Sentences with phrase «regard to climate change so»

In any event bloggers and their followers are now more informed than those who rely on mainstream publications in my experience especially in regard to climate change so hope the tour is a big success

Not exact matches

It is hard to get a fix on Romney regarding climate change, the 2nd amendment, abortion rights, a coherent strategy of deficit reduction and reform of the tax code, health care and so on.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Further to Fred Pearce's editorial on the outcome of the Rio +20 Earth Summit (30 June, p 3), the disarray in international politics that he highlighted with regard to climate change is now so potentially dangerous that no one can affect to be a disinterested observer.

«There has been so much written regarding the potential impacts of climate change, particularly as they relate to physical climate extremes,» added Bryan Jones, a postdoctoral researcher at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and lead author of the study.

So the idea that «the physics» can be regarded as, in itself, irrefutable with respect to long term climate change is hopelessly naive.

I have posted on RealClimate about 4 times in the past 5 years regarding the potential thaw of the methal hydrate deposits at the bottom of the oceans.I stated in my posts on your website that I believe firmly that those deposits are in quite a good bit of danger of melting from climate change feedback mechanisms.On Nov 8th, ScienceDaily posted a huge new study on the PETM boundary 55 million years ago, and some key data on how the methane at that point may very well have melted and contributed to the massive climate shift.I am an amateur who reads in the new a lot about climate change.I'd now like to say «I told you so!!!»

Regarding Mr. Morano and the Senator he represents, if he is making (in part) the argument that major (and quick) climate change are inevitable and that we therefore should just accept and live with it, then how does he respond to the argument that death is inevitable, so why shouldn't we all just be happy meeting the maker now rather than later?

In LGM simulations land albedo changes are prescribed (at least in regards to ice sheets and altered topography due to sea level; there are feedback land albedo changes) so are a forcing, whereas sea ice is determined interactively by the model climate, so is a feedback in this framework.

So, given the fact that Dot Earth has (appropriately) chosen to cover David's letter and point out criticisms of the WSJ, I request that Dot Earth do a post that invites comments, criticisms, complements, and ideas regarding the TIMES»S own coverage of the climate change issue.

In that regard it raises good questions and topics worthy of further exploration, but it is not a document that can be used for setting policy for anthropogenic climate change, although it pretends to be so.

So, the honest answer in statements to the press regarding extreme weather events is this: «climate change is happening and is possibly a factor in this weather (or hurricane) event but our current understanding shows no significant (or some) correlation.

This one, dating back a decade, particularly seems to show pressures within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to send a strong message: «I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards «apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data» but in reality the situation is not quite so simple...»]

Public understanding is so «suboptimal» regarding climate change itself, and regarding a need for a «price» of any sort for carbon emissions, that we just have to hope that we'll get either cap - and - trade or carbon tax.

I have to admit the current state of the art in regards to climate change source data seems sparse and yet to see so many intelligent individuals seem so adamant about the physical processes that I wonder if the reported hypothesisâ s are worth the read.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

Of course, as soon as they put out anything the least bit equivocal regarding so - called climate change, any «respect» will turn to contempt.

In the natural cycle regarding long term natural climate change caused by Milankovitch cycles, at least for the past million years or so, the sensitivity response to changes is indicated to alter the global temperature by 6º Celsius between warm periods and glacial periods.

And all this is why I regard the institutionalization of climate tribalism such as evidenced by the recent AGU statement on climate change to be so pernicious to the field of climate science.

There is concern that the institutions of science are so mired in advocacy on the topic of dangerous anthropogenic climate change that the checks and balances in science, particularly with regard to minority perspectives, are broken.

And so, the front groups can be counted on to spin any scientific information about climate change without regard to the truth of their claims.

There are so many factors with regards to climate change that it's necessary to keep an open mind.

And so, although climate change is a civilization challenging problem of distributive justice, the US media has largely ignored the justice issues particularly in regard to their significance for US policy.

(See, Brown, 2011 for a discussion of specific practical consequences that follow from recognition that climate change is an ethical problem) These consequences include that nations should commit to do what their ethical responsibilities, obligations, and duties requires of them without regard to whether all other nations are agreeing to do so.

