Sentences with phrase «person about global climate change»

In «Noise: Lies, Damned Lies, and Denial of Global Warming» statistician Grant Foster shows how the manipulation of figures can be used to mislead the average person about global climate change.

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Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the rally, according to organizers, at which many spoke about individual steps that could be taken to help thwart the cyclical event once known as global warming, now re-dubbed climate change.

«In Asia and the Middle east, you'll find that people are less aware about the risks of climate change and global warming,» a spokesman for the Kuwaiti team said.

«If you ask people what they think about climate change — not global warming — we find that the partisan gap shrinks by about 30 percent,» he said.

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

As reports of such incidents continue to rise, researchers at the University of Arizona set out to learn more about how people's perception of the threat of global climate change affects their mental health.

Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of 400,000 people each year and costing global GDP about $ 1.2 trillion, according to a report commissioned by multiple nations.

Best of luck to you on walking your own path of being true to all your morals: from preventing animal abuse, to limiting global climate change, to limiting human starvation, to being truthful about healthy diets with your patients / other people.

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate chAbout to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate chabout discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.

I think we need to be concerned about where meteorologists, and many people who listen to them, are getting their educations about climate change and global warming from.

After I gave a talk at Pennsylvania State University not long ago, a professor there asked if I could share the slide I use to describe one source of confusion and disputes when people are yelling about «global warming» or «climate change.»

But this awards blog is not about the good country of the Czech Republic, who citizens are good honest people who know a thing or two about global warming and climate change.

Of course, Earth Hour 2009 is just around the corner... And Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

Thank goodness the Trump Train has not or will not be derailed by people like McCarthy, who obviously knows - infinity (not just nothing but boundlessly and harmfully wrong) about either global warming (aka climate change) or economics.

I've found that you've really got to pay close attention to how people talk about global warming or climate change.

We began our assignment with the assumption that the average person is opinionated but underinformed about climate change and global warming.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

People who have doubts or are skeptical about various aspects related to global warming / climate change / extreme climate are not a monolithic lot.

These include views about climate change, where older adults are less likely to see human activity as a main reason behind global warming, and people's level of support for stricter emission limits for power plants to address climate change.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

In addition, if climate change is a moral problem, even assuming counter-factually that there is considerable scientific uncertainty about whether humans are causing serious global warming, those who are putting others at risk have duties to not endanger vulnerable people without their consent.

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

People who've been following the debate about global warming closely will be aware that the economic modelling used in projections of future climate change by the IPCC has been severely criticised by former Australian Statistician Ian Castles and former OECD chief economist David Henderson.

Given that people on Brulle's side of the Global Warming / Climate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy eClimate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy eclimate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exists.5

Although many people have accepted with half - believing and half - doubting the view that the emission of greenhouse gases is the primary factors in global climate change, many scientists are skeptical about this view, they have refuted this view with plenty of evidence.»

With this video about an ongoing climate lawsuit by a group of American high - school students against the government of United States of America, our participants observed how it is possible for young people to join decision - making processes as a part of the global climate change struggle.

The people facing the worst impacts of climate change have virtually no voice in western debates about whether to do anything serious to prevent catastrophic global warming.

«James Hoggan's Climate Cover - Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a valuable expose of the efforts that have been made by self - interested actors to prevent political action on climate change, by manipulating the public debate and confusing people about the strength of the scieClimate Cover - Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a valuable expose of the efforts that have been made by self - interested actors to prevent political action on climate change, by manipulating the public debate and confusing people about the strength of the scieclimate change, by manipulating the public debate and confusing people about the strength of the science....

The health benefits argument goes like this: Here in Canada the people who are beating the drums about global climate change are notable for their hatred of the oil companies, and like to compare them to Big Tobacco.

About Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest people.

«If people are giving you straight answers about this, they're probably making it up,» Elizabeth Stanton, an economist at Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts, told me when I asked her how much climate change had cost the U.S. in 2017.

Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.

The old story line: People need to worry about climate change because doubling the atmosphere's concentration of carbon dioxide relative to its preindustrial level would probably raise global average temperatures by 2.7 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit.

Finally, there's the intimate connection between the global - warming cult and its patrons in collectivist politics, who view climate change as an indispensable opportunity to seize money and power — a claim in which politicians get to represent the Earth itself against the grubby little people they're not terribly fond of, even when they're not trying to promote a scary story about aerosol deodorant, cow farts, air conditioners, and automobiles unleashing the apocalypse.

Most of the comments come from people with their own «ax to grind» and with little or no scientific knowledge acquired by studying the scientific literature about global climate changes including those caused by greenhouse gases.

Easily the proudest moment of that campaign and my entire year with Green Corps was the Saturday before the New Hampshire primary when John McCain, in a school gymnasium, stood up and said, «I've heard from young people all across this state and around the country, for the last couple of months about «What are you gonna do about climate change, what are you gonna do about global warming?»

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The book, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), written with photojournalist Gary Braasch, was finished during Cherry's tenure as the 2006 artist - in - residence at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and features many examples of young people and others involved in citizen science projects at Cornell and elsewhere.

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The campaign is based on a recent survey which shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about our ability to address climate change, with 64 % of global citizens believing it is solvable if we take action now.

This educational cartoon strip aims to educate young people in an entertaining and attractive way about environmental degradation caused by climate change and global warming, and the actions that can be undertaken by them and their families to attenuate these negative impacts.

These people do not care about climate change nor global warming nor global cooling nor any actual facts.

At first I thought it was about just another twisted survey to give the impression that people fear global warming climate change and the extremes it's supposedly brings.

I think a lot of people, including politicians, are starting to notice this point, because if you look at the late 90's the debate was all about the crisis of global warming, but now they've suddenly changed the name to «climate change» instead.

The index combines responses for three survey questions that ask about the extent to which people believe global climate change is a serious problem, is harming people now and will impact them personally at some point in their lives.

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• Most people say that they understand either a moderate amount or a great deal about the issue of global warming or climate change.

What do people know about global climate change?

With regard to the wider public «debate» about AGW, though, I don't see how it is a «bad idea» to name names of politicians who deliberately and aggressively LIE to the American people about the reality of anthropogenic global warming and climate change, and who engage in vicious and dishonest attacks on climate scientists.