Sentences with phrase «challenges of climate change if»

The fate of the Paris deal lies largely in the hands of voters in democratic countries, and we can not expect democracies to produce good policy responses to challenges of climate change if voters have a confused understanding of reality.

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If Canada wants to benefit from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about exporting to multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.

«Individuals are responsible for almost half of emissions, so people have to start taking action in their own lives if we are to meet the challenge of climate change,» Mr Benn said.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

«If we can modulate these processes in the root, we can make roots stronger and better fixed, and therefore more resistant to the challenges of climate change,» says Ana Caño Delgado.

From the Prize Council: «If we are going to talk about hydrology in the 21st century, and the challenges hydrologists face, clearly the overwhelming challenge is to understand hydrologic variability, and the likely impact on hydrology of anticipated climate change.

If I recall right, the challenge for RealClimate, according to Nature's editors in their «Welcome climate bloggers» editorial of 23/30 December 2004, is «to change the media coverage of their discipline.»

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

If Bali will do what I hope it will do, we are facing the enormous challenge of shaping a post-2012 climate change deal in only two years time.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

It's understandable how, if a person had never once consulted a scientific paper or sat down for a serious, ideology - free conversation about climate change with one of the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that man - made climate change is a real, observable phenomenon, he could be confused into thinking that the greatest challenge of our time is comparable to the medieval superstitious that arose in the absence of scientific understanding.

There is growing global recognition that climate change is a critical development challenge and one of the most important issues that could undermine sustainable development and poverty eradication if not properly addressed.

If you want to make it an issue, find people in the center who speak in tones like this — who can sit across and not yell and not throw out invectives and not even use language like people like me create — but have a rational, common - sense dialogue over the challenges of what changes in climate could be doing, are doing, and what is the best way to deal with it.

If the Climate Change venue comes unraveled, say beginning with the IPCC making strategic concessions in the forthcoming SPM, to forestall challenges from national ministers on the hiatus - problem... that will serve to enhance the stature of Fundamentalist signatories, above & beyond what they could have enjoyed, without having been persecuted.

And as for «solutions to the climate change challenge», I would be grateful if he would kindly explain what the government proposed solution of a carbon tax will actually do for the climate, when China and India's increasing emissions will swamp anything Australia can achieve unilaterally.

Allow me, if you will, to equate this climate change challenge to a gigantic raging bonfire of all Tony Abbott's currently and previously - owned pairs of budgie - smugglers which would surely be a blaze three - storeys high visible from Christmas Island.

But I'm looking at all the government / IEA statements saying «CCS is essential if we are to meet the challenge of climate change whilst maintaining security of energy supplies»... and then at figures for CO2 EOR.

This post identifies twenty questions that the US press has failed to ask opponents of proposed US climate change policies that should be asked if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical issues.

And so if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions which imply duties, responsibilities, and obligations what questions should the press ask opponents of climate change policies when they make economic and scientific arguments against climate change policies?

If people such as UN leader Ban Ki - moon are correct, climate change is the «defining challenge of our age.»

This means that even if the IPCC was found to be run by a small group of mentally - challenged llamas, this wouldn't affect the science on human - caused climate change.

My Reply - Even IF the climate model could predict the current statistics of the occurrence of ENSO, the NAO, the PDO, etc [which is proving quite a daunting challenge], this, by itself is not sufficient to justify their use to provide projection of CHANGES in the statistics of ENSO, the NAO, the PDO, etc events in the coming decades.

More significant perhaps is the legacy of nuclear power for future generations, particularly if the worst case scenarios of anthropogenic climate change play out, where society will be vulnerable and incohesive and possibly less able to cope with the technical challenge of maintaining or decomissioning elderly nuclear power stations or dealing with the build up of waste.

Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of UN Climate change said: «If the challenge of climate change is to be solved and the opportunities of a low carbon transition harvested we need all sectors of society in all nations fully on board&Climate change said: «If the challenge of climate change is to be solved and the opportunities of a low carbon transition harvested we need all sectors of society in all nations fully on board&climate change is to be solved and the opportunities of a low carbon transition harvested we need all sectors of society in all nations fully on board».

Those who have steered Obama in the tactical direction of talking about the need for a clean energy transformation as if this challenge could be addressed without recognizing that it is intertwined with climate science and the consequences of unchecked climate change have put things on the wrong track.

Carbon Brief approached the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the German Ministry of Economy and Energy (BMWi) to ask if they accepted this challenge.

