Sentences with phrase «debate whether climate change»

A level where people can get paid to debate whether climate change allows more angels to dance on the head of a lin.

It is still a matter of debate whether climate change will increase the number of hurricanes, but it is more and more clear that human - caused heating of the planet will boost their severity.

«We're past the point where we can seriously debate whether climate change is real» Do you mean as a society, separated from the scientific facts?

He is not interested in debating whether climate change is a reality, he said.

My theme was debunking the myth shard to me by many of the club members that «scientists are still debating whether climate change is real.»

«In the Pacific Islands, we don't have the luxury of debating whether climate change is real,» he said.

So long as people were forced to spend their waking hours debating whether climate change was really happening, they wouldn't have time to discuss what to do about it.

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Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

In addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settled.

The time for debating whether or not the climate is changing is long past.

This marks it as unmissable for anyone remotely interested in the climate change debate, whether believers or sceptics.

Last week's deadly attacks on Paris have reignited the debate over whether climate change is a distraction from legitimate security threats like terrorism, or a contributor to them.

In his speech, Kerry noted that the president «has repeatedly questioned the underlying science of climate change and attempted to reignite the debate over whether the threat is real.»

«It is time to move on from the fake debate over whether climate change is real or poses a risk, and onto the worthy debate about what actions we must take to avoid a climate catastrophe,» he said in an email.

In a previous post, I poked my nose into the debate over whether climate change will precipitate more conflict.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

Scientists are still debating whether the decline is due to natural ocean cycles or climate change.

An academic debate ponders whether Earth's climate could change precipitously, and how unmitigated regional stressors could irrevocably alter the planet

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

Researchers have debated for a long time whether dumping iron into the ocean could ameliorate climate change.

There is much debate over whether this has anything to do with climate change.

Harvey, with its unprecedented rains, has spawned an urgent debate over whether this is what a changing climate looks like.

Intelligence Squared U.S. energy and environment debates shine a critical light on the most pressing issues spurred by climate change and 21st century environmental priorities, including clean energy, fracking, organic and genetically modified foods, and whether or not global warming poses an immediate threat.

According to Yvo de Boer, KPMG's Global Chairman, Climate Change & Sustainability Services, «I believe that the debate on whether companies should report on CR or not is dead and buried.

After more than a year the debate is still in turmoil and we'll just have to see how the events unfold in the future and whether the production of zombie formalist art will decrease if the art market climate changes.

But lately, there have been a lot of debates about whether or not climate change is a man - made event or if it is even a real concern.

We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.

This is NOT open and honest debate as to whether climate change is happening and what its effects are when people who are not climate scientists have louder voice on the science.

There has been an ongoing debate, both in and outside the scientific community, whether rapid climate change in the Arctic might affect circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes, and thereby possibly the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events.

This debate is about your pocketbook, it's about your job, it's about whether you can still afford health care, whether we're going to do something about climate change or not, what kind of world your kids are going to be living in in ten or fifteen years, how are we going to respond to peak oil, where is the next transistor economy going to come from?

There was plenty of debate this week about whether human - driven climate change played a role in the fires that have scorched large patches of Southern California or raised the odds of more such infernos in years to come.

Of course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patterns).

One key metric in this debate is the spatial pattern of cooling which may provide a «fingerprint» of the underlying climate change, whether that was externally forced (from solar or volcanic activity) or was part of an intrinsic mode of variability.

The point being that some people are debating climate change, and whether to stop using oil, when in just 100 years or maybe less, we will be forced to stop using oil anyway as supplies dwindle, and prices escalate dramatically.

I wonder why action is being taken to adapt to and mitigate man - made climate change instead of «discussing» the «debate» over 10 - year old first papers and whether Algore is fat and whether the earth is cooling despite last year being the warmest on record (according to one dataset)?

There's a great discussion under way at the Room for Debate blog examining whether the Endangered Species Act is the right tool for the job in limiting losses from human - driven climate change.

I suspect one of the reasons that he brought it up is that the general public, when told there is no debate amongst experts as to whether warming is occurring, are also told that the hundreds of scientists they hear about in the news dismissing warming (or saying that there is a debate) are not climate change experts and therefore shouldn't be believed.

The question of whether climate change is influencing hurricane strength is still open and debated within the scientific community.

I understand there is some debate about whether earthquakes could be related to climate change.

I agree that cultural cognition — the idea that we shape our views so they agree with those in the groups with which we most closely identify, in the name of acceptance by our group and thus of safety — powerfully explains the polarized passions over whether climate change is «real,» the «debate» that gets most of the attention about public opinion.

So this is now where the climate debate is headed, towards the non linear dynamics of the earth system and whether they can magnify climate change to make it suddenly flip to a new state.

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.

Do you sense that there has been any shift away from feeling the need to re-engage in debates over whether climate change is real or not, and instead toward addressing questions of what to do about it?

Whether climate change will increase the number of hurricanes is fiercely debated in the research community.

This scientific debate about whether anthropogenic climate change is dangerous needs to end up like a game of postal chess (on the internet).

Atmospheric physicist John Latham's idea is perhaps more down - to - Earth than most, although whether it can provide a «solution'to climate change remains very much up for debate.

The debate is — or ought to be — whether climate change is affected or exarcebated by human activity.