Sentences with phrase «warming mitigation policies»

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As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.

While warming cities will bring big energy costs, researchers say they may also offer important insight into the role of local policy in climate change mitigation.

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

The influencing of policy in re global warming faces a huge amount of inertia, but principles of risk mitigation tell us that we should be aggressive about shifting policy to avert possible threats, the opposite of what results from that inertia.

* global warming theories are wrong but governments enact mitigation policies that disrupt social orders and world and local economies.

Even though it was widely recognized by the end of the 1980s that the existing stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases was likely to lead to some inevitable warming, the policy community suppressed discussion of adaptation out of fear that it would blunt the arguments for greenhouse - gas mitigation.

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National Academy of Sciences (1992): Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base.

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A Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) report by Willem de Lange and Bob Carter suggest that, with regards to sea level change «adaptation is more cost - effective than mitigation.»

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I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is extremely important.

I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is critically important for justifying public expenditure on policies.

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The onus is clearly on the alarmists, if they want to argue for high cost mitigation policies, to demonstrate what is the damage cost of warming.

«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»

Abstract Recent estimates of the global carbon budget, or allowable cumulative CO2 emissions consistent with a given level of climate warming, have the potential to inform climate mitigation policy discussions aimed at maintaining global temperatures below 2 ° C.

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Massive policy impacts need very highly significant evidence Proposed mitigation of majority anthropogenic global warming has very highly significant consequences, demanding massive transformation of our energy generation and use.

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No policy to abate global warming by controlling CO2 emissions would prove cost - effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation.

-LSB-...] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate - mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be,» Ridley said in the 2011 Angus Millar speech on «Scientific Heresy,» reposted in its entirety at the skeptical blog Watts Up With That.

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Fractional degree changes in the cold ocean are not the «global warming» that motivates mitigation policy.

But they differ from mainstream views because they're not convinced there's a substantial risk that future warming could be large or its impacts severe, or that strong mitigation policies are desirable.

As Nic Lewis (and others) have shown, the best empirical estimate of sensitivity, based on all observed warming, is low enough that it is impossible to currently justify expensive mitigation policy.

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Therefore, since catastrophe is not a real threat, we are left with addressing the question: what are the costs and benefits of warming versus the costs and benefits of mitigation policies?

Not only are the posters (or vast majority of them) on this site entirely genuine, they are the people who are expected to make the (immense) sacrifices and dig (deeply) into thier pockets should political governace force through a policy of (attempted) mitigation to the (percieved) threat of manmade global warming such that it is necessary that the scientific community carries these people with them on the journey to the sacrificial altar.

This would still not necessarily lead to mitigation policies because the question: in a warming world will we be better off?

However the science ends up, this Luke warmer thinks that adaptation is a more cost - effective public policy than mitigation.

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