Sentences with phrase «warnings about global warming»

I don't know if Al Gore and some of his warnings about global warming are true or not, but we did have record snow falls here in Ontario, including a massive storm in early March.

2007/04/20: CBC: Suzuki delivering environmental petition to Baird Calling it a crime against future generations to ignore warnings about global warming, environmentalist David Suzuki was to present a petition to Environment Minister John Baird on Friday.

The failure of many climate researchers to match their warnings about global warming with their actions is «the great moral hazard» that they face, Moore told me.

WASHINGTON — Two new reports suggest doomsday warnings about global warming are, well, full of hot air or worse.

At the core, Democrats appear to have widely accepted the warnings about global warming, and well over half today say they worry about it a great deal.

If the company later contradicted warnings about global warming issued by scientists it funded in the 1980s, that would be justified by the fact that those warnings were almost certainly wrong.

I think the climate scientists who for two decades have been sending warnings about global warming and its impacts must sometimes feel like Cassandras cursed by Apollo.

«I don't know whether all of the warnings about global warming are true or not,» he said.

Indeed, from the first warnings about global warming at least 30 years ago, we have gone from year to year, decade to decade, with no coherent national or global plan of action.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, the Marshall Institute has adapted to the times by devoting much of its firepower to the war against environmentalism, and in particular against the «scaremongers» who raise warnings about global warming.

Climatologists who spent the past decade warning about global warming are fast reaching the conclusion that cooling poses just as big a threat.

NASA scientist James Hansen has warned about global warming for almost 20 years.

They should be connected because it seems clear that failing to warn about the tsunami and failure to warn about global warming are connected, by the failure to warn.

Not exact matches

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.

I do not ignore those who, like former Vice President Al Gore, warn us about the seriousness of global warming.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work modeling Earth's climate, predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.

«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.

He warned «Voters believe there is NO CONSENSUS (emphasis his) about global warming in the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY (emphasis mine).

Since the science and theory linking global warming in the short term is much weaker than the underlying rationale for long - term global warning, arguing about short term trends is dangerous.

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

I am concerned about the «vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn».

For at least two decades scientists have warned the world about the causes and consequences of global warming, but for the most part neither we nor the rest of the world has done much.

Vicky Pope, a meteorologist in England's climate and meteorology office, has a remarkable op - ed in the Guardian warning that scientists, the media and campaigners of all stripes who use short - term trends in weather or sea ice to make points are misleading the public about global warming.

From the article:... You might think this would be great news for all those scientists who have been warning us over the last few years about the impending horrors of «man - made global warming» but in fact they are not happy about it, not one bit.

The concept of the «synethic tree» has caught the imagination of one of the first scientists to warn the world about global warming, Lackner's colleague at Columbia University, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Professor Wally Broecker.

Peatlands and mangroves are well known for their huge carbon - storing potential — mangrove soils alone store up to 4 times more carbon than trees — however, less is known about methane and nitrous oxide emissions, which may be important for their global warming potential, warns Hergoualc» h.

Two years before that, the U.N. also warned that global warming was about to usher in a huge period of population disruption, leading to a global refuge crisis.

The letter cites an ongoing investigative series by InsideClimate News, which has revealed that Exxon scientists conducted rigorous climate research from the late - 1970s to mid-1980s and warned top company executives about how global warming posed a threat to Exxon's core business.

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California:

Alternet: Global temperatures may be climbing at a rate too fast for our forests and its biodiversity to adapt, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) warned after the World Bank predicted a 4 °C warming of the planet if policymakers continue to be apathetic about greenhouse gas emissions.

Algore was on CNN yesterday warning the two or three people that watch CNN about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman, global warming.

At «A» I found leading French scientist Claude Allegre, who was one of the first to try to warn people about global warming 20 years ago, but on looking into the facts and data now says: «Increasing evidence indicates that most of the warming comes of natural phenomena.»

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.

«Global Warming: Data Centres to Consume Three Times as Much Energy in Next Decade, Experts Warn --»... this level of data centre growth is not sustainable beyond the next 10 to 15 years... We need to be more responsible about what we use the Internet for... it's driven by social media and mobile phones.

«Perhaps the most interesting finding in this poll, aside from the precipitous drop in the number of Independents who believe global warming is a problem, is that the more Americans learn about cap - and - trade, the more they oppose cap - and - trade,» says Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), a longtime skeptic of climate - change warnings.

It's so minuscule and sharply out of line with Sen. W's impassioned warnings about the perils of global warming from the Senate floor that I have to wonder if it's just a terrible mistake!

To some extent, this argument echoes what Exxon lawyers say to defend it against charges that it should have warned its own investors about the risks of global warming.

While the UN's latest global warming report rightfully lowers alarm about the link between climate change and extreme weather events, it does warn of increased risk of wildfires.

Major «shocks» to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a new report.

We face a tremendous gap between what scientists warn about the dangers of global warming and what the public understands, and a discourse that has been hijacked by toxic, politically motivated attacks on the credibility of the climate science community.

The wonderful part of this for the industries who run F.U.D. campaigns is that it gives them a legal «out:» When the lawsuits start, they can point out that scientists had been warning people for decades about (tobacco, global warming).

This, like any specific extreme weather event, can not be conclusively linked to global warming (scientifically), but it is exactly what climatologists have been projecting and warning us about for years.

Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming Call to «stop dithering about fossil fuel cuts» as expert panel warns entire globe is affected

He is a notorious global warming denier and exactly the sort of person Dr. Mann is warning us about in his Post editorial.

And goodly Archbishop Rowan Williams, who self - evidently understands little about the science, has warned of «millions, billions» of deaths as a result of global warming and threatened Mr Blair with the wrath of the climate God unless he acts.

CEI's Sam Kazman, the ad co-creator, said that «Global warming activists warn us about the alleged threats from global warming, but are usually silent about the much more immediate threats from global warming policies.&Global warming activists warn us about the alleged threats from global warming, but are usually silent about the much more immediate threats from global warming policies.&global warming, but are usually silent about the much more immediate threats from global warming policies.&global warming policies.»

For more than two decades, meteorologists and oceanographers have repeatedly warned that runaway global warming, as a consequence of ever - greater combustion of fossil fuels, could bring about an ice - free polar ocean by about 2050.

- James E. Hansen, the climate scientist who issued the clearest warning of the 20th century about the dangers of global warming, will retire from NASA this week, giving himself more freedom to pursue political and legal efforts to limit greenhouse gases.

After using World Earth Day to warn about the impact the changing climate is already having on the US, [Obama] used his annual stand - up routine in front of White House journalists to rant against his «stupid, short - sighted, irresponsible» climate skeptic opponents who throw snowballs in the Senate to illustrate global warming isn't happening.