Last night, President Bush filled us in on the State of the Union here in the US; despite mentioning biofuels and even «
the serious challenge of global climate change,» in the past year, individual states have left the feds with some catching up to do
Three Decades Of SOTU Climate Remarks: Bill Clinton in 2000: «The greatest environmental challenge of the new century is global warming» — George W. Bush in 2007: «These technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront
the serious challenge of global climate change»
«And these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront
the serious challenge of global climate change.»
Not exact matches
«
Climate change is a problem with
serious implications for the
global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one
of the main
challenges for humanity.
Climate change is a
global problem with
serious environmental, social, economic, distribution and policy implications, and make up one
of the main current
challenges for humanity.
Yet, declaring Cancun a success without viewing Cancun's limitations in the context
of the increasingly difficult
challenges entailed by further delay on a
global climate change solution is to invite
serious misjudgment about the nature
of hope that can be justified by Cancun.
But our current fossil fuel - based energy regime faces two
serious challenges: depletion
of the «low - hanging fruit»
of global petroleum supplies, and the need to reduce carbon emissions to avert catastrophic
climate change.