Sentences with phrase «questioning about climate change issues»

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Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

My blog is a way of focusing on actual arguments about climate change policies as they unfold, teasing out these arguments the often hidden ethical questions, and inviting the world to see these questions not as «value neutral» scientific or economic questions but as ethical issues.

I can't stand how people turn a blind eye to such a monumental issue, especially when there are so many available and free resources to answer any question you may have about Climate Change, and what you can do to lessen your footprint.

When a batch of climate scientists on all sides of the hurricane - climate question issued a letter warning that the main issue related to hurricanes is coastal vulnerability, not climate change, I wrote about it, but hardly anyone else did.

Grist had played an important role in elevating the issue during the ensuing years, and we're glad more of our media peers are asking questions about what climate change really looks like — and how we're going to deal with it.

While previous Pew Research Center surveys have asked about this issue using somewhat different question wording and polling methods over time, surveys since 2006 have found wide political differences in public views about climate change and the role of human activity.

In the first presidential debate, though the moderator disappointingly failed to ask a question about was is arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today — human - caused climate change — the Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton, forced the issue herself by calling out Donald Trump for his denial of climate change, noting that he, for example, in a past tweet dismissed climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese (indeed Trump has posted at least a half - dozen climate change - denying tweets over the past few years).

When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the oclimate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the oclimate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the oClimate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the outcome.

Her climate science denial did not appear in the broadcast, but the ABC did ask her about it and has released the answers to a series of questions on the issue of climate change and her promotion of climate scepticism.

Aside from the astroturf nature of the planned events, which appear aimed at passing off industry employees as independent citizens, the memo also raises questions about the positions of several major oil companies on the issue of climate change.

Back to the broader issue of whether climate models have been disproved, though: the questions I've just written about are all about how climate change affects hurricanes, and not about the basic fact of human - induced climate change itself.

Beth Sawin: «Because [climate] issues touch on so many sectors, I see entry points almost everywhere... if your connection is asthma and children's health, then you can ask really hard questions about air pollution levels in your city, because a lot of the solutions to air pollution are also the solutions to climate change.»

This paper shows that it is quite possible, and even numerically plausible, that the answers to the big policy question of what to do about climate change stand or fall to a large extent on the issue of how the high - temperature damages and tail probabilities are conceptualized and modeled.

Obviously this is a loaded question, but if we accept that the starting premise is true (politicians media et al have stimulated an AC to support alarm about human - caused climate change) is it not what the issue ultimately entails?

Given the major environmental, jobs and energy security questions that have been raised about Keystone XL, and the fact that President Obama can take a stand for the environment on this issue without the usual (and fully tedious) Congressional debate, if he does in fact approve it, it certainly calls into question his entire environmental platform — if how he handled the climate change debate in 2009 didn't already.

«[O] n an issue like climate change, for example, I think for this country and the world to ask some very tough questions about what are we leaving behind, that weighs on you.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

Many questions could be raised about the study's purpose and methods, and it has little bearing on the various kinds of difficult and nuanced questions being addressed or needing to be addressed, on the climate change issue.