Sentences with phrase «see climate change as»

Most Americans see climate change as a distant problem — distant from them in space (not here), in time (not yet) and in terms of species (not us).

It makes it clear that people see climate change as some vague threat, rather than relating it to any specific impact that they can see.

Americans seem to be getting the message; an annual survey found we are starting to see climate change as an immediate problem, thanks to this year's devastating weather.

Latinos see climate change as a consequence of human activity at higher % than other Americans.

Given other surveys suggesting Americans see climate change as a serious issue but put it near the bottom of their priority list, these estimates sound about right.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

To naturalist and humanist I would also add opportunist: those who see climate change as a vehicle to further their own socialist or anti-capitalist politics.

I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century.

Scientists are also considerably more inclined than the general public as a whole to see climate change as a problem.

People look at the same graph and some see dangerous global warming, while others see climate change as always has taken place.

As the pope will surely stress, his understanding of Christian ethics compels him to see climate change as a profoundly moral issue.

Knowing what I know, I have felt a responsibility as a U.S. citizen to help Americans see climate change as an ethical problem and the U.S. response for twenty years as an ethical failure.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

On the whole, the MOST scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly LESS likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the LEAST scientifically literate and numerate ones.

Elsewhere, in Africa and Asia, for instance, people were more likely to see climate change as a risk if it was tied to local temperatures or air pollution.

Hundreds of miles away in Oregon and Washington, states where much of the plant's power is transmitted, leaders see climate change as a reason to end their reliance on Colstrip's coal - fired electricity.

Only 35 percent of Americans see climate change as a serious problem, according to a 2009 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

Eminent surgeons and physicians from across the world have signed a joint letter calling for the government to see climate change as a priority health issue.

The unanimous position among the UCP leadership candidates to repeal the carbon tax without proposing any alternatives to reform or replace it suggests that none of them see climate change as a serious issue.

You suggest that activists saw climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the science and caused «pushback» from the other side.

The reason for this seems to me to be the obviousness of seeing climate change as an ethical problem coupled with the infrequency of seeing climate change issues through a clear ethical prism.

Toward the end of the video you hear from a truly rare species, a New Hampshire conservative who sees climate change as important.

Q: It could be argued that climate scientists may be predisposed to seeing climate change as more serious, because they want more funding.

The Pentagon has long seen climate change as a «threat multiplier,» a «stressor» that can take a volatile political situation and push it over the edge.

In the United States and other high - emitting nations there is hardly a peep or a whisper about the practical consequences of seeing climate change as a world - challenging ethical problem.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

Dominica sees climate change as an urgent and far - reaching development issue, not just an environmental concern.

I don't buy into the «us vs them» «with us or against us» attitude that is the framework of seeing climate change as an anti-america issue.

In this post we look at the failure of the US press to communicate about the significance for policy of seeing climate change as an ethical issue.

In the United States and other high - emitting nations there is hardly a peep in the US media about the practical consequences of seeing climate change as a world - challenging ethical problem.

In 2017, the Metropolitan Learning Center grade school in Portland, Oregon invited me speak over 60 4th to 6th grader at their ClimateComm Conference on how I have seen climate change as a park ranger at Crater Lake.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

I blogged about seeing climate change as a park ranger and Climate Change impacting our National Parks: It's no Joke.

I laid out the case how I had seen climate change as a park ranger working in Everglades National Park.

Congressman Honda sees Climate Change as the biggest threat to environmental and ocean health, and believes we need to address the human causes today.

Compared to the 2008 poll, the percentage of people seeing climate change as something people can control fell by 10 percent to 41 percent.

The way that US citizens vote is now a major factor in their belief in global warming - with a wide majority of Republicans not seeing climate change as «here and now», compared to a tiny minority of Democrats who deny that global warming as already upon us.

«This president sees climate change as his legacy,» said Coral Davenport of The New York Times.

Culture... arose about 40 thousand years ago, in the depths of the glacial climate... Civilized humanity has never seen a climate change as severe as global warming.

A recent Pew survey found the majority of people in 40 countries saw climate change as a serious problem with a median of 54 % seeing it as very serious (http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/11/05/global-concern-about-climate-change-broad-support-for-limiting-emissions/).

Not exact matches

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

China saw an opportunity to replace the U.S. as a leader of the world's effort to combat climate change.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

But the president has also pledged to «respond to the threat of climate change» in his second term and would rather not be seen as eating his words by approving Keystone.

The two were also agreed that larger national discussions need to be held around climate change, economic development and accommodation of aboriginal rights and title — and that LNG development should be seen as an opportunity to move on these issues.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

By Joachim Marc Christensen, Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network Saturday evening December 12th 2015 became a historic night as the world saw its first global climate deal for a coordinated response against climate change.

Timor - Leste's current minister of commerce, industry, and the environment, Constâncio Pinto, sees Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, as a potential ally based on her past experience as a UN adviser in Timor - Leste.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.