Sentences with phrase «generations than climate change»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said: «Today's youth are different than any generation that has come before.

It's what Joe Romm at Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate climate change.

The pendulum of climate change rarely paused for more than a generation.»

Their fickle attention spans and casual attitudes were cited as signs that the generation did not in fact have the intestinal fortitude it would require to execute change, as opposed to just talking about it when it's the cool thing to do.As I prepare to travel to Copenhagen on Friday for the UN climate summit, I'm struck by how different an experience I've had as the executive director of the Energy Action Coalition, an alliance of more than 50 environmental groups run by young people, than the image that has been portrayed of my peers.

The fact that polar ice is disappearing faster than predicted from the models along with permafrost decline and more besides seem to indicate to many climate scientists (who incidently appear profously in the Fred Pearce book — the last generation) that human induced climate change is happenning faster than can be explained by the primarily linear models.

As Brown reviews, nuclear power is far less of a risk to public health than coal generation, and this difference is magnified when factoring in the health impacts of climate change.

Because utility exhibits diminishing returns to increasing consumption, economic damages of climate change on a richer generation will have smaller negative effects on welfare than on a poorer generation.

Remember that, in a work climate where people can be expected to change jobs far more frequently than they did in earlier generations, it's important to maintain a positive and supportive network of professional references — which means that you should a) always leave an employer on a positive note; and b) do your best to maintain a cordial relationship with them just in case you might need them to serve as a reference for you in the future.