Sentences with phrase «vast public the climate»

To the vast public the Climate News of the Year is the «Hottest Year» headline.

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Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.

Scientists from 32 powerhouse organizations including the American Public Health Association and the American Chemical Society just penned Congress a letter highlighting a «vast body of peer - reviewed science» that proves the severity of climate change and urging them to take action with legislation that more strictly regulates industrial air pollution.

The big risks were listed as climate change, water scarcity, vast urban waste, food insecurity, public heath burdens, economic inequality, and demographic cliffs.

Pollution from coal burning, in the United States and particularly in developing countries, has big impacts on public health, and the climate impact from coal - generated carbon dioxide could be enormous if the world's still - vast reserves are heavily exploited.

Over all, he wrote, «My reading of the vast scientific literature on climate change is that our understanding is undiminished by this incident; but it has raised concern about the standards of science and has damaged public trust in what scientists do.»

Contrary to what the vast majority of «liberal» and «conservative» members of the public think, climate scientists do not believe sea levels will rise if the north pole ice cap melts (unlike the south pole ice cap, which sits atop a land mass, the north pole «ice cap» is already floating in the sea, a point that various «climate science literacy» guides issued by scientific bodies like NASA and NOAA emphasize).

APS, like the vast majority of fossil - fueled electric utilities, refuses to recognize the enormous costs of pollution to public health (17 - 27 cents / kWh for coal according to Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard), the hidden costs of leaking coal ash ponds, and the looming costs of climate change, drought and extreme weather.

It does highlight the way that climate issues quickly seep into vast, unrelated areas of public policy, and can be used as a vehicle for completely separate agendas.

In the paper, Brulle claimed to expose a vast network of organizations working in concert to confuse people as part of, in his words, «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect the public discussion and distort the public's understanding of climate change.»

The vast majority of the public knows a lot less about climate sensitivity, the link between hurricanes and CO2 or analogues with past climates than either you or I do, but the link between these issues and actual policy is quite convoluted.

Once there is a reasonable coherence between what the evidence shows science and what the evidence shows the public, climate science will, with a vast sigh of relief, retreat into obscurity.

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

When told a scientific consensus exists, and that it is on the order of 97 % of climate scientists, the vast majority of the public accept the science....

That short chapter is important because Oreskes totally misinterprets the «memos» as Big Coal's plan for a vast national campaign with paid climate scientists that created the lasting public doubt about global warming.

In this chapter, Oreskes misinterprets these internal «memos» as Big Coal's plan for a vast national campaign to raise public climate change skepticism with paid climate scientists.

Complaining that the public isn't smart enough or that skeptics are too fanatical or that there is vast conspiracy against climate science or that the media won't report climate science always in a favorable light is just complaining.

In response to charges by the UCS that the administration has «consistently sought to undermine the public's understanding of the view held by the vast majority of climate scientists,» Marburger stresses that Bush has «clearly acknowledged the role of human activity in increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.»

In summary, Monbiot believes that the reason that the masses have not risen up to demand action on climate change is because they have been hoodwinked by a conspiracy to subvert the public understanding of the issues, paid for by vast corporate interests.

I also have no doubt that the vast majority of the public is open minded on the topic of climate change, and that most public officials are aware that global warming is an impending problem.

This scaremongering claim by Gore is a perfect example of what presenter Marc Morano means by the «Climate Hustle»: just like in a card game where tricksters use sleight - of - hand, distraction techniques, and dirty tricks in order to con the mark (the mug punter) out of his money, so the alarmist establishment is withholding key details and presenting false or distorted information in order to extract vast sums from the gullible public.

The vast majority of climate justice oriented civil society groups support public finance for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage efforts so it is worrisome that the Marry Robinson Foundation is asking YOUNGO to sign a letter that leaves those important points out.