Sentences with phrase «something about the changing climate»

Nevertheless the political climate for doing something about the changing climate is the worst in years.

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Clean fracking «is absolutely something we should be thinking about,» says Matt Horne, director of the Pembina Institute's climate - change program.

There are climate - change deniers, and there climate change debaters, but there is really only one CEO who has made doing something decisive about what many scientist argue is an existential threat the collective mission of his companies.

Something is off in our society when we spend more time worrying about the color of a dress as opposed to climate change.»

With climate change set to bring about profound changes to global food production, Canada may come to find itself in something of an unforeseen sweet spot.

The other issue is when we talk about doing something about climate change, doing something means to avoid major sea level rise, we need to reduce emissions globally starting today... seven percent per year.

«It's really useful, if you get the chance to speak to your candidates, for them to hear that climate change is something that their voters care about and something that the Church cares about.»

As he explained to the Financial Times: «[Granata and I] were both very concerned by climate change and we wanted to do something about it, so we started meeting scientists at the Polytechnic University of Milan and started research to develop that technology.»

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Opens New Exhibit: Weather to Climate: Our Changing World - WGN - TV - May 2, 2016 Most of us like to complain about the weather, but the Nature Museum is actually doing something about it.

Beekeepers in New York fret the impact of climate change on honeybees in the state and around the country and want something done about it.

The surprise findings tell scientists something about past extinctions and Earth's future prospects as climate change, habitat destruction and pollution set us up for Earth's sixth mass extinction.

Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases and that is why we need to do something about them.

«When our paper came out, I was very careful to emphasize that this is in no way contradictory to the findings of the IPCC report or conclusions that climate change is a serious problem that we need to do something about,» he says.

I plan to keep living in Boston for a while and hope my kids will choose to live here as well, so I'm particularly encouraged that my city is doing something about climate change.

I realized I could make a meaningful contribution to combating climate change by working on something I was passionate about, even if it was less directly related to a specific technology.

The effort was dispersed among many different scientific fields, each with something different to say about climate change.

Jonathan Renouf, executive producer at BBC Science, said: «We set out to make a film with three objectives; to say something new about climate change, to stay true to the science, and to attract an audience to what is unquestionably a demanding subject.

She became almost evangelical about climate change — something she had previously described as «not an exact science» — and implored her counterparts in the other river states to plan for the threat it posed to Southwestern cities.

«The tools that we use to tell us something about climate change can not give us an answer about how to prepare for climate change for most of the continent,» Jenkins said.

«Climate change is real, man has an impact on addressing climate change, and we as a company need to do something about it,» hClimate change is real, man has an impact on addressing climate change, and we as a company need to do something about it,» hclimate change, and we as a company need to do something about it,» he said.

«But if we change the conversation to bullying can actually damage the entire school climate, then that motivates and galvanizes the overall will of the school community to do something about it.»

But the AGU believes that a broader solution is needed, which is why the statement calls on members to become more involved not only in researching the problem but also spreading the word about the urgency of controlling climate change, something many scientists have been loathe to do in the past, Killeen admits.

But two groups with the power to do something about slowing down climate change — the politicians and the industrialists — do not yet recognise the urgency of the situation.

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

These are just a few obvious examples, but because the future Fox News pundit was talking about climate change let's consider something that is indisputable: the measured rise of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is numerically consistent with that predicted from the output of human industrial activity.

«It's not even possible to maintain the current degraded state of the reef without doing something about climate change,» says Jon Brodie, also at James Cook University, who co-authored the report.

A brief stop in a Dutch ministry on housing led in 1994 to a job working on climate - change negotiations, something he knew little about.

THERE is a pervading myth that efforts to fight climate change and other environmental perils will be to no avail unless we «do something» about population growth.

While the economics of any cap - and - trade system are worthy of debate, it's clear something has to be done about climate change and Chao has shown no interest in any alternative.

It's another of many signals that we really need to be doing something about climate change.»

Unlike the case of the D - O events and Younger Dryas which tell us something about what abrupt change is like in cold climates, we have no analogous climates we can look at to see what abrupt changes might be like in a hothouse world.

What's certain is that its contribution to climate change and ocean acidification will have a devastating outcome if we don't do something about it.

Not unlike climate change, it's something that digital - age writers worry about, but can't nail down.

Consider however that something may actually be done about climate change, Canadian oil sand companies and many of your funds are going to get hammered.

Ontario's government enlisted Grey Canada to demand something be done about climate change now instead of passing it off to children.

Don't know exactly how big the food shortage is likely to grow if we don't do something about climate change.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

We owe it to our kids to do something about climate change.

I am unable to give a good reason for doing something about Climate Change.

But as these Faces of Climate Change begin to multiply, others are multiplying, too: people stepping up to do something about it.

This debate is about your pocketbook, it's about your job, it's about whether you can still afford health care, whether we're going to do something about climate change or not, what kind of world your kids are going to be living in in ten or fifteen years, how are we going to respond to peak oil, where is the next transistor economy going to come from?

What I'm saying, in short, is if you actually want something DONE about climate change, elect the candidate from the party that gives a damn.

The headline comment or assertion (in the media, or by the pundit) might be something like «scientist disagrees with climate change» or «100 scientists disagree with IPCC about climate change», or something like that.

After years of first trying to deny the facts about climate change, then dragging his feet on doing something about it, now President Bush wants to pre-empt any meaningful legislation and claim that as his «legacy».

After seven years, in the White House, is it possible Republicans are finally considering doing something right about the serious consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change in order to salvage the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections?

Clearly, opposition to doing something about climate change has fallen back to a new position: claims that attempting to limit greenhouse gas emissions would be incredibly costly.

Here is another example of people actually doing something about the reality of man - made climate change, despite the wishes of the denialist fringe to paint reality otherwise.

It takes time and work to get clear about one's differences, something all too lacking in the climate change debate.)

The Administration's claims of sincere wishes to do something about climate change is pure cynical manipulation of public opinion, and means nothing.

Unlike the case of the D - O events and Younger Dryas which tell us something about what abrupt change is like in cold climates, we have no analogous climates we can look at to see what abrupt changes might be like in a hothouse world.