Sentences with phrase «people understand climate»

He believes VR can make people understand climate change in a visceral way that will lead to action.

Lovins also states, «Climate change is a problem we do not need to have, and it is cheaper not to (have it)... Once people understand climate protection puts money back into your pocket because you do not have to buy all that fuel, the political resistance will melt faster than the glaciers.»

«Once people understand climate protection puts MONEY back into your pocket because you do not have to buy all that fuel, the political resistance will melt faster than the glaciers.»

The common belief has been that if people understood climate change science they would want to do something about it.

Not exact matches

Yet as an environmentalist, philanthropist and alternative energy investor, he is trying to halt the accelerating affects of climate change and make people understand the connectedness between climate and financial markets.

To help meet the challenges of the changing climate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuClimate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate issues that impact people and their communities.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

After almost 28 years of ministry, I find the religious climate around me increasingly populated by people who insist that they do understand it all.

Given the secular climate of our age, the aspirations of this little book seem like the highest and steepest mountain to climb, yet for a young person setting out on life and seeking to understand more fully their own vocation, this is definitely a book to be read, to be treasured and to be used as a reference.

«Though why all these people from hot desert climates wan na face Michigan winters, I'll never understand!

The government has created an online Global Calculator to help people understand how their lifestyles and energy use impact on the climate — and which underlines the importance of eating less meat.

As the climate conference in Paris moves into the middle of its second week, Meat Free Monday founder Paul McCartney has sent a message urging people to understand the importance of meat reduction.

When the media understand the pulse of the people and help champion the cause of the common man, a better climate for the media to flourish and operate is ensured.»

«Nobody can really understand why a person becomes a terrorist,» said Andrew Holland, senior fellow for energy and climate at American Security Project.

By, for example, examining what people in the area use different trees and shrubs for and look at how the landscape changes, we can better understand how land use, social change, climate and ecosystems interact, even in ways that can be unexpected,» says Lowe Börjeson, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

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«In many of the specifics of the way people view climate change — for instance, seeing it as a moral issue and understanding that climate change is going to hurt people in developing countries and the world's poor the most — we saw really large shifts.»

Thanks to human - made climate change, events like storms, heatwaves and floods are on the rise, and there is growing demand for people who understand these phenomena and can advise the rest of us on how to handle them.

According to Professor Judith Stephenson: «Bringing together natural and social scientists with people from different organisations and communities in the global South and global North is essential to improve understanding of the interactions between consumption, demographic change and the climate, and to devise more scientifically and politically integrated solutions for global health.»

That's basic physics and chemistry and people who claim that they don't believe that, they don't believe we're warming the planet through increasing CO2 levels because of climate models, they don't understand the fact that you don't need a climate model to come to that conclusion.

Understanding how media coverage varies is important because people's knowledge and opinions on climate change are influenced by how the media reports on the issue.

«Assessment has had these phenomenal successes, and that ranges from framing the understanding of climate change to creating foundations that enable people to step forward and try out climate solutions,» Mach said.

Philander, a meteorologist at Princeton University, argues that understanding this phenomenon - which affects millions of people worldwide - will help us cope with human - induced climate change.

«That puts it into a context where people who are using that climate data for, say, planning purposes can understand it,» he says.

«For many people, climate change is something that happens, or not, in places that are far away, at scales that are difficult to see or understand through personal experience.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

I think you and others could do more to change attitudes in the U.S. on global warming by joining forces in putting pressure on NOAA administrators and NWS supervisors to educate the 5,500 meteorologists in 120 National Weather Service offices so the NWS scientists can help other government people and other meteorologists who enter people's private living rooms better understand climate change.

«This is a really tangible way for people to understand the impact of climate change,» says Rashid Sumaila, one of the study's authors who has been working with the UBC's fisheries research unit for over 20 years.

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

I don't understand why in these semi-technical forums people seem adverse to handling descriptions of ECS up to the details of Professor Ray Pierrehumbert's Section 3.4.2 (PRINCIPLES OF PLANETARY CLIMATE, page 163ff).

«Our ability to combine our knowledge has led to understandings of this issue that transcends a single region, climate type, people or tradition,» Nelson said.

In order to put the list together, he called on dozens of research fellows across 22 countries to help compile all the climate research out there, and present it a way that people who aren't in science fields can understand.

Our new assembly will help your class understand the effects of climate change on people in rich countries and poor, as world leaders prepare to renew efforts to build a sustainable future at the Rio +20 summit in June.

«I'm working with trainers in Australia, which means that it's people on the land, people who understand the climate and the culture, and elders who really have got this embedded knowledge.»

Likewise, there is evidence to suggest that many young people lack an understanding of how to manage their financial circumstances, which is a particular issue in the context of a difficult economic climate and increasingly common instances of personal debt and insolvency.

In this age of accountability, I wonder if data and formulas that the common person can not understand (see also, School Climate School Wide Agreement variance formula) are not diluting and distorting the REAL story of strong school culture.

And so it sounds like you're doing — like to train people in the climate to understand what pbis is.

With the expectation that climate change will increase the frequency of catastrophic weather events like Katrina, «We thought it would be very important to try to get a very detailed understanding of what happens to people after these big disasters,» Gallagher said.

Yet as an environmentalist, philanthropist and alternative energy investor, he is trying to halt the accelerating affects of climate change and make people understand the connectedness between climate and financial markets.

The current divisive political climate finds people seeking a means to come together and find a common understanding.

Taking «backfire effect» as a starting point — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans has interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand the political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

You don't seem to understand that, with a less than half - baked understanding of climate science, you've stumbled into a discussion with some extremely knowledgeable people, and then wonder why they don't buy into your «equal time for opposing views» viewpoint.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

Now this may seem pedantic or irrelevant to some, but I think it's critical if climate scientists want lay people and politicians (and even deniers) to actually understand what you are trying to get across every time with clarity.

That's simply not true (I don't expect climate scientists to understand polls)... In fact few people care much about climate change.

A person who understands the scientific process wouldn't be able to state that water vapor is a greater percentage of the greenhouse effect and think that no climate scientist had thought of this before.

Yes people intuitively relate to weather rather than climate but you can explain it to them and as long as you don't confuse them too much, they will understand.

It seems to me that Cooks focus has been on «educating / supporting» providing tools for active climate scientists to understand and apply, and more broadly academic students and those engaged in the topic, including media journos PR folks etc., and for people like you and other regular users of websites like RC here.

As for climate scientists being out of work in a solar minimum, me, I'm hiring people who understand how to warm up this joint.