Sentences with phrase «whole climate change effort»

You've obviously had a great and long experience of this whole climate change effort, from the science, negotiations, etc, and it's been a roller coaster.

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Then Graham pointed out that the impacts of climate change, peak oil and geopolitical instability mean that «the whole food system needs rethinking and massive effort needs to go into rebuilding the skills of our agricultural producers such that the nation can remain domestically food - secure».

I'm all in favor of these kinds of efforts because they educate the public about the dire need to deal with climate change, but to get to where we need to be will require a whole lot more.

And I second what Glenn Landers (# 10) wrote: «I'm all in favor of these kinds of efforts because they educate the public about the dire need to deal with climate change, but to get to where we need to be will require a whole lot more.»

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?

As the toll from global climate change becomes apparent for all to see − with whole populations displaced by rising seas, millions dying from famines due to crop failures attributable to climate change, and millions more struck down by diseases associated with a transformed climate − these 11 men and one woman will be accountable for Australia failing to play its part and for slowing down international efforts.

But yes, the whole climate change industry is indeed like pouring trillions of dollars (and hope and effort and prayers, etc) into a bucket with an almighty hole in it.

Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.

Professor Peres gives us the whole story, with the background economics in an effort to stop the rot and conserve the little we have left, just as the global warming campaign has finally created a momentum to stop climate change.