Sentences with phrase «issue in the climate»

«If it becomes a price tag issue in this climate, I think...
This is perhaps the central issue in the climate change debate, so this will be a long post.
In a 1998 book, edited by Bill Nordhaus (Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change), Dick Schmalensee wrote about «Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions,» and lamented that the Kyoto Protocol exhibited narrow scope (covering only the Annex I countries) but aggressive ambition for that small set of nations.
I brought up some issues in climate science, like the possible disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet, and how it wasn't included in a calculation of sea rise in the IPCC assessment, since it wasn't quantifiable in terms of timing, since it is a non-linear type thing.
If a goal of realclimate is to inform laypeople of issues in climate science, then arrogance in this forum will only appeal to its most unquestioning adherents while driving away those who prefer to keep an open mind about a complex and dynamic field.
This analytical report seeks to draw attention to the gender dimension of climate change and the need to integrate gender issues in climate change responses, with particular emphasis on women's concerns.
So it would be pretty easy to assign less impact to natural variability, which seems to be the current issue in climate science.
Today will actually be fun, because it involves criticism of some of my writing around what I find to be the most interesting issue in climate, that of feedback effects.
======================= It's puzzling how someone who recognises that banning DDT for the sake of the environment led to an epidemic - level rise in world malaria (Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong) has such a crude (mis) understanding of the issues in the climate debate, for instance can not see the cost / benefit argument concerning fossil fuels.
On Skeptical Science you can learn more about a disputed issue in the climate debate.
I am a total layman at this but I would like to ask the question of jsut hat is the most critical outstanding issue in climate science?
Until this is done, little progress is possible in many of the major issues in climate science, and no further expenditures should be made responding to climate alarmism until the new methodology has been thoroughly tested and the basic surface temperature data has been reconstituted in a useful form.
... Speakers agreed that it was vital to get children to understand the issues in climate change and discuss the actions needed to meet objectives.
«If young people see divestment as a key issue in the climate fight, then it is important for us to get involved,» Small said.
«uncertainty» (in the IPCC attribution of natural versus human - induced climate changes, IPCC's model - based climate sensitivity estimates and the resulting IPCC projections of future climate) is arguably the defining issue in climate science today.
Johnston says he was surprised to discover that «on virtually every major issue in climate change science» IPCC reports «systematically conceal or minimize what appear to be fundamental scientific uncertainties.»
You need some way (and I think this may be the biggest issue in climate models) of distinguishing numerical errors and model errors.
Now let's forget about human rights issues in a climate discussion.
And: «Meanwhile, climate deniers, taking pages from the creationists» PR playbook, have manufactured doubt about fundamental issues in climate science that were decided scientifically decades ago.»
The three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — reveal how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
How many times has the «Skeptics - Who - Deny - that - CO2 - is - Warming - the - Planet» strawman been trotted out to obscure the real issues in the climate debate?
In November, 2015, the three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — wrote a small book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus revealing how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Formerly the Navigating the American Carbon World conference, the event is being presented under a new name, but will continue to address the most pressing issues in climate policy and carbon markets to the largest gathering of climate professionals in North America.
It a central issue in climate change policy formation because each government policy on reducing the threat of climate change is implicitly a position on that government's fair share of safe global emissions.
This has become one the biggest mysteries and most controversial issues in climate science today, throwing doubt over the assumed climate sensitivity to CO2.
There are more data issues than physics issues in the climate debate.
I would say that there are many such issues in climate models, but these issues may be too difficult to all of us, or at least almost all.
I'm all for devoting funds to attempting to resolve (or at least define) the open issues in climate science — shutting it down would be counter-productive.
SEI's work sheds light on major ethical issues in climate policy, examines key governance challenges, and offers new analytical frameworks centred on equity.
The Wegman Report claimed two missions: # 1 evaluate statistical issues of the «hockey stick» temperature graph, and # 2 assess potential peer review issues in climate science.
If Hansen is right — and he has been right, sooner, about the big issues in climate science longer than anyone — the implications are vast and profound.
It seems clear that many of the issues in the climate debate, perhaps even most of them, are of this epistemic uncertainty sort.
And neither has much regard for the other's estimate - casting light on a long - standing, thorny issue in climate science.
Abstract: Quantifying the uncertainty for the present climate and the predictions of climate change in the suite of imperfect Atmosphere Ocean Science (AOS) computer models is a central issue in climate change science.
According to UNEP peatlands are the main carbon storage and their protection is one of the main issues in the climate change mitigation.
His public talk aims to promote understanding and discussion of how and why disproportionate media visibility has been provided for outlier views — particularly views often dubbed climate «contrarians,» «skeptics» and «denialists» — on various issues in climate science and governance.
One of the most central issues in the climate debate is the quality of exactly ground / city based land data.
A thought has occured to me about a key issue in climate research and I beleive I could get a good bit of funding for this new theory.
«Government Intervention in the Energy Markets Is the Main Danger, Not CO2 The Fundamental Issue in Climate Science Resolved»

Not exact matches

The old rule of never discussing sex or politics is good in theory, but when the political climate gets heated it can be difficult to leave issues at the door
«As a Catholic Church bank, we feel strongly responsible to participate in tackling the issue of climate change,» Tommy Piemonte, the bank's sustainability research officer, said in a statement.
For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»
The smog has a difficult time getting aired out considering Milan is in a valley, and it's made even worse when the climate is dry and warm, as it was this winter — an issue that will likely only intensify as climate change progresses.
As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeClimate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeclimate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).
On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.
Dry conditions will continue across eastern Montana, western North Dakota and western South Dakota through October, the U.S. Climate Predication Center said in a seasonal drought outlook report issued last week.
Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.
A result in between the two, he said, would be the «the hazy middle» that would still show growing investor interest in climate issues.
Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»
«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
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