Sentences with phrase «warnings about climate change»

Scientists» warnings about climate change, he writes, are «politically driven mass hysteria» about which «they have no scientific proof.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has changed its story after issuing stern warnings about climate change for years

In 1988, when scientists were sounding the first warnings about climate change, the nation of South Africa was still legally divided.

The report shows a reverse from previous decades, when scientific warnings about climate change were new and the companies behind the most emissions lobbied policymakers to ignore the issue.

In contrast, people with a «hierarchical» and «individualistic» mind - set respect leaders of industry and don't like government interfering in their affairs; they're apt to reject warnings about climate change, because they know what accepting them could lead to - some kind of tax or regulation to limit emissions.

In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy.

«In naming these spiders, the students and I wanted to honor people who stood up for both human rights and warned about climate change — leaders and artists who promoted sensible approaches for a better world.»

Anyway, Dakota Johnson stars as a New York homeless woman who befriends an Inuit man (Theo Ikummaq) who's traveled from the Arctic to warn us all about climate change.

In June the group occupied Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for 25 hours and scrawled words of warning about climate change across the floor in charcoal.

The 75 demonstrators from the Liberate Tate group, dressed in black with veils covering their faces, spent 25 hours scrawling words of warning about climate change in charcoal on the sloping floor of the hall.

We have a duty to describe the worst case scenarios when we warn about climate change.

The oil industry and its allies are used to dismissing those who are warning about climate change as a bunch of lentil - eating, sandal - wearing commies.

But they later admit that the public had also been warned about climate change as far back as 1896.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

One lesson of the Gulf oil spill that is an ominous warning about climate change is that the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrates that what are often initially believed to be low probability, in fact unforeseeable, catastrophic impacts do happen.

In 1979, The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific institutions in the United States, had this warning about climate change «A wait and see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.»

Here's the thing: the local aborigines knew and warned about climate change in Gundagai, and saved many lives from their bark canoes when the Great Flood hit.

Hansen, who was among the initial wave of scientists warning about climate change in the 1980s, said Friday he fears most its «irreversible effects.»

Not exact matches

In his 2017 book «Climate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opporClimate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opporclimate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opportunity.

Despite this and other authoritative warnings about the dangers of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.

David had also come across a speech by former BP chief executive, Lord Browne, in which he spoke of the warnings company scientists had sounded about climate change, and how their arguments convinced him that it was wrong to side with climate denial.

Although Margaret Thatcher was the first world leader to warn about the threat of global warming, and although David Cameron famously highlighted the issue too, other prominent Conservatives including Nigel Lawson and Peter Lilley have been outspoken in their opposition to the mainstream agenda on climate change.

An Ipsos Mori poll found many do not think climate change is as big a threat as scientists and politicians warn and are more concerned about terrorism, crime, graffiti and even dog mess.

Station locations change and methods evolve, so the climate data center warns that comparing normals between different 30 - year periods may lead to «erroneous conclusions» about climate change.

On the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray bursts.

The legislation rebukes a recommendation by the state Coastal Resources Commission, which stirred economic development concerns and skepticism about climate change in 2010 with a report warning of future threats along the state's coastline.

Pesticides still abound, we're in the midst of a human - made mass extinction and decades of warnings about irreversible climate change appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

Humanity's failure to reduce global nuclear arsenals as well as climate change prompted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to advance their warning about our proximity to a potentially civilization - ending catastrophe

«Australian scientists have rejected claims a multi-national climate change body is set to revise down its previous warnings about the rate of global warming.

Many of you know Dr. Hansen, the former Director of the Goddard Space Center of NASA — as the man who warned the U.S. Congress about dangerous climate change in 1988.

Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change in January, AWI scientists warned about collapsing coastlines and urged more research, with input from policymakers and native communities.

A huge scientific paper published by James Hansen and a group of international scientists contains dire warnings about how climate change will hit us.

Layering his story with grim warnings about the horrors of climate change and the co-opting of Christianity by the conservative right, Schrader's movie begins in quiet introspection and ends with a crescendo of political rage.

Though writers have long warned us about what happens when humans mess with nature in general and the weather in particular, We Are Unprepared might be in the vanguard of tales that deal with the consequences of human - caused climate change.

Schellnhuber warns that previous predictions about climate change and its catastrophic effects were too cautious and optimistic.

But weather forecasters have been warned not to talk about climate change or global warming.

Warn us that climate change is destroying our planet, and only a small part of our prefrontal cortex (which worries about the future) will glimmer; then we'll go back to worrying about snakes or their modern equivalent — terrorists.

When a batch of climate scientists on all sides of the hurricane - climate question issued a letter warning that the main issue related to hurricanes is coastal vulnerability, not climate change, I wrote about it, but hardly anyone else did.

In fact, during an hour long June briefing to launch a major government climate change report, a panel that included White House science adviser John Holdren and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco mentioned greenhouse gases just once â $» instead warning about the perils of â $ œheat - trapping gasesâ $ or â $ œheat - trapping pollutants.â $

First, contrary to the warnings of some commentators, subjects exposed to the geoengineering information did not become less concerned about climate change.

If you are evaluating this statement: «national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration,» then you should also review the analysis provided by our intelligence services, which have looked at climate change, and are part of the «national security apparatus.»

They warn of what 11 retired generals and admirals wrote about in 2007 — climate change becoming a «force multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.»

Climate change is a terrifying prospect, one that scientists warn will change, and potentially destroy, nearly everything about life as we know it.

«Shell boss endorses warnings about fossil fuels and climate change,» The Guardian, May 22, 2015.

Friedman's article, titled «Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report,» delivers a classic alarmist warning that the Trump administration may try to «change or suppress the report,» ignoring Trump administration officials» repeated calls for «honest open discussion» and «intellectual conversation» about humans» role in climate Climate Report,» delivers a classic alarmist warning that the Trump administration may try to «change or suppress the report,» ignoring Trump administration officials» repeated calls for «honest open discussion» and «intellectual conversation» about humans» role in climate climate change.

The plaintiffs fault oil and gas companies for knowing about climate change in the mid-20thcentury, accusing them of ignoring the «warnings» and proceeding «to double - down on fossil fuels.»

Scientists had begun to warn electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the industry's official research and development organization had acknowledged that, «There is growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is real.»

They have a climate change facility based there which issues all sorts of dire warnings about the UK climate tonyb

Scientists had begun to warn electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the industry's official research and development organization had

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