Sentences with phrase «causing climate crisis»

On taxing carbon: His climate change plan called for a carbon tax that will «tax polluters causing the climate crisis, and return billions of dollars to working families to ensure the fossil fuel companies don't subject us to unfair rate hikes.»

Such actions would go a long way towards securing a reasonable deal in Paris and, more importantly, to ensuring that those least responsible for causing the climate crisis are not the first to be devastated by it.

Wikipedia has long been biased against climate realism, and pushes as fact the hypothesis that human activity is causing a climate crisis — a narrative not supported by an unbiased examination of the peer - reviewed scientific data.

Climate realists, those of us who do not support the hypothesis that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are causing a climate crisis, have certainly been pleased.

We demand the climate crisis to be addressed according to what science and equity require and that developed countries act according to their historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis.

Instead of implementing laws on the books and standing up to corporate power, the wealthy countries historically responsible for causing the climate crisis are ignoring their moral and legal responsibility to act by dismantling the rules that have the highest chance of delivering a safe climate future.

It's an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: «2,500 scientists of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.»

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

Who caused the climate crisis?

Developing countries can not adequately push for an energy transformation or address the exorbitantly expensive climate crisis without the urgent funds pledged by developed countries, which overwhelmingly caused the climate crisis,» said Dipti Bhatnagar of Friends of the Earth International.

The rich countries that caused the climate crisis — the U.S. top among them — must fill the GCF with funds commensurate with the scale of need.

He sent the stolen documents (and at least one forged document) to environmental activists and friendly reporters because, he said, his «judgment was blinded by my frustration» that scientific skeptics of a man - caused climate crisis were being given a place

Not exact matches

As with climate change, we have ample evidence that we're facing a biodiversity crisis, we know what's causing it and we have numerous solutions.

Mr. Cohn - Bendit began the debate by characterizing the current climate as «a turning point in European history, because the European Union is confronted with one of its most serious crises, caused by the financial crisis».

The Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned that the havoc caused by recent storms and floods shows Britain is sleepwalking into a climate change crisis.

Republicans on the committee focused their questions on how Pruitt will work to prevent pollution from causing serious public health problems like the lead contamination crisis affecting Flint, Michigan, and criticized the Obama administration's climate regulations.

It's ridiculous enough politicians are blaming the refugee crises on man - made climate change, even though everyone knows they are really caused by foreign policy ineptitude and debacles.

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Students watched An Inconvenient Truth — former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's documentary about global warming — and studied the science behind climate change (including arguments that it is not a crisis humans caused).

Within that, events caused by war, terrorism, political unrest, racism, sexism, immigration, economic crisis, climate change, pollution, epidemics, mental illness, and the tenuous boundaries between the real and the virtual can be described as ruptures.

Projects of particular interest are those that apply a systemic lens to the root causes of global warming; enroll the leadership of frontline communities most vulnerable to the impact of climate change; push for broad - based civic engagement and community action; and wherever possible leverage the value artists and culture bearers bring to processes for devising and deploying practical solutions to this global crisis.

Basically the argument is that we who live in the industrialized countries that emitted most of the carbon that created the climate crisis have to acknowledge our historical responsibility, first by leading the way on emission reductions, then by offering assistance to countries that did little or nothing to cause the crisis but are suffering the worst effects.

I'm not an expert, but even to me it seems that with the climate warming at such a fast rate, whatever the cause, the sheer number of people on the earth at this time constitutes a crisis.

Though a number of wealthy countries attending a State Department - convened climate finance ministerial meeting on mobilizing private money have been trying to escape their obligation to use public funds to help the world's poor confront the climate crisis (which, incidentally, the poor did not cause), Robin Hood found them today and demanded to be heard.

When the leader of the government agency tasked with solving environmental problems like the climate crisis won't even acknowledge its true cause.

1/12/16 — An up - and - coming policy analyst cited by the independent Truman National Security Project has argued that «It's impossible to solve the climate crisis without winning conservatives to the cause,» adding that «There's evidence that conservative views on climate are evolving.»

