Sentences with phrase «making climate change»

Gore calls on his climate faithful to treat global warming skeptics like racists and homophobes By Ben Geman Former vice president Al Gore on Monday called for making climate change «denial» a taboo in society.

Far from making climate change a priority, Obama in 2012 — the guy trying to get elected — was an avowed champion of all fossil fuels, which, of course, are the alleged cause of supposedly terrifying global warming.

There may be lots of ways of making climate change a more culturally and socially meaningful phenomenon, Angry Birds for example.

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I've also recommended that Francis watchers read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

making climate change personal

I've enthusiastically credited Pope Francis and his team at the Vatican for making climate change, and sustainable human development more broadly, a priority.

I encourage you to read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

But that could be making climate change worse

Most developed countries see carbon markets as crucial under any new agreement because they seek out the cheapest emissions reductions, making climate change targets more achievable.

But we're well on the wrong side of 2010, Krawchuk said, making climate change a lot less theoretical.

Michigan House District 11 Candidate Nancy Skinner is making climate change a centerpiece of her campaign, going into next month's primary, and has come out swinging with the piece you see above.

The movers and shakers in the natural products industry — and those making climate change reversal happen — gathered in one room at Natural Products Expo West.

Protester makes climate change personal: «My home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

The New York Times notes that the new plan could make climate change a major talking point in the upcoming presidential election.

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

When will the people realize that it's NOT man made climate change either?

Al Gore's persona has been polarizing enough to help make climate change one of the most politicized topics of the day — turning even «science» itself into something of a wedge issue.

- see: http://www.globalchange.gov/ Even the US Dept of Defense is making plans for man - made climate change - right - wingers please note!

Many of them feel global warming or man - made climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.

At a news conference with Cuomo, fellow Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand blamed Washington for failing to make climate change a priority.

«In order to make the climate changes we need to make, we have to transition from a dirty economy to a clean economy,» Mr. Lander said.

«It's staggering to hear that UKIP deny the existence of man - made climate change.

And yet all of us sat to hear Sir Mark Walport, the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, when he came last month and explained to the Government that the recent IPCC report - which made clear the threats posed by man - made climate change - was the most exhaustive, authoritative, peer reviewed report on climate change ever published.

To merely question the church of man made climate change is heresy in academia, and it is that almost religious aspect that bothers me.

Sure, 90 per cent of independent scientifi c endeavour demonstrably proves man - made climate change IS happening, but fortunately that can all be rebuked by pointing to the odd faked email from an East Anglian university and shouting: «I told you so!».

The challenge may become harder in the future, as man - made climate change makes more extreme storms more likely in the Northeast.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

The campaign against man - made climate change «hit a real low» last year but is beginning to recover, the leader of the Green party has said.

Amid his probe into ExxonMobil, Schneiderman sought out activist businessman Tom Steyer, who has made climate change a major issue in his political giving.

The development of natural gas, far from being a bridge fuel, makes climate change worse because it is so much more potent than carbon near term.

The 16 - term Republican is the chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee and has said he does not believe in man - made climate change.

Most plants were expected to grow more as CO2 levels rise, but a 20 - year experiment suggests that the extra CO2 is somehow stunting plant growth, which could make climate change worse

A new campaign video aims to make climate change a big part of the Democrat's presidential election effort

They also clearly showed that the models do not generally overestimate human - made climate change.

As the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Times.

It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man - made climate change.

From a scientific perspective, Tebaldi said it was interesting to try to separate the signal of man - made climate change, and efforts to curb it, from the noise of this variability.

Both the North and South poles are undergoing unprecedented changes as a result of man - made climate change.

The inquiry aims to find out whether the oil company was aware of the dangers of human - made climate change but chose to keep quiet and to promote denial groups challenging the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.

Thanks to human - made climate change, events like storms, heatwaves and floods are on the rise, and there is growing demand for people who understand these phenomena and can advise the rest of us on how to handle them.

That makes climate change the defining boundary of the Anthropocene.

Once opened up, formerly intact forests become increasingly susceptible to natural pressures such as disease, fires, and erosion; they become less resilient to human - made climate change, and they become more accessible to human use, driving a spiral of decline.

Those heat extremes, the hottest in the country's observational record, were likely caused by man - made climate change, according to a new study accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Since about 2.5 billion years ago, the mantle has been cooling — a phenomenon that doesn't influence the climate on the surface of the Earth and has nothing to do with the issue of short - term human - made climate change.

Such shifts could make climate change even worse, the team wrote in February in Nature Climate Change.

Ivanka, who reportedly made climate change her signature issue during the transition and who is now on the White House staff, met with actor Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change before the inauguration.

Some doubt the theory of evolution by natural selection, or the reality of human - made climate change.

The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline will make climate change worse.

In the UK in February, a BBC poll of 1001 people found that just 26 per cent believed human - made climate change was an established scientific fact, down from 41 per cent only three months earlier.