Sentences with phrase «whether climate change exists»

U.S. Attorney Marissa Piropato answered that the dispute lies not in disagreement over whether climate change exists, but rather with the kids» conclusion that climate change imperils their future.

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She opposed setting a target to reduce carbon emissions, backed plans - which were later reversed - to sell off Britain's forests, and last year, after being appointed energy minister, asked officials whether climate change really existed.

Update / note: To be clear, I'm not asking for views whether or not climate change is true, if we have the ability to change it for good or bad, what evidence exists, whether people want or oppose change, or anything like that.

On climate change arguing about whether or not existing technologies are up to the job or not is a lot like arguing about whether there is enough money in the world to lift everyone out of poverty.

Whether or not a «hiatus» exists seems mostly semantical, with some dependence on your choice of favorite dataset, but from a climate dynamics standpoint it's really an effort to take an order 0.1 C change and give some fractional attribution to a bunch of different factors that conspired to give you that 0.1 C change.

He wants to find robust methods that can used to -LSB-[determine whether a trend exists that would show]-RSB- how climate has changed.

They asked whether using alarmist language to describe the future of climate change is an effective way to develop public awareness of the risks that exist.

«While these increases are most likely due to Earth's changing climate, uncertainty exists as to whether they are the product of human - induced greenhouse warming or represent variations related to natural multi-decadal climate cycles,» Ruggiero's study said.

Despite the growing consensus among scientists of how humans are impacting the atmosphere, how to confront climate change — or in some cases, whether it even exists — has deadlocked along party lines.

Plus, climate change people have already stated the hot spot was not really all that important and we should not worry about whether or not it ever existed.

One such common approach to national ghg emissions reductions commitments that fails to satisfy any ethical scrutiny is the claim that all nations must reduce emissions by the same amount without regard to whether a nation is a large or small contributor to the climate change problem, an approach often referred to as «grandfathering» or equal reductions from existing emissions levels.

«The debate on climate change ought not to be whether or not it exists.

Decision - makers, by contrast, need to understand how climate change may interfere with their plans and compromise their objectives, so they can adapt existing policies and adopt new strategies to stay on track — whether to protect life, health, and well - being, sustain economic growth, preserve natural resources, ensure continued performance of critical infrastructure, or maintain national security.

In December 2004 the RealClimate blogsite stated: «One could debate whether overwhelming consensus is adequate grounds for action on climate change, but there are no grounds for debating whether such consensus actually exists.»

Revkin argues that journalists should resist the urge to tie climate change stories to natural disasters like hurricanes, since there is legitimate debate by scientists about whether such a connection exists.

As serious governments shift the climate - change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause — and how much measures to fight it might cost.