Sentences with phrase «climate divide»

To get a sense of the depth of the Sino - American climate divide, read the response to Stern's speech from Chinese officials at the Tianjin treaty discussions.

The findings build on the picture of a glaring climate divide on the planet that we described in a Times series in 2007.

2007/04/24: ClimateArk: Australia: Howard widens climate divide Prime Minister John Howard has rejected Labor Leader Kevin Rudd's declaration that climate change is the greatest threat facing the nation, dramatically sharpening the divide on the critical election issue.

On the other hand (not as an excuse) he does have to deal with rather inane criticisms from both sides of the great climate divide.

In the meantime, the rich emitters have insulated themselves from risk with their wealth and technology (for decades to come, at least, according to IPCC AR4), as we reported last year in the «Climate Divide» series.

Undisputed, however, is the theme we explored in depth here in 2007 in the Climate Divide series: The countries most vulnerable to risks from climate extremes today, and to any added stresses coming from human - driven climate change, are also least able to deal with them, and least responsible for emissions of greenhouse gases.

Her note, posted below, illustrates the deep «climate divide» that persists.

Back in 2007, I conceived and spearheaded our «climate divide» package documenting how rich emitters were already insulating themselves from climate risk through wealth and technology, so I'm very cognizant of that issue.

This is the «Climate Divide» we wrote about in The Times in 2007.

For several years, The Times has been focusing on «the climate divide.»

(There are growing indications of big frustrations in sub-Saharan Africa over the climate divide between rich countries with a long history of burning fossil fuels and the poorest, that face the biggest risks from climate - related hazards, with or without a push from greenhouse gases.

We have probably written more stories on global warming — including special reports like the ground - breaking «Big Melt» series on the Arctic in 2005, the ongoing «Energy Challenge» series, and our «Climate Divide» package earlier this year — than any newspaper in North America.

For our 2007 series called «The Climate Divide,» Dr. Mendelsohn told me that in semi-arid regions facing worsening extremes in a warming world, it's perhaps best to encourage people to abandon rain - fed agriculture and move to urban centers.

The report also echoes themes laid out in a package of stories in The Times this year showing the «climate divide» that splits the world into sharply delineated camps — most notably wealthy countries with huge emissions of greenhouse gases and vulnerable poor countries with scant emissions.

We'd had some e-mail chats about what I've been calling «the climate divide.»

(That «climate divide» was explored in two pieces in The Times in 2007.)

And the «Climate Divide» series in The Times in 2007 showed another reality — that as countries get wealthier and gain technological capacity, they grow more resilient to climate - related hazards.

Depends on where you live, and how rich you are, as we've written in the Climate Divide series.

We've led coverage on that front, particularly with our «Climate Divide» package last spring, which revealed starkly how rich carbon - enabled countries are insulating themselves from climate hazards while the poor are most in harm's way.

That cut through the reality of the rich - poor «climate divide.»

I've participated in Model U.N. meetings and events organized by the International Education and Resource Network, but would love to help see similar efforts bring students around the globe together via the Web to play out scenarios in which they grapple with issues that grownups are stuck on — like the «climate divide» behind many of the fights over global cooperation to limit climate risks.

He points to the lack of close - focus climate analysis in the region, which was a point made in «The Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan Africa.

The result, in essence, is yet another «climate divide» beyond the main one identified in our Times series in 2007 — between rich countries, mainly in temperate zones, where wealth and technology provide a buffer against climate risk, and poor ones, most closer to the equator, that are deeply exposed to climate hazards.

This is a longstanding issue that was also emphasized in «The Climate Divide,» our 2007 special report in The Times on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan Africa.

As I wrote in our «Climate Divide» package, however, wealthy countries are already using wealth and technology to shield themselves from the hazards that attend climate extremes even as poor countries in the South are most apt to get hammered.

Climate Depot «Bridges the Climate Divide»: «Thanks to Morano, people on opposite sides of debate are now hearing each other out»

After all, much of the abuse that is hurled across the climate divide comes from those who like to believe that it is they who are dealing in a currency of proper science — bias and ideology is what the opposition does.

In both cases glaciers further east with respect to the climate divide had more positive mass balances, Figure 4a and 4b.

While the climate divide is not a literal line, it is about the closest thing around, easily seen on maps.