Sentences with phrase «larger problem of climate change»

Policy experts agree that voluntary, individual action is never going to solve the problems of forests, much less the larger problem of climate change.

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But the mayor cautioned that the only way cities like Syracuse will be able to fix the larger problem of leaking water pipes is if Congress provides financial aid while tackling a root cause of the problem — climate change.

A new nationwide project aims to monitor the environment of the U.S. and enable comparisons of large - scale problems and variables such as climate change, pollution and sprawl

«We know that these large global mean changes are going to be associated with local and regional changes that are going to cause real problems in some areas,» says Andy Challinor, an expert on climate and agriculture at the University of Leeds in England.

Despite countless findings to the contrary, a large portion of the population doesn't believe that scientists agree on the existence of human - caused climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate Cchange, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate Climate ChangeChange.

«You can't tackle the larger problem [of climate change] unless you deal with those plants in some way.»

«Climate change is arguably the largest collective - action problem the world has ever faced,» said lead author Nick Obradovich, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science in UC San Diego's Division of Social Sciences.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

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Thus, this is why people are motivated to look at ancient climates where there are times of much larger temperature changes and forcing signals, that we can hopefully relate to each other to interrogate the sensitivity problem in a more robust fashion.

you seem to refer to two very different problems: the possible fading of the industrial society because we don't have a good alternative to fossil fuels (which would happen even without GH effect), and the threat of a climate change (which could happen even if we found an alternative to fossil fuels, if there are in very large amount and we are too late to replace them).

The IPCC range, on the other hand, encompasses the overall uncertainty across a very large number of studies, using different methods all with their own potential biases and problems (e.g., resulting from biases in proxy data used as constraints on past temperature changes, etc.) There is a number of single studies on climate sensitivity that have statistical uncertainties as small as Cox et al., yet different best estimates — some higher than the classic 3 °C, some lower.

Robert J. Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University, has for years been been a valuable guide for me to the large, and largely under - appreciated, body of behavioral research illuminating why it's so hard to gain traction on the super wicked problem of human - driven climate change.

That is, the frequency and clarity of articles and opinion pieces regarding the issue of climate change can be increased, as they should, without generating as much of the «recoil» that sometimes happens when people hear only of problems, if the Times becomes more clear on actions that we should take (credible and large ones) to help address and take some control over the matter.

«As a general point, it seems to me that, if climate change is as serious a problem as the climate «community» believes, then it will re quire large measures that need broadly based commitment from all walks of our society.»

Some of these are addressed in the present issue: the geopolitics of peak oil (John Bellamy Foster), the production of biofuels as a liquid fuel alternative and its consequences (Fred Magdoff), the economics of climate change (Minqi Li), the science of climate change (John W. Farley), the ocean crisis (Brett Clark and Rebecca Clausen), the problem of large dams (Rohan D'Souza), and the world water crisis (Maude Barlow).

The strategy being implemented here is quite clear - convince policymakers that the uncertainty about the science and consequences of climate change are too large to take any action to address the problem.

What kind of catastrophe can not be predicted, but numerous candidates have been discussed in this book: ecological collapses of various kinds, large - scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to social problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermonuclear war.»

Pachauri wrote on November 23, 2009: «The question is whether the additional time that the world would now have to arrive at an agreement at the next Conference of the Parties in Mexico will give us time and space to look at the larger problem of unsustainable development, of which climate change is at best a symptom.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

As a general point, it seems to me that, if climate change is as serious a problem as the climate «community» believes, then it will require large measures that need broadly based commitment from all walks of our society.

Common to these arguments is that they have successfully framed the climate change debate so that opponents and proponents of climate policies debate facts about costs, scientific uncertainty, or economic harms to nations that act while other large emitters don't act rather the moral problems with these arguments.

He also leaves out that his own article explains that climate change is one part of a larger problem: --RRB-

«In summary, given the lack of observational robustness of minimum temperatures, the fact that the shallow nocturnal boundary layer does not reflect the heat content of the deeper atmosphere, and problems global models have in replicating nocturnal boundary layers, it is suggested that measures of large - scale climate change should only use maximum temperature trends.»

Given the enormity and harshness of impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world from climate change coupled with the fact that United States has a special responsibility for the civilization challenging problem because of the comparatively large levels of the emissions coming from America, the failure of the US media to describe strength the scientific consensus on change is a grave and tragic error.

However, this potential can only be realised by also addressing problems associated with the large - scale production of biofuels, such as poverty, impacts on biodiversity and climate change, and water scarcity.

All were fighting their own battles in the war against climate change and the structural flaws in our economic system that perpetuate the problem, but in coming together in a show of cross-border solidarity, their ranks swelled to numbers they hoped would be too large to ignore.

Future generations will suffer from the failure of our generation to fix the climate change problem; a large part of the blame for that failure will rest with the corporate bosses.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

This is a large moral problem, especially since in my view the intergenerational problem dominates the tragedy of the commons aspect in climate change.

Ultimately, the threats of climate change, species extinction, toxic contamination and deforestation are symptoms of a larger problem.

Praying for rain (as recommended by the Governor of Texas) is unlikely to correct the problem as long as we continue to emit large amounts of climate changing gasses.

Climate change is an amorphous, complex, overwhelmingly large problem whose very existence is the subject of fierce debate in the US.

Despite stating that «the physical facts agree» that large effects of global climate change will be realized in 50 years and that a 2 % decrease in fossil fuel consumption would «considerably ease» the «immediate problem,» the committee still focuses on the «large probable error» of the data.

Climate change — or rather, the larger problem of which climate change is a symptom — isn't like the issues that American environmentalism evolved to aClimate change — or rather, the larger problem of which climate change is a symptom — isn't like the issues that American environmentalism evolved to aclimate change is a symptom — isn't like the issues that American environmentalism evolved to address.

While of course it's expected that Sapphire Energy will tout its green crude as the source of energy enlightenment, and it certainly could have a large impact on reducing the impact of climate change, in much of the world it's our current civic infrastructure and consumption patterns themselves which are a large part of the environmental problem.

For example, before we buy a new appliance that might consume a large amount of electricity, we should think not only of how much it will increase our power bill, but its contribution to the global climate change problem; look at the bigger picture.