Sentences with phrase «global debate over global warming»

Or continuing the adventure by listening to a panel of distinguished scientists who question the hypothesis at the root of the global debate over global warming?

Not exact matches

But the advising scientists» critique stands to reignite the debate over how to regulate a practice that critics say could contaminate water supplies and exacerbate global warming.

Turns out I'm not the only one to notice that in the debate over the best mechanism to combat global warming, the pols seem to prefer cap - and - trade systems to a carbon tax.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

As with global warming, so too with the lawlessness in our society: the debates over its causes are far from finished.

The global warming debate rages over which evidence is included and excluded, how that evidence is framed, and then how it's interpreted.

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.

The debate over whether global warming is natural or manmade is an artificial one: scientists know that both factors can affect the planet's temperature.

National debates over teaching of evolution or global warming, as well questioning funding for contraception show the US to be out of step with other developed countries.

Much like the debate over global warming, these non-believers refuse to validate an unassailable fact: standardized testing does have positive — and predictive — value in education and in life, just as the Earth is, indeed, getting warmer.

He chuckles when it's compared to the similarly sealed — at least in most scientists» minds — debate over global warming.

More than a decade ago, Al Gore declared the debate on global warming over.

If mean global temperatures trending significantly upward over the last 100 years isn't worrying enough for you, how about that giant piece of Antarctica that is about to crack off and sink into the ocean... I don't know how the existence of global warming is still a debate!

Dr. Somerville was on the losing side of a Marc 2007 debate between scientists over whether global warming was a «crisis.»

Any discussion of global warming, whether in a news story or debate over policy or Gallup poll question, ideally should start with clarity about what's being discussed.

Finally, Bryan Walsh at Time posted «A Silent Hurricane Season Adds Fuel to a Debate Over Global Warming,» which echoes Mooney's piece.

The definition I'd choose is much like the one stated by Richard Somerville of the University of California, San Diego, during a climate debate several years ago over the proposition that «Global Warming is Not a Crisis.»

To keep a full view of the debate over relevant policies, you'd also do well to track the flow of links from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a pro-fossil, anti-regulation group * in Great Britain.

For those old enough to remember, the debate over global warming may be reminiscent of the equally intense scare propaganda lasting for several years during the 1980s.

Hence «the debate» over global warming.

The real debate is not over whether global warming exists, but how we as a society will address it.

But the debate over the economics of global warming is more wide - ranging than Lomborg would have it.

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

But oversimplifying the situation, using misleading information and presenting false choices is not useful in the public debate over global warming.

Invoking the holocaust and a debate over the appropriateness of the metaphor is not going to raise awareness of global warming, nor will it garner agreement about what needs to be done.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

A sequel to the ballyhooed debate in 2007 over the motion that «Global Warming is Not a Crisis» has been scheduled in New York City in January, this time exploring a new premise: «Major Reductions in Carbon Emissions are Not Worth the Money.»

There are a variety of debates under way over the merits or perils of focusing on particular climate (and sea level) findings, or a particular season's conditions, in discussing human - driven global warming.

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.

We have seen the same kind of debate arise over the causes of global warming.

But in the debate over a response to global warming, there were blinders on a lot of Democrats, as well — blinders that resulted for far too long in a one - solution focus on a comprehensive, and doomed, cap - and - trade climate bill.

Our objective is simply to show that the debate on man - made global warming * isn't * over, and provide an outlet for dissenting opinion from the global warming alarmist dogma.

I regret deeply that the attacks on me now appear to have spilled over onto other scientists who have dared to question the degree to which human activities might be causing dangerous global warming, a topic that ought rightly be the subject of rigorous open debate, not personal attack.

It's interesting — it occurs to me that if a formal debate is not about the truth, but about winning — then this global warming debate we didn't have, ie the one that was already over — what was it actually about?

The battle in Virginia is a microcosm of the national debate over global warming.

HELENA — U.S. House candidates John Lewis and Ryan disagreed sharply over balancing the federal budget, the Affordable Care Act and global warming in a debate in Bozeman on Saturday night.

The Goddard Institute has played a very prominent role on both sides of the debate over man - made global warming theory.

For this reason, the debate over the Medieval Warm Period has become intrinsically linked with the man - made global warming debate.

This disagreement ties into the debate over man - made global warming, because if the Current Warm Period is not that unusual, then man - made global warming could be either (1) superimposed over considerable «natural global warming» or (2) non-existent (in which case global warming would have nothing to do with our «carbon footprint»).

There is no real debate in the peer - reviewed scientific literature over the fact that the unusual, accelerating global warming seen since the 19th Century is attributable to the increase of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels.

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.

And so this seemingly wonky but economically high - stakes debate over how to accurately measure global warming is likely to heat up much more.

The political debate apparently trumps any responsibility the program might feel to present to its viewers an accurate picture of the debate, or non-debate, over anthropogenic global warming among actual climate scientists.

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.

A truly serious public policy debate over what to do about GHG - driven global warming has not yet occurred in this country.

Then I saw the Great Global Warming Hoax documentary, and saw there that the debate was not over, that there were perfectly credible and educated researchers who had a difference of opinion.

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global - warming orthodoxy The 20 - year - long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate... Continue reading →

The news that 2005 was the warmest year ever recorded in Australia comes at the end of a year in which, to the extent that facts can settle anything, the debate over human - caused global warming has been settled.

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.»