And when Obama approval rating drops and has no ability to pass anything, Obama
talks about the global climate.
In the first part of the talk,
he talks about global climate.
Then we'll go tell everyone that
we talked about global climate whatever the entire time.
In his State of the Union address President Obama failed once again to give the American people some straight
talk about global climate disruption.
Not exact matches
Like any good entrepreneur, Leo wouldn't let me
talk about the app here, but I assure you, it's a great idea, and focuses on Leo's big interest in
global warming and
climate change.
Proponents of demand - side
climate action are already
talking about a $ 100 billion
climate fund to help poorer nations adapt to the results of
global warming.
MIAMI — One of the first sea - level rise maps Broadway Harewood saw was a few years back, when
climate activists gathered in his neighborhood to
talk about how
global warming would affect people in less - affluent South Florida communities.
Still, some researchers are
talking seriously
about global climate modification as a way to counteract
climate change.
We're
talking about massive damages if we didn't do anything,» said Jochen Hinkel, a senior researcher at the
Global Climate Forum and a co-author of the paper.
«Scientists have
talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,» said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of
climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted similar research on the
global dimming effects of aerosols.
He makes the point, for example, that when you are looking [
talking]
about global warming, when you're looking at the
climate [and] the atmosphere, you are
talking about in effect a good that belongs to all of us.
People have been
talking about deliberately altering
climate to counter
global warming, he says, for as long as they have been worrying
about global warming itself.
«Understanding the
global carbon cycle is really important, especially when
talking about climate change,» says Catherine Drennan, an MIT professor of chemistry and biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
It's now commonplace to
talk about global warming and carbon footprints, so much so that it's easy to forget that until quite recently few thought it was even possible that the actions of our species could have a potentially catastrophic effect on the Earth's
climate.
Mike Wallace's
talk was
about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on
global climate change.»
The conceit of the film is that a
climate scientist is interested in meeting her and
talking about how
global warming is destroying her subject matter.
Dr. Rack
talks specifically
about these canine and human pioneering heroes and how important their work has been on our present day
global climate and environment!
lots of money is being spent everywhere but very little factsWe
talk about Global Warming and
Climate Change as if we were
talking about about defined absolutes that everybody agrees on.
CC: NO, we are
talking about how the anthropogenic addition of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will effect
global temperatures and hence
climate.
That's all fine, but this also means that the
climate talks, which head to Durban, South Africa, next year, are not the place to watch for the breakthroughs — social, financial or technological — that will be required if the world is serious
about providing some 9 billion people mid-century with the suite of services that come with abundant energy (mobility, communication, illumination, desalinated water and more) while also greatly cutting emissions from burning fossil fuels, which still dominate the
global energy mix.
Unfortunately, his desire to
talk about «
climate instability», rather than «
global warming» is a rhetorical trick meant to persuade rather than edify.
And
talk passionately
about the basic facts in public:
climate changes (expressed as the wacky and destructive weather that has become so common) are caused by the
global warming produced by having too much greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere.
Kicking off his Alaska tour, President Obama is scheduled to
talk about climate change, oil and the Arctic later tonight at an ambitiously titled Anchorage event — the Conference on
Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience.
Usually when we
talk about transportation emissions causing
climate change here at TreeHugger, we focus on CO2 emissions or methane emissions — the usual suspects in the
global warming discussion.
After I gave a
talk at Pennsylvania State University not long ago, a professor there asked if I could share the slide I use to describe one source of confusion and disputes when people are yelling
about «
global warming» or «
climate change.»
When we
talk about climate change and
global warming, we often
talk of it in the future.
We are here today to
talk about how we as Americans and how the United States of America as part of the
global community should address the dangerous and growing threat of the
climate crisis.
-LSB-...] everyone that the best - selling author who has become a hero to Deniers — even bringing his trash
talk against U.S.
climate scientists to a Senate hearing — doesn't seem to know the first thing
about global warming -LSB-...]
By continually hammering on
climate change or
global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped
talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.
Two days after the
talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point
about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and
climate policy at the University of Colorado.
But weather forecasters have been warned not to
talk about climate change or
global warming.
As if to prove that, and just in time for the holidays (or a break from dissecting the latest nonpapers at the Bali
talks), now comes «101 Funny Things
About Global Warming» (Bloomsbury USA, January 2008), the first book of
climate cartoons (the first one I know of, anyway).
He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns
about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at
climate - treaty
talks were instructed to enter into any kind of discussion, but no negotiations.
Carrying on in this vein he added: «It's time for us to start
talking about «
climate change» instead of
global warming and «conservation» instead of preservation.
Also, the term «
global pattern of warming» implies regional temperature change, which pushes the
climate system response discussion to a much higher level of complexity than when simply
talking about changes in
global - mean
climate.
Mr. Moosa's comments came ahead of
climate - treaty
talks in December in Poznań, Poland, that are aimed at pushing forward negotiations on a new
global agreement on cutting emissions — and where concerns
about allowing emerging economic superpowers like China and India to pollute as much as Western countries is almost certain to be a key stumbling block.
On his late - night
talk show, Jimmy Kimmel recently invited
climate scientists to explain that they're not just messing with us
about global warming.
The letter portends to offer facts
about «
climate change deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable
talking point
about skeptic
climate scientists saying
global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and caused by humans, but it's not so bad.»
RealClimate has a new post up (gave up on Mann 2008 pretty fast)
talking about global warming related to the continuing request for an engineering - quality derivation of
climate sensitivity.
My
talk, on Wednesday, was
about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA
climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such as those by
global warming deniers.
I suspect that it looked OK in your view or you didn't check; «the paper i cited
talks of the hiatus in
global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was
global in extent, and that
climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions
about what will happen in the future.
I've found that you've really got to pay close attention to how people
talk about global warming or
climate change.
Tracy also
talks about the idea of regional
climate engineering, how this might present a different governance puzzle than a potential
global deployment, and why this deserves attention sooner rather than later.
I find concerned liberals are loath to
talk about how consistently wrong
climate models have been or
about the «pause» in
global warming that has gone on for over fifteen years, while
climate skeptics avoid discussion of things like ocean acidification and accelerated melting in Greenland and the Arctic.
There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it
talks of the hiatus in
global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was
global in extent, and that
climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions
about what will happen in the future.
Neither Gelbspan nor anyone repeating his accusation ever proved the money trail led to an industry directive to lie
about global warming science; none of them have proved skeptic
climate scientists were instructed to mimic tobacco industry tactics; journalists have demonstrably not offered overall fair balance in to skeptic
climate scientists; the «wedge» being driven is one arguably pounded by enviro - activists who push the «skeptics don't deserve fair media balance»
talking point; and Gelbspan was not the first one to bring up this
talking point.
Climate change has emerged as one of the most
talked -
about problems, yet
global negotiations have fallen apart, and we are barely any closer to cutting carbon emissions than we were 10 years ago.
Whenever I
talk about Global Warming, I generally try to stress that «
Global Warming» and «
Climate Change» describe different parts of an overall effect that we tend to lump together.
I certainly wouldn't expect Ms Szweda Jordan to cease scoffing at a «one man
global content provider», but it would be nice if she were to take a similarly scofftastic attitude to the easily checkable hooey peddled by the likes of Michael Mann, instead of asking him questions like how he
talks to his French poodle
about the dangers of
climate change.
We can't
talk about the need to organise
global productive economy around the issue of
climate change until we have discussed the same order of claims that were made, in living memory,
about population, resources, and race.