Sentence examples for climate change noted from inspiring English sources

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia, a freshman Republican and an avowed skeptic on climate change, noted that ancient temperature records indicate periods of warming during the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations and again during the rise of the Vikings, and wanted the scientists to explain just how warm it got during those eras.

What would you ask? President Obama's Hangout took place and includes references to climate change (noted via Climate Progress): Here's a relevant line: The truth is if you produce power using old power plants, you're going to be emitting more carbon — but to upgrade those plants, energy's going to be a little bit more expensive, at least on the front end.

It is important to stress that the pastoral resources in the region are under pressure from human activities as well as possibly suffering from impacts of climate change, noted in meteorological observations recently analyzed by Sulieman and Elagib (2012).

The HFA and SFDRR documents essentially contain the same keywords: climate change (noted 18 times vs. 15, respectively); the acronym DRR (24 vs. 0); risk reduction (97 vs. 91); knowledge (20 vs. 23); collaboration (5 vs. 9); prevention (9 vs. 12); partnership (20 vs. 13).

On the heels of the BOEM's greenlighting of renewed oil drilling in the Arctic, Christiana Figueres, who leads the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, noted that achieving net-zero emissions by 2100 means that many oil and gas reserves must remain untapped (subscription).

These seem laudable goals on their face, but as Michael Levi, a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of its Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, noted recently, they are distractions.

"It's a very, very important job," said John Hay, a spokesman for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, noting that the president of the climate meeting is the one who "hammers through the deal".

So why isn't more being done to address it?" Carney added that there was a growing evidence of humans' role in climate change, noting that since the 1980s the number of registered weather-related loss events had tripled.

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that temperatures in China are rising and extreme weather, including cyclones, droughts and floods, is on the increase.

9. (S) Minister Al-Naimi has consistently been rational and practical in talking with western delegations about climate change, noting that Saudi Arabia had to address its development concerns, but conceding that the world needs to work together to address climate change.

The report, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, notes most research looks at the impacts of global warming by 2100 and so misses one of the biggest consequences for civilisation - the long-term melting of polar ice caps and sea-level rise.