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cchange for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cchange damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Climate ChangeChange.

So the «big picture» with regards to climate change is anything but quite clear today.

Moreover, the Rose Garden speech President Bush delivered that day removed any doubt that the new Bush - Cheney White House had already begun to spin the big lie about climate change, the lie we know so well we can recite it in our sleep: scientific uncertainties regarding global climate change are too great to make any policy decisions, especially those that might affect the US economy (read: the US fossil fuel - based energy economy).

So while actual dollar costs and benefits proposed should be regarded with scepticism — we can act to reduce the risks of anthropogenic changes to the climate system.

Regarding the alleged majority of voters who care about climate change: even if that's so and Obama is reelected, judging by Obama's performance so far it seems wildly unrealistic to expect him to do a fossil fuel about - face any time soon.

Normally I will try to keep my criticisms of the administration out of the discussion, whether it is in regard to evolution or climate change — so as to keep the peace.

Regarding long term outcomes, I tend to agree with flxible that even short term outcomes don't look good but it seems to me that Wasdell is at least showing that if the international community wants to avoid 2C (because of some arbitrary idea of where dangerous climate change will kick in, agreed on years ago) then it can't do it without removing atmospheric greenhouse gases and so any notion that some emissions reduction agreement can do the trick are delusions.

Picking up on Pete's point in # 123 that he is troubled by not knowing exactly what climate scientists are trying to tell us about where we currently stand in regard to tipping points and todays ABC article on the acceleration of climate change which includes the comment: «But many experts confide privately what they aren't yet ready to announce publicly: Change is accelerating at a dramatic rate» (URL below) I would find it very helpful if someone from Real Climate could tell us the summary message you want to get across to the public regarding tipping points — is it the «alternative version» I set out in # 75 above or is it a modified version of this, if so it would be great if you could post the modified version up here — I would love to hclimate scientists are trying to tell us about where we currently stand in regard to tipping points and todays ABC article on the acceleration of climate change which includes the comment: «But many experts confide privately what they aren't yet ready to announce publicly: Change is accelerating at a dramatic rate» (URL below) I would find it very helpful if someone from Real Climate could tell us the summary message you want to get across to the public regarding tipping points — is it the «alternative version» I set out in # 75 above or is it a modified version of this, if so it would be great if you could post the modified version up here — I would love to hclimate change which includes the comment: «But many experts confide privately what they aren't yet ready to announce publicly: Change is accelerating at a dramatic rate» (URL below) I would find it very helpful if someone from Real Climate could tell us the summary message you want to get across to the public regarding tipping points — is it the «alternative version» I set out in # 75 above or is it a modified version of this, if so it would be great if you could post the modified version up here — I would love to hechange which includes the comment: «But many experts confide privately what they aren't yet ready to announce publicly: Change is accelerating at a dramatic rate» (URL below) I would find it very helpful if someone from Real Climate could tell us the summary message you want to get across to the public regarding tipping points — is it the «alternative version» I set out in # 75 above or is it a modified version of this, if so it would be great if you could post the modified version up here — I would love to heChange is accelerating at a dramatic rate» (URL below) I would find it very helpful if someone from Real Climate could tell us the summary message you want to get across to the public regarding tipping points — is it the «alternative version» I set out in # 75 above or is it a modified version of this, if so it would be great if you could post the modified version up here — I would love to hClimate could tell us the summary message you want to get across to the public regarding tipping points — is it the «alternative version» I set out in # 75 above or is it a modified version of this, if so it would be great if you could post the modified version up here — I would love to hear it.

If I remember correctly, temperatures are rising in the arctic faster than anywhere else on the planet — so this would seem to be a fairly urgent issue — inextricably tied to all the others regarding carbon emissions and climate change.

So, whatever political solutions we want regarding climate change, (at least in the U.S.) will have to come from one of the two major parties, and most likely the Democrats.

So should car advertisements be required to include some statement regarding the climate change impact, and therefore human health impact, of the vehicle?

Hence the logic of great expence now seems not so far fetched with regard to climate change.

Why is this so important in regard to climate change in the Arctic?

As briefly mentioned the Artic is a good indicator of what is happening with regard to changing climate as it is so observable and with it cascade the implications that could arise.