Sentences with phrase «worst kinds of climate»

Not exact matches

Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford warned that «letting corporations get rich off of environmental devastation will make Obama's climate rhetoric look like the worst kind of greenwashing.»

But unfortunately that technical, rational approach simply hasn't worked: while many logistic problems of one kind or another on the nation's campuses have been solved, both faculty and students continue to operate in that spiritual climate where, as Yeats prophetically put it, «The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.»

Worst - case warming scenario may bring totally new kinds of tropical climate and cause others to disappear

(Personally, I don't see this kind of effort going anywhere unless and until climate impacts trend toward worst - case outcomes.)

The IPCC can't really do this kind of thing, because it has been optimized to carry out a far more narrow technical task — answer whether climate change is occurring and whether humans are the blame, and if so how bad it might get in the future.

a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.

There's a question about what would we do if things start getting worse, if climate change leads to some kind of crisis situation,» Ken Caldeira, one of the report's authors and a researcher at the Carnegie Institute for Science, said.

It's a term climate change deniers seem to bandy about often, these days, as if «alarm» were some kind of bad word.

It is by climate scientists, and most skeptics think they themselves are better expert on climate science than climate scientists, so they find all kinds of ways to denigrate and convince themselves it is a bad site, etc..

I have a history with Andy Revkin's DotEarth, which is prone to provide fuel for sloppy thinking about weather and climate, as well as a hangout for the worst kind of clever - looking phony skeptic arguments.

«Denying climate change is worse than spreading the usual kind of conspiracy theory: it costs lives ``, wrote former Political Editor, Mehdi Hasan, whose lefty - liberal street - credentials enjoyed a short lived boost last month when he layed into Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre on BBC TV.

I suspect this inspired their, and their like's, vigorous promotion of climate models once they discovered they brought bad news of a suitable kind.

It would be very interesting to follow closely contract attributions both off and on campuses and how much a discount may be offered to Universities new buildings in relation with the number of municipal contracts linked to «climate change» mitigation... Local newspapers that are surviving mostly on real estates ads are very much willing propagandists of the worst kind: http://www.nsnews.com/north-vancouver-city-plans-for-climate-change-floods-1.668838 «Although the city approved an ongoing strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, the focus is now on dealing with existing climate change, said Caroline Jackson, section manager of environmental sustainability at the City of North Vancouver.»

Questioning of this kind does touch the heart of the issue, i.e. that the * certainty * of near - term calamity (decades) is a cultural truth not based in science, in a way the public can grasp, and whether or not the the physical climate is actually responding to ACO2 in a good, bad, or indifferent manner.

Letting corporations get rich off of environmental devastation will make Obama's climate rhetoric look like the worst kind of greenwashing.

In other words, Pachauri — who likes to talk about social justice and the moral obligations associated with climate change — is the worst kind of hypocrite.

If it does not warm then there will be more and more people like me realizing either that «climate catastrophe» was either GROSSLY overstated, (to be kind), or, worse, it was a politically motivated and funded agenda of deception.