Sentences with phrase «concern about climate»

You can also write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper expressing your concern about the climate crisis.

Despite rising gas prices and a growing concern about climate change, the auto industry is going on the offensive to convince Americans to oppose dramatically higher fuel economy requirements.

Back in the 1980s, I did not feel there was enough evidence to warrant much concern about climate change.

It contributed to an overall drop in public concern about climate change and a significant loss of trust in scientists.

Concern about climate change has come from many quarters: the insurance industry, Olympians in winter sports, the beer and coffee industries, worried about hops and coffee, Nike and Coke, worried about water and other ingredients, the national security types, worried about climate change enhancing other problems, and making one heck of a lot of Bangladeshis move.

For polls see e.g., Brett W. Pelham, «Awareness, opinions about global warming vary worldwide,» Gallup (2009), online here; Leiserowitz et al. (2010b) and other work by Leiserowitz's group; Council on Foreign Relations, «Public Opinion on Global Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, online here.

For whatever reasons, by 2017 Americans» concern about climate change recovered and in 2017 reached a record high, although the rise was restricted to Democrats and independents.

Despite better alternatives and concern about climate change, coal isn't disappearing any time soon.

At a time when The Guardian just reported another poll showing a drop in concern about climate change, and a New York Times front page this week described Britons» growing doubts about the science, its worth taking a look at that anti-science campaign, which was waged by Einstein's critics because like today's climate denial movement, the anti-relativity movement had some success too.

As wind generating costs fall and as concern about climate change escalates, more and more countries are climbing onto the wind energy bandwagon.

Clearly, the trend in the US over the past two decades has been toward greater understanding and concern about the climate crisis.

These are not corporate stooges of the nuclear industry; to a person, their embrace of nuclear power is motivated by a deep concern about climate change and the conviction that no other carbon - free source of energy is sufficient (and safe) enough to replace coal and gas.

Quite a few climate scientists have a large emotional investment in their concern about climate change.

In the U.S., women, young people and those with lower incomes are most likely to voice concern about climate change and its effects.

As with concern about climate change, Poles are among the least worried: Just 28 % believe it currently affects people.

France (+10) and the U.S. (+8) have seen modest but notable increases in concern about climate change since 2010.

In a number of European nations, concern about climate change and its current impact is more pronounced for those on the left of the political spectrum.

All these opponents are bumping up against falling clean energy prices and growing concern about climate change.

Second, the same echo chamber that promoted Steve McIntyre's criticism of the Hockey Stick is now fully engaged accusing scientists of manipulating data to increase global concern about climate change.

Brazil showed the most concern about climate change, while Russia was near the bottom of the league.

My biggest concern about the climate report is that it presents a number of speculative, and sometimes incomplete, conclusions embedded in language that gives them more scientific heft than they deserve.

Countries, states, cities, and companies are taking action, partly out of concern about climate change, but also because such action is in their own economic interest — either directly (through money - saving efficiency measures like LED street lights) or indirectly (by saving lives now cut short by air pollution).

With fossil fuel prices and concern about climate change both climbing, there is now a resurgence of interest.

Renaming global warming to a concern about climate change and adding a few adjectives when that didn't work — like disastrous and calamitous climate change — hasn't worked out so well for the global alarmists.

On the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day in April, Lester was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation and asked to explain what's changed since the first Earth Day in 1970, as concern about climate change and green energy have come to the forefront of the movement.

Reflecting the success of such arguments, polls have noted that concern about climate change increased with education among Democrats, but decreased with education among Republicans.

Your error is in counting people who endorse concern about climate change as being on your side.

With public concern about climate and energy waning, we need someone who can explain the science in a way that's both clear and informative and politically neutral.

That shows a «broad, but shallow concern about climate change,» said Leiserowitz.

Serious droughts and other unusual weather since 1972 increase scientific and public concern about climate change, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of ice age.

Later drafts put more and more emphasis on the reasons for concern about climate change, a concept I had helped to develop for AR3.

I think most people are drawing the wrong lessons from society's growing concern about climate change.

But as global concern about climate change has grown in recent years, REDD + has taken on an explicit climate focus, with an emphasis on reducing emissions and compensation linked to verified reductions.

But, his main point is that the poll dispels the myth that concern about climate change is a luxury of the middle - classes:

As these stats show, concern about climate change is relatively steady until we get to the highest income bracket, where it drops off significantly.

Environmentalists «stage» disasters to raise concern about climate change.

In 37 of 40 nations surveyed, willingness to curb emissions that may contribute to warming the planet exceeds intense concern about climate change.

Despite climate policy being something of a sleeper issue in this election, our results suggest that concern about the climate is more widespread now than it was five years ago.

Introduction: There is a great concern about climate change, but climate change affects local regions very differently.

They're particularly frustrated at the prospect of having to reframe the basic carbon - cutting goal precisely at a moment when they sense rising public concern about climate change, and in the lead - up to a big international climate conference next year in Paris, at which they're crossing their fingers that global diplomats will agree on a newly stringent carbon crackdown.

At the last election all three major parties were pushing their «green» credentials, particularly their concern about climate change — even our Tory Prime Minister promised that his government would be the «greenest ever».

But, since concern about climate change began to grow, there has been a series of initiatives to reduce deforestation.

Whilst each type is independently associated by people themselves with climate change scepticism, we find that the latter is more strongly associated with a lack of concern about climate change.

Answering a review by Michael Tobis of his book «The Honest Broker» Pielke writes «My concern about climate science is that too many science arbiters and honest brokers have decided to engage in advocacy.

It should not take away from the concern about climate warming.»

Governor John Kasich has acknowledged his concern about climate change and criticized the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, arguing that the move will destroy jobs and relinquish the United States» status as a global leader.

Dressed in a veneer of concern about climate change, in fact BP's outlook is a public relations exercise, designed to boost fossil fuels and undermine public faith in clean alternatives.

I know that you generally like to cite Ted and Michael — but I'm still puzzled by your tweeting of their article with the quote «Efforts to raise public concern about climate change by linking it to natural disasters will backfire.»

He personally knows of at least 10 journeys made by himself and by his friends and family on Eurostar in the last year alone that were at least partially motivated by a concern about climate change (along with the fact that it is just a more pleasant way to travel).

That's not surprising given that these animals have become the latest icon in efforts to boost public concern about climate change.