This con nement of recursive hypotheses to a small \ echo chamber» re ects the wider phenomenon
of radical climate denial, whose ability to generate the appearance of a widely held opinion on the internet is disproportionate to the smaller number of people who actually hold those views (e.g., Leviston, Walker, & Morwinski, 2013).
In collaboration with another meteorologist, Wladimir Köppen, Wegener worked through the geological evidence
of radical climate change.
«I understand fruits and vegetables and the impact
of radical climate change.
Not exact matches
But if
climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss
of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger
of further
radical shifts in the condition and dynamics
of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment
of ecosystem collapse.»
The Alberta NDP's
climate change plan defies supporters
of the much - maligned LEAP Manifesto, which was spearheaded by more
radical elements
of the federal NDP at that party's recent convention in Edmonton.
And no doubt Tom was influenced by the
radical social
climate of the sixties when he wrote this.
The truth is that we are undergoing a
radical change
of climate.
A four - day Socialist Convergence — initiated by the Philly Socialists and organized by a coalition
of radical and socialist organizations ranging from the Kentucky Workers League to the System Change Not
Climate Change coalition — will take place alongside the corporate - sponsored DNC.
Shifting
climate patterns mean these
radical disruptions could be a harbinger
of things to come.
Harstad acknowledged that such an approach would be a «
radical departure» from the more popular view, embodied in such agreements as the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change, which places much
of its focus on end -
of - stack emissions.
«For example, in the future methane levels could increase as a result
of increased natural gas and energy use,
climate change feedbacks and / or a decrease in the global abundance
of the hydroxyl
radical, which chemically removes methane from the atmosphere.»
SAN FRANCISCO — The specter
of climate change has prompted
radical ideas, such as pumping CO2 into the deep ocean to slow its buildup in the air.
Previously, Pompeo has said that scientists think «lots
of different things» about
climate change and called President Barack Obama's
climate policies «
radical.»
The word «
climate,» in fact, appears in the current President's strategy more often than Al Qaeda, nuclear proliferation,
radical Islam, or weapons
of mass destruction.»
Zhang, X., Sorteberg, A., Zhang, J., Gerdes, R. & Comiso, J. C. Recent
radical shifts
of the atmospheric circulations and rapid changes in the Arctic
climate system.
We talk through some
of the most pressing issues in modern
climate science: our chances
of staying below 1.5 °C
of warming without
climate engineering,
climate engineering with land - based albedo modifications, and the kinds
of societal transformations needed for
radical mitigation.
«In Southern Europe, adapting to some
of the projected changes could only be achieved by a fundamental, and expensive, re-engineering
of each city or water resource system, as significant adaptation to
climate extremes has already been implemented and
radical changes will be needed to achieve more,» the paper notes.
This seems to imply that even with a
radical transformation
of our economy away from carbon emissions, we are already committed to serious
climate change — at least until 2040?
After many centuries
of observation, the Sirian experimenters further theorized that the more extreme the
climate seasons changes were, the more
radical the changes in the emotions
of the humans living in those latitudes became.
Nowhere in this list are the known causes
of major threats to human life
of income disparity, endemic disease, resource depletion, or
radical climate change.
B. R. A. C. E., MASS MoCA is Part II
of Bifurcated
Radical Anarchist Cultural Enterprise, or B. R. A. C. E. a social project intended to change the unjust sociopolitical
climate of the United States.
The statue includes stenciled portraits
of activists, among them the foundational Chicana writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, as well as, on its back, a powerful statement and reflection on the ways in which many people
of color continue to feel in this intense political
climate:
RADICAL ANTI-RACISM FOR STOPPING LA VIOLENCIA CONTRA NUESTRAS COMUNIDADES NOT FOR YOUR WHITE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence
of 1960s conceptualism and
radical climate change — the exhibition examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility.
«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists
of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections
of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality
of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing
radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.
Unfolding in two parts throughout 2018, «Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times» addresses concerns
of the present social and political
climate through a
radical new model
of experimentation and inquiry.
