Sentences with phrase «just issues of climate»

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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).

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).

ALBANY — In just 12 months, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has positioned himself as one of the nation's most aggressive governors on climate issues.

On the issue of Republicans and Democrats in New York State hiding behind the old «waiting for the science to come in» line that politicians have used to not answer questions on everything from climate change to Pebble Mine, Hawkins did give the Democrats a bit of a pass... «The Republicans want to repeal the enlightenment — the Democrats just want to repeal the New Deal.»

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

«We've known just about everything we need to know to do something about this issue for a very long time,» said Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech University Climate Science Center.

So when people question the scientific consensus on issues such as climate change, vaccine effectiveness or the safety of genetically modified organisms (SN: 2/6/16, p. 22), it's no surprise that one of the first inclinations of journalists and scientists has been to think, hey, these doubters just don't know the facts.

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

Although much of the administration's legislative agenda — in health care, energy, climate, and immigration, to cite just a few examples — has been blocked by partisan fights, advanced manufacturing has become an issue that everyone can rally around.

As many of us are paying attention to the climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar these next two weeks, I think it's important to keep in context just how many moving pieces there are when it comes to crafting domestic policies that address a global issue.

Reilly, a former astronaut, sidestepped other questions about the agency's mission, not just those on climate, and said he would wait to be confirmed before commenting on specific issues under the banner of USGS.

Interestingly enough, in the January 14, 2010, issue of Nature, there is a review of a book called Climate Cover - Up, by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore, which details what I've just described to you.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

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.

Just one thing for now: the whole issue of climate sensitivity (ie that which Monckton refers to as «lambda», helpfully eliminating any opportunity for readers to fact - check).

And when climate scientists are forced to respond to the constant propagation of misinformation on these settled issues, it just detracts from our investigation of the legitimate, unresolved, important questions.

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

Gun violence, climate change, abortion, voter fraud, and surveillance are just a few of the issues addressed in Reyes's series of fourteen Doomocracy scenarios.

But many young children are in danger just from being exposed and breathing the air around them, bringing the issue of climate change forward in everybody's minds.

Anthropogenic induced climate heating is not the only mess, it's just ONE issue in a frightening chain of cause and effect (called «causality»).

We see this all the time on issues from climate change to gun control, and in the recent examples of Obamacare (+12 % approval but just one vote shy of Republican repeal) and the tax plan -LRB--14 % approval but passed by Republicans in Congress).

I have a number of foreign papers bookmarked and I suggest others do the same, and not just for climate change issues.

The other issue is we must be very careful what «current data» is entered, and this holds true of any field, not just climate science.

I don't wish to imply that climate scientists have not adequately considered these issues; just that clearer explanations of these points would help those of us outside the community understand the accuracy and limitations of the models better.

But if the goal of climate policy is to serve as a «Trojan horse» to get at other issues, like sprawl and gridlock (among other causes), then there is a misalignment of ends and means, which often leads to ineffective or just bad policy.

Unless you understand the severity of the issue motivating these actions, I think it's easy for people to look at climate change protests as just another item on a long list of pet issues of environmentalists.

Despite strong talk from the Obama administration on climate change — to be fair just reengaging with the international community on the issue and not being an utter obstruction is a major shift over the policy of the

And of course the sensitivity issue is just about the basic climate response.

Climate change is not just another pet issue of the green movement.

And crucially, churches in the U.S. have just begun to take up this issue in big numbers, which they see as a moral issue of not just protecting God's Creation, but also not inflicting direct harm on helpless people around the world.A new coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, and churches have been pivotal in changing the momentum for the new «Climate Security Act» co-sponsored by Senator John Warner.

By the time we got to Copenhagen there were people who had mobilised in every country on the issue of climate change, where the biggest successes involved people just going out into communities and talking to each village by village, or college by college.

In this video, Stott raises the big issue of «cosmic rays» and its contribution to climate change, but then backs off and says he didn't say it was causing global warming and that it's just a «hot topic» of research.

It feels as if the narrative of «how to communicate climate issues» has gotten stuck in a room where no one is trying to figure out how to get out — there's just a group of people in the middle of the room arguing about how, theoretically, they might get out.

The psychology of risk perception also confronts us with the reality that issues like climate change just don't ring our alarm bells.

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.

It's not surprising that the first substantive energy exchange between the two candidates dealt with gas prices, given — as a national poll by the University of Texas just found — that this is by far the most pressing energy issue on voters» minds (to the consternation of climate hawks).

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

perhaps the environmentally warm and fuzzy conceit of climate change — about which we can really do nothing — is really just a subconscious expression of the much more stark and frightening former — and all too real issue: PEAK OIL.

The climate issue embodies this challenge of balancing present and future costs more than just about any other, many experts say.

Aspects of his comment may be unwelcome to just about everyone in one way or another, but I think it is worth noting that he says that the data issues don't detract from clear evidence of a long - term warming trend and that carbon dioxide is «a major climate forcing» (along with many others):

We have huge environmental issues to tackle; climate change is just one of them.

I just finished signing a petition issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to make sure California's new climate plan against global warming is strong.

UPDATE: just read an interview with climate scientist Ken Caldeira which focuses on the issue of geoengineering.

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We should be addressing the meanings that divide us on an issue like this, because they divide us on lots of things — not just the use of violence by individuals of one race on those of another, or even the use of it by the police against private citizens, but also matters as diverse as whether climate change is occurring or whether schools should vaccinate pre-adolescent girls against HPV.

How many of those who accuse me of bias have ever read and fully understood the statistical issues behind just a single, serious climate paper?

Climate change isn't just about the planet, writes environmental activist Leehi Yona, but is connected to an array of issues spanning from transgender justice to racism to immigration reform.

Just as I am wary of commenting on climate science per se as opposed to the policy issues related to it.

Just to reiterate, a careful analysis of the scientific methodological issues exposes most of the politics of Dr T's pronouncements, and draws into question his competence in this domain, and hence his right to be taken seriously as a political voice on matters climate.

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