Sentences with phrase «odds over climate change»

This framing of the issue could thus end up pitting members of these two groups — already at odds over climate change, nuclear power, gun control, and various other risks — against one another.

Democrats and Republicans may often be at odds over climate change, but the U.S. military is not waiting for the debate to be settled.

Not exact matches

«I'm aware of similar large changes in odds in other studies of wintertime high temperature events over the U.S., and so this is not too surprising,» Martin Hoerling, a climate scientist at the Earth System Research Laboratory, said.

Media coverage of the study glossed over this inconvenience, with The Washington Post reporting that «Climate change upped the odds of Hurricane Harvey's extreme rains, study finds.»

With 2010 over, we now have 16 observations starting in 1995, and (unsurprisingly to anyone who followed the argument thus far) the upward trend is now statistically significant at the 5 per cent level [1] That is, if climate change since 1995 (the time of the first IPCC report, and well after Lindzen announced himself as a sceptic) had been purely random, the odds against such an upward trend would be better than 20 to 1 against.

The Costs of Inaction In public discussion, the climate - change skeptics have clearly been gaining ground over the past couple of years, even though the odds have been looking good lately that 2010 could be the warmest year on record.

Steve S beats me to it, but here's a Myles Allen quote anyway: I have argued for years that the odds on a high climate sensitivity are largely irrelevant to the warming we should expect over the coming century, and I certainly never suggested to David that my assessment of the odds on any particular level of warming by 2100 had changed.