Sentences with phrase «global warming front»

The biggest headlines on the global warming front that particular week arose not from the statements of scientists in San Francisco, but from the behavior of a delegation representing the George W. Bush administration in Montreal.

Let's take e-mails from two warriors against Global Warming: Senator Barbara Boxer sharing with me magnificent news about huge progress on the Global Warming front.

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New York City is taking on the oil industry on two fronts, announcing a lawsuit Wednesday that blames the top five oil companies for contributing to global warming and saying the city will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city's...

It's been all quiet on the Al Gore front recently, as Climategate and the falsehoods in the IPCC report undermined the credibility of global warming hysteria — that is, the attempt to panic us into dismantling our economies, radically redistributing wealth, and empowering unelected international bureaucrats and a scientocracy to control it all.

Amid fears about global warming, terrorism, disease, and nuclear proliferation, the threat of rocks from space may seem more the province of bad Hollywood movies than front - page news.

The poles are on the front lines of climate change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns, global oceanic circulation and the marine food chain.

Poor communities, such as East Boston, are on the front lines of the environmental disruptions expected as a result of global warming

Even at the age of 55, the 4 - minute warning seems inadequate to get anything meaningful done on the horizontal front: at least with global warming there is time for a little indulgence before we go.

In his three years in the U.N. climate post, de Boer, 55, has made himself at home in front of microphones and cameras in the push to craft a new global warming treaty.

No doubt Emmerich said when conceiving this movie, «I want to show big scenes of mass chaos and devastation to New York and the national monuments, and will use the global warming premise as a means to make everyone flock to my movies once again to have a front row seat to the deaths of millions of people for their viewing pleasure.»

Large - scale landscapes, with portentous crimson skies and the signature blackened bleed of paint, communicate Hambling's heartfelt cry about global warming, she elucidates «great paintings like those of Rothko feel as if the painting is happening right in front of you, the ice caps melting in front of your eyes...»

«In 1991, a corporate coalition composed of the National Coal Association, the Western Fuels Association, and Edison Electrical Institute created a PR front group called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) and launched a $ 500,000 advertising and public relations campaign to, in ICE's own words, «reposition global warming as theory, (not fact)...»

I agree with the suggestion that someone made earlier, that it would be great for Andrew to write a letter, with relevant and excellent questions, to the person in the coal industry (whose name I don't have in front of me), containing questions pertaining to global warming, coal, and the coal industry's stance.

On the climate front, discussions of ways to limit global warming seem more focused on capturing stray emissions of methane (more on that anon) than on pressing for ways to promote it as an alternative to coal, at least as a bridge to even less - polluting energy sources.

Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to predict a global warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).

Renewable energy currently tends to have higher up - front costs than fossil fuel - based power systems do, but in the long run equipment depreciation is lower and the fuel (sunlight and wind) is free, thus any honest cost analysis over the lifetime of the power - generating equipment will conclude that solar is cheapest, wind second, nuclear third, and fossil fuels are unworkable in the long run due to the global warming issue.

The big green groups are up front about their global warming campaigns and have pages about them.

Crichton has done a great service to the science of Climatology by putting the topic of global warming on the front burner.

It's great to see the Union of Concerned Scientists offering nonpartisan criticism of elected officials for distorting — in both directions — what's known about the role of human - driven global warming on several fronts, from tornado ferocity to hurricane losses.

And no surprise that the Washington Post runs front - page articles like «Climate Is a Risky Issue for Democrats,» or that Pew polls continue to find global warming ranking nearly dead last out of the top 20 voter priorities.

In an interview, one of the scientists ascribed the open water to global warming, and on a quiet summer weekend, the story popped to the top of the front page (Wilford 2000).

Twenty years later, whom should I see in the front row of a Harvard seminar on global warming journalism, Chaired by Cordelia Dean, no less, than Eric - plus ca change, plus de la meme chose.

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisGlobal Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisglobal warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

Bill McKibben and I have been on parallel but very different journeys related to human - driven global warming since the greenhouse effect first became front - page news back in the late 1980s (examples here and here).

Since my 2006 front - page Times article on declining energy research in an era of global warming and rising energy demand, I've run versions of the graph below.

President Obama begins his historic visit to Alaska today to promote his plan to respond to global warming in the place he says is «on the front lines of climate change.»

