Sentences with phrase «know about global climate change»

What do people know about global climate change?

What do we know about global climate change, and what impacts can we expect in the future?

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Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the rally, according to organizers, at which many spoke about individual steps that could be taken to help thwart the cyclical event once known as global warming, now re-dubbed climate change.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to sow doubt about global warming.

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As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

The worldwide consultation revealed a global citizenship both well - informed and motivated about climate change but which wants to know more about the concrete issues so it can take a direct part in the solutions.

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Well I wanted to let you know that Petcurean has recently launched a brand new line of pet food called «Gather», and the idea behind Gather is to provide food for dogs and cats with sustainability and transparency and organic ingredients are the key aspects of the brand, and we know that one of the biggest trends right now in both the human and pet food arenas are... global warming, climate change, extremes in weather, it's all on their minds, so we just launched Gather in August of this year and we'll be starting to stress the food to reach all stores in October, so we're really excited about that.

Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.

I mean: she already knows about the connection between the use of fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect, the global warming and the wide spread climate changes.

For a start, based on what we know about the forcings and the observed evolution of global mean temperature, why would one expect climate change to be a linear warming since 1880 in Moscow?

But this awards blog is not about the good country of the Czech Republic, who citizens are good honest people who know a thing or two about global warming and climate change.

They did not know much about global warming, per se, but they understand viscerally that their climate is changing.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

Under a 1990 law, presidents must submit a report to Congress every four years summarizing what is known about impacts of climate change and other global environmental problems on the United States.

No, Roddy wants to make a movie about the impact of climate change and global warming in the distant future, and he wants the Hollywood production to serve as a wake up call for humankind — to take action on climate change problems now!

Justin Gillis's news story from Berlin on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the one on the world's options for limiting global warming — tells you all you need to know about the familiar contents.

Thank goodness the Trump Train has not or will not be derailed by people like McCarthy, who obviously knows - infinity (not just nothing but boundlessly and harmfully wrong) about either global warming (aka climate change) or economics.

But even if it were true that climate change could «amplify» «poverty» and «economic shock» we are no better informed about the degree of amplification for any given amount of global warming.

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They know what they should think about global warming climate change, but have no idea why they should think it.

In the early 1990s, a group of sceptics claimed that Roger Revelle, one of the first climate scientists, had changed his mind about global warming and no longer believed it was a serious problem.

Given that there is still much we do not know about climate change — including why mean global temperature has been flat for the past ten years — undermining confidence in climate science can (further) undermine its ability to inform policy.

Still, environmental groups have known since 2000 that efforts to link climate change to natural disasters could backfire, after researchers at the Frameworks Institute studied public attitudes for its report «How to Talk About Global Warming.»

In fact, it is precisely because «the discussion about the causes of global warming was to a very great extent settled by the date of broadcast», meaning that climate change was no longer a matter of political controversy, that a programme claiming it is all a pack of lies could slip past the partiality rules.

Thus, I share the story how I knew nothing about climate change, but park visitors were starting to ask me about it global warming thing as I was narrating boat tours in Everglades National Park.

An Arctic scientist who has consistently sounded alarms about the approach of global warming, Smith is best known for determining the role of climate change in the disappearance of more than a thousand Arctic lakes over the last quarter of the 20th century.

If you want to know what I think about the science of climate change, then you should read what Mojib (if my name weren't Mojib Latif it would be global warming) Latif has to say about the relationship between natural variability and long - term climate change (which includes, very prominently, the discussion about natural variability «swamping» mean surface temperature on a short - term basis).

«We knew about global warming and climate change 50 years ago and I am angry that greed has allowed the situation to continue.»

I don't know about you, but it seems to me that most of those abstracts mention global climate change but not global warming or human influence upon the climate change.

[¶]... Basing our assessment on a combination of several independent lines of evidence, as summarised in Box 10.2 Figures 1 and 2, including observed climate change and the strength of known feedbacks simulated in GCMs, we conclude that the global mean equilibrium warming for doubling CO2, or «equilibrium climate sensitivity», is likely to lie in the range 2 °C to 4.5 °C, with a most likely value of about 3 °C.

There are Australian schoolkids who «know all about greenhouse gases, climate change, global warming and sustainaility» but can not read.

So, given what we know about the integral nature of combating climate change through carbon reduction to reaching the other global goals, it is worth examining what constitutes full carbon responsibility in more detail.

«In engaging, easy - to - understand language, Climate Change Denial tells us all we need to know about global warming denial, explaining why, even though the scientific evidence is irrefutable, denial continues to prosper.

I don't believe climate scientists know any where near as much as they think they do about «global average temperature,» let alone the tenths of a degree change per year they claim to detect.

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«We don't know enough about the Arctic to know if this is global warming, climate change or maybe we were just plain lucky,» Sergeant Burton said as he took his boat south, planning to arrive in Halifax on Oct. 9 or 10 and New York a week later.

Moreover, the Rose Garden speech President Bush delivered that day removed any doubt that the new Bush - Cheney White House had already begun to spin the big lie about climate change, the lie we know so well we can recite it in our sleep: scientific uncertainties regarding global climate change are too great to make any policy decisions, especially those that might affect the US economy (read: the US fossil fuel - based energy economy).

Obama talked about clean energy, then started to back into global warming and climate science («I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change....»)

Here are 10 things to know about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. - sponsored scientific group that will present a landmark report on global warming Friday.

In 1988, former Canadian Minister of the Environment Christine Stewart told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald: «No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.»

«In this case, Exxon scientists knew about fossil fuels causing global warming and Exxon took internal actions based on its knowledge of climate change,» according to DeSaulnier and Lieu's letter.

For polls see e.g., Brett W. Pelham, «Awareness, opinions about global warming vary worldwide,» Gallup (2009), online here; Leiserowitz et al. (2010b) and other work by Leiserowitz's group; Council on Foreign Relations, «Public Opinion on Global Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, onlineglobal warming vary worldwide,» Gallup (2009), online here; Leiserowitz et al. (2010b) and other work by Leiserowitz's group; Council on Foreign Relations, «Public Opinion on Global Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, onlineGlobal Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, onlineGlobal Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, online here.

So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger (PDF), in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial — the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, of what we know about global warming and its human causes.

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