Sentences with phrase «with us about global warming»

On his late - night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel recently invited climate scientists to explain that they're not just messing with us about global warming.

More and more information is being shared with us about global warming and climate change.

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«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

But with its capital often choked by smog and its people angry about the environmental degradation that rapid development has wrought across the country, Beijing has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.

I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

It's not about credentials, despite your complaint that «if anyone disagrees with any scientist who supports global warming, you hypocritical bozo's are the first to say»... whatever.

As has been the case with the Keystone pipeline, in New York the opposition comes from those concerned about global warming.

The term «global warming denier» is so offensive because it seeks to attach skepticism about the warming and / or its supposed Draconian solutions with denying the Holocaust and being «anti science.»

A radio host recently opened his interview with my husband as follows: «When I think of environmentalists, I picture long - haired, Birkenstock wearing hippies who rant about recycling and global warming.

They can say «Hey look, one of you smart people decided to come back to our ideology of «ignorance is bliss» where we don't need to worry about global warming, or sharing what we have with the poor or any science and wellfare stuff at all because God will just take care of it...»

With increasing awareness about global warming and concerns about the environment, people are opting for eco-friendly techniques of fresh food packaging, which has had an impact on the market for global food produce packaging products.

A small, polite man with a mustache and slight stammer, Mr. Reichard speaks knowledgeably and passionately about key liberal policy concerns like campaign finance reform and global warming.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

Biello: What I was surprised by in my own kind of interviews and interactions with people was, how aware everybody I spoke to, from people in the most remote villages to, you know, sophisticated urbanites, were aware of global warming and had a fairly progressive view of action that needed to be taken to do something about that now.

«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.

But with rising oil prices and growing fears about global warming, public transit is looking sexier to many Americans.

Cool It, a documentary based on his 2007 book of the same name, continues Lomborg's cry to rethink the world's responses to global warming: Abandon toothless agreements about carbon cuts and instead invest in renewable energy, along with geoengineering as a fail - safe.

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«If you're serious about addressing global warming, you have to deal with biomass burning as well.»

Concerns about global warming are driving new efforts to replace sooty indoor fires with clean - burning cookstoves

The hotel chain is celebrating its 50th anniversary by planting 10 million trees across the 34 countries in which it operates with the hope that the effort will help combat deforestation and global warming and attract more customers concerned about the state of the planet.

If you believe, along with almost every scientist who has studied the issue, that global warming poses a genuine threat to humanity, doesn't this suggest that we should be doing something about it?

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

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.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Lomborg, a Danish political scientist with a background in statistics, argues in his text that claims made by environmentalists about global warming, overpopulation, energy, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other issues are exaggerations unsupported by a proper analysis of environmental data.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

«The long - term baseline temperature is about three tens of a degree (C) warmer than it was when the big El Niño of 1997 - 1998 began, and that event set the one - month record with an average global temperature that was 0.66 C (almost 1.2 degrees F) warmer than normal in April 1998.»

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

The atmosphere in the polar regions has warmed at about twice the average rate of global warming with Arctic coasts experiencing a rise in the occurrence of storm surges.

I agree with Harriet Coleman (22 August, p 24) that the debate about global warming is really about preserving our...

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, a gas with about 30 times the global warming power of carbon dioxide.

But with its capital often choked by smog and its people angry about the environmental degradation that rapid development has wrought across the country, Beijing has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.

Thereafter, global warming continues as if the AMOC never collapsed, but with a globally averaged temperature offset of about 0.8 °C.

Significantly, there is growing unease about the link between climate change and extreme weather, with 74 per cent of Americans now agreeing that «global warming is affecting weather in the United States».

But he is convinced that we are not thinking the problem through correctly and are, in fact, lost in a kind of green fog about how best to deal with global warming and other major environmental threats.

As a scientist, he thinks about ways of tinkering with the planet on a grand scale to alleviate the effects of global warming.

I agree with you about the human connection «warmth = good» making it hard for the global warming story to raise alarm.

Just days later, a real - time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent — a small, but clear, effect, the scientists say.

Since 2008, Ed has served as Co-Principal Investigator (with Anthony Leiserowitz and Connie Roser - Renouf) of the Yale / George Mason University Climate Change in the American Mind audience research project, which tracks public opinion about climate change, including the Global Warming's Six Americas audience segments.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

In fact, we are, in about a billion years, at least according to Caldeira and Kasting («The life span of the biosphere revisited, Nature, 360, 721, 1992), because the increased solar luminosity and ensuing global warming will cause the silicates to start reacting with the atmospheric CO2.

I'm distrustful of it because he is on record as saying, «Anyone with doubts about man's role in global warming is an idiot.»

I think your discussion about anthropogenic global warming is a little «off topic» in this blog entry, which is about due diligence in climate science, but with the permission of those running the blog, I'd like to explore it a little further.

Re: 98 Satellite data: Some weeks ago I had a discussion with my American «Deny - aleban» nephew about global warming, and I came across some points of interest, which I think somebody should take a closer look into: I wrote this to him: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9m66ktqf28mghs/Pil1.pdf?dl=0 and the point of interest starts at page 6, where I write about the 98 - thing.

I had thought there was a legitimate scientific debate about the role of global warming and hurricanes, but it appears that the deniers, although they are legitimate scientists, seem to have fallen in with the think tank ideologues and PR lobbyists who masquerade as scientists.

However, the big unknown remaining is whether corals can adapt to global warming, which is now occurring at an unprecedented rate — at about two orders of magnitude faster than occurred with the ending of the last Ice Age.

A recent reconstruction from proxy temperature data [55] concluded that global temperature declined about 0.7 °C between the Holocene maximum and a pre-industrial minimum before recent warming brought temperature back near the Holocene maximum, which is consistent with our analysis.