Sentences with phrase «serious than global warming»

Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

Not exact matches

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

The implicit assumption here is that the problem will turn out to be less serious than the models predict; thus, any carbon we have chosen to leave in the ground out of fear for the consequences of global warming will have gone uncombusted for nothing.

Climate - change skeptics have pointed to the emails as evidence that researchers were manipulating data to make global warming look more serious than it is.

The fact that virtually half of them believe the student loan crisis is a more serious threat to the U.S. than global warming, which may wipe out entire cities, is a telling indication of the severity of this country's educational debts.

250 millennials, or 48.5 percent, think the $ 1.41 trillion student loan crisis is a more serious issue for the U.S. than global warming is.

Global climate change appears to be an example where a dissociation between the output of the analytic and the affective system results in less concern than is advisable, with analytic consideration suggesting to most people that global warming is a serious concern, but the affective system failing to send an early warning signal (Weber, Global climate change appears to be an example where a dissociation between the output of the analytic and the affective system results in less concern than is advisable, with analytic consideration suggesting to most people that global warming is a serious concern, but the affective system failing to send an early warning signal (Weber, global warming is a serious concern, but the affective system failing to send an early warning signal (Weber, 2006).

I am also aware of how this may well mean that climatological models may well be predicting lower global warming change than in actually occuring, i.e. the warming problem is more serious than it appears.

A note came back from the Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who has lately been pressing for the United States to intensify efforts to limit a danger both far more concretely understood than global warming and far less in vogue as a serious threat — the reality that a very large rock will inevitably head on a collision course for Earth.

The visuals are great, but I fear that it's just more hype for business purposes (PR) rather than doing any serious damage in the fight against global warming.

-- Keep global warming below 2oC, implying a peak in global CO2 emissions no later than 2015 and recognise that even a warming of 2oC carries a very high risk of serious impacts and the need for major adaptation efforts.

Global warming initially got a lot of publicity from a minor drought at the end of the 80's I believe (minor compared to the dust bowl years), since then there hasn't been much unusual drought wise in the US (ie the droughts that have happened have been even less serious than the end of 80's situtation, let alone by comparison with the dust bowl years), but this hasn't exactly caused any problems.

The implicit assumption here is that the problem will turn out to be less serious than the models predict; thus, any carbon we have chosen to leave in the ground out of fear for the consequences of global warming will have gone uncombusted for nothing.

Clearly, however, far more than a super majority of climate scientists consider global warming to be potentially a very serious threat; and among those who disagree, few (1.16 %) would consider such an outcome to be unrealistic.

Among Democrats, more than eight in 10 say global warming is a serious problem, 65 percent want the federal government to do more about it and 57 percent believe most scientists agree on whether global warming is happening.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

It was important in that it cast serious doubt on the notion both of a global Medieval Warm Period warmer than the 20th century and of a global Little Ice Age, both long - time (cautiously) accepted features of the last 1,000 years of climate history.

However, the result is that while fully half of Democrats see global warming as a serious threat, this is true of less than a third of Republicans.

Even with this increase over the last 11 years, the fact remains that still less than a majority of Americans, at this point, believe global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetimes.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detailed new research into when global warming will start to have a serious effect on local climates has produced the shock finding that it could happen much sooner than scientists have previously predicted London, 9 October — Catastrophic climate change may begin sooner than anyone expected --- and the first place to feel the heat could be a small but important city in Indonesia.

A second, much more serious, objection is that our forecasts for warming impacts might be wrong, and global warming could turn out to be substantially worse than these models predict.

The Himalayas... provide more than half of the drinking water for 40 % of the world's population... Within the next half - century, that 40 % of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.»

«Gore has caused the spread of more pseudo-scientific incompetence on the subject of global warming (I'm sorry — climate change) than any climate scientist could possibly have ever accomplished... No serious climate researcher — including the ones I disagree with — believes global warming can cause colder weather.

That's one trillion dollars each and every year — the loss in annual revenue for the coal industry if the world takes serious action to prevent global warming, rather than just continuing on in business - as - usual.

There is serious probability of famines due to political mismanagement, far greater than any alarmist catestrophic global warming scenarios.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

More than half identify global warming as very serious, and 23 % ranked it «extremely serious,» after crime, the economy, and healthcare costs.

Not only have global carbon emissions continued to rise 3 percent a year, but the science has made more clear that human populations and natural systems face serious risk of substantial climate damage at warming less than 2 °C, they said.

He does not address the fact of Global Change or its (serious) implications, but asserts that there is not the public support for reacting to Global Warming while pursuing truthiness, by distorting the issue, rather than truth.

If global warming continues as projected, the global consequences of deteriorating conditions in the tropics will soon be a lot more serious than a foretaste of summer weather in late winter.

And because heat can be stored in places other than at the surface, a lack of surface warming for a decade tells you almost nothing about the underlying long - term warming trends... I judge that there is virtually no merit to suggestions that the «hiatus» poses a serious challenge to the standard model [of human - caused global warming].»

The BBC told us of Scientists» grim climate report, that «The risks from global warming are more serious than previously thought».