Sentences with phrase «of other climate changes»

This would also suggest that the researchers who have suggested that the great civilizations of South America, Egypt and many other places are completely out of bounds to suggest that drought of other climate changes affected them.

The undeniable fact is that the planet is warming, that sea level is rising, and a number of other climate changes are taking place.

This further evidence of episodic emissions of volcanic CO2 as the likely driver of the extinction enhances our understanding of this event, and potentially of other climate change episodes in Earth's history.»

The only way to promote constructive collective decsionmaking on the climate change that ordinary people, left and right, are worried about, and that farmers and other practical individuals are taking steps to protect themselves from, is to protect our science communication enviornment from the toxic effects of the other climate change — the one that people believe or disbelieve in to express their tribal loyalties.

Carbon removal techniques, while important for fighting climate change, have faced resistance from some in the environmental community partly because they have been perceived as a threat to the deployment of other climate change mitigation techniques.

I believe, largely from your presentations of the observed data and discussion, as well as having read thousands of other climate change articles and discussion, that it's our planet's oceans that are the biggest players in climate warming and cooling, especially on short timescales.

The plaintiffs, once again as they are in some of these other climate change cases are seeking some pretty sweeping, both declarations of their rights under the Constitution and how those rights are being infringed by both what the state of Alaska is doing and not doing, but they're also asking for a science - based plan of attack or a plan of how to deal with climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on what the science requires and that's something on the order of eight percent per year reduction in emissions plus an accounting of the emissions that the state is responsible for, and how fast they're being reduced.

The past seven days have shown clearly how Lord Lawson and a small clique of other climate change sceptics are able to use their political and media networks, as well as family ties, to distort so effectively the UK public debate.

Dr. Hansen, along with a number of other climate change alarmists (like Al Gore), believes that man is the chief cause of global warming, and that warming is generally harmful.

His story was picked up by hundreds of other climate change deniers, some of whom went so far as to claim that it destroyed global warming theory.

Not exact matches

And Savage says he and other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more research in anticipation of talks to consider changes to the province's climate strategy.

The head of personal investing at a $ 1.2 trillion fund manager says she plans to rescind investments in companies that haven't worked at reducing climate change — and she's lobbying other fund managers to follow suit.

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

The other part of the Paris agreement is a vague provision that starting in 2020 a $ 100 billion - a-year fund will be established to help developing nations address climate change.

While other entrepreneurs sprinkle a pinch of green into their product lines, Surace's phalanx of the climate - change army is waging a war — a «third industrial revolution,» in his characteristically exalted vernacular.

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

The future of global commerce will be affected by the impact of climate change, disruptive innovations and other game changers.

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.»

Trump may see some pushback from the other heads of state, however, for his contrarian views on climate change and free trade.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al - Falih has said it would be a risk to list in New York because of liabilities and litigation, including the climate change lawsuits against other oil companies by New York City.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

The involvement of other jurisdictions, he said, might, «see adequate pressure applied to these companies to inspire action on climate change.»

Despite this and other authoritative warnings about the dangers of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.

Other factors that may affect the timing of a sale are availability of bank financing, interest rate trends, changes in tax law, and the general economic climate.

Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

One is adapting to climate change and the other is the economic and well being of the Arctic people.

The study also shows that the length of the wildfire season correlates closely with changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and other climate indicators.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

It would signal that the United States has no interest in cooperating with other nations on climate change,» said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

But even without changes in the economic climate, the last couple of decades have highlighted several other, fundamental flaws in this approach:

By Kaz Janowski, editor at SciDev.net I have become aware of a growing weariness with the pessimistic narratives around climate change, migration and other global environmental issues and events.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

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's a very complicated question because certain businesses in Canada may have a downside to climate change; others may have an upside, a couple of which you have mentioned.

Others on climate change, energy and related risks — as well as sustainability reporting on strategy and performance — account for almost another 40 percent of all resolutions, roughly the same as the previous year.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

Carbon pricing can be a key policy tool, but a comprehensive national plan to address climate change must encompass many other facets of Canadian life.

Other than climate change, extreme income inequality and pandemics, the global trust deficit may be one of the world's direst challenges - noting that they are all interconnected.

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