Sentences with phrase «of human climate change»

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Yet here again Trenberth 2015 continues to mislead the public suggesting a storm like Sandy put «a potential price tag of human climate change in this storm in the tens of billions of dollars.»

Trenberth 2015 suggested that for Hurricane Sandy, «the subways and tunnels may not have flooded without warming - induced increase in sea level and storm intensity and size, putting a potential price tag of human climate change in this storm in the tens of billions of dollars.»

Of course, the impacts of human climate change will persist over deep geological time, just as for example, the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum warming did.

«Those who continue to talk in certain terms of how local weather extremes are the result of human climate change are failing to heed all the available evidence.»

There's no analog event in the past to compare with the rapidity of human climate change.

Not exact matches

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Although there's overwhelming scientific consensus behind the concept that human behavior is affecting the climate, most of the world and the U.S. in particular is still dealing with climate change deniers.

Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

A known sceptic of human - induced climate change, advocate of fossil fuels, and critic of several government - run climate programs, the ex governor of Texas» nomination have many involved parties worried.

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who say they believe in human - caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

PSS: British Columbia's «sister province» is ready, able and willing to throw her under the bus... along with billions of other human beings that will be negatively affected by global climate change..

... It may have been a strong storm, and it may have caused a lot of problems anyway — but [human - caused climate change] amplifies the damage considerably.»

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

But so many other dimensions of history, law, human rights, justice, finance, and climate change motivate the campaign to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.

Climate Action Network International: Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable Climate Action Network International: Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

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.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

The source of this extinction is speculated to be the result of human predation, a significant climate change, or a combination of both factors.

JPT, Right wing groups spend a lot of money denying a human cause for climate change, isn't that the same?

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

Taylor also claims that human - induced warming has caused rising sea levels and desertification, hence «climate change refugees» which is an issue of human rights.

Given my rather public skepticism of the thesis that humans are causing any significant climate change, my friend Bob Benne, who is the director of the ethics center at Roanoke College, invited me down to Roanoke to debate Mr. Cizik on these matters.

For example a large and politically powerful portion of the worlds largest energy consumer denying not only the fact that climate change is happening, but that it even can happen as a result of the actions of humans.

Should climate change be more fierce than we predict, how shall the vast majority of humans cope?

Further, he said, «Global climate change is about the future of God's creation and the one human family.»

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

Climate change is the result of human corruption of the environment» so - called anthropogenic causes....

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

This lead Deya to Beyond Meat, a company focused on improving human health, positively impacting climate change, conserving natural resources and respecting animal welfare through the innovation of plant based meat products.

Eating for a Healthy Planet: A Conversation with Canadians has been produced as part of the Human Dimensions of Climate Change programme at the University of Victoria.

In New Westminster's proclamation, explaining the decision to adopt a Meatless Monday, mayor Jonathan Coté wrote: «Overconsumption of meat, dairy and eggs is associated with many major environmental problems, including climate change, worsened human health outcomes and animal welfare concerns.»

Recent meetings have discussed work on environmental issues of national significance such as threatened species protection, improving the environment for human health, and climate change.