Sentences with phrase «global debate over climate change»

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Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Al Gore, the most famous face of the global warming - industrial complex, has been saying for years that the debate is over, that science has declared humans are responsible for climate change.

Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change.

By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that Mr. Nash succeeded in circumventing a divisive political debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide - ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.

Last week's polar vortex, a weather pattern that brought record cold to many states in the Northeast and Central Atlantic, sparked an unexpected debate over global climate change.

The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with... Instead of organizing meetings with free and open debates on the basic physics and the likelihood of AGW induced climate changes, the leaders of the society... have chosen to fully trust the climate models and deliberately avoid open debate and discussion... My interaction (over the years) with a broad segment of AMS members... have indicated that a majority of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming.»

The clash between Neste and Greenpeace highlights one of the key ideological debates over climate change: Business and politicians believe that a «technological» fix such as alternative fuels can solve the problem and also generate profits; many environmental groups believe the real solution to global warming lies in reducing consumption.

In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Professor Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human - caused climate change.

Vice President Joe Biden made an earnest plea to the world — and the GOP debate — to take climate change seriously on Wednesday, calling it «absurd» that there was a debate over man - made global warming.

Although Lawson and his Global Warming Policy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate change.

Almost every time I post something on climate change policy, the comment thread quickly devolves into a debate over the existence of antrhopogenic global warming at all.

So hey, let's have a debate about whether the earth goes around the sun — there seems to be more honest disagreement with that than there is over man made global climate change.

It signalled a dramatic shift in the international debate over climate change, with defence and intelligence experts at the highest level becoming alarmed at the implications for global security.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

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All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.

Most attention in the debate over climate change has been based on the assumption of a gradual increase in mean global temperatures, equilibrating to a new higher level some decades after concentrations of greenhouse gases have stabilized, with effects that will then play out for centuries.

In the debate over climate change, [Stanford climatologist Stephen] Schneider said [to reporters 10 years ago], there simply was no legitimate opposing view to the scientific consensus that man - made carbon emissions drive global warming.

The Climate Change Awards were started as a way to recognize individuals of extraordinary ability and unflagging commitment to restoring sound science and common sense to the debate over global warming.

The phrase «global warming» has been thrown about so much, in the ongoing debate over dangers of man - made climate change, that it can seem more like a dark shadow on the horizon, than an imminent threat.

This lapse of temperature data of the ocean's interior led to the scientific question over whether the world hit a «global warming pause» in the early 2000s, which fueled debates in congress over whether climate change is real.

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5) Explain how central the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record is to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

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7) How central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the overall scientific consensus on global climate change (as reflected in previous reports from the Academy)?

In the public policy debates over climate change, critics of strong action to mitigate global warming have often described proponents as «religious zealots», and vice-versa.