Sentences with phrase «for doing something about global warming»

As one person put it, «the cheerleaders for doing something about global warming seem to be largely the cheerleaders for many causes of which I disapprove».

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From a US political standpoint, though, I find it troubling that for the US to «do» something about global warming, such as joining the Kyoto Protocol, would require potentially serious negative economic impacts on the US economy.

Opinion polls for the past decade have consistently shown that the public would like to see something done about the global warming problem, along with many other environmental issues.

If global warming is only caused by burning of fossil fuels then it may be possible for humans to do something about global warming.

From the standpoint of doing something about global warming, the uncertainties are irrelevant unless we don't care what kind of world we leave for future generations - of humans and polar bears.

The entire scam — essentially blaming Exxon for knowing something about «global warming» it couldn't possibly have known because, hey, nobody did at the time; they don't even know now — was purely designed as a shakedown.

I find the global warming arguments extremely compelling, but I notice something peculiar — that we seem to forget that long before «AGW» became a common topic, we saw many causes for alarm over the downside of doing so little to hedge our bets about energy sources, and back then we had little concept of the potential of China, e.g., to match and raise our own carbon fuel appetite.

The Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, a political independent, just endorsed President Obama for re-election because Bloomberg thinks Obama will do something about global warming.

Since that time three or four years ago, there has been no comfortable way for the scientific community to raise the spectre of serious uncertainty about the forecasts of climatic disaster... It can no longer escape prime responsibility if it should turn out in the end that doing something in the name of mitigation of global warming is the costliest scientific mistake ever visited on humanity.

If that continues, we may buy some time to do something about global warming, but more likely we would use it as an excuse for delay.

People — whether Americans, Europeans, Chinese, or Brazilians — want to do something about global warming; they just don't want to pay much more for energy to do it.

In short, that treatise provided the proverbial under - the - hood look at the inner workings of today's state - of - the - art climate models that provide the basis for the belief that global warming is a problem and that something must be done about it.

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «dangerous» climate change.

Growing concern about global warming - and the urge to do something about it - is a boon for startups like TerraPass, an outfit that's in the guilt - reduction business.