Sentences with phrase «growing problem of global warming»

Hawkins» Green New Deal would deal with the growing problem of global warming by transitioning New York to 100 % clean renewable energy by 2030.

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The issue adds to a growing list of aviation - related problems because of global warming, including increased turbulence, stronger headwinds and swamped airport runways due to rising sea levels, he said.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Moore warns that we are facing seemingly insurmountable problems: rising energy costs, escalating competition for arable land for agrofuels, the grow of invasive species, the herbicide / glyphosate - resistant superweeds effect, aquifer depletion, and end of cheap water as global warming melts glaciers, and the weakening effectiveness of fertilizers on yield growth.

One of the unavoidable realities attending global warming — a reality that makes it the perfect problem — is that there is plenty of remaining uncertainty, even as the basics have grown ever firmer (my litany: more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = rising seas and lots of climate shifts).

Soon the effects of global warming will allow us to grow sugar cane in Iowa, and all our problems will be solved.

His work with the Copenhagen Climate Consensus is a vital, solution - oriented contribution to the economics of global warming - and the many other problems facing a growing planet.»

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

With biofuels, and all other alternative resources for energy, we might be able to curb the growing problem that is global warming and at the same time preserve the ecosystems of the world.

Many people believe the current generation of children will solve the growing problems of plastic pollution and global warming.

* that BP is funding research into «ways of tackling the world's climate problem» at Princeton University to the tune of $ 2 million per year for 15 years * that BP is funding an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $ 500 million — the aim of which is «to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment» * that ExxonMobil itself has donated $ 100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find «ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming»

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).