Sentences with phrase «climate crisis leads»

He is called to counsel an environmental activist whose desperation in the face of the global climate crisis leads him to commit a desperate act.

How about BAU with carbon dioxide buildup partially masked by aerosol - induced global dimming, building climate crisis leading to a major economic recession?

Not exact matches

Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama as secretary of the treasury as the U.S. struggled to rebound from the global financial crisis, said the current political climate could lead to a «diminished capacity to make sensible economic choices.»

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.

«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future climate, disease, and pest crises,» said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat scientist who led the seed relief initiative.

Climate change, habitat loss, direct take and introduced species lead the way as factors contributing to this growing 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.

But the world is getting excited with the next leadership in the US, at least giving them a space to lead to help solve the climate in crisis.

Mr. Solheim said Norway hopes that other countries will follow its lead in trying to use the combination of the climate crisis and the financial one to boost spending on green issues.

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

This ruffles feathers, including mine, because it leads Killian to depreciate measures conventionally thought to be beneficial in addressing the climate crisis.

«BARCELONA, Spain — An «extinction crisis» is under way, with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.

If the climate crisis is to be resolved, these two countries must cast off their past differences and distrust, and work together hand - in - hand to show the world that they're ready to lead the way and reign in carbon emissions.

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

There's a question about what would we do if things start getting worse, if climate change leads to some kind of crisis situation,» Ken Caldeira, one of the report's authors and a researcher at the Carnegie Institute for Science, said.

While our climate is supposedly the crisis the world must face, the NY Times solution is not to investigate and debate the leading ideas, but to ask what names we toss at Nobel Prize winners who don't endorse the approved establishment line.

They dispute that a climate crisis exisits or that antrhopogenic global warming will lead to catastrophic outcomes.

, a former Navy pilot with no scientific credentials and who doesn't believe humans are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, to lead NASA.

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.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

The Heartland Institute, one of the leading Climate Truther think - tanks, put together a poster (PDF) of «58 experts [who] don't believe global warming is a crisis.»

The campaign, which began October 11th in response to climate disasters of Hurricane Irma and Maria, provides a proactive vision, strong coordination and a regenerative economic and environmental approach to the crisis led by the Borinquen people.

And that vision is merging with a broader, even more spurious claim that has become especially popular in the Trump era: the private sector, we are told, has now taken the lead on climate, and market forces will inevitably achieve the 100 - percent renewable dream and solve the climate crisis on their own.

What I find troubling is that the leading chieftains of the fossil fuel industry are choosing to willfully ignore (actually willfully deny) the impending climate crises.

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.

The campaign positions working people and unions as an engine to tackle the climate crisis and the Governor's announcement elevates New York state's commitment to lead the nation in transitioning to an equitable clean energy economy.

Everyone knows how to play the game of marketing climate crisis activists as «prestigious» researchers, «leading humanitarian organizations» and alliances of «vulnerable» countries that «are experiencing the most direct impacts of climate change.»

This leads me to a response to John Dawson's silly, but amazingly common, belief that the whole climate change crisis is a plot to bring down capitalism.

Today, Vice President Gore maintains his role as one of the leading figures in the global movement to solve the climate crisis.

The disaster also sparked public concerns about safety, which led to an extensive, nation - wide dialogue about the country's energy options and its response to the climate crisis.

Sands, a professor of international law at University College London and author of influential books on the Iraq war and interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay, said that failure to act on climate change would lead to an even bigger European refugee crisis than today's.

Glenmary priest John S. Rausch, an environmental activist, said that his experience as a priest in Appalachia has led him to believe the climate crisis is a crisis in spirituality.

The EU must aim for net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest to act on our climate crisis and lead the way to an energy - efficiency and renewables - based future.»

Bill McKibben, founder of the international climate change group 350.org, is one of the world's leading campaigners on the climate change crisis.

Even if Trump himself were gone tomorrow, the nation still faces simmering crises (falling energy return on investment, increasing economic inequality, over-reliance on debt, climate change) that appear to be leading toward collapse of government and the economy; meanwhile, as a result of political polarization, social fragmentation, plain old corruption (see NRA), and truth decay we are losing whatever ability we ever had to address those crises.

While many factors have led to Cape Town's water crisis, climate change has undoubtedly made a bad situation much worse.

This technique has been adopted by Mr Turnbull in his frequent claim that Australia is «leading the world» in the response to the climate crisis.

«to find a lasting solution to the climate crisis we must destroy capitalism... a system of death... leading humanity towards a horizon of destruction»

Whether it's climate science or medical science, a fake crisis leads to bad decisions that harm real people.

Paulson compares ignoring the signs of climate change to ignoring the signs leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.

«We can either help lead the world in a clean energy economy, or deepen the climate change crisis we are already in.»

Right now, however, we are lead to believe that the complexity of the Earth's climate is such that any type of short - term prediction is an ineffective measure, but simultaneiously, the center of a severe crisis.

The plan also relies on a speedy timetable, which assumes that Mr. Obama's administration will issue and begin enacting all such regulations before he leaves office... «The United States» proposal shows that it is ready to lead by example on the climate crisis,» said Jennifer Morgan, an expert on international climate negotiations at the World Resources Institute, a Washington research organization.

Katharine Hayhoe, a lead author of the report and director of Texas Tech University's Climate Science Center, said the motivation of its 50 - plus authors — a mix of government and academic researchers — was to convey to the public and government officials the scope of a building crisis.

The researchers say the study raises concern that current pressures on farmland from population growth and climate change could worsen current food crises by leading to similar events in other regions.