Sentences with phrase «real issue of global warming»

The emphasis on questionable dollar - cost estimates distracts from the real issue of global warming's impact on us.

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«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

Global warming is of course a real issue (as opposed to alien invasions and meteors hitting the Earth, the chances of which are infinitesimally small).

4) Some say that whatever you think about the dangers of global warming, this kind of language inevitably becomes the issue, distracts from the real questions, and could in fact further polarize or paralyze discourse.

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

I accept there is something approaching a scientific consensus that global warming is real and should be addressed urgently, but contributions wishing to radically change the figures do need to consider credibility issues of this kind.

The earth has had significant Global Warming for some 20,000 years now... The only real argument is to the degree that mans activity has augmented that... We just came out of one - point - five - million years of continuous glaciation with sheets of two mile thick ice down past the 44th parallel... I will cheerfully deal with warming issues over that, anyWarming for some 20,000 years now... The only real argument is to the degree that mans activity has augmented that... We just came out of one - point - five - million years of continuous glaciation with sheets of two mile thick ice down past the 44th parallel... I will cheerfully deal with warming issues over that, anywarming issues over that, any day...

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

Although global warming strikes me as one of those issues where there is no real balance and it is wrong to create an artificial or false equivalence, there is no harm and some possibility of benefit in inviting skeptics about the human contribution and other factors to speak, but in a setting in which the context of the vast majority of scientific evidence and speakers is also made clear.

I only found out about Ecotricity today, and am shocked (though I shouldn't be) that what's happening here clearly demonstrates that «global warming» can't be the real issue, or corporations like EDF would realise that what they are doing ultimately (when actual costs are counted), is increasing their carbon footprint (just think of all the people, documents, transportation that are needed over the course of a court - case).

«I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature.

Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

I lost many of the interest in infowars, alex jones and mike adams once i realized mike cut off Dane when he was about to shed light on this issue... why wouldn't they admit they were wrong with global warming hoax... this is the real issue on global warming!

In short, Tol AGREES with the idea at issue - namely, that an overwhelming number of those in climate science and related fields accept global warming as real and occurring.

[¶] The academies of science of the following 33 nations or regions have issued statements accepting global warming as real and human - caused: [lists] He is correct in his hypothesis, AGW is a hoax, and in his conclusion, it is unparalleled.

A panel of top American scientists declared today that global warming was a real problem and was getting worse, a conclusion that may lead President Bush to change his stand on the issue as he heads next week to Europe, where the United States is seen as a major source of the air pollution held responsible for climate change.

We also know that the global warming issue resulted in incalculable intellectual fraud, grotesque corporate rent - seeking, and the waste of the environmental dollar (there are real, here - and - now ecological issues that deserve the global warming buck).

An executive (and founder) with Green Peace recently admitted he left the organization because global warming was more of a political issue than reality and the «scientific» models being developed were designed to back up global warming assertions instead of to process real data in unbiased fashion.

We consider such references to be the real «rhetorical devices» because they obscure the key scientific issue: whether this critical component of the earth's biosphere will cause significant and destructive global warming.

Several commenters pointed me to an interesting blog, Real Climate, which seemed to be a reasonable treatment of issues written by those who generally accept the orthodox view of man - made global warming.

It's to get off real dealing with problems that have very serious dangers and consequences and moving to this kind of feel - good issue of global warming.»

Turner Construction Even the chance that [global warming] is a real issue should motivate each and every one of us to action,» 1 — Thomas Leppert, CEO; Goldman Sachs «We support the need for a national policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions» - Environmental Policy Framework JPMorgan Chase «JPMorgan Chase advocates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.»

Expect the comments below to be filled with changing goalposts, poisoning of the well (something along the lines of «scientists shouldn't be investigating scientists», even though what they were investigating was Dr. Mann's scientific conduct), distractions, diversions, and just general noise — anything to bury the cold fact that the scientists involved with modeling global warming did not cheat, did not fake any data, and the bigger issue that climate change is real.

The answer to this problem, which is a real one, since many reporters are newbies or don't know the science they are reporting on and are just looking for a few good quotes to bolster their reportagel, is this: scientists who understand the issue of global warming and climate change need to write more oped commentaries for major newspapers like the NY Times and the LA Times and the Guardian, with their names attached as author, and get the truth out that way.

But if he subsequently took time to read my material after replying to my comment at his article, then it's plausible he's not only realized that this grandiose dream has evaporated, but also that he's now facing the far more real and very bleak prospect of trying to guess who might turn state's evidence against him just to save their own skins in investigations of where the actual «racketeering» in the global warming issue seemingly appears.