Sentences with phrase «building human influence on the climate system»

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

Global Warming vs Climate Change,» an interesting new study of Americans» perceptions of the two dominant shorthand phrases used to describe the building human influence on the climate system.

There have been a lot of attempts to categorize the varied assemblage of people with strongly held positions on the scope of, and threat from, the building human influence on the climate system.

What's refreshing is that the building human influence on the climate system is not being portrayed definitively as an unfolding catastrophe, with present - day events cast as the reason for action.

In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences published «Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises,» a valuable report examining whether and how the building human influence on the climate system might lead to disruptive jolts.

Not exact matches

From Cape Cod's coast to South Asia's Sunderbans, communities are grappling with an unnerving consequence of trying to build a «good» Anthropocene, the term increasingly applied to Earth's age of humans, in which we've become a powerful influence on everything from the climate system to evolution.

The building influence of humans on the climate — and other earth systems that matter — is still just about the most unconventional story, the hardest story, you can imagine.

It may take another president, or two, before America's energy quest gets into the necessary gear, perhaps driven by a confluence of a new spike in oil prices and rising anger among veterans wounded protecting fuel convoys in Afghanistan and building evidence pointing to a growing, and harmful, human influence on the climate system.

And there are plenty of important questions to resolve about the climate of the Holocene — this comfy warm interval humans have enjoyed since the end of the last ice age — before the human influence on the system built in recent decades.

When you look behind dueling posts and columns, it's clear that the building and long - lasting influence of humans on the climate system is progressively tipping the odds toward outcomes that can be bad for agriculture in many struggling places.

Andrew Revkin: I think it's taken ages for the world to even integrate, meaningfully, the reality that scientists have shown clearly — that humans are a building influence on the climate system.