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.
"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 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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Has not the time come to demonstrate on solidarity not least solidarity in combating and adapting to climate change and global warming?
Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe that global climate change and warming is a legitimate problem.
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.
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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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.
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.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
No doubt, the topic of climate change is contentious and some scientists are unable to make the link between global warming and human activity.
"It's a very interesting piece of research, " said David Whitehouse, science advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation -- a charity set up by former UK government finance minister and vocal critic of climate change policy, Nigel Lawson.
McCain's commitment to fight global warming puts him at odds with some Republicans in Congress and with the Bush administration, which has not made climate change a top priority.
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.
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.
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.
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.
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