Sentences with phrase «not challenge climate change»

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Well, it just so happens people are starting to talk about it — and it's exposing a yawning gap between two worldviews affecting the way the world responds to the climate change challenge — not least within the energy industry itself.

He hasn't been kidding around about climate change and how the challenge should be addressed.

Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from climate change to sustainable development.

The bill guarantees that teachers will not be subjected to discipline for challenging the science of evolution and climate change in class, and provides guidelines for discussing «the controversy» behind evolution and climate change with students.

Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your in - law who doesn't believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

The visitor to the institution who identified series of challenges confronting the nation including «infant mortality, extreme poverty, insecurity, climate change, the rabid activities of terrorists, described these problems as monsters which can not be allowed to prowl the street without being controlled.

«Is her failure to propose a Brexit bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply doesn't care about the environment and climate change?

A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell called climate change a «complex societal challenge» to be addressed by governments, «not by the courts.»

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

Fortunately, he and other conservative Christians are being challenged by climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian on a crusade to demonstrate to her fellow believers why being a Christian is not in conflict with accepting climate change.

Reclaiming islands is the real solution to challenges thrown up by climate change, not leaving the country, says Shiham Adam, director of the Maldives Marine Research Centre.

The researchers believe that the Arctic is not only a bell - wether of climate change to come at lower latitudes, but can provide us with an understanding of the challenges to come in adapting to climate change.

Trenberth's challenge is not just to show statistical evidence that recent climate changes are anomalous from the null hypothesis, but: 1) that these are due to anthropogenic causes 2) that these are «very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations», and 3) that these will cause catastrophic effects.

The challenge is to investigate the consequences and viability of different schemes, while being careful that it is not being (ab) used as an alibi not to work on emission reduction, which should be the first and foremost strategy to prevent dangerous climate change.

I echo the other comments about his broad - stroke dismissal of the media but also, one of the biggest challenges we face and our children will face is climate change and it's weird that that didn't come up.

The solutions to challenges like climate change are not going to be found solely by personal effort and individual action.

Students are not exempted from the challenges faced by adults, and in their education, they learn about intractable problems such as economic inequality or global climate change.

Our aim was to create greater transparency and accountability in terms of what countries are doing — or, in some cases not doing — on some of the biggest challenges our world faces today, such as climate change, water, energy, conservation, and the management of our natural resources.

«Global warming» (although one frequently sees «Global climate change» in the press, too — a fact not mentioned here) MAY in fact be too easy on the ears to convey the magnitude of the challenge.

It's not that Nate revealed himself to be a climate change denier; He accepts that human - caused climate change is real, and that it represents a challenge and potential threat.

NONE of them have questioned the science behind climate change for more than a decade; they may argue about which policies are the best way to address the problem, what mix of government regulations and private sector actions is best, but not one challenges the science.

Climate change is a grave moral challenge that can not be addressed without smart government policy, corporate innovation, and public participation.

The challenge of current Climate Change will not be over come until most of us understand and accept the changes required, empowering our leaders to act.

But, in his defense, he clearly did have vast challenges on his plate then, fending off heaps of unwarranted attacks and now dealing with a mountain of Freedom of Information requests (not to mention his ongoing research into climate change).

The purpose of this exercise is to get them to understand that how you see climate change depends upon where you sit in the world and that climate change can not be understood without seeing it as civilization challenging ethical problem.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

The fate of the Paris deal lies largely in the hands of voters in democratic countries, and we can not expect democracies to produce good policy responses to challenges of climate change if voters have a confused understanding of reality.

Climate change is not an incremental problem, and it doesn't call for incremental solutions, but instead a radical reformulation of how societies approach the challenge of development.

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

* Assessments of current mechanisms for governing global environmental change show why existing international arrangements are not dealing quickly enough with current global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

KERRY: Unfortunately, as the scientific understanding of climate change has advanced, our nation hasn't risen to the challenge.

He also acknowledged there will be serious consequences from human - induced global warming and climate change if we don't all start working together to meet this challenge.

This means that an already difficult challenge for resident populations and those who care about them (for whatever reason, including moral, humanitarian or national security) will be likely be made more challenging by human climate change if the greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced significantly.

I've also challenged people involved in climate science, campaigns or policy to come up with strategies that might help bring not only clarity, but actual real - world change (whichever change they seek).

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Now that political victory on climate change has been declared, its time to look at the engineering (not to mention economical) challenges.

The challenges facing the incorporation of REDD into mainstream climate change policies are not trivial.

This interaction not only gave them the latest information on climate change and ideas for new stories, but also allowed them to question and even challenge the experts on how to turn their work into an attractive media piece.

It has not challenged the tone or the content of the UK's Chief Scientific Advisers» comments on climate change, nor the Royal Society's presidents, even where they have been entirely unscientific.

As the IPCC and NCA reports show, climate change is the single biggest challenge facing us not just as a country, but potentially as a species.

Current nuclear technology is not a sensible solution to the climate change challenge — but research on «new - nuclear» and renewables infrastructure should be aggressively pursued.

''... [N] o challenge - no challenge - poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

There is growing global recognition that climate change is a critical development challenge and one of the most important issues that could undermine sustainable development and poverty eradication if not properly addressed.

Although the base issue of humans impacting the climate does not change, I challenge you to produce the data I asked for.