And he accepted the neutered phrase of "climate change" over the more ominous phrase of "global warming," and then proceeded to do nothing about it for four years.
Nevertheless, contemporary global warming appears to proceed faster than the local adaptation of A. thaliana populations (Wilczek et al., 2014), based on the reproductive fitness of plants grown at locations across the European distribution range from stored seeds, which were collected in different geographic regions between 4 and 70 years earlier.
The Bush administration has argued that voluntary measures are the best way to proceed on global warming, rather than requirements on industry to reduce emissions.
That powerful economic interests -- with their lawyers, lobbyists and eager politicians -- are lining up to fight an inadequate, baby-step plan to lessen automotive greenhouse emissions 30percentt by 2016 shows that our huge global warming experiment is likely to proceed unchecked.
But this year I donated those shares to the nonprofit Rockefeller Family Fund's Environmental program, which sold them and is using the $400,000 proceeds to fight global warming.
Tonight on "60 Minutes," Lesley Stahl interviewed Al Gore, along with his wife, Tipper, and discussed the environmental crusader's new $300 million ad campaign for global warming awareness, funded in part by proceeds from the book and movie of "An Inconvenient Truth" plus prize money from Gore's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
While they do, the EPA carbon pollution regulations will proceed as an imperfect but important step taken by America to slow global warming.
At Bill Clinton's Global Initiative in New York, Branson pledged all proceeds from Virgin Groups transportation divisions be donated to develop alternative fuel sources and alleviate global warming.
Rather, it proceeded much like the calving of Arctic ice masses under the pressure of global warming, leaving behind only a herd of modest ice floes.
Nine of the 10 agreed to use the proceeds exclusively for renewable energy, advanced technologies and other programs to address the challenge of global warming.
