Sentences with phrase «makes the case for climate»

To make the case for a climate - changing, extinction - level comet strike, just a few thousand years before the discovery of agriculture and the rise of civilization, is co-author Joanne P Ballard.

His technical approach to making the case for climate change sets him apart from other «deniers» who are more politically motivated — though he does lament that Al Gore's once calming voice has become more shrill and made him popular with international media.

In fact, larger uncertainty actually makes the case for climate mitigation stronger.

Thousands of emails and documents stolen and posted online suggest to some that researchers colluded to make the case for climate change.

U.S. policymakers, for example, have often made the case for climate policy by arguing that it will strengthen U.S. industry.

Whether it ultimately matters or not, Obama and the Democratic Party are still doing extraordinarily little to make the case for climate action to the bulk of the citizenry.

Not exact matches

Professor Nicholas Stern makes the case for Britain increasing the speed of its response to climate change

At the same time, Parliament's energy and climate change committee has warned that failure to build new nuclear will make it much harder and more expensive for us to meet our climate change targets, that government appears to be «crossing its fingers that private companies will deliver» and that a Plan B is required in case new nuclear stations are not built on time...

Current fellow Adam Rosenblatt makes a business case for why President Trump should address climate change.

And a fourth study in the same issue of Nature, this one focusing on ancient climate, also makes the case for an earlier exodus.

Climate advocates agree that Brazil now has a strong scientific case to make for ending the embargo and generally support a deal.

In a 2015 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another team of Columbia researchers made the case that climate change made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and that the drought was a catalyst for Syria's 2011 uprising.

«We're providing indigenous leaders and their organizations with hard data with which they can make their own case for the role that they have to play on climate change,» he says.

That might be the case even if only a small wing of the party blames man - made emissions for some of the world's warming, said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University professor who researches voters» attitudes on climate change.

For instance, in the case of Superstorm Sandy, which hit the Northeast coast in 2012, Gary Lackmann, a scientist at North Carolina State University, analyzed the question: Given the storm happened, did climate change make it worse?

We have often made the case here that equilibrium climate sensitivity is most likely to be around 0.75 + / - 0.25 C / (W / m2)(corresponding to about a 3 °C rise for a doubling of CO2).

«This work was a foundational reference case for the recently released RCP4.5 model scenario, one of four scenarios that will be used by modeling groups around the globe to make realistic projections of future climate change,» said Dr. Steven J. Smith, scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, and lead research author.

Both perspectives make a strong case for limiting climate change.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: More than 10 years after Al Gore stated his case for man - made climate change in the documentary «An Inconvenient Truth,» the former vice president returns to insist that all is not lost.

While it's somewhat ironic that the company credited with inventing the very object now blamed for an impending climate crisis is now pioneering technologies for a zero - emissions future, one thing is for sure: The German car company makes a compelling case for EVs with a luxury vehicle that retains many Mercedes hallmarks and does so at a competitive starting price of $ 42,375.

In planing for SLR, we should allow for contingency, in case the climate science has made a mistake and SLR occurs sooner, rather than later.

In order to make the case for action then, you must be able to quantify the negative impacts of climate change with a certain degree of accuracy.

Paul D... As a part - time alarmist I would answer that with a little bit of extrapolation added to some warnings of climate scientists I guess the worst case scenario at least includes the total collapse of the WAIS, creating tsunamis at least all over the Pacific rim, the subsequent sea level rise of c. 7m will destroy most of the remaining harbours, communication centers near coasts, next up would be the melting of the collapsed ice in the southern ocean altering the climate of the entire southern hemisphere, making it near - impossible to guess what areas are good for similar agriculture as before, leading to massive movements of people.

In a brief visit to climate talks, Energy Secretary Steven Chu made the case for energy innovation to address climate and energy troubles.

In addition to my comment in # 6, there is a recent investigation of different chemicals content in Antarctic ice cores, that makes a connection between solar variability and climate, in this case for wind speed around Antarctica.

The film starts at the end, spinning through a fast - forward collection of the worst possible worst - case scenarios for climate should no effort be made to curb greenhouse gases.

The former head of the London School of Ecnomics makes the case for de-emphasizing a global climate deal through the UN and instead focusing on bilateral and regional deals.

Goodell's reporting reinforces the case made recently by former United States senators Tim Wirth and Tom Daschle, who seek a softer approach to climate treaty negotiations despite continuing calls for a new binding agreement late next year in Paris.

