Sentences with phrase «role for global warming»

But it definitely rolls back Dr. Emanuel's sense of confidence about a recent role for global warming.

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Here's what Pete says: Mr. Obama's speech was not a call to unity; it was a summons to his liberal base to fight — on global warming, for gay rights, for gun control, for renewable energy, and for a diminished American role in world affairs.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

The discovery that forests are not a panacea for global warming only emerged after they were given a central role in the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty signed two years ago by most of the world's governments in a bid to stem the greenhouse effect.

It is based on simple rules of thumb that guarantee a role for man - made global warming in the extreme event, said Dáithí Stone, an attribution scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

A gap similar to the one between younger and older adults about evolution exists concerning the evidence for, seriousness of, and human role in global warming (pdf).

My understanding is that there is no evidence for cosmic rays playing a role in the recent global warming.

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

That suggests a role for vertical temperature gradients in strengthening winds, such vertical gradients should increase with more global warming.

[D] espite the strong mechanistic or physiological basis for a role of warming in coral bleaching and coral growth, a robust demonstration of a direct causal link between global warming and global coral bleaching over decadal time scales has not yet been produced.»

Re the cost of flying, there are lots of assumptions around because of different ways of using or ignoring a 1999 report on aviation's role in global warming [Aviation and the Global Atmosphere] for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the effects of flying are much worse than would be predicted by just burning thglobal warming [Aviation and the Global Atmosphere] for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the effects of flying are much worse than would be predicted by just burning thGlobal Atmosphere] for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the effects of flying are much worse than would be predicted by just burning the oil.

You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and climate change are playing in burning down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»

Both have been chosen because of their hopes for a brighter future, but over the decades, Frank (now played by George Clooney) has become disillusioned, and it's up to Casey and Athena to bring him around and in the process save the world from... Well, I won't spoil it, but let's just say this is the sort of movie in which a discussion of global warming plays a supporting role and the senselessness of Hollywood movies and video games receives its obligatory culture - war spanking.

Recently, for example, my government class discussed how, faced with a mountain of scientific data, anybody — including politicians — would refute global warming, or the role that humanity plays in its occurrence.

Before his current role, Edgar was a senior policy strategist with Reinvent Communications, pushing state global warming reform efforts and rolling out the «My Brothers Keeper - Whole Village Initiative» for Long Beach Council Member, Rex Richardson.

As anthropogenic global warming is encroaching on our abilities to live and pursue happiness, it's finally time for you to rise to your feet, assume your role, and lead us to the land of sustainability that we have been reaching for.

My earlier post had to do with addressing the global warming problem (and with what would be necessary for the market to play a suitable role), and it wasn't (and isn't) my intent to try to make proposals to address some of the other problems you mention here.

Thus, articles that link the loss of Arctic sea ice to global warming are acceptable, and any news article on Arctic sea ice will generally touch on the role of global warming — usually with a mention for polar bears, which are indeed cute (not too cuddly, tho).

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

Studies at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research reveal: solar activity affects the climate but plays only a minor role in the current global warming

It's great to see the Union of Concerned Scientists offering nonpartisan criticism of elected officials for distorting — in both directions — what's known about the role of human - driven global warming on several fronts, from tornado ferocity to hurricane losses.

I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.

Enviornmental changes have had little role in the great disaters such as Rwanda or the Balkans, stop trying to create the Global Warming Bogeyman as an excuse for criminal governments.

Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research dug into the physical science underpinning knowledge of the human role in global warming.

All we need is for a conservative policymaker to step up and take a leadership role to implement this no - brainer win - win of a global warming solution.

This was manifest as a refusal to accept for example, the theory of evolution, the existence of global warming, much less of the role of humans in this process, the value of vaccines or of embryonic stem cell research.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's spokesman said that played a role in the request as well as the «perception» Michaels was speaking for the state on global warming issues.

BACKGROUND: JAMES HANSEN ENDORSEMENT: Back in February 2006, we hoped recognition of plug - ins» role would grow after PHEVs got strong backing from one of the world's leading experts on global warming, James Hansen, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies: «The plug - in hybrid approach, as being pursued by CalCars, seems to be our best bet for controlling vehicle CO2 emissions in the near - term.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders asked the Department of Justice Tuesday to investigate ExxonMobil for sowing doubt about climate change after the company's own scientists had confirmed and accepted the role of fossil fuels in global warming.

