Sentences with phrase «deal with the global warming threat»

A Congressional committee concerned with energy could be — and indeed should be — a key player in exploring policy options to deal with the global warming threat.

A Congressional committee concerned with energy could be — and indeed should be — a key player in exploring policy options to deal with the global warming threat.

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But he is convinced that we are not thinking the problem through correctly and are, in fact, lost in a kind of green fog about how best to deal with global warming and other major environmental threats.

Why global warming is becoming the biggest threat for environment and gives some suggestions to deal with it.

The United States and our friends in Europe can not alone deal with the threat of global warming.

After all if cost is no barrier when it comes to dealing with hypothetical threats like global warming it should be no barrier when it comes to hypothetical threats like asteroid strikes.

Global warming, on the other hand, is far less of an immediate threat, many of its effects can not be reversed no matter what we do, the cost of attempting such a reversal could destroy the economies of emerging nations and make their development impossible — and it is a slow moving threat, that governments can plan to deal with over time.

The final global warming question in Gallup's annual environment survey deals with the crucial issue of whether global warming is seen as posing a serious threat.

The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), formalized at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, was in effect a treaty to create treaties, an effort to create an international regime that would supposedly deal with the threat of Global Warming.

He blamed wildfires and drought on global warming and then asked the candidates: «What is your plan to deal with the threat of climate change?»

The book's editor, respected polar scientist Paul Berkman, sees the need to re-summon the political will shown back then, so as to deal with the ultimate cross-border threat - global warming.

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 Source: NASA

Urged on by the increasingly doom - laden pronouncements of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's governments are presenting taxpayers with the biggest bill in history to deal with a threat they call Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

There are many other human - induced stresses on life, including land conversion with habitat destruction, species overharvesting, homogenization of biota, and ubiquitous toxins, which must be dealt with, yet global warming caused by fossil fuel burning may be a unique threat because of the millennial time scale of anthropogenic carbon within surface carbon reservoirs.

Ironically, after doing some research for this article, global warming went from primary concern to a mere «secondary» concern simply because there are so many other threats we have to deal with.

British viewers will see seven episodes, the last of which deals with global warming and the threat to the natural world posed by man.