Sentences with phrase «n't whether climate change»

A few noted skepticism of climate science, saying carbon dioxide is «part of the cycle of life,» but for many opponents of the Clean Power Plan, the argument wasn't whether climate change was real but whether the plan's target on reducing emissions from coal power would effectively slow global warming.

The question isn't whether climate change is real.

The issue is not whether climate changes is happening or not, bur rather what are the root causes to climate change.

Finally, the key issue for policymakers is not whether climate change poses risks but whether the proposed «solutions» — carbon taxes, cap - and - trade, and other schemes to rig the market against plentiful, affordable, reliable fossil fuels — would do more harm than good.

The question is therefore not whether climate change is happening, but what to do about it.»

Not exact matches

Seven in 10 Americans — including some of those who aren't sure whether climate change is actually happening — think it's a problem that the U.S. government should be working to address.

What is not yet clear is whether Trump plans to initiate a formal withdrawal from the Paris accord, which under the terms of the agreement could take three years, or exit the underlying U.N. climate change treaty on which the accord was based.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

BOSTON — President Donald Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossils fuel contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

The time for debating whether or not the climate is changing is long past.

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

Climate change is happening whether we like it or not.

«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and with the potential to scale — from within the farming community itself, so that they can increase resilience to climate change, increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»

«With the unpredictability of the changing climate, farmers have no means of telling whether or not their farms will be affected.

But above all he urged them not to «succumb to cynicism», even if the social problems they were confronting — whether poverty, inequality or climate change — didn't disappear overnight.

Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossil fuels contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

And when others won't lead, whether it is on climate change, infrastructure, economic inclusion, fair housing, or the protection of the most vulnerable amongst us, you know we will.

As you can see, the answer to the question about whether or not climate change is man - made has a direct impact on which policies should be enacted to solve this problem.

The question of whether or not humans cause climate change matters because for many people an answer of «no» will remove the need to act, and even if the answer is «yes» it helps determine who should pay.

Therefore, people who find # 1 absurd can determine whether or not we should do anything about climate change by determining whether or not humans are causing it.

Update / note: To be clear, I'm not asking for views whether or not climate change is true, if we have the ability to change it for good or bad, what evidence exists, whether people want or oppose change, or anything like that.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

Faced with a worsening financial climate, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that he was contemplating whether to propose changes to the state tax code, and he did not rule out the possibility that he would seek to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers.

«With the Trump administration in place, people who don't necessarily even believe in climate change, I'm really worried whether the money will even be there,» said Councilman Donovan Richards, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Rockaway.

Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more extreme weather events.

Now it may not be, you know, the solution to climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.

Citing as an example an urban infrastructure improvement project in a municipality of China, WRI researcher Milap Patel said, «without even a risk screening, we didn't know whether this project was vulnerable to climate change.»

Alaskan scientists aren't the only ones who have noticed: Climate change activists have already adopted the walrus's cause, and the U.S. Interior Department is now deciding whether to list the walrus as endangered species.

«We aren't just curious about whether climate change had an impact on an event — we're also asking what can this tell us about the likelihood and magnitude of events in future.»

We don't yet know whether climate change triggered Australia's marine heatwave, but there is good evidence that it was behind the one in Europe.

He is not interested in debating whether climate change is a reality, he said.

«The issue is not whether Canada's done enough on climate change, it's that energy production is such a huge element of the Canadian economy, there's not much they can do to achieve rapid reductions of the sort that climate activists are demanding.

But the scientist said it's not clear whether the droughts are the product of a random shift in weather patterns or whether they are driven, at least in part, by climate change.

She also said the Red Cross would not take a stand on whether climate change may be a factor, as well.

«Whether or not such rapid warming will occur... depends on actions taken to control climate change,» the authors write.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

Such alterations are happening whether we want to use the words «climate change» or not.

A quarter of producers said they believed climate change was caused mostly by natural shifts in the environment, and 31 percent said there was not enough evidence to determine whether climate change was happening or not.

«Most modeling studies that look at the impact of climate change on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don't take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,» Monier says.

It says although there is no scientific evidence to show a specific weather event would not have happened without climate change, scientists can estimate whether it increases the risk of an event.

However, the data so far is not sufficient to say whether the storm activity changes are caused by climate change — this has to be investigated further.»

The work covered just one small part of Europe, and the authors could not explain what might be causing the drop, whether climate change, habitat destruction or something else.

Political divisions are less apparent with factual questions that do not infer climate change, such as whether the melting of Greenland and Antarctic land ice, or of Arctic sea ice, could potentially do the most to raise sea levels.

SLEAFORD, England — Mark Ireland doesn't know whether it is due to the weather or climate change, but one thing he is certain of is that over the past 25 years, a great deal has changed along the furrows of his farm in southeast Lincolnshire.

But the pattern of repudiation extends to more - measured nominees such as Ohio's Rob Portman and California's Carly Fiorina who pointedly insisted, «I'm not sure,» when asked whether climate change was happening.

Scientists aren't sure yet if there's a climate change connection, or whether things will continue to get worse.

It is not clear whether or not Romney accepts the science on the pace and causes of climate change, but he promises to amend the Clean Air Act to specifically exclude regulation of carbon emissions.

Bennett: When you say an open mind, you mean you're just not sure whether human activity causes climate change?