Sentences with phrase «to deal with global warming»

I've spent my whole professional life working on climate change and would prefer it if we could deal with global warming by mitigation alone.

A Congressional committee concerned with energy could be — and indeed should be — a key player in exploring policy options to deal with the global warming threat.

If you can not deal with climate change under capitalism, you certainly can not deal with global warming, full stop.

These results suggest the Chinese government has general public support for its recent initiatives to deal with global warming even though the Chinese people are not intensely concerned about global warming.

Industry leaders knew about the risks of global warming as early as the 1970s, but recognized that dealing with global warming meant using fewer fossil fuels.

But its clearly a hot button issue and will even become more important, perhaps mandatory, as we begin to seriously deal with global warming.

That is one of the difficulties of dealing with global warming, because the impacts that you are trying to avoid by doing something are not the impacts that you are experiencing now.

We must not forget that we are dealing with global warming in here!»

The possibility of a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is definitely part of the discussions, but it's not the main focus of the meetings, according to Matti Nummelin, a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change expert on how to help the world's least developed countries deal with global warming impacts.

One moment, say, dealing with global warming issues, another, say, trying to save the tiger or save the sharks from finning.

But scientists and officials involved in the intensifying international debate on how to deal with global warming say it has taken the United States far too long to put the issue front and center, particularly because this country is the biggest source of heat - trapping gases, and because the spread of American - style consumerism to developing nations is likely to create the biggest source of the gases in the next century.

A 2006 poll showed that 83 % of Americans want more leadership from federal government on dealing with global warming.

39 DEALING WITH GLOBAL WARMING Governments can tax greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, increase subsidies and tax breaks for saving energy, and decrease subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels.

If we could do that [with a solar cell], then we could actually deal with global warming problems even more directly because we'd be pulling the CO2 out of the air to make our fuel.

There's a batch of new proposals for breaking the persistent global deadlock over dealing with global warming, all coming as world leaders prepare to meet at the Group of 8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, and in parallel sessions of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.

I often hear nuclear advocates proclaiming that «nuclear is THE solution to global warming» and that «no one can be serious about dealing with global warming if they don't support expanded use of nuclear power» but I have never heard any nuclear advocate lay out a plan showing how many nuclear power plants would have to be built in what period of time to have a significant impact on GHG emissions.

Many of the experts (like Dr Hansen) dealing with global warming rightfully only look at what they think is going on and since the concentration of carbon dioxide (although I still have no idea how they can get an average concentration reading instantly all over the world) has increased, the culprit of global warming is this increase of carbon dioxide.

My comment is I would like to see fuel emissions pointed to as driving global warming... in all U.S. press releases dealing with global warming.

During the Bush administration, reports dealing with global warming got a thorough going over, as I reported in detail in 2005 and periodically earlier than that.

Journalists dealing with global warming and similar issues would do well to focus on the points of deep consensus, generate stories containing voices that illuminate instead of confuse, convey the complex without putting readers (or editors) to sleep, and cast science in its role as a signpost pointing toward possible futures, not as a font of crystalline answers.

J. Wayne Leonard, the chief executive of New Orleans - based Entergy Corp., has upped the ante on his demand that the federal government and his fellow major industry executives deal with global warming, abandoning support for a national carbon emissions «cap and trade» program in favor of a per - ton fee on carbon emissions.

Guess that's why the section dealing with global warming and North American tourism uses a number taken from a snowmobile lobby group press release.

Television stories dealing with global warming jumped from a mere dozen in July - September to well over 200 in October - December.

Writing in the Washington Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics:

There is no reason climate scientists can't interrupt their thinking about the melting of the Arctic ice cap (or whatever area their research focuses on) and start thinking about a peer - reviewed paper in a mainstream scientific journal by a well - established scientist dealing with global warming.

If you can not deal with climate change under capitalism, you certainlcannot deal with global warming, full stop.

Since taking office, Bush has moved to review, weaken, or undo a host of the Clinton administration's environmental - protection policies dealing with global warming, air and water pollution, national forests, and national monuments.

Thirty - six percent (36 %) of voters agree with the urgency Kerry expressed in his speech in Indonesia and say the world is headed toward an irreversible catastrophe if we fail to deal with global warming in the near future.

«America First» budget would axe 20 % of the UN's climate body's funding and $ 2bn to help developing countries deal with global warming

The purpose of Kyoto is to establish an international mechanism for dealing with global warming by taking the first tentative steps towards a difficult goal.

Entergy CEO Wayne Leonard is encouraging the government and his industry peers to deal with global warming issues.

In it they argued that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can't deal with global warming.

I read an interesting fictional book by Michael Crichton,...» State of Fear» which deals with global warming and ice melt.

WASHINGTON — U.S. automakers and a top union official pledged Wednesday to work with Congress to find new ways of dealing with global warming but declared their industry could not bear the burden alone.

If you really cared about the earth, you would be engaged in projects to deal with global warming, water pollution, preservation of rain forests etc..

How will he deal with global warming?

Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was not enough.

«That's a strategy we really didn't know birds could do, and that could potentially help them deal with global warming,» she adds.