Sentences with phrase «real threat of global climate change»

We need to stop groping for symbolic non-productive solutions, as we literally tilt at windmills in our efforts to combat the real threat of global climate change.

«The three - year delay of this report is sadly fitting for an administration that has wasted seven years denying the real threat of global climate change,» Mr. Kerry said in a statement.

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An emphatic 2008 report by economist Ross Garnaut, a former global warming agnostic who became, in his own words, «a late - life convert» to the green cause, did much to dispel any lingering questions among most Australians about whether the threat of climate change was real.

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

The Pentagon has been ordered to incorporate climate change in weapons testing and training, on the dubious notion that climate change is one of the world's biggest security threats, thus diverting resources to the point that actions to combat the theoretical threat of climate change are undermining the U.S.'s ability to respond to the real threats of terrorism and global conflict.

Whether it's the threat of dramatic sea level rise to coastal areas or current climate change refugees from low - lying islands, the effects of climate change and global warming on the world's oceans are both real and imminent.

Kurz believes that forest management is key to any attempt to fight climate change in these sectors, a practice that needs to evolve with the times as the threat of global warming becomes more real.

The new global climate change agreement establishes a revised goal of keeping average global temperature rise «well below 2 degrees Celsius,» sets up a clear mechanism for countries» greenhouse gas reductions to be revisited every five years and, for the first time, commits every nation - state on Earth — 196 different entities — to do something to address this collective threat... The Paris agreement marks a real turning point in history.