Sentences with phrase «warming debate for»

I can live with the global warming debate for awhile.

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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

This plan for helping mission agencies to be more competent to meet the terrific problems confronting the peoples for whom the missionaries work was adopted only after warm debate, and not with entire unanimity.

Don Thanks for these interesting comments I think you were a bit warmer Perhaps one major lesson of these debates is that there seems to have been a significant under - supply on the blogosphere (i) detailed tax policy and distributional arguments.

The local fight over taxes on the rich is also a warm - up act for an intramural Democratic debate that Hillary Clinton will need to contend with next year.

Cameron also paid a warm tribute to the Lib Dem leader, with whom he has had a frosty relationship in the past, for bringing the matter to the Commons on a day set aside for a debate on a subject chosen by the third party.

David Cameron is the man with everything to lose, says former GMTV boss Peter McHugh, as the Conservative leader warms up for tonight's second live TV debate with Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg.

This is just as the leading candidates earmarked for the debate are warming up to reel out their plans for the state in the next four years as contained in their manifestos.

The lawmaker skipped any discussion about the science behind warming and jumped directly to action, supplanting an important debate for skeptical conservatives.

A study published in April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) started this debate by projecting that a warming climate would render many of the traditional European wine - growing areas unsuitable for wine production by 2050.

For decades, palaeontologists have debated whether the physiology of non-avian dinosaurs was akin to that of today's cold - blooded reptiles or warm - blooded mammals.

While there is still plenty of work to be done on the implications, the scientific debate over whether rising greenhouse gas levels are the principal cause of this warming has effectively been dead for years, despite the heroic efforts of some sections of the media to keep it on life - support.»

I'm talking basically I was debating all the way up to the checkout counter but when making my final decision, I decided that I would be better served opting for one of my warmer favorites with the upcoming winter months.

Use them for warm up activities, group projects, journals, presentations, debates, and more.

My personal highlights included inspirational warm - ups from conductor Dominic Peckham and ex-STOMP member Ollie Tunmer and fascinating debates on the future of GCSEs and on increasing student engagement, the latter of which was filmed for James Rhodes's upcoming Channel 4 documentary on music education.

National debates over teaching of evolution or global warming, as well questioning funding for contraception show the US to be out of step with other developed countries.

The debate over whether physical or digital reading is better for kids is warming up.

The answer may surprise you.The debate over whether physical or digital reading is better for kids is warming up.

I am also very concerned that the current debate on global warming gets so specialized that the forest may well be missed out for the trees.

If mean global temperatures trending significantly upward over the last 100 years isn't worrying enough for you, how about that giant piece of Antarctica that is about to crack off and sink into the ocean... I don't know how the existence of global warming is still a debate!

After much debate the issue was pretty much settled, in terms of figuring out how to compensate for the urban effect and detecting a warming trend anyway, by 1990.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

We can continue to talk and talk and talk about how to cope, adapt, adjust; provide formulas for energy solutions, debate nuclear verses solar, but the fact remains the world is warming.

First, there is room for disussion regarding whether a modest amount of global warming is bad, but I don't believe there can be much debate that a large amount of global warming would be horrible — there is no easy work - around for the relocation of a third of the world's major cities due to sea - level rise.

For those old enough to remember, the debate over global warming may be reminiscent of the equally intense scare propaganda lasting for several years during the 198For those old enough to remember, the debate over global warming may be reminiscent of the equally intense scare propaganda lasting for several years during the 198for several years during the 1980s.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

In part of course, because they neatly symbolize the two opposing camps in the current debate: contrast for example Emanuel's work demonstrating a linkage between increasing hurricane intensity and global warming with Gray's denial of any such link.

The whole global warming debate reminds me of the rule that if you say something enough times to enough people it becomes accepted as fact for no other reason that everybody is saying it.

While not a scientist, I clearly understand that fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases, though the degree of warming are obviously open for heated debate and frankly, a lot of not so friendly jabs on this and other sites.

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

There is a message here for both sides of the global warming debate and especially the media.

In the intellectual equivalent of a pro-wrestling «smackdown,» two teams of combatants enter a plush, packed auditorium on the Upper East Side for a debate titled «Global Warming Is Not a Crisis,» staged by a group called Intelligence Squared U.S..

Below you can see my two - slide Powerpoint explanation for the presidential debates» resounding #climatesilence (that's the Twitter hashtag for the failed push to get global warming on the debate agenda).

oh, as for web resources to help understand it all, on climate and global warming there is the wonderful Climate Debate Daily, with both (all?)

Perhaps this anthropogenic warming debate is an unfortunate distraction from what we should be really focusing on — preparing for higher interglacial warming and rising sea levels, period.

That is far above the thresholds for dangerous warming being debated at the meeting and accepted in recent statements by the major economies of the world.

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

First of all, Oreskes et al. emphasize that the reality of mean global warming is essentially undisputed, but that the future impacts on the scale for which humans would have to prepare are still the subject of considerable research, inquiry, and debate.

I suspect part of the reason why global warming isn't getting more serious political debate is that, unfortunately, for a long time it was the sole province of left - leaning environmentalists, who were so easily tagged as woo - woo space cadets.

Al Gore, the most famous face of the global warming - industrial complex, has been saying for years that the debate is over, that science has declared humans are responsible for climate change.

However, the real place for the scientific debate on AGW is in the scientific literature — where, so far as the basics point are concerned — that greenhouse gases are responsible for most 20th century warming, and curbing emissions is urgent — it's long been settled.

What lags what might seem like a good debate to have and one that has to be answered to as the skeptics for good scientists to set up sites like this to argue the cause but come on the evidence is clear, it is not the SUN that has caused the current warming and we have a perfectly robust argument for stating that it is greenhouse gases (all of which has increased).

It seems somewhat disingenuous for the book's authors to continue assert that there is an ongoing debate regarding whether global warming is caused by humans, and then use pre-1998 references to make this case.

But in the debate over a response to global warming, there were blinders on a lot of Democrats, as well — blinders that resulted for far too long in a one - solution focus on a comprehensive, and doomed, cap - and - trade climate bill.

Every legitimate climate scientist knows that the MWP had to be more than it was previously depicted, but whether it is warmer than right now is I believe up for serious debate.

Our objective is simply to show that the debate on man - made global warming * isn't * over, and provide an outlet for dissenting opinion from the global warming alarmist dogma.

For years, scientists have been debating why satellite temperature data shows there have been about 18 years with no warming trend.

Michele wanted to get both sides of the global warming debate represented in the discussion, so her first guest was Jay Drake - Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh -LSB-...]