Sentences with phrase «with global climate warming»

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Cunha credits Scott — whose administration famously prohibited references to climate change or global warming in state publications — with «the best of intentions» in issuing mandatory evacuation orders.
Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.
Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.
The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»
The two - week Paris climate change summit last November legally - bound countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, with 1.5 degrees as a preferable target.
Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».
He refers to meetings his office has held with global warming groups and says «such gatherings can create an environment of dialogue and common ground for common action on climate change,» and he urged that such gatherings be expanded.
CT frequently covers Pope Francis, including examining the recent release of his encyclical, how many of his fans disagree with him on global warming, and the theology behind his warnings on climate change.
Richard Cizik, who is Vice-President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, has created quite a stir among his constituency by breaking ranks with the NAE's neutrality on issues of climate change (a.k.a. «global warming»).
The global warming / climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, our colleges sponsoring» Focus the Nation» weeks to promote the self - evident moral truth of combating warming, and above all the U.N. - sponsored Bali conference meant to produce a treaty to succeed the soon - to - expire Kyoto.
Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»
With respect to global warming, it's better to think in terms of manmade climate and environmental change.
Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.
With a long history of personal interest in sustainable food, Paul recently called upon the Doha climate conference to take into account the impact of the livestock sector on global warming.
The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.
As for pundits the Merson types are like climate scientists who deny global warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.
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For instance, we know that say, targeting a supporter who's responded to your past global - warming emails with a climate - themed fundraiser is likely to yield better results than a less - targeted appeal.
Many of them feel global warming or man - made climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.
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Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was not enough.
Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.
«We're glad the governor went to global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.
With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impaWith Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impawith significant climate impacts.
As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countries.
«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.
Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.
Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change.
«When confronted with the question whether or not global warming contributed to Sandy, many scientists would just throw their hands up and say, «We can not address the question of how hurricanes will behave in a future climate because the myriad factors affecting storm behaviors are too complex and impossible to simulate»,» Lau said.
The third U.S. climate assessment note global warming's disruptions have hit the country, with more severe weather and economic impacts
The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.
A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.
That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.
A weaker sun might slow human - induced climate change slightly but when the sun eventually recovers force, global warming would heat up with even more of a vengeance.
Climate - change foes, on the other hand, are successfully changing people's minds — Republicans and Democrats alike — with messages denying the existence of global warming.
Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with the damaging effects of global warming, in a setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 accord.
NASA's Global Climate Change Program has reported that «the 10 warmest years in the 134 - year record all have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998,» and the year 2015 ranks as the warmest on record.
«Global warming and climate change... increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen in an earlier paper with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.
With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.
«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.
There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than laWith the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than lawith leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than later.
The earlier study — which used pre-industrial temperature proxies to analyze historical climate patterns — ruled out, with more than 99 % certainty, the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's climate.
«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate InitiatWith land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiatwith the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.
GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that climate change is real, potentially dangerous and probably caused in part by humans, has disagreed with many climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.
Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.
Although computer models used to project climate changes from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations consistently simulate an increasing upward airflow in the tropics with global warming, this flow can not be directly observed.
But the diplomat said he agreed with U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer, who earlier this summer made a similar assessment that the Copenhagen negotiations won't be the end - all on a global warming treaty that applies to more than 190 nations.
Thus, a homeowner will probably not be able to show that the hurricane that destroyed his house was spawned by global warming, but the state of Florida may well prove that increased damage to coastal property over several years has a lot to do with climate change.
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