In it they argued that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can't deal with global warming.
If you can not deal with climate change under capitalism, you certainly can
not deal with global warming, full stop.
Not exact matches
He and Gingrich don't disagree on evolution and manmade
global warming probably happening, but the ex-governor does have a firmer grasp on what's required to
deal with the economic crisis of our time.
At the same time, nation states are slowly recognizing their interdependence and that great issues, such as
global warming, poverty, drug abuse and international terrorism can
not be
dealt with by one country on its own.
Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to
deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was
not enough.
«That's a strategy we really didn't know birds could do, and that could potentially help them
deal with global warming,» she adds.
But he is convinced that we are
not thinking the problem through correctly and are, in fact, lost in a kind of green fog about how best to
deal with global warming and other major environmental threats.
Although it is
not a specialized language tool — its Web site
deals more
with projects on
global warming, natural disasters, weather, water, and digital storytelling — it does help connect thousands of classrooms in 200 countries.
But all kidding aside, this is an article about perceptions and willingness to
deal with a long - term issues,
not a verification or denial of
global warming.
The United States and our friends in Europe can
not alone
deal with the threat of
global warming.
There are then at least three independent lines of evidence that confirm we are
not dealing with a slowdown in the
global warming trend, but rather
with progressive
global warming with superimposed natural variability:
I often hear nuclear advocates proclaiming that «nuclear is THE solution to
global warming» and that «no one can be serious about
dealing with global warming if they don't support expanded use of nuclear power» but I have never heard any nuclear advocate lay out a plan showing how many nuclear power plants would have to be built in what period of time to have a significant impact on GHG emissions.
That's why I don't want to have to
deal with global warming».
Global warming, on the other hand, is far less of an immediate threat, many of its effects can
not be reversed no matter what we do, the cost of attempting such a reversal could destroy the economies of emerging nations and make their development impossible — and it is a slow moving threat, that governments can plan to
deal with over time.
*
global warming is
not significantly affected by human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce human impact but make no provisions for
dealing with the effects of
warming.
* The government insists that
dealing with global warming is way down the priority list and since our economy is booming because of mineral exports (including heaps of coal don't you know) we should concentrate on that and
not get too worried about the water situation.
Journalists
dealing with global warming and similar issues would do well to focus on the points of deep consensus, generate stories containing voices that illuminate instead of confuse, convey the complex without putting readers (or editors) to sleep, and cast science in its role as a signpost pointing toward possible futures,
not as a font of crystalline answers.
Mark Bowen, the author of «Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth About
Global Warming» (Fresh Air interview) said he was initially skeptical about the investigation, but was pleasantly surprised that it captured
not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also
dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.»
Apparently being «indifferent,» synonymous
with «callous» and «uncaring,» is indistinguishable from
not wanting to «
deal with global warming» because you simply do
not accept CAGW or even AGW and / or don't accept there are any consequences that need to be immediately
dealt with.
Real - American engineers
deal with the realities of the laws of physics; understanding it and using it to advantage our nation and it's people... and,
not to the advantage of politicians waging a
global warming scam to line their pockets and enslave the human race.
I refer,
not to any
warming of the planet that may or may
not be occurring, but to the world's apparently serious and broadly shared belief in dangerous, man - made
global warming and of equally serious attempts to implement policies of enforced decarbonisation to
deal with it.
Distorting subsidies
not only do damage economic now, they strangle any possibility of
dealing logically
with new challenges like resource depletion and
global warming.
Scientists already feel that the second part of the IPCC report, which addresses the consequences of
global warming, is
not as sound as the first part, which
deals with the underlying physical factors contributing to climate change.
But although i've thrown some «myths» on the table, why can't you agree
with me that
global warming is
not a big
deal and positive in alot of aspects.
I hope you realize how stupid the supposition that coral bleaching doesn't happen without
global warming and that corals can
deal with long and short term variations, but
not a modest trend is.
And as suspected, climate campaigners Greenpeace are present, while actual scientific experts are thin on the ground:
not one attendee
deals with attribution science, the physics of
global warming.
Older Germans and French,
not young people, are the most supportive of rich countries taking the greatest responsibility in
dealing with global warming.
Others discussed how to
deal with skeptics, some displaying a hostility to contrarians that seemed surprising to people who haven't followed the growing nastiness of the fight against
global -
warming science, which has come to resemble the fights over abortion and evolution.
It will
not be possible to solve
global warming without
dealing with the dramatic
global and local inequalities in carbon emissions and the wealth created from them.
Once such an IPCC exposition of the assumptions, complications and uncertainties of climate models was constructed and made public, it would immediately have to lead, in my view, to more questions from the informed public such as what does calculating a mean
global temperature change mean to individuals who have to
deal with local conditions and
not a
global average and what are the assumptions, complications and uncertainties that the models contain when it comes to determining the detrimental and beneficial effects of a «
global»
warming in localized areas of the globe.
Klein argues that unregulated corporations and elected politicians can
not do what is necessary to
deal with global warming.
The main reason is that it includes
not climate scientists who research how to
deal with «man made
global warming» assuming that it is a fact, exactly like the IPCC does.
It's been a great help for me when
dealing with so - called
Global Warming Skeptics... But I found it really doesn't matter how many proofs you show these people, nothing ever changes.
You can disagree
with me all you like on whether or
not you think
global warming is man made; on how much we should spend to
deal with it; on whether mankind is a cancer on the earth or a force for good; on any number of issues.
Reflecting on the birth of a politics capable of
dealing with global warming, Bill McKibben, the author of the seminal 1989 book The End of Nature, wrote, «If it has success, it won't be environmentalism anymore.
I would note that because the issue of politics is a large one on the topic, a great
deal of scientists (addressed
with the drama effect discussion a little) might studiously avoid quantification, or even mentioning «
global warming» or «
global climate change» so as
not to get dragged into defending their paper on a political, rather than scientific basis.
«The Chinese are
not worried that
dealing with global warming will lock them out of economic growth in the 21st century — the Chinese know that
dealing with global warming is THE key to economic growth in the 21st century.»
We wrote a book
with the intention of laying out the broad philosophical outlines for a different kind of politics that can address the things that we have to do and address
not only
global warming but the other large issues that we have to
deal with in this new century.
Yet even then they failed to answer your question, since I see quite a few names there that have publicly stated that
global warming is real (even if they can't
deal with the cause).
Even if most climate scientists agree on the anthropogenic causes of
global warming, that doesn't imply that the best way to
deal with the problem is through drastic cuts in greenhouse emissions.
Perhaps we're saying the same thing in opposite ways, but it seems to me that knowing that 95 % of a catastrophe is
not attributable to
global warming is valuable because it focuses attention on the other, more important, root causes and ways to
deal with them.
Having just seen the Carter op - ed, I note that he doesn't claim that there is no climate change, merely no
global warming, and then he warns of
global cooling and calls for action to
deal with that problem.
This doesn't seem very likely, but it would be impossible if both
global warming and peak oil aren't
dealt with.
If you can
not deal with climate change under capitalism, you certainlcannot
deal with global warming, full stop.
Gregory Willits, an avowed
global warming worrier, recently wrote in a December Orlando Sentinel piece that «We are
not capable of addressing climate change» (meaning we can't stop it), so «Let's accept climate change and
deal with it in a big way.»
WASHINGTON — U.S. automakers and a top union official pledged Wednesday to work
with Congress to find new ways of
dealing with global warming but declared their industry could
not bear the burden alone.