Sentences with phrase «issue than climate»

Is there any more important public health issue than climate change?

I don't know, I'm not part of that conspiracy, and I see a lot of assertions on here and elsewhere by people who imply they are smart, or at least smart enough to know more on this issue than the climate scientists who actually professionally study it, who throw around large highfalutin science terms, but that repeatedly misconstrue the basic climate change issue itself, conflate the process of science with Climate Change refutation, seem to have an extensively poor understanding of the issue, and take small select bits of data as part of the ongoing total picture of increasing overall corroboration, to falsely equate that with a flaw in Climate Change theory itself, or as a referendum on it.

It is difficult to imagine a more poorly framed science and public policy issue than climate change — and it is equally difficult to imagine that this will change anytime soon.

This suggests that they perceived cost efficiency and reliability of energy supply to be more pertinent issues than climate change.

From a chaos theory point, all or none of these restraints might be «reasonable», but from a more practical stand point, they work because we have no good way of assigning a probability for any of them happening and so practically we can ignore them, and if many of them did happen, we'd have larger issues than climate change.

MJ.com: We like to think that we face more pressing issues than climate change, such as terrorism or the war in Iraq.

Not exact matches

Women are more likely than men to call climate change an important issue, 59 % to 47 %.

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).

The Paris Agreement — the most significant accord on the issue — will take effect next month after an intense ratification process that lasted less than a year after negotiations concluded, an unprecedented speed in the often slow - moving world of climate diplomacy.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

And the brouhaha shifts the national discussion to divisive social issues that could repel swing voters rather than economic ones that could attract them in a climate of high unemployment and stumbling recovery, the GOP officials said.

And they are; we see in polls, they are more liberal than their parents on most issues: climate change, immigration, you name it, they're probably more liberal than their parents.

He is only slightly better than most any other Republican when the issue is Afghanistan or climate change.

For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.

Leaders at the meeting in Hamburg Germany will discuss a range of issues other than climate change.

«Linking health and climate change in challenging our eating habits could have more effect than focusing on each of these issues alone,» said Springmann.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

Following that, she studied a larger, diverse sample of more than 300 adults, examining issues such as interpersonal relationships, family climate, and self - esteem.

These, and the other questions that the co-chairs have framed for discussion, are remarkable because they address deeply the core normative issues of the negotiations that have simmered away in recent years but which have been perennially dodged rather than confronted: How should the benefits and burdens of climate action be distributed in a diverse world?

He must also explain why key issues, notably climate change and housing, need a greater priority in the next decade than the last.

On some key issues, New York voters overwhelmingly (by more than three to one) back a party to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and also believe that climate change is a significant threat to the planet.

Representing more than 121,000 active members and 50,000 retirees, DC 37 considers environmental justice a union issue, and today's forum approached fossil fuel divestment as a strategy to achieve climate justice.

Even some Tories wonder how a Cameron government would tackle issues like poverty (as he promised to do more effectively than Labour) and climate change without more state intervention.

Some subpopulations of yellow warblers may be genetically better equipped to adapt to climate changes than others, according to a new study in the January 5 issue of Science.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

He lingered on the issue in a speech filled with snap references to national priorities, devoting more time to the interwoven policies of climate, energy and environmental hazards than to war, deficits and immigration.

This study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, is the first to use financial investors» actions, rather than self - reported opinions, to investigate the trans - Atlantic difference in public opinion on climate change and the environment.

The research on short - lived climate forcers goes back more than a decade, but scientists say the issue has only just started to pick up political momentum.

The Michigan State study, released this week, sheds new light on this issue, showing that farmers applying more nitrogen than plants can use are likely having an outsized impact on the climate.

«The real issue is: Are people making real estate decisions based on climate change futures, rather than sort of normal speculation?»

«Due to the current void in national leadership on the issue of climate change, efforts at the state and local level are more important than ever,» Saikawa says.

There is probably no greater scientific heresy today than questioning the warming role of CO2, especially in the wake of the report issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Not only that, but now more agree than just six months ago that climate change is an issue of morality and social justice.

DISCOVER asked Laurie David, a climate activist who co-produced «An Inconvenient Truth» and rallied more than a million people at StopGlobal Warming.org, to introduce the Better Planet special section of the May 2008 issue.

He said climate change, which he called the «C02 issue» wasn't any more important than any other issue.

«She also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» Squillace said.

In addition, numerous studies that have surveyed the state of scientific agreement on the issue report that more than 97 percent of independent climate scientists agree that human - caused climate change is a reality.

They see the climate issue as more important than some long - standing party priorities, including race relations, gun control, terrorism and Supreme Court nominations.

Still, Baldwin thinks that approaching climate change as a marketing problem rather than a political issue may be the key to rising above the political quagmire.

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

So far in the Trump presidency, DOD has served as a balance to the more political inclinations of the rest of the administration on the issue of climate change, even if it is sometimes less prominent than in the Obama - era Pentagon.

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

While I have a better understanding than most on issues related to climate sensitivity, I would benefit from a direct, clear discussion of the relative importance of the forcing agents as they relate to the temperature record.

Issue 1: Dating Nothing is more important than chronology in paleo - climate.

National Geographic News reports that this week's issue of Nature will publish a study from a team led by Gabriele Hegerl of Duke University which finds climate sensitivity of 1.5 º to 6.2 ºC, with a higher end somewhat higher than the standard range of 1.5 — 4.5 ºC.

«If you're wondering why so many politicians and news sources deny that dangerous human - caused climate change is real, and you want a relatively short and easy - to - read summary of the issue, look no further than The Madhouse Effect»

My only concern with climatedebatedaily is that no attempt is made to differentiate peer reviewed science from a wide range of opinion pieces, leaving the reader with the impression that mainstream science is far less resolved on the climate change issue than is actually the case.

The first finding, the lessened change in temperature between LGM and the present, is an important issue in itself and suggests to me that the climate may be more sensitive to a perturbation than previously suspected.

Ultimately, however, human - made climate change is more a matter of morality than a legal issue.

In turning to a methodological issue, the new archaeological horizons in the Monte Verde area are difficult to trace laterally over areas larger than ~ 8 — 10 m2 and probably represent only fragments of a broader landscape utilized by people adapting to changing climates and environments in the area.