Sentences with phrase «climate change point»

Inevitably those who resist tackling climate change point to the global nature of emissions as a reason not to act.

Old positive feedback examples in climate change... «Feedback Loops In Global Climate Change Point To A Very Hot 21st Century Using deuterium - corrected temperature records for the ice cores, which yield hemispheric rather than local temperature conditions, GCM climate sensitivity, and a mathematical formula for quantifying feedback effects, Torn and Harte calculated the magnitude of the greenhouse gas - temperature feedback on temperature.»

It is possible — and from a climate change point of view even desirable — to have a peak in global oil demand in the foreseeable future, but this will require measures that go well beyond what is being implemented today.

> — Reducing carbon emissions from just the climate change point of view is > living in a non-real world: there is more.

Critics of the CO 2 role in climate change point out that water vapours are a far more potent factor in creating the greenhouse effect as their concentration in the atmosphere is five to 10 times higher than that of CO 2.

Chris Mooney's article also brought up the climate change point, which I suppose is unavoidable.

Evidence for this abrupt climate change points to a massive eruption of the volcanic precursor of Krakatoa.

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

Second, as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change points out, divesting from the fossil - fuel industry acknowledges the fact that the majority of known fossil - fuel reserves must be left unburned if we are to avoid catastrophic climate disruption.

Not exact matches

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

«At some point, the cost of capture intersects with the cost of carbon, and all of a sudden you don't have to subsidize industry to do it,» explains Rob Savage, director of Alberta Environment's Climate Change Secretariat.

The news was a sobering new data point supporting the long - accepted thesis that a rapidly changing climate is transforming the face of the earth.

That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.

Trump called this claim a «joke» during a January appearance on Fox & Friends after Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out the 2012 tweet but he quickly added that, «this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change.»

High on their list of points of discord are Washington's exit from the Paris agreement on climate change, the intention to scuttle Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, steel and aluminum import tariffs, allegedly tactless and unpredictable American policies, etc., etc..

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus&climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus&Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said study co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

This documentary examines the world's diet and points to food choices as the culprits for declining health as well as a major cause of climate change.

In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh - Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point.

Despite this and other authoritative warnings about the dangers of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.

Problems like terrorism, natural disasters, disease, refugee crises, and climate change need coordinated responses from a worldwide vantage point.

Pointing to «tens of millions» he and his wife have donated to combat climate change, Druckenmiller says his primary responsibility is to deliver returns for the college endowment and its good works.

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

«It's unfortunate that the politics of climate change have evolved to the point in this country where really serious games of chicken are being played with major agencies in our federal government,» Nesbitt said.

The New York Times notes that the new plan could make climate change a major talking point in the upcoming presidential election.

Premier Rachel Notley will no doubt emphasize that point when she attends the upcoming climate change conference in Paris later this year.

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's suggestion to focus our sea - level rise and climate change mitigation efforts on building a more - resilient city are on point.

«We had a tipping point in the industry where climate change led to warmer, windier weather that points up the need to innovate to strengthen the coffee industry,» said Rodriguez, his skin sun - kissed from working the fields, a Starbucks cap perched on his salt - and - pepper hair.

This post about the Suzuki - Pembina report is a case in point: both sides of the debate seemed to think that I was offering aid and succor to the cause of the climate change deniers.

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

As economist and Climate Change Panel chairman Andrew Leach pointed out on Twitter today, carbon pricing has wide support from economists from N. Gregory Mankiw to Paul Krugman.

One of the lowest points may have come last November when President Obama formally, and forcefully, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, citing climate change priorities that raised questions about the future U.S. appetite for Canadian crude.

One might also point out that due to Canada's small size, our actions have negligible effect on the path of future climate change.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

A second, linked rumour was that Aronofsky would replace the sin and judgement message of the story with an environmental tract, and while his pre-flood humanity's mistreatment of creation is a pointed nod at modern climate change deniers, it doesn't go further than that.

As Andre Leu, the current president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) noted, «Dec. 1, 2015 will be seen as one of the most important days in history... as the tipping point when the world was saved from catastrophic climate change.»

Growing coffee is both a point of pride and a significant economic driver for Colombia but a changing climate is now threatening the harvest.

They further point out the great importance of genetic diversity and traditional varieties to combat hunger and negative effects of climate change.

Then Graham pointed out that the impacts of climate change, peak oil and geopolitical instability mean that «the whole food system needs rethinking and massive effort needs to go into rebuilding the skills of our agricultural producers such that the nation can remain domestically food - secure».

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Deanna, who writes the blog Crunchy Chicken, Putting the Mental into Environmental pulls no punches, getting straight to a serious point and problem facing climate change action the world over... instead of action we see too much apathy.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.

The EPA last night sent employees a list of eight approved talking points on climate change from its Office of Public Affairs — guidelines that promote a message of uncertainty about climate science and gloss over proposed cuts to key adaptation programs.

(I take your point that failure to achieve this might legitimate peaceful civil disobedience; I wouldn't see that it could legitimate prioritising climate change over democratic means, which has been argued eg by Mayer Hillman).

Kaine will try to score points with millennial voters on issues like climate change and student debt, and with moderate independents on infrastructure and campaign finance reform, while addressing Hispanic concerns on immigration and health care.

The world is fast approaching a «catastrophic tipping point» on climate change that could have a major impact on economic growth and security, Tony Blair has said.

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