TckTckTck's Kelly Rigg makes a compelling case that if we let Kyoto die at COP17, it's the death knell for our climate.

In an interview taped by staff at Stanford University, he makes the non-partisan case for climate - smart energy action while showing off his solar - charged Nissan Leaf.

The case for man made CO2 emissions being the primary cause of climate change is yet to be made to that level of clarity.

In any case, it seems important for scientists to make clear that our political statements are in our roles as ordinary people, not in our role as climate scientists.

On AGW Theory: Here, you're making the mistake I allude to above in discussing Sen. Inhofe — lumping «AGW theory» (which even Michael Crichton did not dispute) with the range of views (some supported, some not) on whether the case has been made for dangerous human - driven climate change.

Following those actions and the climate rally in Washington D.C., I wrote a post making the case for civil disobedience for climate change.

And a tougher sell for Mr. Obama, particularly as congressional allies try to roll out a new package of climate and energy legislation next week, is making the case for the actions that would be required to cut emissions of greenhouse gases in a world with rising populations and resource appetites.

In our forthcoming book, «Talking Climate: From Research to Practice in Public Engagement,» my colleagues Adam Corner and Jamie Clarke go further to make the detailed case for public conversations as a model of public engagement.

But he is just one of a growing movement of architects who are making the case that people have known for hundreds, maybe thousands of years how to build in ways that save energy and adapt to climate instead of trying to bludgeon it into submission.

Related In case you missed it last week (as I did), Christiana Figueres, the head of the United Nations office facilitating the climate treaty negotiations, made some pretty inept efforts in a Guardian interview to cite extreme weather patterns in making the case for action on greenhouse gases.

The meeting, organized by 10 universities and paid for by a variety of corporations, was, as one organizer explained, «a deliberate attempt to influence policy,» with a prime goal being to make the case that climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

A new follow - up publication of Case Studies on Climate Services for Health is in preparation, and will take a next step to outline with greater detail how a wide range of health applications can benefit from using climate and weather information; what steps and processes can be used to co-develop and use climate and weather information in the health sector; and showcase how such partnerships and services can really make a difference to the health comClimate Services for Health is in preparation, and will take a next step to outline with greater detail how a wide range of health applications can benefit from using climate and weather information; what steps and processes can be used to co-develop and use climate and weather information in the health sector; and showcase how such partnerships and services can really make a difference to the health comclimate and weather information; what steps and processes can be used to co-develop and use climate and weather information in the health sector; and showcase how such partnerships and services can really make a difference to the health comclimate and weather information in the health sector; and showcase how such partnerships and services can really make a difference to the health community.

What's called pdf in this case is not a real objective pdf for the climate sensitivity, it is a numerical result for a conditional probability obtained from certain set of data making many questionable assumptions and applying certain mathematical methods.

By contrast, I adopt a policy stance, not as a scientist but as someone who believes that the case for net benefits from GHG reductions has not been made and has led to a mis - use of resources which has weakened, and will further weaken, our capacity to respond to whatever climate changes emerge.

Well if you believe that then you are entitled to argue your case, but if you are waiting for the «mainstream climate scientists to agree with you and make some kind of apology then you are going to be disappointed.

Controversy arose after various allegations were made including that climate scientists colluded to withhold scientific evidence and manipulated data to make the case for global warming appear stronger than it is.

His attack on one climate - change study, known as the «hockey stick» — a study often cited to make the case for global warming — plucked McIntyre from obscurity and got him featured on the front page of the February 14, 2005, Wall Street Journal.

Considering this contrasting reality, it is only fair to celebrate Sony's new climate goals and to invite other companies in the country to follow suit in order to make a stronger case to the government in Japan for the adoption of more ambitious targets that enable a smooth transition towards a low - carbon economy.

Which is to say that most arguments for political action to mitigate climate don't actually proceed from the science at all, and in many cases make up the content — i.e. «object» — of the consensus to suit the argument.

With more than a billion Catholics (and quite a few non-Catholics) hanging on his every word, Pope Francis will passionately make the humanitarian and spiritual case for acting on climate change — through, among other things, the conservation of resources, the pursuit of renewable energy, and the reduction of greenhouse gases.

Case in point: Tom Steyer (who made most of his fortune in the coal industry but is now heavily invested in «green» projects) gave $ 50 million to Democrats last election cycle in exchange for their promise to elevate climate change as an issue.

«So it is unsurprising that great efforts have been made to ramp up hysteria, even as the case for climate alarm is disintegrating.»