based economy to a Hydrogene based economy, would send a much bigger green house gas in the atmosphere, I mean water vapor

Ultimately, I believe that the biggest problems denialists face stem from a failure of nerve — they can not face the threat of climate change unless they think there is some solution, and we can not at present lay all of that out.

I was hoping that the book would be accessible to a pretty broad range of readers because I really wanted to use my personal story as sort of this reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change, to talk about the bigger issues, the reality of the problem, the threat that it represents, the need to have a good faith discussion about what to do about it.

Climate scientists, on the other hand, have thousands of papers of undeniable evidence that climate change from human activity is happening and it's a very big pClimate scientists, on the other hand, have thousands of papers of undeniable evidence that climate change from human activity is happening and it's a very big pclimate change from human activity is happening and it's a very big problem.

The biggest problem that confronts Ursus maritimus is still climate change, loss of habitat and a more precarious food supply.

Essential reading for all who think a wee bit of climate change is a big problem.

I think the biggest problem is the talk of climate change in general.

The change in streamflow of the region's mighty rivers, which could get more dramatic with climate change, can pose big problems for hydropower generation, electricity pricing and fisheries.

# 3 is an even bigger problem because climate skeptics don't want to accept CO2 can dominate natural causes of global temperature change.

If the problem is generalized to look at the entire probability distribution function (pdf) of the climate variables, then the biggest changes percentagewise occur in the tails of the distribution, where they can easily exceed several hundred percent (Trenberth 2011b).

Think climate change is too big of a problem to solve?

The biggest problem with «writing off solar effects on climate as insignificant», at the same time attributing most of the recent changes to AGW, is that it does not appear to stand up over the longer term.

«The main reason why we object to the reality of this problem (of climate change) is because the solutions that have been presented are big government solutions.

There's a debate to be had about the science, there's a debate to be had about the best way to approach the problem of climate change and how big that problem is, in the light of — but not as a consequence of — the best scientific information available.

To my mind it's wrong to think that climate change is the sort of «problem» that can ever be «solved» by technical solutions however big and clever they sound.

Obama's legacy is looking tattered, the people say the country is on the wrong track and climate change does not register on the list of the big problems we face.

Further, by tying a big chuck of global development aid to climate change, developing countries will not receive the help they need in dealing with their very real and urgent problems, e.g.

Well, I'm no fan of the Sunday Mail, but Bob Ward has a bigger problem than the UK tabloids: As a «Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment», he stands to lose half of his job title if the environment doesn't turn - up - trumps for him fairly soon.

The bigger problem is most of the time the scientist doesn't know either because they don't know the climate or climate change through time.

The three Abrahamic faiths will discuss each of their faith's views about protecting the Earth, caring for the environment and being proactive in combating climate change, which many believe is Earth's biggest problem.

How much does it effect the big scientific programs / unifying theories / wicked problems like climate change which includes so many subjective judgements and imprecise use of language (and complexity)?

We are now aware that the big bulk of problem on climate change is brought about by many years of human recklessness in dealing with the whole natural world... with Mother Earth.

Yet action to address the risk is complicated because of what Wagner and Weitzman call the Big Four problems: Any one country's effort to prevent climate change alone would be ineffective; political systems struggle to address long - term challenges; by the time humanity decides to act aggressively, it may be too late; and the risks are highly uncertain, which makes them easy to dismiss.

One of the big problems is that the Parties with historical responsibility over Loss and Damage (U.S., EU, Canada, Australia, among other developed countries) are not willing to compensate the victims, usually the Global South, less prepared to deal with climate change.

I was convinced that climate change was going to be a big problem thirty years ago (it was called global warming then) and anyone with a fair understanding of science would have come to the same conclusion.

And one of his friends said, «I think you should check out this Fred Singer guy who's telling you that climate change isn't such a big problem and see who's funding him.»