Sentences with phrase «climate crisis science»

Of course, there are plenty of older scientists who are enjoying the gravy train of gloval warming climate crisis science, but there is also a large percentage who are disgusted by all the gorging and self - righteousness.

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Mirko Drotschmann, or MrWissen2go, a science blogger with about 500,000 subscribers who has recently posted videos on Germany's political parties, Islamic State and climate change, said he would have liked to grill her more on the refugee crisis.

Chairwoman Mikulski's CJS Subcommittee funds 85 percent of the science used to monitor and predict changes in our weather and climate, so researchers can make policy recommendations to help solve our climate change crisis.

The commentary, «Facing the diversity crisis on climate science,» was born when Schuldt and co-author Adam Pearson, an assistant professor of psychology at Pomona College, began talking about University of Michigan Professor Dorceta Taylor report, «The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations.»

As he revealed in the interview, Inhofe became skeptical of climate science once he found out solving the looming climate crisis might cost money.

Stem cell breakthrough by Lanza and colleagues was voted the year's top story, beating the Ebola outbreak, climate change crisis, entangled photons, cosmic inflation, as well as the year's other science stories ranging from topics in space exploration to mathematics, technology, paleontology, and the environment.

Together with smaller environmental initiatives at the school, like widespread installation of energy - efficient compact fluorescent «twisty bulbs» and automatic light sensors, the various components of the Bloom effort have begun to save the school thousands of dollars in energy costs while simultaneously helping many of the school's 1,700 students understand the science behind the climate crisis.

Students watched An Inconvenient Truth — former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's documentary about global warming — and studied the science behind climate change (including arguments that it is not a crisis humans caused).

The mediatorship has by now completely buried the climate crisis deep below the «financial crisis» even as the climate crisis completely dwarfs the «financial» (which not one economic theory is able to explain or was able to foresee, but those «theories» are met with enormous respect in the same media industry which ridicules overwhelmingly consensual climate science).

I would be delighted if more Republicans accepted mainstream climate science and took the climate crisis seriously, but it appears that is no longer acceptable behavior within the GOP.

The Facts That News Editors Never Mention: * The climate change consensus was a 30 year old consensus of «maybe» and NEVER has science agreed or said any crisis WILL happen inevitably.

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.

The challenge, of course, is that a science - based definition of the «climate crisis» (I still think that climate scientist Richard Somerville defined that term best in a 2007 debate with Michael Crichton and others) is not the kind of message that will get people rushing to the ramparts.

Which brings me to my final point: I have no tolerance for the dismissal of «climate science» and the crisis at hand, and will not waste my energy attempting to convince those unable to open their minds.

Unofficial science, which is more determined by what is actually happening with the [climate] data, has now started to move off in a different direction» away from fears of a man - made climate crisis, Evans explained.

Instead of acknowledging their science was wrong the UNEP, IPCC and national environment agencies simply moved the goalposts to climate change and more recently to climate crisis.

Their stated goal for the visit — in their own words, including exclamatory punctuation — has been «to inform Pope Francis of the truth about climate science: There is no global - warming crisis!»

«The U.S. still must drastically reduce its emissions and provide the requisite funding to help developing countries address the climate crisis, commensurate with what science and equity demand.»

Posted 24 January 2009: «Like many of those who were caught off guard by the subprime mortgage crisis, those involved in the rapidly expanding climate change industry are not asking the most fundamental of questions:» • What if the science that supposedly backs concerns over carbon dioxide (CO2)...

«Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human - made global warming — the alleged warming crisis does not exist.»

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Greenpeace and WWF might want to comment because they support certain outputs, but I doubt that outputs are going to be in question here, and the committee will undoubtably begin with some preamble about how climate science is fundamentally sound, and the climate crisis is worse than ever.

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.

Some of these are addressed in the present issue: the geopolitics of peak oil (John Bellamy Foster), the production of biofuels as a liquid fuel alternative and its consequences (Fred Magdoff), the economics of climate change (Minqi Li), the science of climate change (John W. Farley), the ocean crisis (Brett Clark and Rebecca Clausen), the problem of large dams (Rohan D'Souza), and the world water crisis (Maude Barlow).

In this book, he offers a comprehensive look at the current state of climate science and knowledge and the many ways to resolve the climate crisis, imploring us to do what's necessary to live in a better, cleaner future.

Acknowledgement of the now urgent need to address the current environment, development and climate change crisis by committing to ambitious levels of binding action, in line with science and equity and with clearly measurable outcomes and milestones.

