Sentences with phrase «concern over global warming in»

(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.)

Not exact matches

The main concerns over Tillerson's nomination focus on his close relationship with Putin — he received the Order of Friendship from Russia in 2013 — and his long career in an industry that carries heavy responsibility for 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).

Importantly, Gallup's annual March update on the environment shows a drop in public concern about global warming across several different measures, suggesting that the global warming message may have lost some footing with Americans over the past year.

Our letter that appeared in the February 14th issue of Science Magazine was motivated by our concerns about the widespread news reports, opinion pieces, and blog postings linking this winter's cold weather over the central and eastern U.S. to global warming.

We have compiled a list of over 100 respected scientists in climatology and related fields who do NOT believe that the facts are clear and that the science concerning global warming is settled.

The proportion of Americans in the «alarmed» segment increased by five percentage points over the past year, and is now comparable to proportion found in the fall of 2008, when the segments were first identified and global warming concern was at a high point nationally.

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 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 individual I speak of here is self - described «concerned citizen» Dave Rado, the person I've detailed over the past 4 blog posts as being someone beset with problems surrounding the official complaint he filed in 2007 over the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle.»

I find concerned liberals are loath to talk about how consistently wrong climate models have been or about the «pause» in global warming that has gone on for over fifteen years, while climate skeptics avoid discussion of things like ocean acidification and accelerated melting in Greenland and the Arctic.

PRINCETON, NJ — The slight upward trend in Americans» concern about global warming over the past decade masks a more significant trend: the growing gap between Republicans and Democrats over global warming.

In the past few months, climate scientists speaking out about the dangers of global warming have come under increased assault, largely because of climate skeptics voicing concerns over the information contained within certain scientists» email messages.

Skeptics, write Hoffman, think concern over global warming just a ruse to curtail personal liberties — by increasing the power of government to interfere in the market.

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.

However, I admit I do not understand why he was opposed to handing the information over to Keenan as he has no axe to grind as far as temperature is concerned or global warming (which is something that came very late in his career and was probably of little interest to him).

Nothing, in other words, like the concern over global warming.

In the past several years, there has been a growing concern over the effect of global warming on the climate.

Over the next few critical months, he would play a major role, sometimes in the background, in a dazzling number of crucial events that would finally put global warming back in its rightful place at the forefront of public concern.

(1) there is established scientific concern over warming of the climate system based upon evidence from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level;

As for skeptics who concern themselves with the «pause in global warming», it is baffling to me how anybody would think a bit of cooling, warming or «pausing» over two or even ten decades can indicate very much at all.

Fewer than one - third of Americans lose sleep over global warming, fewer than express concern over air pollution, fewer than get stressed over environmental issues that haven't dominated the news in decades, such as the extinction of plants and animals and the loss of tropical rain forests.

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.

Even more concerning is that the extraction, distribution, and combustion of natural gas result in the leakage of methane, a powerful global warming gas 34 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period.

In this «Connolley Problem» series of posts, I've already pointed out suspect detail omissions (parts 1 and 2) and the suspect time span (part 3), of a supposed concerned citizen's official complaint over a 2007 UK global warming video featuring skeptic climate scientists.

The president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free - market think tank based in Washington, has derided concern over global warming.

This ocean acidification hypothesis, as it has come to be known, has gained great momentum in recent years, because it offers a second independent reason to regulate fossil fuel emissions in addition to that provided by concerns over traditional global warming.

(1) Because of a growing concern over the possible consequences of global warming, which may be caused in part by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas), and also because of the need for accurate estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has developed factors for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of U.S. coal consumption.