Mann added that 49 people out of tens of thousands of former and current NASA employees is just a tiny fraction, and that «NASA's official stance, which represents the full current 16,000 NASA scientists and employees, is clear if you go to their website or look at their official publications: human - caused climate change is real, and it represents a challenge we must confront.»

If I created a think tank whose only purpose is to challenge climate change theories not because I don't think climate change doesn't exist, but because I want to improve the scientific field, would my think tank be considered part of CCCM?

If global - warming emissions continue to grow at today's rates, scientists expect rising temperatures to render about one - third of the Northwest's habitat for salmon and other coldwater fish unsuitable by the end of the century.2, 12 Climate change poses another obstacle to the already monumental challenge of restoring depleted salmon stocks.2

If the US press has not been corrupted by the economic interests of the United States, the only plausible explanation for the US media's failure to cover the ethical issues raised by climate change is that the reporter's covering climate change don't understand the civilization challenging ethical issues raised by climate change.

In this article, I present a neoclassical realist theory of climate change politics that challenges the idea that cooperation on climate change is compelled alone by shared norms and interests emanating from the international level and questions if instead [continue reading...]

The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing.

If all goes well — which for Picarro means, essentially, that the world takes seriously the challenge of climate change, and institutes some kind of cap - and - trade or carbon - tax mechanism that requires detailed analysis of exactly who is pumping what into the atmosphere — then Picarro is looking at a solidly growing market.

Most of all though, we know that even if climate change is not the primary factor behind the current tragedy this humanitarian disaster and the seemingly intractable geopolitical challenges, nationalist tendencies, and crushing grief it invokes is precisely the kind of disaster security analysts expect to see worsen in a world afflicted by escalating climate change.

There are huge benefits down the road for Australia if we can be part of the technology and policy forefront on the challenge of climate change and environmental issues.

If the UK manages to get about 16 new large reactors built by the end of the 2020's (which the Climate Change Committee described as «not challenging»), that combined with on and off shore wind may well see a genuinely low emission electricity supply by 2030.

... If you believe that solving the climate change problem «is fundamentally a technological challenge,» then we are in this mess not because of the power of the fossil fuel lobby, not because of the influence of the campaign of denial, not because of money politics, not because persuading consumers to accept a price on carbon seems too hard, and not because getting international cooperation has been fraught.

If passed, the Climate Change bill will force the government to «explain its reasons to Parliament if it does not accept the Committee's advice on the level of the carbon budget, or if it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democraticallIf passed, the Climate Change bill will force the government to «explain its reasons to Parliament if it does not accept the Committee's advice on the level of the carbon budget, or if it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democraticallif it does not accept the Committee's advice on the level of the carbon budget, or if it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democraticallif it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democratically.

«Climate change is among the most pressing challenges of our time, and one that needs to be tackled urgently if we are to preserve the habitability of our planet.

GREENEVENTS «McGuire makes telling points about the size of the challenge we face if we are to escape some of the nastier effects of climate change.

«If we do not accept that climate change is an enormously important dimension of the energy challenge that we face, and larger environmental challenges that we face, we will not put into the legislation that we need, the key ingredient that we need,» Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren said in his remarks to the National Climate Adaptation Summit on climate change is an enormously important dimension of the energy challenge that we face, and larger environmental challenges that we face, we will not put into the legislation that we need, the key ingredient that we need,» Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren said in his remarks to the National Climate Adaptation Summit on Climate Adaptation Summit on May 27.

TreeHugger recently did give Rudd a Best of Green award, but I wonder if Rudd hasn't made a deal with the devil here: CCS Can Be Part of the Solution... Rudd rightly gets that, in his words, «Carbon capture and storage is not the only answer to the climate change challenge» and that it can certainly play a part in the transition to a low - carbon future, but I just don't buy into Rudd's «cold, hard reality» that coal will remain (or at least has to remain) the globe's major source of energy for many years to come.

This is a great challenge for Australia, if we are to predict future climate change impacts with any degree of confidence and be in a reasonable position to build resilience into natural and human systems.

These challenges have raised the question of whether the radiative forcing concept has outlived its usefulness and, if so, what new climate change metrics should be used.

As long as science is willing and ready to serve power, everything is fine and smooth; but if science, as in relation to climate change, beigins to challenge fundamental aspects of how wealth and power and weilded and distributed, and the consequences of our socio / economic system; then science had better watch out, because, those who, for whatever reason, threaten the status quo are the enemy.

«The first thing that the world needs to do if it is going to confront the challenge of climate change wisely is to learn about what science has discovered and accept it.»

Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation, if not our species.