Sentences with phrase «than climate change»

But the bit I quoted at the beginning of this comment suggests that at some point the blog was meant to be about more than climate change.

Something other than climate change is driving the current mass extinction.

Indeed the vulnerability and exposure of people and locations can sometimes be more important than climate change in determining future trends in risk.

It is difficult to imagine a more poorly framed science and public policy issue than climate change — and it is equally difficult to imagine that this will change anytime soon.

«And no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» he said.

Climate change policies really are worse than climate change.

«On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats — but none is greater than climate change,» continued the prince.

One person argued that the urban heat island effect in cities had a bigger effect than climate change.

The conventional wisdom has been «no» — that they care more about economic growth than climate change.

Overall, land use puts less pressure on species than climate change, the study found.

The left is more scared of nuclear power than climate change, despite improved technologies.

In no area has this been more obvious than climate change.

It's worth providing one example to illustrate the power of factors other than climate change to boost exposure to climate and coastal hazards.

Certainly the population growth is by far the most important problem we have to deal with, much more important than climate change.

Is there any more important public health issue than climate change?

Environmental impacts on water resources can put pressure on aquatic ecosystems that, in the short term, can have a more dramatic effect than climate change.

There is no issue more urgent than climate change, yet government, corporations, and the public are reluctant to change.

I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions mitigation because the drivers of that vulnerability are far faster than climate change itself.

The magnitude and inter-model range of simulated warming over high northern latitudes are very similar in the high - end and non-high-end models, which indicates that the biases among the models are larger than the climate change signal.

This is not meant to pre-judge whether those risks are worse than climate change impacts under plausible emission scenarios and is not meant to claim that all geoengineering strategies are dangerous or risky.

What motivates them is a vague sense that some climate change action is better than no climate change action, that it's probably quite useful to keep the Caroline Lucas fringe onside, and that there might be some green jobs in it for someone somewhere.

In this, of course, he is at odds with the vast majority of the world's climate scientists, so he probably would more accurately be called a climate science denier rather than a climate change denier.

In a separate nationally representative survey, we found that while Americans are equally familiar with the two terms, they are four times more likely to say they hear the term global warming in public discourse than climate change.

Still, Tillerson said issues such as global poverty were more pressing than climate change, and billions of people without access to energy would benefit from oil and gas supplies.

Nevertheless, they wrote, «The asteroid - threat community has been much more successful than the climate change community in characterizing the dominant worst - case scenarios and communicating them to policymakers, the media and the public — even though the climate change threat is more than a thousand times greater..., [therefore] quantitative comparison of climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both threats into perspective.»

«There is a stronger sense of energy security than climate change,» said Zou Ji, an international climate negotiator for China until his retirement last August; he is now the China country director for the World Resources Institute, an international environmental group.

Amid dire warnings on the coal sector's future, Peabody Energy's Greg Boyce is insisting high electricity bills are a bigger concern than climate change.

Likewise, Americans are twice as likely to say they personally use the term global warming than climate change in their own conversations.