Sentence examples for modest climate from inspiring English sources

In the interim, Mr. Obama has proposed two relatively modest climate and energy initiatives that could win bipartisan approval from Congress.

"The prospects for having a modest climate impact instead of a disastrous one are quite good, I think," Dr. Hansen said in an interview.

That said, subtler effects of climate change such as more sudden rains and particularly hot days with disproportionate effects on yield are left out, which might mean the study underestimates the effects.Some people will be surprised, even dismayed, that comparatively modest climate changes are already doing measurable damage.

He says he and the other gurus did not like Kyoto or the aggressive proposals made by Dr Cline, whom he sees as the "most alarmist of the serious climate policy experts", but Dr Schelling says he would have ranked modest climate proposals higher on the list, because he sees climate as a real problem.

That past flooding shows that modest climate warming can cause the entire ice sheet to collapse.

These results are consistent with those of Yang et al. (2015) that reported optimal height growth of young white pine occurs at an AMT of about 11 °C, and that white pine in relatively colder locations may benefit, at least initially, from modest climate warming.

The politicians could then turn to tax reform, immigration, gun violence, maybe a modest climate-change measure, and substantive oversight.

Last year, a far more modest climate-change bill fell well short of a simple majority in the Senate.

Both the city and highway tests were performed under mild climate conditions (75 degrees Fahrenheit) with modest acceleration, and a top speed of no more than 60mph.

"Even small climate blips such as a delay in rains, a modest shortening of the drought cycle, can have catastrophic effects".

He has just emerged from Copenhagen having brokered an agreement, however modest, on climate change.