Sentences with phrase «driving dangerous climate»

Letting aviation industry continue to increase its emissions while others have to reduce them is not only unfair, it is driving dangerous climate change that we have committed to fight under the Paris Agreement.

Carbon dioxide, which we send into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels, is a pollutant because it's driving dangerous climate change.

And it's pretty clear why: in addition to driving dangerous climate disruption, these coal plants are having enormous effects on human health.

UCS was a leading force behind the proposed effort by the Justice Department and various Democratic Party state attorneys general to prosecute ExxonMobil, other fossil - fuel companies, researchers, and think tanks who have expressed doubts about the claim humans are driving dangerous climate change.

Initially, PED showed backbone, standing up to political activists pushing the state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards view of climate change, which promotes the false claims that the science on climate change is settled, that we know human activities are driving dangerous climate change, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that's dangerous to human health and the environment, and that we fully understand how to counteract the effects of climate change or control long - term global temperature.

Action on climate is long - overdue, and the Clean Power Plan is a critical step to curb the carbon pollution that drives dangerous climate change and threatens our children, our communities, and our planet.

«The NIPCC report Climate Change Reconsidered II is a crucial document to get science right: Billions of $ $ are being spent in research based on the assumption that human emissions of CO2 drive dangerous climate change.

The Clean Power Plan is a crucial step to curb the carbon pollution from power plants that drives dangerous climate change.

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We simply won't be able to avoid dangerous climate change, as all our countries have pledged to do, unless we switch over time to using clean power for activities like driving our cars and heating our homes.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

«We can reduce health and climate change costs while reducing the dangerous carbon pollution driving global warming.»

Mann said of the possible record, «hopefully it will also drive home the urgency of reducing carbon emissions if we are to avoid dangerous interference with our climate.»

The best way forward, he said, is for the climate convention and whatever addenda emerge in coming years remain focused on the core issue enshrined in 1992 — the need to avoid dangerous human - driven disruption of the climate system and help nations most exposed to risks.

Climate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division, with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven wClimate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division, with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven wclimate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven warming.

The main conversation around Pope Francis's remarkable encyclical letter is appropriately on the core messages — that human - driven climate change is dangerous; access to energy matters; that consumptive capitalism is a problem, not a solution.

Schendler's summation of the science pointing to dangerous human - driven climate change is pretty overheated.

On AGW Theory: Here, you're making the mistake I allude to above in discussing Sen. Inhofe — lumping «AGW theory» (which even Michael Crichton did not dispute) with the range of views (some supported, some not) on whether the case has been made for dangerous human - driven climate change.

It took 17 years to move from the 1992 Earth Summit, which produced the first climate treaty and a pledge to avoid dangerous human - driven climate change, to Copenhagen, where countries have essentially defined the word dangerous --- with a pledged temperature ceiling — and laid out a suite of still - incomplete plans for avoiding that threshold.

In a fresh post, Darrene Hackler summarizes conclusions from a new report she wrote with Robert D. Atkinson (they both hail from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonprofit research group) that rebuts 10 prominent strategies for avoiding dangerous human - driven climate change.

The Court affirmed that Congress made it EPA's job under the Clean Air Act to curb all kinds of dangerous air pollution, including the heat - trapping pollutants that are driving climate disruption.

Climate change is occurring, driven by human influences and dangerous.

Energy produced by wind doesn't pollute the air with toxins or emit the dangerous greenhouse gases driving climate change.

Driven by the climate science, the international community is increasingly concerned about the need to set a long - term emission reduction strategy so as to me et a target that will prevent dangerous climate change, or at least, as some dangerous climate change appears unavoidable, limiting the damage.

WASHINGTON / OSLO, March 15 (Reuters)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has bashed international efforts to combat climate change and questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is dangerous and driven by human consumption of fossil fuels.

First there is a procedural similarity between CDR and SRM: both are deliberate interventions to reduce the likelihood and extent of dangerous climate change undertaken after the greenhouse gases expected to drive dangerous change have been released.

This could become a dangerous situation if it results in «agenda - driven science», IOW if «climate science takes short cuts to game the system».

Health must be central to policies that stabilize climate change below dangerous levels, drive zero - carbon as well as zero - air pollution and prevent ecosystem disruptions.

The computer models are all based on the assumption that CO2 drives dangerous warming and climate change.

The basic assumption underlying the UNFCCC is that man's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are driving the climate system to a dangerous future that can only be prevented by massive reductions in these emissions.

The drive to define what is dangerous also comes from the 1992 United Nations treaty on climate change, through which countries, including the US, committed to «prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».

These laggard coal - reliant companies are responsible for ecologically destructive coal mining and the carbon dioxide emissions that drive global climate change, not to mention a litany of dangerous pollutants.

In warm climates or cold climates, foggy windows can make it difficult to see and dangerous to drive.