To some extent, investors are already considering
global warming risks when making investment decisions, especially when it comes to the insurance premiums they can expect to pay.
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Warming Risks by Cutting Carbon Pollution, Top Scientists Conclude
UPDATE, 11 p.m.: The M.I.T. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has published a different type of global
warming risk barometer that includes the odds of various levels of warming with and without policies on emissions (hat tip to the Capital Weather Gang).
Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global
warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.
The company agreed in November to make fuller disclosures about global
warming risks under a settlement deal reached with the New York attorney general.
In an online experiment conducted in two South Carolina cities during and immediately after a summer heat wave, the effects on global
warming risk perceptions were examined following exposure to a TV weathercast in which a weathercaster explained the heat wave as a local manifestation of global warming versus exposure to a 72 - h forecast of extreme heat.
Continued strong demand for all fossil fuels seems a certainty at this time, even taking into account stronger policies to mitigate
global warming risks, though sustained high prices may slow growth slightly.
It also is part of a push from environmental groups to make the legal case that fossil energy companies have lied for decades about global
warming risks, just as tobacco companies lied about the connection between smoking and cancer.
That takes less energy than splitting nitrogen fluoride and there is no global
warming risk, Pilgrim says.
Wagner, the co-author of a great book on global
warming risk and economics, «Climate Shock,» moved from the Environmental Defense Fund to Harvard recently to focus full - time on geoengineering policy.
There are many reasons besides global
warming risk to reduce fossil fuel use (more wealth, health, and security).
UPDATE, 3/3/08, 2 p.m.: Before you get to Mr. Barnes» responses, I wanted to be sure you know about a broader initiative that he is involved with, on the global scale, using similar mechanisms to cut global
warming risks and poverty at the same time.
Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as a solution that — because of the long - term and cumulative nature of
warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).
Objection: The kind of drastic actions required to mitigate global
warming risk the destruction of the global economy and the deaths of potentially billions of people.
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The kind of drastic actions required to mitigate global
warming risk the destruction of the global economy and the deaths of potentially billions of people.
Phrases with «warming risks»