Sentences with phrase «defined problem of climate change»

We have wrongly defined the problem of climate change, relying on strategies that worked previously with ozone, sulphur emissions and nuclear bombs.

It's all well and good to propose nuclear power as a technical solution to an objectively - defined problem of climate change, and to point out that the greens have been the ones doing most to prevent progress in this regard.

the wrong cognitive choices in our attempts to define the problem of climate change, by relying on strategies that worked previously with ozone, sulphur emissions and nuclear bombs.

Not exact matches

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Part of the problem is semantic: «Abrupt» and «catastrophic» are inavoidably subjective terms, although the former is a bit more prone to definition (e.g., any change of climate state involving a rapid transition from one state to another, although of course we then have to further define «rapid» and «climate state»).

The two defining problems of today are climate change and inequality, BC FED president Irene Lanzinger told a crowd of about 100 people at a Thursday event co-hosted by the BC Federation of Labour and several other labour organizations.

The two defining problems of our time are climate change and inequality, BC FED President Irene Lanzinger told a crowd of about 100 people at a Thursday event co-hosted by the BC Federation of Labour and several other labour organizations.

The problem was narrowly defined whereas it should have started out saying «there are a number of or many causes of climate change among which manmade causes are but one, climate science should be directed at understanding all causes of climate change and appropriate measures defined to best address including proper assessment of cost / benefit.

Even if it could be demonstrated that climate change had caused a particular problem, the «crime» that the «victim» is the subject of is not defined by the action of the perpetrator, but by the status of the «victim».

The Democrats are of the mind that human - caused climate change is one of the major problems facing the country / world today, describing it as «an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.»

In comparison to messages that defined climate change in terms of either the environment or national security, talking about climate change as a public health problem generated greater feelings of hope among subjects.

But it only really covers part of the climate change problem, the define the problem part.

The dual problems of ending poverty and dealing with climate change represent «the defining issues of our generation,» said John Roome, World Bank senior director for climate change.

And so, climate change is a civilization challenging problem of distributive justice and no matter what ethical considerations are taken into account to define an arguably distributively just allocation of ghg emissions targets among nations, many national commitments utterly and obviously flunk any ethical test.