This encampment explores how the queers and activists who struggled through the crisis
of the 80s and 90s are surviving / dealing / getting by in a present marked by gentrification, evictions, the migration
of more and more
of our lives onto online spaces, pronounced income inequality, the advent
of high - deductible health care, and a political
climate that asks us to celebrate the legalization
of same sex marriage but leave behind many
of our
radical queer aspirations.
The natural environment serves as medium and muse for the seven artists in
Radical Landscapes who reflect on a range
of larger concerns including
climate change, surveillance, and identity.
Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence
of 1960s Conceptualism and
radical climate change, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility.
In the current issue
of Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell has a great report on why Jason Box's
radical approach to
climate science is changing our understanding
of the unprecedented rate
of glacier melt in Greenland.
At the other extreme, understandable economic insecurity and fear
of radical change have been exploited by ideologues and vested interests to whip up ill - informed, populist rage, and
climate scientists have become the punching bag
of shock jocks and tabloid scribes.
Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global
climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less
radical about the idea
of global
climate change — it was already known that the planet's
climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less
radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.
Even a cursory glance at what we know about the geologic past reveals that this lovely little planet has been through much, MUCH worse than anything we can throw at it; massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes,
radical climate shifts to both extremes
of hot and cold, and yes, several mass extinctions.
And could temporary stability switch to more
radical climate change if these kinds
of forcings offset greenhouse gases over the next century?
Consider that combating
climate change requires nothing less than a
radical restructuring
of how the world makes and uses energy, and consider the overwhelming level
of public concern it would take to impose such sweeping changes on the vested interests profiting by the status quo (and let's be honest... to impose such changes on a public comfortable with the status quo).
«Arctic sea ice in 2007 was preconditioned to
radical changes after years
of shrinking and thinning in a warm
climate.»
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.
We have in Canada a Government that calls itself Conservative but is really a
radical reactionary diodachi that to the puzzlement
of the Canadian scientific community hews loyally to the line
of the Bush administration on the matter
of climate change.
Crichton stirred the
climate debate with a 2004 novel, State
of Fear, in which the bad guys were
radical environmentalists trying to scare the world about global warming in order to line their pockets.
And second, this framing elevates the idea
of solar geoengineering as a viable
climate change abatement strategy vastly above the current scientific consensus on this topic, painting carbon removal solutions in a much more
radical light than do most
climate experts.
But as Hollande was advocating for a
radical position to tackle
Climate Change, the French presidency
of the UNFCCC left the Civil Society without the ability to see and listen to what governments are actually doing, or not doing, about it.
Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head
of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically
radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration
of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «
climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat
of significant climatic shift in response.
It will take me a bit
of time to get my head around it — and perhaps a little longer for a more general recognition
of radical paradigm change that is central to the application
of chaos theory to weather and
climate.
«Egalitarian communitarians,» by the same logic, readily embrace the most dire
climate - change forecasts because they perceive exactly the same thing but take delight at the prospect
of radical limits on commerce, industry, and markets, which in their eyes are the source
of myriad social inequities.
I am confident that we are not far away from a
radical, new understanding
of our
climate.
Deep changes in the way
climate research (or any research) is funded need to be made which probably means a
radical restructuring
of government / science which would be dead by the weight
of scientists before you could utter the words.
Anderson's argument is not helped by the fact that the Tyndall Centre, where he deputy director and leader
of the energy and
climate change research programme, recently held a conference on «
radical emissions reduction», the content
of which seems to be overtly political, to say the least.
(Major meaning several degrees or more, which would in its re-shaping
of Earth's
climate and natural surfaces, ultimately be
radical to us.)
Scratch the surface
of arguments for «
radical» action on
climate change, and you find the Neomalthusian's arguments buried only slightly beneath.
While mitigation
climate change is essential adapting to and through centuries
of warming is paramount... the stories
of animals, plants and people adapting to a warming world express trust in our ability to adjust to changing conditions, even
radical ones, and to establish a voice for resilience in uncertain times.
«It highlights a really key area where we can test some
of the more
radical hypotheses about
climate change,» said John Kessler, a professor at the University
of Rochester, in an interview with the New York Times.