Sentences with phrase «contribute to climate»

Thus, by way of the institutionalized journalistic norm of balanced reporting, United States television news coverage has perpetrated an informational bias by significantly diverging from the consensus view in climate science that humans contribute to climate change.

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

R Krishnan's group at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune is leading the South Asia component of the World Climate Research Programme's Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) to help develop more - reliable regional climate change models that contribute to the climate research community's understanding of regional climate and monsoon issues under a changing climate, beyond AR5.

Europe spends billions of euros every year importing dangerous fossil fuels which contribute to climate change.

Home Performance with ENERGY STAR is a systematic approach to improving energy efficiency and comfort in homes, while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

and set out to «refute the popular thesis that should decisively human activities contribute to climate change.»

«Industrialised countries, including the USA, which have all done most to contribute to climate change, must lead the way by making significant cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.

Both contribute to climate change.

While such concerns are important, the ideal green power products would emphasize wind, solar, and geothermal, since they do not contribute to climate change, air pollution, or acid rain.

While recognizing that fossil fuels pollute local air and water and contribute to climate change in their own countries, these and other OECD countries seem to disregard the impact of their fossil fuel projects abroad.

We talk a lot around here about both how our food choices can contribute to climate change and how global warming impacts our food supply.

This is just a nonsensically unfair rhetorical trick to try and destroy the credibility of the science by pointing out that in living their life they also contribute to climate science.

What kind of alternative is it to give up having conferences just because flights to conferences also contribute to climate change?

«There are too many compelling reasons for renewable energy to be used for electricity,» he said, including increasingly competitive costs and the need to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change.

I also appreciate the opportunity to contribute to Climate Etc. and work with my colleague and friend Judy on these important issues.

The vast majority of Illinois Democrats also want limits on heat - trapping carbon pollution, with 82 % in favor of curbing power plant emissions that contribute to climate change.

Vehicle emissions contribute to climate change, smog, and particulate pollution, which all are harmful to human health and natural ecosystems.

Either way, recognize that there are several factors that contribute to climate change.

«RIA uses indigenous vision to contribute to the climate - change mitigation effort,» he concluded.

The EU risks throwing hundreds of billions of euro into pipelines that it will have to decommission almost as soon as they come online because they contribute to climate change.»

This vegetation stores vast amounts of carbon, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it can contribute to climate change.

This approach pays landholders or farmers for actions that preserve the services to public and environmental health provided by ecosystems on their property, including services that contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Wind energy is emission - free so that it does not pollute the environment or contribute to climate change — the single biggest threats to wildlife in that climate change can disrupt reproductive cycles, shift ranges, alter hibernation habits, and impact the availability of prey.

They found that even if little or no methane leakage occurs, natural gas doesn't do much to help reduce the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

U.S. leadership on reducing the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change is considered by many to be critical in getting other nations to commit to action beyond 2020.

EU law makers ruled that biofuels can compete with food production, contribute to climate change, and put pressure on land use — and so have set a limit on the quantity of biofuels that can be used to meet EU energy targets (at no more than 7 % of transport energy).

And right now, our society is still built in such a way that the default option tends to involve using energy in forms that contribute to climate change.

The program provides clean, emissions - free energy that will not contribute to climate change, while promoting development.

Keeping carbon - sucking trees in the ground avoids greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change.

As researcher Max Boykoff has described, relative to the assertions that CO2 warms the planet or that humans contribute to climate change, there is overwhelming scientific agreement, and therefore a clear objective basis upon which to criticize the media if they fail to accurately convey this consensus.

Like carbon dioxide, many non-CO2 atmospheric gases absorb in the infrared and contribute to climate forcing.

This comes on the heels of years of student organizing against dirty fuels that threaten public health and contribute to climate disruption.

A new IPCC press release says «thousands of scientists» contribute to the climate bible.

On Climate Action: The APS urges physicists to collaborate with colleagues across disciplines to contribute to climate research and to keep any public dialogue on a professional and scientific and does not exaggerate the current level of knowledge.

It is beyond reasonable dispute that actions that contribute to the exploitation of the Alberta tar sands will contribute to climate chaos.

Meanwhile, chancellor Philip Hammond had two chances to contribute to the climate agenda with a Spring Budget, delivered in March, and an Autumn Budget in November.

There are, to date, just a handful of proposed bills that have anything to do with curbing behaviors that contribute to climate change.

Some St. Louis County residents oppose a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through parts of Illinois and Missouri on the grounds that it would encourage more hydraulic fracturing, which emits greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Both black carbon and tropospheric ozone not only contribute to climate change, but also have negative effects on health, agricultural production and key ecosystems like forests and freshwater.

Around 97 % of published papers reached the conclusion that humans contribute to climate change.

Many factors have to be taken into account when trying to predict how future global warming will contribute to climate change.

«NASA is the world's preeminent organization in the study of Earth and the conditions that contribute to climate change and global warming,» Griffin said in a statement.

They proposed that Colorado not issue any new permits for oil and gas drilling «unless the best available science demonstrates, and an independent third party organization confirms, that drilling can occur in a manner that does not cumulatively, with other actions, impair Colorado's atmosphere, water, wildlife, and land resources, does not adversely impact human health and does not contribute to climate change.»

Factors that contribute to climate change include humidity, precipitation, air pressure, and temperature.

Adaptation should be at the heart of the discussions leading to the Paris agreement, thus confirming crucial political importance, and should contribute to climate resilient development.

We, 93 civil society organisations working in Brussels and in countries affected by EU climate policies, are therefore deeply concerned that the same polluting corporations whose actions largely contribute to climate change - chief among them fossil fuel companies and their lobby groups - are using their involvement in the UNFCCC talks to delay action and hold back the needed ambition.

This manual describes crop and livestock management technologies and practices that contribute to climate change mitigation while improving crop productivity, reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers, and lowering water consumption.

This activity report provides an overview of measures taken to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaption, as climate change is affecting the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries, including Small Island Developing States, landlocked countries, arid - and semi-arid areas and countries where people are dependent on natural resources.

The paper underlines the central role of the UNFCCC and points to a constellation of actors - multilateral institutions, governments, businesses, states, cities and citizens - whose capacities and specialized focus can contribute to climate governance, emission reductions and adaptation investment.

SeaVax does not contribute to climate change, being solar powered.