«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 obje
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 obje
climate 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.