For me, that begins with people accepting that there is no hiding place left in the science — the overwhelming consensus of the vast body of scientists that study climate is that the trends we are seeing in the air, the oceans and in our ecosystems are entirely consistent with the theory of global warming, while the alternatives offered by sceptical scientists — even the much heralded role of the Sun — so far fail that test.

Role: With its aggressive muckraking style and demonstrably lower standards for accuracy and fact - checking, the British press has become one of the most effective conduits for the global - warming denying movement.

It's hard to find an explanation for the global temperature record in the El Niño / La Niña Southern Oscillation (ENSO), although that climatic oscillation did play a major role in influencing weather patterns worldwide throughout 2010, as ENSO switched from a warm El Niño in early 2010 to a powerful La Niña somewhere from July — showing little interest in the intermediate.

Michaels, readers may recall, became a lightning rod for controversy last month after Charlottesville City Councilor Kevin Lynch questioned the propriety of Michaels» role as so - called «state climatologist» while accepting industry money and espousing an unpopular view that downplays global warming.

An Arctic scientist who has consistently sounded alarms about the approach of global warming, Smith is best known for determining the role of climate change in the disappearance of more than a thousand Arctic lakes over the last quarter of the 20th century.

At the very moment President Obama is committing the U.S. to a leadership role in combating so - called «global warming» and «climate change,» scientists are breaking with the hypothesis that temperatures around the world are on a steady increase for the foreseeable future.

We show that the index commonly used for quantifying long - term changes in solar activity, the sunspot number, accounts for only one part of solar activity (William: Closed magnetic field) and using this index leads to the underestimation of the role of solar activity in the global warming in the recent decades.

Photograph: Aaron Tilley for the Guardian Roy Spencer is one of the less than 3 % of climate scientists whose research suggests that humans are playing a relatively minimal role in global warming.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

Not for the first time in recent years, Europe has descended into a deep freeze while the Arctic experiences record high temperatures, leaving scientists to ponder the role global warming may play in turning winter weather...

while there is undoubtedly scope for statisticians to play a larger role in paleoclimate research, the large investment of time needed to become familiar with the scientific background is likely to deter most statisticians from entering this field... In the end, it's important not to lose sight of the forest for the trees, where the «forest» refers to the totality of scientific evidence for global warming.

While I acknowledge that the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing, that climate change is real, that human activity plays a role in these changes and that these changes are impacting our state, I simply disagree that RGGI is an effective mechanism for addressing global warming.

The proceeding, scheduled for March 21 by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies pitted against those for San Francisco and Oakland — California cities that have accused fossil fuel interests of covering up their role in contributing to global warming.

(For a detailed description of the blocking role that the United States has played in international climate negotiations since 1990 until the Obama administration, See Brown, 2002, American Heat; Ethical Problems the US Response to Global Warming, and Brown, 2013, Climate Chang Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm)

Thursday's confirmation hearing for President Obama's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency became the latest forum for an ongoing argument over global warming, jobs, the future of the U.S. coal industry, and the role of the federal government.

By attacking the level of certainty that people may hold with regard to either the existence of or human causation of global warming, climate change denial has attractions for those outside the inner circle of beneficiaries from the fossil fuel industry who do not want to reckon with either changes in their own lifestyle or with the increased role of government required by effective climate action.

In my leadership role on the EPW Committee, I have watched the Obama administration prioritize more than $ 120 billion for the president's global warming agenda at the expense of real investment in critical infrastructure.»

Clinton joins a growing number of politicians — including both of her Democratic presidential challengers — calling for the Justice Department to investigate ExxonMobil for sowing doubt about climate change after the company's own scientists had confirmed and accepted the role of fossil fuels in global warming.

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He says the report shows that «a greater role for solar and other cosmic rays in global warming is ridiculous.»

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged the role of aviation emissions in causing global warming, and said it will develop rules in line with ICAO regulation to reduce emissions from the industry, as it has done for vehicles and power plants.