Sentences with phrase «concern over global warming»

The post starts off wondering if there may have been a recent decline in public concern over global warming and then considers if a simpler method of communicating the science would help.

The research has implications for current concerns over global warming.

The reason for scientific concern over global warming rests on basic physics — infrared absorption — and robust measurements of atmospheric gas concentrations.

The context for energy has changed over recent decades, with growing concern over global warming.

Long, carefully thought out, and articulate discussions such as those found on Real Climate, Rabbett Run and Open Mind have allowed me to remain confident in the scientific basis of concerns over global warming and ocean acidification (well sometimes Eli mystifies me).

The problem with that statement in this textbook is that these authors misuse it to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support.

The president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free - market think tank based in Washington, has derided concern over global warming and has gone on television to rail against Al Gore's «evil consumptive ways».

While that's an improvement over past practice that omitted climate costs entirely — tacitly, an SCC equal to zero — the $ 42 figure grossly understates the large - scale global risks that dominate concern over global warming and climate change.

The disaster at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear plant and concerns over global warming added fuel to the solar flame.

Despite concerns over global warming, scientists have discovered something that may have actually limited the impact of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in recent years by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the Earth.

Our mounting concerns over Global Warming are giving rise to ever more research into potential paths for capturing and sequestering carbon.

(In fact, co-author Michael Mann is the same scientist whose controversial «hockey - stick» graph first ignited widespread public concern over global warming in the early 2000s.)

Low fuel prices have some buyers eyeing bigger cars and trucks, but savvy owners know plentiful gas isn't forever and many parts of the world will tax the heck out of fossil fuels out of concerns over global warming.

You say that this uncertainty is used «to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support», but it seems to us that it is less the case that your objection is based on an argument made as much as the fact that they outlined a difference of opinion.

For years, researchers worried about the lack of public concern over global warming, or overinflated public concern about, say, the perils of vaccination, have bemoaned the lack of public understanding of basic science.

In so doing, the report emphasized the arguments of «a significant minority outside the IPCC» who believed «concerns over global warming to be exaggerated and misguided.»

Darwall, an economist and CPS - listed expert, is best known for his book The Age of Global Warming, which has been touted by notorious climate denial think tank the Heartland Institute as being «the first book to tell the full story of the concerns over global warming.»

I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.

First circulated in 1998, it urged the government to reject any policies based on concerns over global warming, particularly the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 (which the US has still not accepted).

The report cites high oil prices and concerns over global warming and energy security as key drivers of the trend.

Shell's Sweeney said he believes the concerns over global warming will be the biggest impetus for wind power investment.

Allianz investment chief Andreas Gruber told ZDF television that the company's decision was based on concern over global warming, but also because it made good financial sense.

The concerns over global warming, energy policy, economic growth and national security that helped propel renewable energy into a major global industry now have an even sharper focus.

Consumers are increasingly demanding environmentally friendly, energy - efficient houses, and that trend will only accelerate now that energy prices, led by the California power crisis, are rising and concerns over global warming are escalating.