Sentences with phrase «generations than climate»

poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change», he said.

«No challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» he said in Tuesday's State of the Union speech.

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

In his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama claimed that «no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.»

''... [N] o challenge - no challenge - poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

«No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» said Obama in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

«And no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» he said.

Not exact matches

Thanks to the current economic climate, it's harder for businesses to generate a profit now than at any other time for generations.

«While it's easy to assume Millennials are willing to job hop because they're less loyal to their employers than previous generations, you have to really look at the current economic climate to understand why that attitude has shifted over time,» said Lydia Frank, Editorial Director, PayScale.

Being a parent in today's social climate is drastically different than any generation before, and not solely because we are a bunch of self - righteous, arrogant tools.

Still, it is undeniable that a variety of 21st - century forces — a new generation in the military, a change in climate at the top levels of the Pentagon, pressure on the president from a critical interest group, even Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand's anticipated Democratic primary battle in New York — converged to begin repeal of a 1993 law that has led to the discharge of more than 13,000 gay men and lesbians, including desperately needed Arabic translators.

Speaking from Apia, Shirley Laban, the convener of the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network, an NGO, said: «Unless we cut emissions now, and limit global warming to less than 1.5 °C, Pacific communities will reap devastating consequences for generations to come.

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«This is not a sensational «cephalopods are taking over the world's oceans» story,» says Paul Rodhouse, a biological oceanographer with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, U.K. Further climate change could have unpredictable effects, squeezing generation times to less than a year and throwing off some species» annual mating gatherings in the process.

«We're finding that some power - generation technologies can be more climate - resilient than others.

Younger generations (ages 18 to 49) are more likely than older ones to see scientists in agreement about climate change.

Rather than alluring to the obvious shocking facts and events affecting our planet and way of life, audiences actually see Al Gore for what he's really doing in real life «being the most influential person of his generation» inspiring others to take up arms in the fight for Climate and how the world's democracies are politically unwise when it comes to using the actual solutions.

This could partly be due to the legacy issue of climate change (not wanting future generation to inherit a worse world than ours).

The organization representing more than 600 public school boards across the state says how science is taught in the classroom will influence how a generation of students think about climate change.

The first generation of the Audi TT was brought to the market in 2000, weighing more than 3,600 pounds and featuring a 1.8 - liter, 180 hp, turbo - charged inline 4, in addition to a standard plush interior with intuitive climate controls.

I was likewise amused and irritated, mildly, by what appears to be an old - generation BMW iDrive system that retains some of its formerly (well, formerly in actual BMW - badged offerings, that is) quirks, such as burying the climate controls under a menu marked «vehicle info» rather than under, say, «settings,» or — and call me crazy here — simply having a «climate» option on the main menu in the first place.

The loss of those voices would have been a more serious blow to last generation's gaming climate than the loss of Call of Shooty 3 through 5 or whatever.

If it takes 100 plus years to double the concentration of CO2, and if the equilibrium response is a 2C increase (Pierrehumbert, «Principles of Planetary Climate», p 623), and if the increased CO2 produces increased vegetation and crop growth, then the present rate of development of non-fossil fuel power and fuel generation is more appropriate than an Apollo type project or attempt to get rid of all fossil fuel use by 2050 starting now as fast as can be done.

Entrusting our efforts to address global warming, and to preserve the climate for future generations, to Obama and team is a much, much better idea from all sorts of standpoints than entrusting those things to McCain and team, hands down.

One would think that the climate system, whose stability enabled and fostered the evolution of the human race and civilization over the course of a few million years without active intervention, would be worth a tad more than a mere one generation's worth of sustained economic growth with low inflation.

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

It's much harder to build a movement around limiting losses for generations unborn than for ourselves, but if honesty counts, that may be the only way to make climate action stick.

Also, things are the way they are — setting aside the politics (for recieving nations) and psychological costs (for those moving), it would make sense to some extent for people to move toward places set up for efficient wealth generation rather than to spread the wealth among the people whereever they are, so it wouldn't make sense to try to wipe the slate clean of the advantages gained from history let along geography, although the later does bring up the issue of climate change refugees, and some wealth generating capacity is spread out (land), and of course some clean energy resources are rather abundant in the developing world or parts thereof, and energy needs differ geographically even for the same lifestyle — see above... this whole paragraph should reference itself....

Wonderful that the emerging generation is realizing that nothing is more important than stopping global climate change.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

In other words, the current generation of climate models (CMIP5) agrees better among themselves than the prior generation (CMIP3), i.e., there is less of a spread between climate model outputs, because they are converging on the same results.

But what's really obscene is endeavoring to keep young people from learning the truth about climate change — an empirically observable phenomenon that will harm future generations far more than it has already harmed this one.

And in early 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change «the greatest challenge of our generation,» more so than poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

This group is also more likely than older generations in the GOP to perceive at least some effects of climate change in the communities where they live.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

Younger generations (ages 18 to 49) are more likely than older ones to see scientists in agreement about climate change.

Cities are major contributors to climate change: although they cover less than 2 per cent of the earth's surface, cities consume 78 per cent of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of all carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other greenhouse gas emissions, mainly through energy generation, vehicles, industry, and biomass use.

HAPPI provides a framework for the generation of climate data describing how the climate, and in particular extreme weather, might differ from the present day in worlds that are 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

and of course «If the role of internal variability in the climate system is as large as this analysis would seem to suggest, warming over the 21st century may well be larger than that predicted by the current generation of models, given the propensity of those models to underestimate climate internal variability»

So we have a whole adult generation for whom climate change is no more «real» than the trenches of WW1 or the Apollo Moon Landings or Wimbledon winning the FA Cup.

If we want to reduce the climate impact of electric power generation in the United States, there are less costly and risky ways to do it than expanding nuclear power.

First, more detailed information is needed for running the current generation of climate models than that provided by any previous scenario sets.

Nothing exposes our species» «future flaw» more than climate change — rarely, if ever, have the history books demonstrated a generation acting selflessly, or with sacrifice, for the sole benefit of generations to come.

The current rate of environmental change is much faster than most climate changes in the Earth's history, so predictions from longer term geological records may not be applicable if the changes occur within a few generations of a species.

There were as many older generations ages - 50 plus, as younger generations of less than 30 years old - that care about the health of our Planet and Pollution that is causing world wide climate change from the business as usual approach of the Big Business Polluting Machine 2.

Hansen, a respected climate scientist and an advocate for next - generation nuclear power, recently published a scientific paper showing that nuclear energy has actually saved more than 1.6 million lives, by displacing coal.

What I would like to point out is that it seems that some of the same issues you are discussing in climate science are affecting other branches of science — notably medicine: pharmaceuticals have been throwing millions at doctors and medical researchers for more than a generation, and partly as a result, about one in three people in the United States is taking prescription drugs.

With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said that the target of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 2C this century is slipping out of reach.

Climate change product liability may affect related industries sooner rather than later, as shown by the recent case of a number of US States taking power generation companies to court over climate Climate change product liability may affect related industries sooner rather than later, as shown by the recent case of a number of US States taking power generation companies to court over climate climate change.

There is also generally a better climate (rain and temperature) and soils for first - generation and possibly second - generation biofuels feedstocks than in North America or Europe.