Sentences with phrase «pressing than climate change»

Still, Tillerson said issues such as global poverty were more pressing than climate change, and billions of people without access to energy would benefit from oil and gas supplies.

Not exact matches

I'd like to think we did it because we didn't want to press our luck anymore, because repairs cost more than the Blue Book said you were worth, because you didn't have anti-lock brakes or passenger - side airbags, because we really couldn't have you breaking down on a late - night drive home from the airport or on a busy interstate, because of fuel economy and our deepening concern over climate change.

In December 2009, I was one of more than 4,000 journalists who attended the UN's Copenhagen summit on climate change — probably the largest press presence for an international event outside of sport.

Press attention devoted to biodiversity has remained stable since 1990, but the proportion of climate change reports rose before 2007 and has stayed substantially higher than biodiversity since 2005.

Both suggest the press is more interested in sensationalism than in realities, which is certainly true of MSM climate change coverage.

The negligence of the press is equal to or greater than the Bush Administration on the pressing issue of climate change.

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee's press blog.

It has a much finer resolution than does Figure A.For further reading: Houghton, J. T. et al., eds, «Climate Change: the Scientific Assessment», Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.

You know that climate change is a serious issue if the Dalai Lama is deeming it more pressing than Tibetan independence.

We also have to confront how the mismatch between climate change and market domination has created barriers within our very selves, making it harder to look at this most pressing of humanitarian crises with anything more than furtive, terrified glances.

From an OSU press release: CORVALLIS, Ore. — An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow rates was less than expected in many locations, suggesting that some ecosystems may be resilient to certain aspects of climate change.

Press Trust of India: A study pointing that the pollution levels in New Delhi is worse than that of Beijing may have been quoting the data from the worst period of the year but the air quality in Indian cities is progressively getting worse, UN climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri said today.

Nonetheless in 2011, Nature published another article by Camille Parmesan who urged we end the climate debate, «By over-emphasizing the need for rigorous assessment of the specific role of greenhouse - gas forcing in driving observed biological changes, the IPCC effectively yields to the contrarians» inexhaustible demands for more «proof», rather than advancing the most pressing and practical scientific questions.»

«We all have a part to play in addressing the pressing issue of climate change, and through this new offer we're making it easier than ever for Co-op customers to make that choice»

And it also led to a prolonged back - and - forth between White House press secretary Josh Earnest and ABC News» Jonathan Karl at Tuesday's briefing, during which Earnest fleshed out Obama's position like so: «The point that the president is making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the impact, the direct impact on their lives of climate change or on the spread of a disease than on terrorism.»

There has been almost no coverage in the American press about the ethical duties of governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals to reduce the threat of climate change other than occasional general assertions by some activists or members of a religious groups referring to climate change as a moral issue.

MJ.com: We like to think that we face more pressing issues than climate change, such as terrorism or the war in Iraq.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

Or perhaps we should be looking for potential catastrophies other than CAGW and applying some of the money currently spent on trying to avoid climate change to other more pressing and more predictable tragedies.

Even though local press and specialists did not link the event to climate change, it happened after one of the hottest summers in history and it was the second rare incident related to Buenos Aires weather in less than a year.

There are more pressing problems than climate change: Peakoil, peak - soil, peak - phosphorus, peak - biofuel, shortage of freshwater and shortage of credit and capital.