"That's when I sat back and said, I just started a conversation about global warming and climate change and the parts per million of CO2 in our atmosphere on a NASCAR forum, " she said.
No-one is denying that, if managed properly, biofuels such as ethanol can offer very subsatial benefits, and have a significant role to play in the battle against global warming and climate change.
Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe that global climate change and warming is a legitimate problem.
No matter how we argue in comfortable air conditioned lecture halls about global warming and climate change, we will still be able to fry eggs on the bleachers while teenagers eager to make the grade as college football players have two-a-day summer work outs.
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There are two main incentives for this, the first being the geological feature that natural gas is in finite supply and world production of it is thought might peak within the next few decades, and secondly that burning fossil carbon contributes to the atmospheric concentration of CO2, which scientific consensus accords will cause global warming and climate change.
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The authors say that the predicted shallow depth of these methane reserves means that they could be destabilised by climate change, and might act as a positive feedback on global warming.
Not least, space monitoring allows researchers to keep an eye on climate change and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, helping to inform scientific understanding of the processes that drive global warming and estimate how big the changes will be.
D. level climate scientists that work at Columbia University's Earth Institute and even if you do not understand the physics of climate change or the computer models predicting global warming, common sense alone might lead you to think that human beings and their machines are making the planet warmer.
What's more, the parts of the world where populations are growing fastest are also those most vulnerable to climate change, and a rising population will exacerbate the consequences of global warming water shortages, mass migration, declining food yields.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global warming alarm-premised carbon cap-and-trade promoting politician this side of the hysterically-hyped rising oceans.
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No doubt, the topic of climate change is contentious and some scientists are unable to make the link between global warming and human activity.
Excess carbon dioxide is accelerating global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and overall climate change.
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Efficiency is the most important response to the many challenges facing the planet during the next century and beyond, including: global warming or any other form of climate change.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which releases the third of three reports into the causes, consequences and mitigation of global warming in Thailand this week, the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by the latter part of the 21st century.
He tried hard to be neutral and avoided any judgment on the science underlying climate change predictions or on possible policies to counteract global warming.
Because climate change or global warming can neither be proved or disproved using the scientific method because we are living and taking measurements within the only experiment there is or ever can be.
"It's pretty convincing stuff, " commented Piers Forster, professor of climate change at the UK's University of Leeds and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment of factors driving global warming.
The science of their Assessment Reports has been thoroughly rebutted by the hundreds of pages of science in Climate Change Reconsidered, and Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report, both written by dozens of scientists with the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and published by the Heartland Institute, the international headquarters of the skeptics of the theory of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming.
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Many scientists and environmental groups argue that the storms which caused the flooding are the first signs of climate change brought on by global warming.
This year's series of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been broadly welcomed for a sober and sensible tone, which, while acknowledging the dangers of global warming, also suggested that our destiny was still in our own hands.
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