Sentences with phrase «environmental problem of global warming»

We wanted to know: how can buildings - which use 50 % of all the energy consumed - help solve the environmental problem of global warming?

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I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

It is the per capita consumption in industrialized countries that causes the greatest environmental problems, such as exhaustion of resources and global warming.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, says that too little is known about endocrine disruptors to say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as global warming and loss of species habitat.

The magnitude of our environmental problems, such as global warming and loss of the ozone layer, is forcing us to delve into the past and into other philosophies for an answer.

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.

When we look at solutions down the road for global warming, for other environmental problems, for horrible inequities in income and wealth distribution in the world, we would do well to remember Einstein's warning, «We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.»

According to the environmental group WWF, Sumatra has lost 48 percent of forest cover in the past 23 years releasing vast amounts of planet - warming gases — making the Sumatran forest problem a global problem.

5:11 p.m. Updated * Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish writer who has built a career around challenging worst - case depictions of global warming and other environmental problems, has sent short video responses to the six most - recommended reader questions from my post about «Cool It,» the documentary on his work.

-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

According to Frederica Perrera, a professor and director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, there has been a notable increase in development problems in children worldwide that parallels the increase in toxic contaminants in water, air, soil, and consumer goods, as well as the mounting effects of global warming.

According to a new poll released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a majority of voters in six moderate to conservative congressional districts now believe global warming to be the top environmental problem and favor immediate actions to reduce carbon emissions.

The problem with that statement in this textbook is that these authors misuse it to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support.

Exploitation of fear about environmental problems kept shifting from ozone depletion, acid rain, desertification, rainforest destruction, global warming, sea level rise, climate change, and climate crisis, among others.

At the inception of the Al Gore era of the global warming issue, Stephen Schneider and the Society of Environmental Journalists spotted the very thing that could stop the issue in its tracks — if the public only saw scientists contradicting each other over whether man - caused global warming was a problem, the issue would never advance as a problem in need of a solution.

«Mass Communication and Public Understanding of Environmental Problems: The Case of Global Warming.»

A new study from the University of Melbourne, the Georg Eckert Institute and Freie Universität has found several problems with research related to assessing the propensity for war amid environmental changes due to «global warming».

In fact, worry about global warming is low on a list of 12 environmental problems that Gallup asks about in the Environment surveys.

The clash between Neste and Greenpeace highlights one of the key ideological debates over climate change: Business and politicians believe that a «technological» fix such as alternative fuels can solve the problem and also generate profits; many environmental groups believe the real solution to global warming lies in reducing consumption.

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

Those gases trap heat and aggravate global warming, leading to hotter days, rising seas, more intense storms, and a host of other environmental problems.

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: APEnvironmental 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: APenvironmental 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

In an Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, the authors of the text, including well - known proponents of abortion and population control like the UN's Jeffrey Sachs, make an attempt to conflate the bogeyman of extreme anthropogenic global warming with the very real problem of environmental pollution.

Yet, despite the scientific community's warnings of the imminent dangers of global warming, politicians world - wide have failed to agree on what to do about this potentially devastating environmental problem.

The bill «marks an end to stalling and the start of the search for serious solutions to the global warming problem,» said Fred Krupp, president of the conservation group Environmental Defense.

18 The Consequences of a Warmer Earth The impacts of global warming could include a number of potentially serious environmental problems.

In spite of troubling predictions about Earth's climate, many young people are addressing the problems in positive ways, according to Lynne Cherry, acclaimed author of 30 - plus environmental books for children, whose latest book explores the science of global warming at an eighth - grade reading level.

Chairman of the New York State Senate Environmental Committee, Senator Carl Marcellino, said, «Global warming is a problem that does not discriminate.

«Global warming is one of the most serious environmental problems of our generation,» said Governor Spitzer.

The latest developments highlight the fact that the populations least responsible for the problem of Global Warming are taking the most significant environmental hit.

This is borne out by the Eco-Label criteria which found that the four environmental problems to which paints contribute the most are: • petroleum consumption for the production of titanium dioxide, resins and solvents • global warming through emissions of CO2 and VOCs resulting respectively from titanium dioxide production and from solvent paint application • atmospheric acidification due to CO2 and sulphur from titanium dioxide processing • discharges of waste into water due to titanium dioxide processing.

«The purpose of these plans is to provide policy makers and the public with a technically - and economically - feasible pathway toward a sustainable, secure, and reliable energy infrastructure that eliminates health and environmental problems due to air, water, and soil pollution and global warming.

The reason is that there are many environmental problems worse than the likely impact of man - made global warming that would cost substantially less money to solve.

Now, the fact that the emissions are a major environmental problem, including the global warming and all the other kinds of problems that we have with carbon dioxide, is really quite remarkable.

Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming.

Continued Birdsall, «Because the problem of global warming and massive environmental devastation appears to be lingering, however, the time may be right for the federal government to consider dealing with it again in some way.»

Environmental, energy, and global warming concern well may be on American's minds — as recent opinion polls Climate Progress is parsing bear out — but collectively we're barely past admitting we have a problem, let alone starting the depth of societal soul searching the activist community would (rightly) like to see.

And, by rejecting the non-problem of man - made global warming, he began the long and necessary process of waking up the likes of Professor Reif to the fact that the diversion of time, effort, and trillions of dollars away from real environmental problems and towards the bogus but (to MIT) profitable non-problem of supposedly catastrophic global warming is as bad for the planet as it is for true science.