Sentences with phrase «dangers of a warming planet»

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 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.

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».

We deserve a Congress that takes seriously the dangers of a warming planet to our health, economy, and national security.

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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.

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».

Other serious researchers in the field, while convinced of the building long - term danger, warn that nature will almost surely jostle chaotically through cool and warm spells along the way to what Dr. Hansen calls «a different planet.»

«There's No Way Around It: Donald Trump Looks Like a Disaster for the Planet --»... all the fragile but important progress the world has made on global warming over the past eight years is now in danger of being blown up.»»

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

Supporters of the accord, including some leading U.S. business figures, called Trump's move a blow to international efforts to tackle dangers for the planet posed by global warming.

Analysts say the planet is still on course to heat beyond the 2C danger zone by 2100, although around 0.9 C of warming will have been avoided thanks to the new plans.

In fact, he said he thought climate change was in danger of becoming a «fetish» and that rallying cries to «save the planet by limiting global warming to 2 degrees» could distract us from the «political logjam» in front of us.

With barely a day going by without another gloomy global warming story making the headlines, it is difficult to know what it will take for the current US administration to wake up to the dangers of climate change - or to predict what effects our abuse of the planet will have on us, or our children.