Sentences with phrase «warming concerns became»

When global - warming concerns became widespread, many argued that more scientific research was needed before any policy decisions.

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As climate change became a concern, researchers assumed that warming would favor the ice - avoiding chinstrap penguins, sending the Adelies into decline as more and more of their winter sea - ice home disappeared.

Volk: Yeah, yeah that's becoming more and more of a concern as people are realizing that there is not just the greenhouse effect of CO2 being a greenhouse gas and warming the Earth up, but there is a direct chemical effect of its dissolving in the ocean as carbonic acid, and this is going to affect many marine creatures in the coming decades.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

When the temperatures start to dip, one of the things that always becomes a primary concern for me, is keeping warm and cozy no matter how cold it gets outdoors.

Otherwise, dialogue appeared acceptably warm and natural, and intelligibility never became a concern.

In CFE v. New York, Judge Leland DeGrasse ruled that an adequate education included the «foundational skills that students need to become productive citizens capable of civic engagement and sustaining competitive employment,» the «intellectual tools to evaluate complex issues, such as campaign finance reform, tax policy, and global warming,» the ability to «determine questions of fact concerning DNA evidence, statistical analyses, and convoluted financial fraud.»

If you are looking at the same report as me, it opens «We have become incresingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies and counties have paid too little attention to the science of global warming....»

Public opinion polls indicate that concern about global warming has been going down, even as the evidence (giant forest fires, drought, floods, record setting hot days etc) becomes so ironclad that it's almost a joke.

But in 2009, as I reported more and more on the inherent threat of climate extremes in some of the world's poorest places (sub-Saharan Africa, particularly) I became concerned that the uncertain impact of greenhouse - driven warming paled beside other drivers of risk (persistent poverty, doubling populations, and the existing pattern of super-drought).

Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated By Frank Newport Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to -LSB-...]

The nation has also become concerned about global warming, which has been linked to carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal and oil.

Just as national concerns about the effects of continuing deforestation eventually eclipsed local interests, now global interests are beginning to eclipse national ones as deforestation has become a major driver of global warming.

Yet, we explained there is also reasonable basis for concern that a warming world may at least temporarily increase tornado damage including the fact that oceans are now warmer, and regional ocean circulation cycles such as La Nina / El Nino patterns in the Pacific which affect upper atmospheric conditions appear to becoming more chaotic under the influence of climate change.

It was the warming of the polar ice caps that became the greatest concern, since this was the first tangible evidence, and will have the biggest initial impact upon coastal cities and low lying countries.

So the «global warming» concern became the «runaway global warming» scare, and that morphed into the totally ambiguous «climate change» alarmism.

As the price of gasoline hits record heights and people are becoming more concerned about global warming, car companies are increasingly investing in «greener» cars.

«One major concern about wildfires becoming more frequent in permafrost areas is the potential to put the vast amounts of carbon stored there at increased risk of being emitted and further amplify warming,» said Todd Sanford, a climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by e-mail.

P.S.: Judith Curry v. oilprice.com, 8/22/14, says, The impact of extreme weather events in raising concern about global warming became apparent following Hurricane Katrina.

When should a future president and the public become concerned about global warming caused climate change?

More and more individuals are becoming concerned about the effects of global warming to the human race and are making efforts in trying to solve and prevent further global warming.

But the idea that the planet is nearing tipping points — thresholds at which change suddenly becomes unstoppable — has driven a wedge between scientists who otherwise share deep concerns about the implications of a human - warmed climate...

As a result the arguments become polarised and that anyone who raises legitimate concerns about the politicising of the science by default must be claiming that the Earth is not / has not warmed.

Poll - takers found that people around the world were rapidly becoming more aware of global warming and more concerned about it.

There is concern that some regions will become uninhabitable at the upper bounds of warming that we could see.

... «There is significant concern in countries on the margin of the tropical areas where dengue is mainly found, that with global warming dengue and other mosquito - borne viruses such as Zika will encroach and become common,» Dr Harley said.

While health concerns may be borne out in time, at this point neither real world data or the IPCC agree with the idea that AGW is a significant contributor to health NOW, or is likely in the immediate future as it's going to need to become a lot warmer to move that needle in a meaningful way.

With the scientific evidence growing ever more incontrovertible, and the impacts of warming becoming increasingly visible, it's possible that more and more Americans will slosh towards «concerned» — and stay there.

I studied the effects of global cooling during the 1970s, before we became concerned about warming.

There is no doubt, therefore, that the subject of adaptation in a «4 °C world» (here, we use this shorthand to refer to the world with a serious prospect of average global warming of 4 °C or more) will become an increasingly urgent concern.

This category of decision is not common, although it will become of increasing concern as greater levels of global warming are contemplated.

This could certainly be a growth sector if oil becomes more expensive and low - carbon technologies are given a push because of concerns about global warming.

Judith Curry: The impact of extreme weather events in raising concern about global warming became apparent following Hurricane Katrina.

«We have become increasingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming,» write authors Al Carlin and John Davidson of the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics.

John has written before about how manure lagoons may become a liability in a warming climate, but even now the practice of storing vast amounts of animal waste in anaerobic lagoons is causing major environmental concerns.

As the Arctic melts, oceans rise and temperatures warm, bringing more moisture into the atmosphere, it's the intensity of storms that becomes a concern, not only their frequency.