Sentences with phrase «raised questions about climate change»

Recent criticism of errors in the U.N. climate panel report on global warming and revelation of stolen e-mails from climate scientists have raised questions about climate change.

The majority of House Republicans have raised questions about climate change, or its link to human activity.

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Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

One of the lowest points may have come last November when President Obama formally, and forcefully, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, citing climate change priorities that raised questions about the future U.S. appetite for Canadian crude.

The study results raise questions about the best way for researchers and other groups to communicate climate change to an audience that may not trust them as a reliable source of information.

«This study raises new questions about what climate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and Cclimate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and ClimateClimate.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change — while raising questions about the management of basic research.

The two studies improve our understand of Greenland's deep past, while raising questions about both the past and future of its giant ice sheet in a changing climate.

Obama has played down Keystone XL's ability to create jobs and raised questions about its effects on climate change.

«Our study raises new questions about what climate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» said co-author Michael K. Tippett, an associate professor at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

iSeeChange stories flip the script on traditional top - down climate change reporting to let people's curiosity — and not just the questions raised by professionals in the field — to tap into the discussion about climate change impacts.

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

It's not a conspiracy, but it's absolutely the case that climate change raises very troubling questions about the true costs of the wealth that has accumulated in the Global North.

Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate ficlimate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate fiClimate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate ficlimate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate ficlimate findings.

6) Rit Carbone at NCAR (a mesoscale and radar meteorologist expert) has raised the question about whether the environmental conditions might change in ways to greatly reduce the strong summer half year diurnal cycle and associated storms, by dealing with other details not resolved by climate models.

Not to mention raising questions about the confidence that we should place in the IPCC's projections of future climate change.

«[The subjects raised] made for a decent scientific debate 15 years ago, but the questions have since been settled... The Great Global Warming Swindle raised old debates that are going to be latched on to and used to suggest that we don't need to do anything about climate change.

Ben Santer Scientists» Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming By Keith Johnson The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents — posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate - change research center — that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend -LSB-...]

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

The questions that Frank and Schmidt raise are part of a broader effort to address climate change from an astrobiological perspective, and a new way of thinking about life and civilizations across the universe.

This surreal story is only tangentially about climate change: the disclosure raises questions about the evidence submitted to the information tribunal by the BBC and Helen Boaden - its director of news who «stepped aside» this week.

«It... raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap - and - trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of preventing catastrophic climate change,» Soon told the executives in a 2009 email.

Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Friday said the chances of the U.N. panel having made more errors in its benchmark 2007 report were «minimal if not non-existent», while again admitting the «regrettable error» that has raised questions about its credibility...

Though it may feature in the climate change literature hall of fame, this paper raises a question about how to define a paper's influence, says Forster.

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.

This has raised questions about the true role of such biofuels in mitigating climate change.

We would agree that climate change raises some civilization challenging ethical questions about which different respectable ethical theories might reach different conclusions about what should be done.

The purpose of this blog isn't to answer scientific questions but rather to raise as many new ones as possible with the aim of maximising any doubt and uncertainty about climate change.

It raises further questions about the effects of climate change during the UK's warmest year on record.

The federal government data raise a number of questions about climate change in Canada's [continue reading...]

«Finally, Lorenz's theory of the atmosphere (and ocean) as a chaotic system raises fundamental, but unanswered questions about how much the uncertainties in climate - change projections can be reduced.

«Questions have been raised, according to a February 14, 2005, article in The Wall Street Journal, about the significance of methodological flaws and data errors in your studies of the historical records of temperatures and climate change.»

Many questions were raised from both groups about the main consequences of climate change and how these consequences have become more evident in the latest years.

«The evidence in my paper is consistent with the hypothesis that the Sun causes climatic change in the Arctic -LSB-...] It invalidates the hypothesis that CO2 is a major cause of observed climate change — and raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap - and - trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of «preventing catastrophic climate change».»

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.

Lead author Adrian Jenkins said, The discovery of the ridge has raised new questions about whether the current loss of ice from Pine Island Glacier is caused by recent climate change or is a continution of a longer - term process that began when the glacier disconnect from the ridge.

Pioneering graph used by IPCC to illustrate a compelling story of man - made climate change raises questions about transparency

* 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.

These raise important questions about the interpretation of the 2010 event and its causes, including its relationship to human induced climate change.

The possibility of native title being extinguished by climate change raises questions about what remedies the Islanders might be able to seek if this occurs.