Sentences with phrase «issue than climate change»

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

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).

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

«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.

The White House issued a statement less than four hours after the report's release defending President Bush's six - year record on climate change.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

Yet those films were addressing micro-issues that can be targeted much more easily than a widespread issue like climate change.

This could partly be due to the legacy issue of climate change (not wanting future generation to inherit a worse world than ours).

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With the oceans covering more than 70 % of the Earth's surface and providing habitat for 90 % of all life on the planet, one aim is to highlight the issues facing this particular environment, including pollution, debris, climate change, overfishing and coral - bleaching.

The festival will take a closer look at the issues of climate change and our future relationship with the changing landscape, while also examining the language surrounding future projections that are more akin to works of science fiction than empirical truth.

The group exhibition «Tidalectics» presents 13 artists whose distinctive works cast oceanic perspectives on the cultural, political and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and sea - level rise, while reimagining human and «more - than - human» relationships.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.

It appears that the AGU Board issued a statement on climate change without putting it to a vote of the group's more than 50,000 members.

I'd already been covering climate change and other environmental issues for more than two decades, and blogging seemed like a great way to cover gaps that didn't fit well in a standard news article.

If you are one of the ~ 6.99 billion earthlings focused on issues other than climate change as the climate treaty negotiations outside of Paris grind forward through Dec. 12, skip this post.

A larger mystery than either missing carbon or the influence of clouds / water vapor on climate change models is why the physical and life science community and the (in theory) science - based climate change advocates have not taken the time to adequately consult the evidence or experts (albeit exceptions certainly do exist) on communication about environmental issues, risk, or environmental and health literacy.

Yaun sees a kind of division in the discourse over issues like climate change that is far more profound than party affiliation, yet perhaps is more bridgeable once identified:

If you look at the Frameworks Institute studies on climate messaging from a few years ago, they found that framing the issue in terms of what could be done was far more successful than stressing the disastrous effects of climate change.