(By Meteorologist Jim Clark of Florida's WZVN - TV ABC 7)-- Excerpt: It was about this time (1990's) that Dr. Bill Gray, the famed hurricane climatologist, began speaking out against the global
warming crisis at the National Hurricane Conferences.
Not exact matches
T - Bird, a homebirthed babe who enjoyed the benefits of two fully - attached parents, round - the - clock access to
warm milk, being worn, and sleep sharing, is secure enough now
at 18 months to accept temporary breaks from our usual style of parenting while a
crisis is averted here or there.
Another great carbon footprint calculator is available
at EarthLab.com, an online «climate
crisis community» that has partnered with Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and other high - profile groups, companies and celebrities to spread the word that individual actions can make a difference in the fight against global
warming.
«What's especially concerning about this current northern fur seal
crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions, such as these
warmer waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist
at The Marine Mammal Center.
Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end - of - the world predictions — from global
warming and waste to post-peak oil energy
crises and uncontrolled world urbanization — architects and urbanists find themselves once more
at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking.
The extinction
crisis that is underway, precipitated by humanity, is
at least equal to global
warming in its potential to destabilize the biosphere — to make the planet less habitable to us and many of our fellow species.
I'm not an expert, but even to me it seems that with the climate
warming at such a fast rate, whatever the cause, the sheer number of people on the earth
at this time constitutes a
crisis.
What prompted you to do an in - depth look
at global
warming stances and the issues underlying this «
crisis»?
An enduring conundrum
at the heart of the global
warming issue / challenge /
crisis / emergency is that the dramatic facets that matter most to society — how fast and far seas will rise, how strong hurricanes may get, how many species will vanish — are the least certain.
Canadian Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball: «If we are facing [a
crisis]
at all, I think it is that we are preparing for
warming when it is looking like we are cooling.
A months - long
crisis at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has upended the world's perception of global
warming, after hacked emails and other disclosures revealed deep divisions among scientists working with the United Nation - sponsored group.
The danger posed by war to all of humanity - and to our planet - is
at least matched by the climate
crisis and global
warming.
She will connect the dots for the study group by examining how the tiny house movement is not only the sustainability imperative
at work but also a solution to global
warming and the affordable housing
crisis.
Around global
warming then,
at the current juncture in history, we can say that there are those who have primary moral responsibility for causing climate catastrophe, a much larger group of those who have secondary ethical responsibility for climate catastrophe, and a still larger group who are bystanders in terms of causality of global
warming to date but will need to assume some responsibility in solving the climate
crisis.
ICN's series on Exxon's early research into global
warming showed that the company was
at the forefront of climate change research as early as 1978, long before the general public was aware of the looming
crisis.
-- > «The biggest mystery in climate science today may have begun, unbeknownst to anybody
at the time, with a subtle weakening of the tropical trade winds blowing across the Pacific Ocean in late 1997... Average global temperatures hit a record high in 1998 — and then the
warming stalled... But the pause has persisted, sparking a minor
crisis of confidence in the field.
SEPP Vice President Tom Sheahen spoke
at the Heartland Institute's «Prebuttal» press conference
at the Hotel Columbus in Rome as part of the Heartland Institute's initiative to tell Pope Francis that «global
warming is not a
crisis.»
More than 600 people met
at the International Conference on Climate Change to contend that «global
warming is not a
crisis, that the question of what causes it and how extensive it's going to be are wide open in the scientific community,» claimed Joseph Bast, president of the institute.
At that time some researchers where already touting the Global
Warming crisis.
«Corrected average temperatures are a fine metric,» Oh, it's a fine metric, just look
at all they do to turn some minor regional
warming into a
crisis.
Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow
at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration
at being told «only one side of the global
warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global
warming crisis.»
I think a lot of people, including politicians, are starting to notice this point, because if you look
at the late 90's the debate was all about the
crisis of global
warming, but now they've suddenly changed the name to «climate change» instead.
DS: I look
at that question in both a macro and a micro level; from a macro perspective, I think we're all pretty aware of the global
warming crisis.
We have a worldwide CO2 global
warming crisis and American politicians are running around trying to throw money
at coal - to - liquid production that as the graph shows, does nothing to reduce carbon emissions IF they can
We have a worldwide CO2 global
warming crisis and American politicians are running around trying to throw money
at coal - to - liquid production that as the graph shows, does nothing to reduce carbon emissions IF they can figure out how to sequester the CO2 and over DOUBLES if there is no sequestration.
France Beinecke: President Obama can tackle the three most urgent
crises — the economy, volatile energy, prices, and global
warming — all
at the same time.
The idea that carbon dioxide emissions will trigger dangerous global
warming is
at the very heart of the climate
crisis.
But influencers of global
warming at the beginning of the noughties rapidly engaged prosperous early adopters, who have in turn initiated a flood of mainstream market acceptance in the past decade as drought and the growing energy
crisis have begun to hit home — and the bottom line.