Everyone, the researchers say, is already starting to feel the
effects of a warming planet, via heat waves, increased air pollution, drought, or more intense storms.
A president coming to grips with the
perils of a warming planet still has options, many of which, for better or worse, require no congressional approval at all.
Obama has increased his urgency on the climate since his first inaugural speech, when he warned of the «
specter of a warming planet» but did not mention «climate change» or endorse aggressive action to address it.
In his victory speech in Chicago, Obama talked of an America «that isn't threatened by the destructive
power of a warming planet».
In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the
dangers of a warming planet.
Regardless of the strength of the Arctic connection, global average temperature trends tell a clear and compelling
story of a warming planet, which one short - lived cold streak is not going to alter.
By Penny Starr In a June 20 interview with Spiegel Online, German climate scientist Hans von Storch said that despite
predictions of a warming planet the temperature data for the past 15 years shows an increase of 0.06 or «very close to zero.»
OBAMA: We will restore science to its rightful place [snip] roll back the
spectre of a warming planet [snip] we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.
It was meant literally, as in: Tsunamis are inundations of shorelines and therefore have impacts that resemble storm surges, which are one of the most immediate
threats of a warmer planet.
Why a coalition worth $ 3 trillion is calling on the oil, gas, coal, and energy industries to reassess the risks of a warming planet
«The EPA Administrator has issued a clarion call that the pressing environmental issues of our times, especially the changing climate, must be engaged and engaged now,» said Tepper, who noted that all of Mass Audubon's work is now viewed through the
lens of a warming planet.
Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both
manifestations of a warming planet.
For one of the VLT's massive eight - meter mirrors, such a coronagraph would allow a relatively clear
view of warm planets in the habitable zones of both Alpha Centauri A and B. Or rather it would, if Earth's starlight - smearing atmosphere was not in the way.
«Without the existence of these proteins that could help phytoplankton cope in these stressful environments, the phytoplankton diversity in many regions of the ocean would be much lower, in particular by reducing large phytoplankton such as diatoms that are known to take up a lot of carbon dioxide, thus possibly accelerating the
pace of a warming planet,» said Marchetti, assistant professor of marine science at UNC - Chapel Hill.
The series debuted in fall 2012 with a presentation by CIT professor John A. Johnson titled, «Hot on the
Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool Stars,» and it's taken off from there.
However, the increasing
signs of a warming planet were enough to push most of the world's governments into action by 1992, when the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was ratified.
In these performances, often staged in nature with no audience, the Truppe are as apt to commemorate the passing of an unusual cloud as they are to be found documenting their own attempts to flee the rising
waters of a warming planet, or using black humor to comment upon the extinction of bats or other animals.
Not just
because of a warming planet, but also because of international competition from countries like China and parts of Western Europe that have gone «all in» on clean energy.
One would have thought though, that in the 30 years since our Congress first began to confront the
reality of a warming planet, when in 1986 Senator John Chafee (R - R.I.) and newly elected Senator Al Gore (D - TN) held hearings on the subject of «Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change,» at least one branch of our government would have come to reckon with the existential threat of climate change.
But throughout it all, there were no mentions of the dramatic increases in extreme weather and no mentions of the
influence of a warming planet on extreme storms like Sandy.
Denying the
existence of a warming planet may be an effective short - term strategy for some politicians, but their interference is hurting the planet long - term.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports: «In 2013, the vast majority of worldwide climate indicators − greenhouse gases, sea levels, global temperatures, etc − continued to reflect
trends of a warmer planet.»
These components outline goals, activities and needs for countries to cope with increased drought, stronger storms, sea level rise and other
consequences of a warming planet.
For these are the nations that are already living with the unfolding
effects of a warming planet — famine and drought, disappearing coastal villages and the conflict that arises from scarce resources.
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened up by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive
power of a warming planet.
In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the
dangers of a warming planet.