Sentences with phrase «harmful impacts on the climate»

This flies in the face of evidence from renowned experts, including several government commissioned reports, on its harmful impacts on the climate, biodiversity and the future growth of forests.

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Doesn't really fit, but here goes: Given methane's harmful impact as a greenhouse gas and the scary reality on climate change, you really should.

In both cases, the governor said he's addressing the matters because the actions — or, in the case of climate change, inactions — in Washington have a harmful impact on New York.

«The goal we're all chasing as climate scientists is a way of reversing the impacts of harmful gases on our atmosphere — this technology, which could see those harmful gases not only removed but converted into renewable fuels for use in poorer countries is the Holy Grail of climate science.»

The take - home message, directly in sync with the core findings of the last two assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can be distilled to a fairly straightforward statement: Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will result in long - lasting warming that will progressively produce more harmful impacts on conditions and systems that influence human wellbeing.

It has not had real leadership from any president in really speaking frankly on what the climate change problem is about, the likely harmful impacts, and so forth.

Moore, S. K., V. L. Trainer, N. J. Mantua, M. S. Parker, E. A. Laws, L. C. Backer, and L. E. Fleming, 2008: Impacts of climate variability and future climate change on harmful algal blooms and human health.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

That ACO2 has harmful impact irrespective of any potentially harmful influence on climate change (and I'll even throw in geo - political negative externalities as an exclusion for the sake of argument), is completely obvious are obvious to anyone who is serious about this issue and is even remotely interested in a good faith discussion.

If he doesn't think that harmful effects from burning fossil fuels — outside of impact on the climate — are obvious, so be it.

But I think the Obama administration decided early - on to frame the issue, not in terms of, we have to do this because if we don't, climate change is going to have terribly harmful impacts on the U.S. and globally.

As the federal government's most comprehensive assessment of the harmful impacts of climate change on human health and public welfare in the United States, this report, years in the making, should have been used in developing EPA's required «endangerment» finding as a step toward regulating greenhouse gases, instead of keeping the work of the Climate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision supporclimate change on human health and public welfare in the United States, this report, years in the making, should have been used in developing EPA's required «endangerment» finding as a step toward regulating greenhouse gases, instead of keeping the work of the Climate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision supporClimate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision support role.

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

By 2013, nine of the ten hottest years on record had occurred since the turn of the century, and growing instances of harmful climate impacts across the US and the world were impossible to ignore.

Many wonder how the Trump - Pence White House will deal with this first major US government report on climate change to come across its desk; a report warning that Americans are feeling the harmful impacts of climate change in real time, and therefore «directly contradicts claims by President Trump and members of his cabinet» as noted by the Times.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.