Since big oil, Koch, the banks, corporations, Hollywood, the media, academia, science and the boyscouts all apparently believe in an imminent climate crisis, Who is left to fight the good fight?

In advance of the COP21 summit in Paris this December, Al Gore will be joined by world - class scientists, strategists, communicators and technical specialists to discuss the science of climate change, the direct costs climate impacts are having on communities around the world and the solutions available to solve the climate crisis.

Which brings us, despite Obama, to the public secret of the climate crisis: The more you know of the science, and of the speed with which we must now move, the less likely you are to truly believe that we're going to rise to the occasion.

On Sept. 17, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, or CCR - 2, containing more than 1,000 pages of scientific research indicating global warming is not an impending crisis.

One thing that undermines climate science is the constant talking up of a crisis just around the corner which one last push will save us from but even if it wasn't needed will make us all good people.

-- > «The biggest mystery in climate science today may have begun, unbeknownst to anybody at the time, with a subtle weakening of the tropical trade winds blowing across the Pacific Ocean in late 1997... Average global temperatures hit a record high in 1998 — and then the warming stalled... But the pause has persisted, sparking a minor crisis of confidence in the field.

One of the most influential groups in attacking the science, economics and diplomatic foundations underlying the climate crisis is: The Global Climate Coalition — the main lobbying arm of the oil, automotive and heavy manufacturing sectors in the arena of climate climate crisis is: The Global Climate Coalition — the main lobbying arm of the oil, automotive and heavy manufacturing sectors in the arena of climate Climate Coalition — the main lobbying arm of the oil, automotive and heavy manufacturing sectors in the arena of climate climate change.

I watched the episode with my family, and the next evening we sat around the dining room table talking about how to translate the urgency of the climate crisis to evangelicals skeptical of science.

Despite all of the political lunacy and the dire consequences that will unfold if we don't take action, Mann and Toles offer an informative, entertaining and, crucially, hopeful review of the science, politics and solutions to the climate crisis.

Once again ignoring the severe climate crisis facing our nation, this administration is turning its back on reality and science, in favor of its polluter buddies.

«Once again ignoring the severe climate crisis facing our nation, this administration is turning its back on reality and science, in favor of its polluter buddies,» said Seth Johnson, Earthjustice attorney who is co-counsel for the Sierra Club, «These standards are making big cuts in the carbon pollution that drives climate change, and a detailed technical review confirmed they're workable.

The putative magnitude of the looming climate crisis made it possible to sweep aside the differences that had troubled the relationship between institutional science and ecologism in the past such as GM technology and nuclear power.

While the Paris Agreement and the neo-liberal global consensus certainly falls far short of meaningfully addressing the current climate crisis, the rising authoritarianism and denial of climate science exhibited by the Trump administration embodies an even more dangerous direction.

After 22 years of nothing but supportive media and many tens of billions of dollars of public money, the climate crisis climate science declared in 1988 is still at the bottom of the priority list.

The millions wasted on climate science could be far better spent on energy research, where our real coming crisis lies.

16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is «embarrassed and puzzled» by the shallow science in papers that support the proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming.

The global climate scandal and the crisis in Western science and in Western forms of government have simply confirmed a warning from the former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower — in his farewell address to the nation on 17 Jan 1961 — that a federally funded scientific - technological elite might one day take control of government policy and pose a serious threat to «the supreme goals of our free society»: http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Although climate science in the late 90s was certainly strong enough — or at least concerning enough — to negotiate an international treaty, it is hard to deny that the scientific understanding of the climate crisis has improved considerably over the past two decades.

We demand the climate crisis to be addressed according to what science and equity require and that developed countries act according to their historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis.

The ultra-conservative Heartland Institute admitted it was in financial crisis on Wednesday, with the flight of corporate donors making it difficult to pay staff or cover the costs of its annual conference aimed at debunking climate science.

The substantial and dynamic adjustments made to the temperature record is a crisis for climate science.

The IPCC climate science crisis looms... The timing of the fifth assessment report falls into this critical juncture where a lot of momentum has built up in favour of the current modelling practices which now prove so elusive.

A third possibility is that the Obama administration, desperate to break the Republican hold on climate policy (Jamie Henn of 350.org quipped that this isn't a negotiation, its a hostage crisis) was willing to pay any price to unlock the Congressional deadlock and, as White House science and technology adviser John Holdren put it, «get started.»

By joining the 93 other companies worldwide with approved science - based targets, and the 356 that have made a formal commitment to do so, McDonald's is strengthening a growing movement working toward scaling up solutions to our planet's climate crisis.