Sentences with phrase «dangers of a warming climate»

We also have accumulating evidence about the dangers of a warming climate — Australia more than any other OECD country — and we should just get on with that too.

Secretary of State John Kerry discovered this chilling reality during a visit to that frozen continent enroute to international climate meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, where he spoke last Wednesday on the dangers of a warming climate.

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Stopping overpopulation is one way the dangers of climate change can be mitigated, according to two of the most prominent believers in global warming.

New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall invoked the dangers of climate change, noting that severe droughts and wildfires put his state «in the bull's - eye of global warming.»

European Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters in Brussels he deeply regretted the U.S. pullout from the pact to fight the dangers of global warming, which was signed by more than 190 countries, and said it could not be renegotiated as Trump has suggested [B5N1G8011].

The inquiry aims to find out whether the oil company was aware of the dangers of human - made climate change but chose to keep quiet and to promote denial groups challenging the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.

«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says «widespread» use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 °C, the politically agreed danger threshold.

The amount of warming c.q. climate sensitivity will not much interest politicians, until they understand that it's very very very probable that it will remain below their self - defined danger threshold of 2 C.

Some, such as the sceptics S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, see no danger at all, maintaining that a warmer planet will be beneficial for mankind and other species on the planet and that «corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate».

There is no evidence whatsoever that «politics» in any way, shape or form has influenced actual climate science, or its overwhelming conclusions regarding both the reality of anthropogenic global warming and the danger that it poses to humanity and to life on earth in general.

In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.

As early as 1988, in his first term as a Senator, he was already warning the country of the dangers of global warming and climate change which were then considered non-issues in both national and global context.

No matter if you live in a temperate or in a warm weather climate, knowing the dangers of summer will keep your pet safe and happy.

With that said, prevention is the key to keeping your dog safe in warmer climates and protecting them from the dangers of heat stroke.

This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to reduce emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds of keeping global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).

In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

The answer is that virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization («Climate Change,» 2010).

In January of this year, author Kenneth Richard conducted a broad survey of climate change literature for 2017 and found that the alleged «consensus» behind the dangers of anthropogenic global warming is not nearly as settled among climate scientists as people imagine.

Top climate scientists have just under two years to deliver assessment of dangers and avoiding strategies for warming of 1.5 C

The claim, which Mann himself uses in the NYT, for example, that 97 % of scientists agree that «climate change is real» and that «we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet» isn't borne out by a reading of the survey, which was itself imprecise about its own definitions, and captures the perspectives Mann has himself dismissed as «anti-science»: sceptics are part of the putative ’97 per cent».

The Obama EPA's infamous «Endangerment Finding» declared that carbon dioxide and methane from hydrocarbons cause global warming and climate change that pose imminent dangers to the health and wellbeing of every American.

I've been accused of obscurantism, closet climate denialism and willful misdirection — all for the crime of insufficiently attesting to the dangers of a warming trend I do not deny.

The climate change lobby is keen to ensure that if you hear about it at all, you hear that it is a minor thing, dwarfed by the dangers of global warming.

The devotees of both sides of the mainstream climate debate i.e. on the one hand those who warn against the dangers of global warming, which they attribute mainly to atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide, and on the other those who assert that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is a fraud, resort to hysteria when they sense that their ideas are under threat.

Over the past year, the United States has helped draft the rulebook for implementing the Paris climate accord, signed international memoranda calling for global action to fight climate change, boosted funding for overseas clean energy projects, and contributed to global research on the dangers and causes of the Earth's warming.

One characterisation of the IPCC is that it is politically motivated to exaggerate the dangers of global warming and the level of human influence on climate change.

Hansen, featured prominently in Al Gore's global warming documentary, «An Inconvenient Truth,» has been warning of the potential dangers of climate change since the 1980s.

The advertisement objects to President Obama's declaration that «few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change» and claims that «there has been no net global warming for over a decade» and that the dangers of global warming are «grossly overstated.»

The danger posed by war to all of humanity - and to our planet - is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming.

A recent survey of climate change literature for 2017 revealed that the alleged «consensus» behind the dangers of anthropogenic global warming is not nearly as settled among climate scientists as people imagine.

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.

We face a tremendous gap between what scientists warn about the dangers of global warming and what the public understands, and a discourse that has been hijacked by toxic, politically motivated attacks on the credibility of the climate science community.

C'est tout — no science, but curiosity re dangers of global warming led me to climate debate daily and arguments fer both sides, especially Steve McIntyre and Jeff Id... then on ter the sainted Judith, Max Anacker, oh and kim.)

Snyder's opinions about the dangers posed by Climate Change place him among the strident fringe of the Global Warming faithful.

As Weitzman himself clearly recognizes, in order for him to distinguish climate change dangers from other dangers in this matter, he must therefore show not only that it is possible that the true probability distribution of potential levels of warming is actually much worse than believed by the IPCC, but that a reasonable observer should accept it as likely that this is the case.

These climate scientists warned President Johnson in 1965 not just of the dangers associated with human - caused global warming, but also that we might eventually have to consider geoengineering the climate to offset that warming and the risks that we're causing by inadvertently running a dangerous experiment with the Earth's climate.

The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming.

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

Contrary to the accusations of sceptics, including those who fill the pages of The Australian newspaper, climate scientists and environmentalists are not guilty of exaggerating the dangers of global warming; in truth they are guilty of understating them.

Given even larger underestimations in sea level rise and Arctic ice disappearance I assume you're point is that climate scientists have been overly cautious about the dangers of global warming.

His critique was, however, widely misrepresented by climate deniers as proving that the IPCC's scientific verdict about the dangers of global warming are too alarmist.

There is no evidence whatsoever that «politics» in any way, shape or form has influenced actual climate science, or its overwhelming conclusions regarding both the reality of anthropogenic global warming and the danger that it poses to humanity and to life on earth in general.

The Trump administration is reportedly on the verge of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, threatening to undermine a fragile accord and the nation's status as a world leader even as the dangers of global warming grow.

«Climate Scientists Agree on Warming, Disagree on Dangers, and Don't Trust the Media's Coverage of Climate Change,» STATS, April 24, 2008.

- James E. Hansen, the climate scientist who issued the clearest warning of the 20th century about the dangers of global warming, will retire from NASA this week, giving himself more freedom to pursue political and legal efforts to limit greenhouse gases.

Best known for the moment when he stood with Al Gore to collect the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr Pachauri was the mastermind of the IPCC's latest monumental report on the dangers of global warming in 2007, giving him huge prestige and influence as the world's «top climate official».

From Utah's Daily Herald A week ago Utah joined in announcing a plan to fight global warming — but the real danger lies in cooling: the cooling of the world's climate, and the chilly outlook for the state's economy.