Sentences with phrase «concern than global warming»

That may soon be of bigger concern than global warming especially in underdeveloped countries, where germs in such wastes get spread haphazardly and may lead to major health problems.

So I think Mr. Schweickart is right, this should be a higher concern than global warming.

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We conservatives know that the human issues involved in all of the above are more urgent than global warming and related concerns.

For almost every place and issue, from global warming to local beach pollution, Democrats express more concern than Republicans.»

But most of what they are doing is not visible, because it is rooted in local concerns, such as urban air pollution, rather than fear of global warming.

In a world that needs to be saved from history's» effects like war, global warming, poverty, religion's ideology, hyper - consumption, etc.... Today's education (both classroom and beyond the classroom) has to be able to shape concerned individuals who can learn from human history and be more innovative than the box allows them, to be.

Sounds crazy, doesn't it?Highlighted by Chrysler's Voyager III detachable van, this year's crop of concept vehicles at the North American International Auto Show was wilder than ever.Industry officials say that concerns about global warming, pollution, traffic congestion and the price of fuel are the major design influences behind many of the concept vehicles unveiled at the nation's most important auto show.

Global climate change appears to be an example where a dissociation between the output of the analytic and the affective system results in less concern than is advisable, with analytic consideration suggesting to most people that global warming is a serious concern, but the affective system failing to send an early warning signal (Weber, Global climate change appears to be an example where a dissociation between the output of the analytic and the affective system results in less concern than is advisable, with analytic consideration suggesting to most people that global warming is a serious concern, but the affective system failing to send an early warning signal (Weber, global warming is a serious concern, but the affective system failing to send an early warning signal (Weber, 2006).

The probe by this team takes the timeline on Exxon's focus on climate change several years earlier than a previous investigation of oil industry assessments of global warming by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Mainly because we were concerned by the global media coverage which made it appear as if a coming pause in global warming was almost a given fact, rather than an experimental forecast.

the fact that some things concern them more than global warming proves that they're not concerned about global warming.

Should this be the case, they could be deemed to be more of a threat to my grandchild than that represented by global warming denialists (many of whom are pro nuclear and concerned about peak oil and population overshoot).

Joe Bastardi, senior AccuWeather.com meteorologist's open letter to presidential candidates concerning anthropogenic global warming will likely be thoroughly ignored by media far more interested in spreading the unproven junk science of Nobel Laureate Al Gore than advancing the discussion concerning this controversial issue.

Peer - reviewed studies have raised concerns about how much methane is leaking throughout the production and transmission of natural gas, casting doubt on whether it really is better for global warming than coal, which burns 50 percent more carbon than natural gas.

Among the Concerned, half (53 percent) consider environmental protection to be very or extremely important, and more than 40 percent consider clean energy and global warming the same.

I'm concerned that little bits of info (e.g., more ice here, less ice there, sick animals here, winter storms there, and etc.) can be much more confusing than illuminating in the absence of a general understanding of the basic dynamics of global warming as (the majority of) scientists see them.

This is of some concern (hence the recent interest in this topic) since estimates for the global mean temperature during the Eemian suggest that it was only 1 - 2 ºC warmer than the present.

In the 10th edition of American Government, published in 2005, the authors discuss four types of politics that define the government's response to major public concerns such as environmental policy (limited to several pages in the 600 - page text, less than two of which are devoted to global warming).

Women are significantly more likely than men to be concerned about the impact of global warming and humanity's role in causing it.

It all rests on the phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», which has been endlessly regurgitated by, among others, Al Gore, Naomi Oreskes, George Monbiot, the Union of Concerned Scientists, James Hoggan and Eric Pooley.

In 2011, the Global Warming Policy Foundation's website ran the headline «900 + Peer - Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism Of «Man - Made» Global Warming (AGW) Alarm,» listing more than 900 papers which, according to the GWPF, refute «concern relating to a negative environmental or socio - economic effect of AGW, usually exaggerated as catastrophic.»

That's a cause for concern because, among other reasons, methane traps more heat than carbon dioxide, making it a more potent greenhouse gas and thus of concern for global warming, according to a study detailing the trip's findings and published recently in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

Despite her low of personal concern, Diane is more supportive than Carl of a national response to global warming.

The reason for the formation of the Global Warming Policy Forum as a seperate entity can be traced to a report by the UK Charity Commision (PDF) that looked into the Global Warming Policy Foundation when «Concerns were raised with the commission that the charity was promoting views that were of a political rather than an educational nature.»

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

It stands to reason that those who express concern about the quality of the environment, about global warming, or the energy situation are more likely to say they have made major changes in their lifestyles than those who are not concerned about these issues.

However, since more Americans express little to no worry about global warming than say this about extinction, global warming is clearly the environmental issue of least concern to them.

What is concerning is the possibility that rapid global warming could occur faster than many people believe is possible, if global warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extincglobal warming could occur faster than many people believe is possible, if global warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extinwarming could occur faster than many people believe is possible, if global warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extincglobal warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extinwarming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human ExtincGlobal Warming Could Cause Human ExtinWarming Could Cause Human Extinction).

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

I am disappointed that global warming is a headline grabber for Chris Huhne — I would prefer him to be dealing with practical things concerning energy — rather than false targets.

People are concerned that the rapid global warming due to human activities is one of the main reasons why the world's ice shelves are thinning and declining faster than expected.

Previous Gallup research has shown that concern about global warming has diminished this year, and the research reviewed here shows clearly that Americans are more willing than ever to forgo protection of the environment if needed in order to ensure economic growth or the production of energy.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP SourConcerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Sourconcerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

If Sean Hannity was searching for the least qualified person to help him attack Earth Day and global warming concerns, he could not have done better than high - school dropout and Rush Limbaugh substitute Mark Steyn last night.

At this rate of progress, the end of capitalism is further away than the heat death of the universe, which will render concerns about global warming irrelevant.

All the law did was require coal plants to use them, a change that had very little impact on consumers, who were more concerned then about acid rain than they are today about global warming.

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.

The U.S. ranks lower than other countries in public concern about global warming and the results are stratified: among Republicans, the party more fully dedicated to the interests of wealth and corporate power, it ranks far lower than the global norm.

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.

Apparently, your Schadenfreude towards the contrarians is stronger than your concern about global warming.

I would be willing to wager hard cash that there are few, if any, people that are concerned about Global Warming and the potential for harm it presents who would like nothing better than to have solid, irrefutable evidence it won't be a problem.

Research shows that Americans are far less concerned about the threat of global warming than their European counterparts.

A study by Cornell and the University of Michigan researchers found that those «highly concerned» about climate change were less likely to engage in recycling and other eco-friendly behaviors than global - warming skeptics.

The Realclimate writers say that they're proposing a bet because they were concerned by the global media coverage that made it appear as if a coming pause in global warming was almost a given fact, rather than an experimental forecast.

To summarize, both the modeling studies mentioned above and the IPCC 2007 report show that where global warming and global climate change is concerned, it is important to consider the impact from molecules other than just CO2 and methane.

Based on survey data gathered between 2008 and 2014, people living in the central US tended to be less worried about global warming than the national average, while residents of drought - stricken California showed noticeably more concern.

Lomborg's flaw is his contention that concern with global warming, species extinction, oil depletion and population pressures are little more than a litany of environmentalist exaggerations.