Sentences with phrase «on global climate warming»

While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century.

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China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters that Trump's previous claims that the country had created global warming to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive simply couldn't be true because other Republican presidents worked on climate negotiations.
Like any good entrepreneur, Leo wouldn't let me talk about the app here, but I assure you, it's a great idea, and focuses on Leo's big interest in global warming and climate change.
U.S. companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit the 195 - nation Paris climate agreement, a 2017 survey showed on Tuesday.
Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate - change scientists who base their doomsday forecasts of man - made global warming on extrapolation of historical data.
Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.
Global warming is once again on the agenda as world leaders gather for the Paris climate change summit.
Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».
He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.
The drive to «stop» global warming — relabeled climate change — does not depend on facts on the ground.
I have no opinion on climate change, formerly global warming, because I don't have time, much less the ability, to master the subject.
(For a crisp, informed, and cliché - free reflection on climate change, see Thomas Derr's «The Politics of Global Warming» in the August / September issue of First Things.)
He refers to meetings his office has held with global warming groups and says «such gatherings can create an environment of dialogue and common ground for common action on climate change,» and he urged that such gatherings be expanded.
CT frequently covers Pope Francis, including examining the recent release of his encyclical, how many of his fans disagree with him on global warming, and the theology behind his warnings on climate change.
Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.
Paul Cook from Tearfund added: «This is a disappointing statement on climate change that does not go far enough in outlining how the G7 plans to meet the agreement to keep global warming well below 2 °C made in Paris to tackle climate change.
Richard Cizik, who is Vice-President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, has created quite a stir among his constituency by breaking ranks with the NAE's neutrality on issues of climate change (a.k.a. «global warming»).
Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)
John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made global warming, and that public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied opinions.
Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian «s Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation: There may be ways of fixing [the current....
With a long history of personal interest in sustainable food, Paul recently called upon the Doha climate conference to take into account the impact of the livestock sector on global warming.
Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.
Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global wclimate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global wClimate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.
Some of the world's leading authorities on climate change have endorsed meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming, including former US Vice President Al Gore, Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Lord Nicholas Stern and former UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King.
The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.
The press conference was held at the State House by Senator Marc Pacheco, chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change and Senate co-chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
But «Weather to Climate: Our Changing World,» a new exhibit opening at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Saturday, April 2, is taking on the daunting task and making «the talk,» as it relates to global warming, easier on youngsters and their caregivers alike.
Maeve Vallely Bartlett; State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change; Wayne Klockner, state director of The Nature Conservancy; and Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Nor would you get information on global warming from a climate scientist because they are «bias» in favor of anthropic global warming.
The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.
Mr. Gore, a Democrat who has made drawing attention to global warming his signature cause, called the governor's proposed mandate «a terrific and bold action,» noting that it comes a week before the United Nations will hold a conference on climate change in Paris.
Last year was Earth's warmest on record, according to an international climate report issued today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that documents other record - breaking global warming trends of 2016.
The report acknowledged a 15 - year hiatus in the impact on climate change but the panel made clear it was 95 % certain humans were primarily responsible for global warming.
Although Margaret Thatcher was the first world leader to warn about the threat of global warming, and although David Cameron famously highlighted the issue too, other prominent Conservatives including Nigel Lawson and Peter Lilley have been outspoken in their opposition to the mainstream agenda on climate change.
400,000 marched in NYC on September 21 to demand action on climate change - a great march that, unfortunately, has done little to change the politics of global warming at the state or federal level.
I will be one of tens of thousands — hopefully hundreds of thousands — marching on the UN Climate Summit in New York City this Sunday demanding that the world's governments take decisive action to stop global warming.
Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance of action on climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the impact of global warming.
Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.
Keep going on climate change and global warming.
In a video posted on his official Assembly website, Hanna is seen debating a bill on the floor and decrying a «conspiracy» by scientists who engage in climate research to «suppress» research conducted by those who challenge the existence of global warming.
He has pledged to undo American efforts to prevent a global warming catastrophe, including retreat from the Paris Agreement on Climate, Clean Power Plan, and new EPA
Wisconsin utility regulators removed references to climate change from their website months before state environmental officials altered global - warming language on their own site.
On Sandy Anniversary, the Green Party calls for Full Employment through Climate Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 yearOn Sandy Anniversary, the Green Party calls for Full Employment through Climate Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 yearOn the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 yearon global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 years.
The legally binding international Agreement on climate change, among others, addresses issues of global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture.
Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.
Elections sweeping Republicans into the House leadership set climate proposals on a path to nowhere in 2010 and 2011 as partisanship marginalized supporters of any federal bill aimed at cutting global warming pollution.
Those who know more about climate science, for example, are slightly more likely to accept that global warming is real and caused by humans than those who know less on the subject.
«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be responsible for confusion about recent global warming
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