Sentences with phrase «global climate disruption»

This is precisely the sort of headline that climate scientists have been warning us about when they talk about altered precipitation patterns as a result of global climate disruption.

How many floods and droughts will it take to wake people up to the very real and immediate threats and risks associated with global climate disruption?

Organizers say the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, will have no net impact on global climate disruption, thanks to energy efficiency, clean - energy tech, and tree planting to offset carbon dioxide emissions.

Their Secure American Future Program, dedicated to raising public awareness of the threat posed by climate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security problem.

The Presidents» Climate Leadership Commitments are a high - visibility effort to address global climate disruption undertaken by a network of colleges and universities.

Global Climate Disruption begins to describe something that gets the public attention.

Carl Pope is well - suited to lead work on stopping global climate disruption.

In his State of the Union address President Obama failed once again to give the American people some straight talk about global climate disruption.

Among Dot Earth readers, as you know, there are plenty of skeptics of severe human - caused global climate disruption who, for example, actively pursue energy efficiency.

As John Holdren of Harvard and the Woods Hole Research Center put it to me one time, a quiet message on a looming issue like global climate disruption can be interpreted as «satisfaction with the status quo.»

In a November 6, 2007 presentation at the Harvard Kennedy School titled Global Climate Disruption: What Do We Know?

The models used to calculate a Social Cost of Carbon for use in estimating the benefits of reducing carbon emissions fall far short of including a wide range of expected damages from global climate disruption.

The U.S. House - passed 2015 Defense Appropriation bill apparently intends to have the Pentagon stop using leading scientific assessments of global climate disruption in national security planning.

As climatologist Tim Ball summarized «Beck's work completely undermined the IPCC claims and assumptions about the role of CO2 in man - made Global Warming, then Global Warming, then Climate Change, and now Global Climate Disruptions.»

While the cover is an instant classic, the article itself is just as great — clear, direct, and unequivocal in the connection between extreme weather like Superstorm Sandy and manmade global climate disruption.

We think it is very significant that US national security experts have begun to recognize global climate disruption as a problem of security and preparedness.

Beyond some unions that legitimately fear harmful effects on their members, the attacks on the Clean Power Plan are coming from the same anti-union corporate polluters that have sought to destroy the labor movement and fought any attempt to address global climate disruption for decades.

We agree: the enormous and difficult project of decarbonizing the global energy system during this century is necessitated by the prospect of unchecked global climate disruption and its potentially disastrous consequences.

Global Climate Disruption begins to describe something that gets the public attention.

Climate Communities has declared the week of December 8 through 15 «Local Climate Action Week» by encouraging participating communities endorsing the blueprint to hold press events in their cities and towns to raise awareness about the important role of the grassroots in dealing with global climate disruption.

I as a President / CEO: GREENPLANET appreciate him work to stopping global climate disruption.

And if the models are good enough to accurately model the effects of geoengineering, then perhaps we should trust what they tell us about addressing global climate disruption, namely that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the best way to curtail overall climate disruption.

If nuclear power is to grow on the scale required to be a significant part of the solution to global climate disruption or scarcity of fossil fuels, major steps are needed to rebuild confidence that nuclear facilities will be safe from accidents and secure against attacks (1).

As with larger animals, the loss is driven primarily by loss of habitat and global climate disruption, and could have trickle - up effects in our everyday lives.

Instead, he said, «we should call it «global climate disruption.»

Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere: «global climate disruption.»

Holdren's «global climate disruption» isn't the most convoluted term to grace the climate debate, however.

(Global climate disruption is) more of a sort of generic blanket term, I guess, that can apply in all weather conditions.»

It's unclear why Holdren prefers «global climate disruption» over «climate change,» the most commonly used alternative to «global warming.»

The White House wants the public to start using the term «global climate disruption» in place of «global warming» — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

As the respondent to a panel on climate and the press at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston (I was on the panel), he urged the media, and scientists who talk to the press, to substitute «global climate disruption» for that all - too - comfortable pair of words.

Of course, there are continual calls for other names, from James Lovelock's «global heating» to John Holdren's «global climate disruption.»

The administration continues to align itself with their global warming disinformation campaign, which is shifting from outright denial to seeking to divert attention from adverse implications of global climate disruption.

The focus widens, for 27 pages, to a discussion of sea - level rise and global climate disruption and then narrows again for a final two chapters on agricultural reforms.

Future generations will look back on our tepid response to global climate disruption and wonder why we did not act sooner and more aggressively.

The findings indicate that... if reporters wish to discuss «both sides» of the climate issue, the scientifically legitimate «other side» is that, if anything, global climate disruption may prove to be significantly worse than has been suggested in scientific consensus estimates to date».

Yet still not one AGW proponent has listed out the sort of things that will occur to make «global climate disruption» a reality.

Last month John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, urged everyone to start using the term «global climate disruption.»

So how is a mere $ 100M going to support the countless thousands of otherwise unemployed «Climate Scientists» who seek to make their living off the Global Climate Disruption gravy train?