Sentences with phrase «global climate talks even»

As Geden points out, relaxing the limit might make global climate talks even less productive than they already are.

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Global warming has become a 1 - degree Celsius reality, making progress at climate talks in Paris even more imperative

It's now commonplace to talk about global warming and carbon footprints, so much so that it's easy to forget that until quite recently few thought it was even possible that the actions of our species could have a potentially catastrophic effect on the Earth's climate.

-LSB-...] everyone that the best - selling author who has become a hero to Deniers — even bringing his trash talk against U.S. climate scientists to a Senate hearing — doesn't seem to know the first thing about global warming -LSB-...]

But Greenland appears steadfast in its industry - heavy plans, even with the global climate talks approaching in December.

The letter portends to offer facts about «climate change deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about skeptic climate scientists saying global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and caused by humans, but it's not so bad.»

Yes, the notion that scientists tow the global warming line in exchange for fame and money seems to ignore the many benefits of being a published climate scientist who tows the «skeptic» line, or even seems to sympathize with some of their talking points — who are valuable, as market theory would predict, because they are very scarce.

Media Matters also investigated, and talked to Dr. John Abraham of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team who said even if cosmic rays did have an effect on global temperatures that «they would currently be having a cooling effect.»

But it is even more upsetting for people opposed to climate mitigation, since it refutes their favourite talking point — that global warming has stalled in recent years.

«The reality is that even after two decades of climate talks, we get a meagre 0.5 % of our total global energy consumption from solar and wind energy, according to the leading authority, the International Energy Agency (IEA).

«We need to wake up to the idea that business as usual, even clever taxation schemes, will not act fast enough to reduce global emissions,» added Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, a contributing author to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which will be a talking point at COP21.

Since then, events have told a rather different story, with the U.S. waging a multi-front campaign — organizing a global network of bilateral agreements designed to render the U.N. climate process «irrelevant», sending out its flacks to argue that fossil technologies like «clean coal» and carbon capture are the best ways forward, insisting that the under - funded climate secretariat separate its Kyoto Protocol accounts from those related to the Framework Convention, ruthlessly undermining all attempts to talk about, or even talk about talking about, the future of the regime.

I'll make one prediction: If Obama does not veto the Keystone XL Pipeline after talking the talk on climate change, green groups will go ballistic (even though, Cato Institute scholar Chip Knappenberger calculates, full - throttle operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline would add an inconsequential 0.0001 °C / yr to global temperatures).

Why do you think that the vice president's office wanted to downplay — even in EPA reports — anything that talked about global warming and climate change?

Even keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius — the target for international climate treaty talks — will force many species to the brink of extinction, threatening food supplies, human health, economies and communities.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: Scientists can't even predict the weather next week, so why should we believe what some climate model tells us about 100 years from now?

Australia's conservative government has refused to send high - ranking officials to the climate talks in Warsaw, and is even considering not participating in international funding to fight global warming.