Sentences with word «mitigative»

This matters because political momentum for mitigative action is difficult to sustain or mount while the public believes that there is a «pause» in global warming.

However, in the case of climate change, the overwhelming scientific consensus — and the impetus for mitigative policies it entails — poses a particular dilemma for people whose identity is threatened by any potential interference with the free market.

Scientific uncertainty has been described as a «monster» that prevents understanding and delays mitigative action in response to climate change.

This is particularly crucial because in contrast to the widespread public perception that uncertainty is an invitation to delay action on climate change, recent work suggests that scientific uncertainty actually provides an impetus to engage in mitigative action.

This explains why I used a budget of 1,000 Gt in the earlier figure: If you look at it again, you can see for yourself how urgently we have to embark on mitigative action.

Uncertainty forms an integral part of climate science, and it is often cited in connection with arguments against mitigative action.

We're going to be beyond irreparable long before this ever translates into mitigative «action».

At one level, our results are entirely unsurprising: In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, most dissenting opinions are merely political and rhetorical tools aimed at trying to forestall mitigative action.

On the other hand, to point out that there are useful actions to be undertaken now — and that they come, in many cases, with significant co-benefits, is something with «legs» — something with a reasonable chance of efficacy, not only in reaching the public, but in effecting real mitigative action over short timeframes.

And, yes, to the extent that climate denial delays mitigative action, it too will come with a cost that is measured in human lives as well as money.

Thus, although an understanding of science denial is essential given the importance of climate change and the demonstrable role of the blogosphere in delaying mitigative action, it is arguably best met by underscoring the breadth of consensus among scientists (Ding, Maibach, Zhao, Roser - Renouf, & Leiserowitz, 2011; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Vaughan, 2013) rather than by direct engagement.

Environmental issues of septic tank systems in rural areas and the mitigative measures used for it

Here's a mitigative strategy: since anti-RE zealots love to slag solar farms as allegedly «devastating» to local ecologies due to land clearance, let's put solar farms on lands already «so battered and bruised by pollution as to be useless» for most purposes:

Regional differentiation is important when addressing climate change mitigation — economic development needs, resource endowments and mitigative and adaptive capacities — are too diverse across regions for a «one - size fits all» approach (high agreement, much evidence).

This attitude towards uncertainty is not atypical: numerous news commentators have cited uncertainty about the severity of climate change in support of their stance against taking any mitigative action.