Sentences with phrase «climate change as»

However, it is difficult for me to understand why the military would put the same effort into beneficial climate change as it would put into harmful climate change.

This framing is remarkably similar to that of Rex Tillerson, who characterized climate change as «an engineering problem» with «engineering solutions.»

As the pope will surely stress, his understanding of Christian ethics compels him to see climate change as a profoundly moral issue.

Both kinds of geoengineering — the carbon - removal kind and the sunlight - reflecting kind — might someday prove helpful in fighting climate change as a supplement to mitigation and adaptation.

This article was first published by Responding to Climate Change as part of a week of forest stories.

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

EVERYONE is familiar with the «climate change caused the Syrian war» meme that invaded the climate lexicon in another attempt to ping man - made global warming climate change as the root cause of anything and everything that is bad in the world.

See, what it's really about is various atheists and liberals high up in authority, or who have used climate change as a dramatic part of their bizarre religion of everything against traditional religion, except perhaps Buddhism, since it's atheistic, it's their future Noah's Flood prophecy, part of their evolving mythos.

We argue that two main types should be distinguished: epistemic scepticism, relating to doubts about the status of climate change as a scientific and physical phenomenon; and response scepticism, relating to doubts about the efficacy of action taken to address climate change.

The latest Pew Research polls reveal that most Americans identify human - caused climate change as a fraud.

Scientists say the state's coral reef habitats are increasingly threatened by climate change as rising water temperatures lead to more coral bleaching, which occurs when the coral becomes stressed by changes in the environment.

Coby, I have as much a scientific interest in climate change as anyone else but it doesn't seem to me that after the NAS report the «Hockey Season is over» at all.

I have extensively read scientist Mike Hulme's presentation of climate change as PNS, but do you know of any other alarmist or sceptic scientists calling it as PNS?

But it played down the idea that there may be advantages to climate change as far as food production is concerned.

But for most activists, the largest issue was climate change as oil from the tar sands emits more carbon than conventional sources.

The problem here is that without any supporting evidence you regard climate change as a problem that you can adapt to and have your lifestyle without change.

And when I returned to my home in Washington I found out that the Seattle chapter of PSR had taken climate change as one of their main focuses.

Some held up signs quoting Kerry describing climate change as «a weapon of mass destruction.»

As a result, the conversation on climate change rarely talks about climate change as the mess that it is; instead, this conversation tends to devolve into the abstractions around future damages and the pursuit of sustainable lifestyles, complicating our understanding of the climate challenge.

«adapt to the climate change as and where it occurs.

He talks about climate change as if it is something new.

He has helped shape the U.S. military position on climate change to a more proactive one, casting climate change as a «threat multiplier» for national security.

But we should stop treating the major impacts of climate change as if they are something that could happen in the future.

This study has highlighted the need to treat adaptation to climate change as a primary development issue for Pakistan.

Q: It could be argued that climate scientists may be predisposed to seeing climate change as more serious, because they want more funding.

This policy matters to me because, like you, I recognize climate change as a central issue of our time that affects us all.

ERIA's study acknowledges that world leaders have taken action to mitigate climate change as committed to at the 21st Conference of Parties or COP21, whereby each country pledged to implement Nationally Determined Contributions to track the progress of climate change abatement.

Energy prices will rise in the future, especially if we take climate change as seriously as it deserves; sustainable energy is more expensive than burning coal.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods».

It's reasonable to conclude that the greenhouse effect, while real, is not as important in producing climate change as the IPCC models calculate.

Through its climate change portfolio of over 300 projects worldwide, FAO is supporting countries to both mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change as an integral part of the 2030 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Without talking about carbon removal, however, we can't explain climate change as a clean - up problem — we can only describe it as a stop - making - a-mess-problem.

The oil industry and its allies are used to dismissing those who are warning about climate change as a bunch of lentil - eating, sandal - wearing commies.

Article 1 of the UNFCCC, a treaty formalized at the «Earth Summit» in Rio in 1992, defined Climate Change as

Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,

I've not seen a single one mention concerns about climate change as being relevant to the future of fracking, oil sands, etc — it's not just Fidelity.

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular but misguided works such as «An Inconvenient Truth»; that all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

Given the importance of climate change as an issue, it remains disappointing that prompt archiving of data remains an issue with many authors and that funding agencies and journals are not more effective in enforcing existing policies or establishing such policies if existing policies are insufficient.

Mr. Obama suggested climate change as an explanation for the area's drought.

In an interview, Richard Somerville, a climatologist at the University of California, San Diego, and a past contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the case for climate change as a serious risk to human affairs was clear, despite recent firestorms over some data sets and scientists» actions.

The General Assembly speech will almost certainly focus more on Francis's call for addressing climate change as a moral duty, given the growing pressure from poor countries to have their needs front and center in climate treaty talks in Paris in December.

«A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers can not in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department's most cautious calculations — can only add to the problem.»

But please do not interpret my silence on climate change as a statement that I do not believe in it, or that it is a serious problem.

That was probably one surprise, and it turned out having some relevance for certain issues relating to climate change as well.

Schmidt & Shindell, 2003, Atmospheric composition, radiative forcing, and climate change as a consequence of a massive methane release from gas hydrates.

I offer the following as a general and basic answer to those who deny the need to act on climate change as the scientific evidence suggests.

This is a typical tactic of contrarians, casting any fact about anthropogenic climate change as extremist.

But we have made a major mistake by framing climate change as a scientific and environmental issue.

Overall, I think they've provided a solid prod, particularly, to the lawyer - and - lobbyist - driven Beltway approach framing climate change as a conventional pollution problem.

Rick Perry has kept himself busy since announcing his intention to run for president — after calling for a moratorium on all new regulations and referring to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as «treasonous», he publicly derided climate change as a hoax perpetrated by scheming, data - manipulating scientists.