Sentences with phrase «with radical climate»

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A Columbia professor and clean tech entrepreneur talks with his son, a clean tech investor, about generational differences in their attitudes toward climate change and radical solutions to the world's most pressing problem.

It is also the only political force that proposes radical solutions to climate change, a problem that is here with us now and can no longer be debated in the abstract.

We talk through some of the most pressing issues in modern climate science: our chances of staying below 1.5 °C of warming without climate engineering, climate engineering with land - based albedo modifications, and the kinds of societal transformations needed for radical mitigation.

This seems to imply that even with a radical transformation of our economy away from carbon emissions, we are already committed to serious climate change — at least until 2040?

«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.

After all, the reality that humans are causing the climate to warm, with potentially catastrophic results, really does demand radical government intervention in the market, as well as collective action on an unprecedented scale.

Consider that combating climate change requires nothing less than a radical restructuring of how the world makes and uses energy, and consider the overwhelming level of public concern it would take to impose such sweeping changes on the vested interests profiting by the status quo (and let's be honest... to impose such changes on a public comfortable with the status quo).

5) I do not agree with his radical cuts, and communal ownership, and that it could happen quickly enough stop dangerous climate change.

Crichton stirred the climate debate with a 2004 novel, State of Fear, in which the bad guys were radical environmentalists trying to scare the world about global warming in order to line their pockets.

«It highlights a really key area where we can test some of the more radical hypotheses about climate change,» said John Kessler, a professor at the University of Rochester, in an interview with the New York Times.

A week later, Friday, June 9, Illinois Democrat constitutional officers — State Treasurer Mike Frerichs and other top elected officials — joined with radical environmentalists to demand that Governor Rauner join the California - led Climate Alliance.

With abrupt climate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society 20With abrupt climate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Societyclimate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society 20with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal SocietyClimate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal SocietyClimate Change Page, Royal Society 2010).

Compared with the radical know - nothing litmus test for politicians we see now, on climate science most of the Bush Administration, bad as it was, was downright nuanced and moderate.Link to archived 11 - minute audio webcast.

If they want to have a «conversation» on climate policy with the Trump Administration then they need to disinvite the radical activists, at least at the policy table.

But then I'm still in deep climate denial, infected with the false consciousness of consumerism and obviously in urgent need of radical ecotherapy, so what do I know?

But the most newsworthy and surprising event came on the summit sidelines, with President Xi Jinping and President Obama warmly shaking hands as they unveiled plans for radical cutbacks in emissions of CO2 − the most potent of the climate - changing greenhouse gases (GHGs).

From the Washington Post By Sarah Palin — With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point.

After 23 years of United Nations summits on climate change, the time has come for radical thinking and radical action — a social movement with the power to demand a better future.

Ultimately, the latest scientific understanding of climate change allied with current emission trends and a commitment to «limiting average global temperature increases to below 4C above pre-industrial levels», demands a radical reframing of both the climate change agenda, and the economic characterization of contemporary society.

Why does so much of the putative radical left now seek to identify itself with the climate change issue?

The Heathrow protesters» running battles with the police might give the impression that the protest was radical, and its aims at odds with the establishment, but Climate Camp's ultimate goal of 90 per cent reductions in UK CO2 emissions by 2050 is only 10 per cent more than the Conservative party has pledged.

Translating the above to climate science, if you tell me that in 100 years earth inhabited by your children is going to hell in a handbasket, because our most complicated models built with all those horrendously complicated equestions you can find in math, show that the global temperatures will be 10 deg higher and icecaps will melt, sea will invade land, plant / animal ecosystem will get whacked out of order causing food supply to be badly disrupted, then I, without much climate science expertise, can easily ask you the following questions and scrutinize the results: a) where can I see that your model's futuristic predictions about global temp, icecaps, eco system changes in the past have come true, even for much shorter periods of time, like say 20 years, before I take this for granted and make radical changes in my life?

Audubon's climate model projects a radical shift in winter climate space for this species, with only 6 % of the current remaining stable by 2080.

Even if every environmentalist and climate campaigner agreed with me that we need a radical reappraisal of our present «growth at all costs» orthodoxy (hint: they don't), that still wouldn't mean the only alternative to business - as - usual is some anarcho - primitivist dystopia.

In collaboration with another meteorologist, Wladimir Köppen, Wegener worked through the geological evidence of radical climate change.

Sure, he's taken executive action that attempts to address climate change, but if he and Democrats were as radical as some people think they are, we'd be seeing either an end to all drilling and mining on public lands or a nationalization of the process, with royalties coming back to the taxpayer instead of filling the pockets of Big Oil.

Consider some business groups» radical alignment with those still arguing that a hoax is afoot and that business will suffer from climate - conscious operational strategies.

After becoming fed up with the childish and dangerous tactics of alarmists, particularly the use of the term «climate denier,» Spencer said that the «global - warming Nazis» were in fact threatening millions of lives — especially among the poor — with their «pseudo-scientific ramblings» and support for fascist - style «radical policies» supposedly aimed at combating «global warming.»

A news release says Sousa «believes the world stands at a crossroads with respect to global climate change and urges the real estate profession to be participants in the call for urgent and radical action as it is threatening the lives and existence of billions of people and millions of species.»