Sentences with phrase «greater issue of global warming»

In particular, pipeline opponents are angry that the review panel is not hearing evidence about emissions from the Alberta oil sands and the greater issue of global warming.

Not exact matches

This rise of the environment as an election issue is due to a number factors, including greater public interest in environmental issues (such as global warming) and the appearance of green politics at the federal level.

When civil liberties are under attack, global warming remains one of the great issues of our age, Heathrow is a battle about to get louder, migrants need defenders and Cameron restraints to stop him repeating the mistake of Libya by bombing in Syria after the slaughter on Syria's sunbeds, this could be a Lib Dem moment.

A great deal of the confusion surrounding the issue of temperature trends in the upper troposphere comes from the mistaken belief that the presence or lack of amplification of surface warming in the upper troposphere has some bearing on the attribution of global warming to man - made causes.

I thank Patrick Brown for his detailed response (also here) to statistical issues that I raised in my critique «Brown and Caldeira: A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought» of his and Ken Caldeira's recent paper (BC17).

On the issue of messaging, storms and warming, see a great post by Dan Kahan of Yale examining George Lakoff's assertion that «global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy.»

«Global Warming: The Complete Briefing» by Houghton, as well as David Archer's «Understanding the Forecast» are great as a qualitative (or some algebra at the most) based introduction that covers many of the big topics needed to start discussing the issue.

The risks need to be assessed and then there needs to be dialogue among nations to determine which is the greater risk (Global Warming is right or Global Warming is wrong) before jumping to solutions.Cuuerntly the noise generated by the current polarized debate (see many comments above) obscures the evaluation of risks associated with both sides of the issue.

Global warming advocates have had their greatest success in the media arena but are checked by the rise of a conservative counter-campaign as well as media reporting norms, which have contributed to polarized public opinion and limited salience of the issue.

And they are pursuing this agenda despite global warming again being dead last in the latest Gallup poll of 15 issues of greatest concern to Americans: only 25 % say they worry about it «a great deal,» despite steady hysteria; 24 % are «not at all» worried about the climate.

Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

Clearly, the notion that it's unfair to expect the largest historical polluters to make the greatest reductions is not only wrong, but it is a violation of an already signed and ratified treaty on the issue of global warming.

If that were true, on an issue such as global warming, about which scientists have a great deal of consensus, we'd expect citizens to come to agreement as their knowledge of the issue increases.

«This is an extremely complex issue but even with the scientific uncertainties, the risk (of global warming) is so great that it justifies taking action.»

With Democrats controlling the environmental agenda in Congress, a panel of international scientists saying there's a greater - than - 90 percent chance that humans contribute to global warming, and former vice president Al Gore calling climate change a moral issue, many besieged global warming skeptics are starting to tone down their rhetoric.

We are told that global warming is increasing the intensity of hurricanes, but not provided information on the great amount of uncertainty and vigorous scientific debate on this issue.

All of the above is background to one of the great mysteries of the climate change issue... how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) can maintain there is a 95 per cent probability that human emissions of carbon dioxide have caused most of the global warming that has occurred over the last several decades (4).

It is often said that global warming is the greatest moral issue of our times.

I would note that because the issue of politics is a large one on the topic, a great deal of scientists (addressed with the drama effect discussion a little) might studiously avoid quantification, or even mentioning «global warming» or «global climate change» so as not to get dragged into defending their paper on a political, rather than scientific basis.

On and about November 22, 2009, The Pennsylvania State University began to receive numerous communications (emails, phone calls and letters) accusing Dr. Michael E, Mann of having engaged in acts, beginning in approximately 1998, that included manipulating data, destroying records and colluding to hamper the progress of scientific discourse around the issue of anthropogenic global warming, These accusations were based on perceptions of the content of the emails stolen from a server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Great Britain as widely reported,

• Most people say that they understand either a moderate amount or a great deal about the issue of global warming or climate change.

It would be great if the issue of global warming could be pried apart from other issues when it comes to politics.

I thank Patrick Brown for his detailed response (also here) to statistical issues that I raised in my critique «Brown and Caldeira: A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought» of his and Ken Caldeira's recent paper (BC17).