One of the world's lowest lying island nations, the Maldives is on the front line of rising seas caused by global warming.

a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade - long campaign by Exxon - funded front groups — and the scientists they work with — to deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on global warming and delay action to fix the problem.

His attack on one climate - change study, known as the «hockey stick» — a study often cited to make the case for global warming — plucked McIntyre from obscurity and got him featured on the front page of the February 14, 2005, Wall Street Journal.

The Democrats» 2009 plan to stop global warming, and stimulate the economy at the same time, turned out to be a major flop on all fronts.

What if the expertise of global warming alarmists is undeniable but the injury they seek to prevent can be compared to a trip and fall hazard faced by all of humanity caused by a difference of one - quarter inch in elevation between a parking lot and a sidewalk in front of a Mississippi Walmart?

Warm ocean water plays a significant role in melting glacial ice from below, and a better mapping of Antarctica's and Greenland's landforms beneath the ice suggests that ocean melting of the glacier fronts may play a more significant role than previously thought as the ice sheets retreat (under a global warming scenario).

The 1988 El Nino is the middle one of these five, but Hansen thought it was global warming and said so in front of the Senate.Six months later a La Nina dropped the temperature by 0.4 degrees Celsius.

In recent weeks, the big news on the U.S. business front has been about all the companies, such as Apple, quitting their membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the latter's hostility to regulatory action on global warming.

In other words, «Forecast the Facts» was originally conceived as a front group controlled by far - left advocacy groups to hide behind while attacking meteorologists, who surveys show tend to be very skeptical of the claims of global warming alarmists.

The latest to succumb was the British newspaper The Independent, which screamed on its front page: «This is global warming», above an alarmingly portentous graphic of Hurricane Rita's projected path.

Big Oil and Big Coal funded sympathetic think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also outright front groups with names like Friends of Science and the Global Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done aboGlobal Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done aboglobal warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done about it.

It seems that at least one US Senator did not understand this relationship between the environment's local extremes and global means when he found snow in front of the US capital, in February, and thought it meant that Global Warming had stopped.1 If he had watched the news that night, he might have realized that just a few hundred miles to the south it was unusually hot in Flglobal means when he found snow in front of the US capital, in February, and thought it meant that Global Warming had stopped.1 If he had watched the news that night, he might have realized that just a few hundred miles to the south it was unusually hot in FlGlobal Warming had stopped.1 If he had watched the news that night, he might have realized that just a few hundred miles to the south it was unusually hot in Florida.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

He is author of more than 160 peer - reviewed and edited publications, and has published books include Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012.

In arguing this he quoted discredited statistics from the Greening Earth Society, a front group created by the coal - powered Western Fuels Association that argues the benefits of global warming.

If, as Brulle declares, these groups are all «fronts» (his word) for oil, gas, and goal companies, those carbon - fuel companies are more devious than we thought, because they managed to completely take over, and turn to their advantage, national organizations with long histories like the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the Heritage Foundation — major national organizations that were advising Presidents long before Global Warming / Climate Change was ever heard of.

In December, 2009 Greenpeace established a climate crime scene in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for their ongoing obstruction to global warming solutions.

Exxon Mobil has funded 40 different front groups that have all been a part of a strategic persuasion campaign to, in their own words «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»

They are, «Conscious that while our nations lie at the climate front - line and will disproportionately feel the impacts of global warming, in the end climate change will threaten the sustainable development and, ultimately, the survival of all States and peoples — the fate of the most vulnerable will be the fate of the world...»

But scientists and officials involved in the intensifying international debate on how to deal with global warming say it has taken the United States far too long to put the issue front and center, particularly because this country is the biggest source of heat - trapping gases, and because the spread of American - style consumerism to developing nations is likely to create the biggest source of the gases in the next century.

It seems as if every gathering of more than two political leaders these days is being trumpeted as an opportunity to advance the fight against global warming, and when those said leaders go home without having secured any sort of promise or commitment on that front, the meeting is seen as a failure.

Global warming needs to be a fight on two fronts.

«Mann is author of two books, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines» (Columbia University Press, 2012), which will soon to be available inpaperback with an update and a new guest foreword by Bill Nye «The Science Guy», and «Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming» (DK Publishing, 2008).

The Information Council on the Environment, which is a coal industry front group, was formed to «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).»