Sentences with phrase «on global warming threats»

Plaintiffs say the Bush administration has been suppressing two reports intended to serve as a unifying guide for Congress and federal agencies on global warming threats.

Plaintiffs in the case say the Bush administration has been suppressing two reports intended to serve as a unifying guide for Congress and federal agencies on global warming threats and scientific research priorities.

Not exact matches

You mean like Obama spewing more carbon than anyone on the planet, although he once stated that global warming is the most dire threat to mankind's existence?

Neither are ecosystems, as is apparent from the threat of global warming, and our common dependence on what's left of the world's forests for oxygen.

With gas prices on the rise and global warming becoming more and more of a threat, many are turning to fuel efficient hybrids.

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.

Unlike global warming, however, everyone agrees on why ozone depletion is a threat, what causes it, and what to do about it.

«I think that this decision represents a clear and powerful recognition of how serious the threat of global warming is and that our reliance on coal for power generation needs to be changed,» says Eric Young, spokesman on global warming at New York City — based environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.

An offer to distribute Al Gore's movie about the threat of global warming has put the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) on the hot seat.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

And having testified since the 1970s about the threat of global warming, he had seen plenty of progress on public acceptance of the issue.

* Do not focus on global warming as a primary vehicle for selling the energy agenda, since voters do not see it as an immediate threat to the United States or to themselves.

The court's 5 - 4 ruling said the Bush administration did not adequately assess the threats from global warming when it rejected a petition from environmental groups and 12 states that sought to force federal greenhouse gas limits on motor vehicles.

In the same breath, Bast both claimed global warming is not happening and that if it was happening it would not be a threat to life on earth.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

Following on a decade from when former American Vice President, Al Gore alerted the world about the threats of Global Warming and their impacts on our planet and our lives, it seems all too real now that another one of these films didn't really need to be made.

With the world's ever - increasing demand for natural resources and global warming one of today's biggest environmental threats, the focus on sustainability is more relevant than ever.

Intelligence Squared U.S. energy and environment debates shine a critical light on the most pressing issues spurred by climate change and 21st century environmental priorities, including clean energy, fracking, organic and genetically modified foods, and whether or not global warming poses an immediate threat.

Hopefully, this will assist future generations of Maldvians and tourists to continue to enjoy their idyllic moments of peace on the shoreline while this unique country grows its way out of the very real threats of global warming and sea level rise.The BioRock Process (mineral accretion) is a revolutionary technology used to grow and preserve marine ecosystems.

If you take the threats of global warming as seriously as you say, why not at least pursue some work on this kind of backstop even as work on mitigating emissions continues?

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

Now that the scientific consensus on climate change has been established by the IPCC, perhaps the time has come to reasonably and sensibly address the ominously looming threats to human wellbeing, biodiversity and environmental health that are posed by global warming.

As I've explained before, there is enormous potential for progress on climate - smart energy steps even in the face of persistent division over the extent of the threat from global warming.

A note came back from the Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who has lately been pressing for the United States to intensify efforts to limit a danger both far more concretely understood than global warming and far less in vogue as a serious threat — the reality that a very large rock will inevitably head on a collision course for Earth.

The Alaskan Governor's submission on this subject even cited a «letter» (non peer reviewed, not scientific) written by a group of sceptics (willie soon, david legates, sallie baliunas) and part funded by ExxonMobil, which says that global warming isn't happening, therefore the bears are not under threat.

Mitchell Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who was in the specialists» group for many years, told some reporters that he was excluded this year because he disputes that the bears are in danger and that human - caused global warming poses a substantial threat to them.

Anyone who thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.

While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

But just as the species has been recovering from that threat, global warming is creating new pressures through the loss of summer sea ice and other impacts on the bears» preferred maritime habitat.

But since then, while the agency went on to propose listing the species as threatened (a step below endangered), Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of the Interior, has refused to draw a line between human - caused warming of the global climate and the retreating ice that Dr. Amstrup and other government biologists say poses the biggest threat to the bears.

Global warming, on the other hand, is far less of an immediate threat, many of its effects can not be reversed no matter what we do, the cost of attempting such a reversal could destroy the economies of emerging nations and make their development impossible — and it is a slow moving threat, that governments can plan to deal with over time.

As various arguments for action on global warming have failed to blunt growth in emissions in recent years, environmental groups and international agencies have sometimes tried to turn the focus to diseases that could pose a growing threat in a warming world — with malaria being a frequent talking point.

So long as we humans believe in our own supremacy and adaptability — that somehow, some way humanity will survive virtually anything thrown our way — then no amount of pontificating on the threat of global warming or any other danger, man - made or otherwise, will suffice to change our path.

«Taking bold steps to reduce black carbon emissions is a win - win situation because it will lessen the threat of global warming and improve global public health,» Sen. Carper, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, said.

Thirteen of the world's scientific academies have issued joint statements calling on humanity to act meaningfully to curb health risks attending both poverty and prosperity and limit the threat posed by human - driven global warming.

Once settled in at my new journalistic home, ProPublica, I plan on digging in further on this and other instances in which the main factors exacerbating environmental threats are policies and practices that can be changed promptly, even as the grand challenge of limiting global warming is pursued.

We as a society are already on our way to recognizing the ever prevalent threat of global warming, and recent reports and the like have only made more clear the threat.

I believe global warming is the only really significant threat to the biodiversity on this planet.

In Andy's article on Wednesday, «Strong Action Urged to Curb Warming», we are told that «The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human - driven global warming.Warming», we are told that «The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human - driven global warming.warming.»

Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence.

Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated By Frank Newport Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to -LSB-...]

On global warming: «A careful examination of the Earth's climate history, however, shows that this warming is the result of a natural fluctuation in temperature and poses no threat to humanity.»

My article on «Greenhouse Confusion» drew vigorous comments from those who believe firmly that anthropogenic global warming (or rather climate change) is a real and immediate threat.

The first of these special reports, to be finalized in September 2018, is Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poGlobal Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate pWarming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate pwarming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

You could add that evidence as to the reality of, and the threat posed by, human - induced global warming has emerged from a well established official expert advisory process, and in particular, within that process, from the series of massive Assessment Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

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«No matter the eco-cause — you can go back and look at overpopulation, you can go back and look at global cooling, global warming, species extinction, deforestation — all of these eco-scares, they all blame it on man, and the only way we can solve it is to give away our sovereignty and our freedom to the United Nations in the form of global governance,» Climate Depot editor Marc Morano told TNA, citing Czech Republic President Václav Klaus to point out that since the fall of the Soviet Union, «ambitious environmentalism» had become the greatest threat to freedom.