Sentences with phrase «warming pollution problems»

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I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

The cost of responding to the problems generated by global warming will reduce our ability to deal with other forms of pollution.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.

As to reasons for the decline, most analysts point to a range of factors including diversions of river water for farming, pollution, the intermingling of wild salmon with weaker, disease - ridden hatchery fish, and global warming — which creates some problems and exacerbates others.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Global warming and the pollution that cause it are the «symptoms» of the problem.

Global warming is widely viewed at the policy level as a pollution problem like acid rain, smog, or the ozone hole.

Among those who are seeking a new direction on energy and emissions, the discussion appears to remain locked where it's been for years — over the balance between treating global warming like a 20th - century pollution problem and a 21st - century technology challenge.

President Obama spent too much political energy backing the traditional environmental stance that human - driven global warming was a conventional pollution problem that could be cleaned up like sewage or smog through regulation.

Corals around the world, already threatened by pollution, destructive fishing practices and other problems, are also widely regarded as among the ecosystems likely to be first — and most — threatened with destruction as earth's climate warms.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

The more posts I read the more of a recurring theme I see and that is people have a real problem with pollution because they think it is the source of the all scary Global Warming.

On a more tractable level, part of the impasse has also come from the longstanding effort to cast human - driven global warming as a conventional pollution problem instead of looking more to the root causes.

-- A report from John Fleck examines why the annual distribution of four tons of toxic lead on the streets of Albuquerque, N.M., is not news, and Keith Kloor discusses what this «slow drip» pollution problem has to do with global warming.

Air pollution problems like acid rain have come up during the drafting process, but global warming has not figured prominently.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

Global warming would be solved through the same kinds of policies that we had used to address past pollution problems such as acid rain.

But his plan has raised eyebrows among many researchers into alternative vehicles, who remain skeptical that compressed - air cars could offer a long - term solution to problems, like pollution and global warming, posed by internal - combustion engines.

And, unlike smog or water pollution — where solid evidence has been plain for all to see — global warming is a looming, complicated problem that never quite seems to arrive.

These systems also minimize the threats of acid rain, air pollution, the greenhouse effect and global warming — problems directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels.

The problem, according to many energy analysts, is that burning pellets creates more global warming pollution than coal, not less.

Yet the emergence of global warming as an issue in the 1980s with its potential for large - scale social change needed to ameliorate its threat was seen as more threatening to conservatives in regard to industry, prosperity, life - style, and the entire American - way of life, than were traditional pollution problems.

But if we frame global warming as pollution, and assert that the polluter should pay, then suddenly this otherwise completely abstruse, overly technical problem becomes much easier for the public to understand.

In it, they argued that global warming is far more complex than past pollution problems.

packed with common problems awaiting for solutions - global warming, urban air pollution, contaminants in drinking water / contains samples of distributions of variables, it is actually a very large Bayesian belief network, which can be used for assessment - level analyses and conditioning and optimising different decision / and discussions about the actual topics related to real - world decision - making, there is also a meta level in Opasnet.

He concludes that population growth is not a problem, that there is plenty of freshwater around, that deforestation rates and species extinctions are grossly exaggerated, that the pollution battle has been won, and that global warming is too expensive to fix.

In an Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, the authors of the text, including well - known proponents of abortion and population control like the UN's Jeffrey Sachs, make an attempt to conflate the bogeyman of extreme anthropogenic global warming with the very real problem of environmental pollution.

Many people believe the current generation of children will solve the growing problems of plastic pollution and global warming.

A panel of top American scientists declared today that global warming was a real problem and was getting worse, a conclusion that may lead President Bush to change his stand on the issue as he heads next week to Europe, where the United States is seen as a major source of the air pollution held responsible for climate change.

When asked if specific health problems will become more or less common over the next 10 years in their community due to global warming, more than one third of Americans think the following conditions will become more common: air pollution, including smog (38 %); pollen - related allergies (38 %); asthma / other lung diseases (37 %); heat stroke (36 %); and bodily harm from severe storms and / or hurricanes (34 %).

Indoor pollution — caused by burning a fire inside your house, cabin, hut or tent to cook and keep warm — was a deadly global problem until the late 19th century when cheap kerosene, a fossil fuel byproduct, became available in America and Europe.

«The bill's cap on greenhouse gas pollution takes on the problem of global warming in a strong and sensible way,» added Krupp.

In fact, when asked to name problems facing the nation, Americans would think of pollution of drinking water, the ozone hole, or the destruction of tropical forests ahead of global warming.

Global warming from CO2 build - up in the atmosphere is different from other pollution problems society has faced.

We do have a limited quantity of fossil fuels available, and pollution is a problem for reasons other than Global Warming.

Many policymakers view the problem of global warming as a pollution problem, similar to acid rain, smog, or the ozone hole.

We can choose to transition to a clean energy economy that addresses a multitude of challenges — oil dependency, energy security, global warming, air pollution — or we can choose to ignore these problems.

The problem was historically not realizing the ecological impact of producing and burning fossil fuels (both in terms of global warming as well as other forms of pollution) until it was a problem of catastrophic proportions.

«The purpose of these plans is to provide policy makers and the public with a technically - and economically - feasible pathway toward a sustainable, secure, and reliable energy infrastructure that eliminates health and environmental problems due to air, water, and soil pollution and global warming.

That's the finding of a new Harvard study that, for the first time, examines the true cost of coal throughout its entire life cycle... Clearly, the fact that coal contributes more global warming pollution than any other source in the nation is far from its only problem.

A lot of folks, including myself, think that the recent melting of Arctic sea ice and rising Arctic temperatures is more attributable to Asian black carbon pollution than to CO2 and greenhouse gas warming (particularly since similar warming and sea ice melting is not seen in the Antarctic, where there is not a problem with soot pollution).

The problem with air pollution — and global warming is a form of air pollution — is that I don't see a good, easy way to privatize it.

With global warming and horrendous pollution problems the first priority is to get away from fossil fuel use almost entirely

These warm surfaces contribute to the build up of heat in dense urban areas and that leads to a surplus of problems, including increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, heat - related illness and mortality.