Sentences with phrase «human story of climate change»

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The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

Most notable is the discussion of the human impact on climate change in Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist Ineclimate change in Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist IneClimate Scientist Inez Fung.

Among the materials the group sent was a 10 - minute DVD called «Unstoppable Solar Cycles: The Real Story of Greenland,» which says scientists are «deeply divided» about «the notion that climate change is mostly the result of human activities.»

But lots of signs are pointing to the current extraordinary dry spell, likely exacerbated by heat from human - driven climate change, taking California into conditions unexperienced since long before the state's water - dependent economy exploded during Gov. Jerry Brown's father's terms in office (please read Justin Wm. Moyer's great story on that era in the Washington Post).

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

News stories that provided a balanced view of climate change reduced people's beliefs that humans are at fault and also reduced the number of people who thought climate change would be bad, according to research by Stanford social psychologist Jon Krosnick.

Instead of focusing on the bears, she talks to people on the frontlines of climate change, aiming to make climate change a story about humans rather than nature.

NPR «All Things Considered» interviewed CSW director Rick Piltz, Rep. Bob Inglis (R - South Carolina), and environmentalist Bill McKibben for an October 23 lead story on Republicans and denial of the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change.

«Climate change» is human created in the sense that humans created a story to put people at the center of cClimate change» is human created in the sense that humans created a story to put people at the center of climateclimate.

This is a reprise of an increasingly familiar story: human - induced climate change, along with other human bequests such as pollution and habitat destruction, have begun to threaten the wild things everywhere.

The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.

The claim that 2014 was the warmest on record was politically important for proponents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) story that human CO2 was causing global warming.

The extremist green movement is the principal driver behind the story that recent climate change is the result of humans - more specifically, the result of consumer / industrial fossil fuel emissions.

Aside from the initial shock value of the notion that human beings can change the climate, why is this such a story?»

The story goes that The University of Arizona has been, ``... ordered (by the Arizona Supreme Court no less) to surrender emails by two UA scientists that a group claims will help prove that theories about human - caused climate change are false and part of a conspiracy.»

We humans tell stories and make arguments, and eventually the truest of them — whether it's a sun - centric solar system or a round earth or evolution or anthropogenic climate change — becomes the one we all tell.

Since the end 10,000 years ago of the last ice age — itself a very rapid event — was the springboard for agriculture and civilisation, and eventually an Industrial Revolution based on fossil fuels, the story of climate change plays a powerful role in human history.

Many of the stories on radio, television, and in print issued following President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the costly Paris climate agreement claimed America's absence from the accord means China has ascended as one of the world's leaders in the battle against human - caused climate change.

Malcolm Roberts is a former Australian mining consultant who thinks the United Nations is using the «scam» of human - caused climate change as a cover story while it builds an all - powerful world government.

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We joined scientists Michael Mann and Dana Nucitelli on the Al Jazeera English «Inside Story Americas» program on May 17 to talk about the scientific consensus on human - caused climate change, U.S. public opinion, the Keystone XL pipeline, geoengineering, and other aspects of the collision between climate science and government accountability: