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I suspect that that those making the claim of manmade
climate change knew in advance that it was unlikely to be accepted either by politicians or the public (partly due to the poor quality of its supporting evidence).
«The rapid
climate changes known in the scientific world as Dansgaard - Oeschger events were limited to a period of time from 110,000 to 23,000 years before the present,» said Xu Zhang, the report's lead author.
A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat - wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of
climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.
Those of you who have been tracking the Tory government's initiatives on
climate change know that the results - insofar as there have been any - have been, as Lloyd so aptly put it, quite «lame.»
2011: A breakthrough U.N. climate meeting in Durban calls for a universal legal agreement on
climate change no later than 2015.
Perhaps some of them also hoped to learn what had caused
the climate changes known from the past, back to the great Ice Ages.
We will have to deal with some amount of
climate change no matter what.
Geo - engineering will be required at some point (we're near the end of the current interglacial period compared to the length of the previous ones)-- should we investigate it now and find comprehensive solutions to
climate change no matter the cause, or devote all our resources to a one - off solution to the unique problem we currently face?
After several years of faltering talks, the two - week Durban UN Climate Change Conference is seen to have delivered a breakthrough, with a decision to adopt a legal agreement on
climate change no later than 2015.
Not exact matches
As we face future
known threats like war and
climate change, and unknown threats like an asteroid impact or new disease, Downey said that that's the kind of knowledge we should want to have.
So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political
climate,
no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to
change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.
«On the West Coast, we
know that
climate change is not a hoax,» he said.
Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «
No, New York Mag:
Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.
That's because today, even the most profit - minded companies
know climate change is a huge limitation on economic growth.
A
known sceptic of human - induced
climate change, advocate of fossil fuels, and critic of several government - run
climate programs, the ex governor of Texas» nomination have many involved parties worried.
Well, extreme weather events are
known to move
climate change up Americans» priority list.
«We have some discussions we have to do with Environment and
Climate Change Canada to
know exactly where those caps will be, but the important part of that is that they will be declining caps year over year.»
Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off
climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally
known as the Clean Water Rule.
No matter what
changes other countries made in their positions, China would follow its green, sustainable development concept, strengthening measures to deal with
climate change and would conscientiously follow the Paris agreement, Hua said.
The section of the «Impossible is a Dare» chapter that proves we already
know how to turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic
climate change into planetary balance
Premier Rachel Notley will
no doubt emphasize that point when she attends the upcoming
climate change conference in Paris later this year.
Q: Readers familiar with your work will
know your writing on
climate change solutions like solar, wind and sustainable communities, and your past as a Green Party candidate.
I
know broadcast meterologists» first job is to protect life and property, but on this Earth Day, I wonder how many of my former colleagues have mentioned
climate change in their longform coverage of these natural disasters.
(For more on what we
know about
climate change and this year's hurricanes, read Dave Roberts's piece at Vox.)
But here's the thing: We don't yet currently
know, conclusively, that the hurricane season as a whole represents a result of
climate change.
«I don't
know if they've even spent half of it,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University
Climate Change Law and Policy Project.
We also
know CO2 causes
climate change - but vented gas (methane - the prime component of your home heating gas) is many times stronger as a greenhouse gas.
There's still a lot we don't
know about why some weather is so extreme and how much
climate change is to blame (especially when it comes to hurricanes).
What's still not
known: Did
climate change alter the odds of seeing three incredibly strong storms — Harvey, Irma, Maria — in a row this season?
Even without the threat of
climate change, we've long
known that hurricanes are dangerous.
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.
After it was revealed that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is investigating what oil giant ExxonMobil
knew about
climate change compared to what it told the public and investors, reaction poured in quickly.
Months after the language of a global
climate treaty
known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about
climate change into K - 12 materials.
«We
know we can get our resources to market more safely and responsibly while meeting our
climate -
change goals.»
The district is currently represented by former Wildrose and current UCP MLA Don MacIntyre (
known for his
climate -
change denying views).
Not to mention praise the
climate change plan has received from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and a little
known political figure by the name of Barack Obama.
When it comes to
climate change, we
know what a better approach looks like, if we have the will to pursue it.
They
know climate change is real.