WASHINGTON — In a landmark report experts say fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the global warming crisis, new data published this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found that the phenomenon is caused primarily by the actions of 7 billion key individuals.

Any attempt to solve one of these problems (such as climate change) without addressing the others is likely to fail, since these ecological crises, although distinct in various ways, typically share common causes.

«Sea Level Rise» is just one in a long line of propaganda metrics used by the climate crisis industry to promote the narrative that your CO2 emissions are causing unprecedented climate change.

Climate change didn't cause the Syrian civil war or today's refugee crisis.

For an increasing fraction of the world's population, the real climate crisis is not the possibility that dangerous human - caused global warming may someday occur.

This blog is about the climate crisis, its causes, and the actions we can take to minimize it.

Climate change has caused a reproductive justice crisis, activists say, as its projected impacts lead some to question how they could have a baby with such an uncertain future.

As FoE's forest program gains ground against interests that wreck forest and wreak climate havoc, we are committed to addressing the root causes of deforestation and climate change, and to continuing to advance the perspectives of the indigenous and grassroots communities most impacted by these crises.

Under Stephen Harper's Conservatives, one of the world's most spitefully reactionary governments on the climate change file, Canada became a global poster child for the cause of the crisis.

This notion that our trace of a trace constituent can somehow overwhelm all other climate factors to send the temperature spiralling one way or another & that it can be remedied by forcibly redistributing the wealth of free people's into the hands of crisis constructors is the most idiotic cause mankind has ever championed.

By enabling sustainable development, including better education and the empowerment of women — both central to ending poverty — we will reduce population growth... Q: Could the current refugee crises in the Mediterranean and elsewhere — which of course have a variety of causes — be looked at as a first test of how governments, particularly in rich countries, will react to future climate related displacement?

Around global warming then, at the current juncture in history, we can say that there are those who have primary moral responsibility for causing climate catastrophe, a much larger group of those who have secondary ethical responsibility for climate catastrophe, and a still larger group who are bystanders in terms of causality of global warming to date but will need to assume some responsibility in solving the climate crisis.

Two new reports say climate change could cause the next financial crisis.

As Wall Street profits remain sky high and fat cat bonuses are doled out on silver spoons, the world's poor are struggling to deal with a climate crisis that they did not cause, facing increasingly severe droughts, floods, crop losses and water shortages.

The Green Climate Fund was created to support people in developing countries — people who are the most affected by the climate crisis but are the least responsible for causClimate Fund was created to support people in developing countries — people who are the most affected by the climate crisis but are the least responsible for causclimate crisis but are the least responsible for causing it.

Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «To have any hope of tackling our climate crisis, we need to see urgent and ambitious action, led by those who caused the problem.

Removing them causes a substantial release into the atmosphere adding to the climate alteration crisis with high levels of green house gases being emitted with their destruction.

Jan Kowalzig, Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The poorest of the poor are hit first and hardest by the impacts of climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The poorest of the poor are hit first and hardest by the impacts of climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the crisis.

Last Week, David Wallace - Wells wrote a cover story for of New York Magazine, «The Uninhabitable Earth,» on some of the worst - case scenarios that the climate crisis could cause by the end of this century.

Suncor and Exxon «knowingly and substantially contributed to the climate crisis by producing, promoting and selling a substantial portion of the fossil fuels that are causing and exacerbating climate change, while concealing and misrepresenting the dangers associated with their intended use,» the complaint says.

It also claims «That human - caused climate change is not a global crisis.»

16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is «embarrassed and puzzled» by the shallow science in papers that support the proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming.

Addressing the climate crisis, and the social inequity that is both a cause and a symptom of this great threat, will require deep cuts in climate pollution as well as large troves of money.

Well, carbon pollution caused by burning fossil fuels is a key cause of the climate crisis — and without action, they'll be free to drill, extract, frack, refine, transport, and burn oil as much as they want.