Sentences with phrase «warming threat»

Scientists Yangyang Xu and Veerabhadran Ramanathan found in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that there already exists a 1 in 20 chance that the 2.2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere could cause an existential warming threat.

[2:38 p.m. Updated Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago has a fresh post on Realclimate warning that a shift in the talks toward focusing on «low - hanging fruit» and away from the unrelenting buildup of carbon dioxide is actually raising the long - term warming threat.]

A Stanford - led study just published gives an overview of the risks versus benefits of fracking, highlighting not least that fracking opens formerly unreachable deposits of fossil fuels for humanity to combust, at exactly the moment when the global warming threat requires us to scale back.

-LSB-...] Warming caused the California fires», even if Global Warming did fan the flames (see also Forest Chief Warns of Global Warming threat), perhaps the correct statement is that Global Warming did not cause these tornadoes, even if -LSB-...]

He argues that the global warming threat is overblown and money spent in fighting it largely wasted.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added dozens of scientific accounts about global warming threats to a key document that is expected to help drive federal regulations for curbing U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, according to an agency draft [PDF] obtained by Greenwire.

A Congressional committee concerned with energy could be — and indeed should be — a key player in exploring policy options to deal with the global warming threat.

Now it will be time for views to swing wildly to the left with Eco-extremism doing the same in the name of the warming threat.

Plaintiffs in the case say the Bush administration has been suppressing two reports intended to serve as a unifying guide for Congress and federal agencies on global warming threats and scientific research priorities.

The 1.2 billion people who live in India use far less electricity than do Americans, but the nation's growing economy and its dependance upon coal pose major global warming threats.

«Global warming threat to coral reefs: Can some species adapt?.»

National Geographic ran a similar story, like others, that compliantly emphasized the future man - made global warming threat the photographers were touting.

These include activist NGOs, such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and the Union of Concerned Scientists; media organizations, such as the BBC, the New York Times and, as they then were, NBC, CBS and ABC; and Hollywood stars such as Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford who called for people to stop «researching» the warming threat and to «begin acting.»

-LSB-...] caused the California fires» of 2007, even if Global Warming did fan the flames (see also Forest Chief Warns of Global Warming threat) nor is possible to say that Moscow's clouded skies last year were due to Climate Disruption -LSB-...]

Meanwhile, a report in the London Daily Telegraph finds even the data being analyzed is being manipulated to exaggerate the global warming threat.

The global warming threat was confronted at Rio through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«We don't know the exact timing or the magnitude of the global warming threat.

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Mr. Morano points to 1988, when scientist James Hansen testified on Capitol Hill about the global warming threat and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emerged.