He's also more hardnosed about social issues, such as global warming and corporate social responsibility, than Buffett.
The coming food crisis, warns the author, is as intractable as global warming, and no less urgent.
He believes all sectors need to work together to address the big issues, such as global warming.
As global warming starts to redraw the physical map, so our experiences of it are irreversibly altered.
The world is facing many challenges such as global warming, diseases and pollution.
Global production of corn, wheat and rice have all more than doubled since 1970 as global warming occurred.
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If peer networks can't help us tackle issues as big as global warming and national security, what good are they, really?
Scambos said the poles will be the leading edge of what's happening in the rest of the world as global warming continues.
Third, many of the most important challenges for innovators involve vast systems, such as education and health care, or giant problems, such as global warming.
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If nothing else, they understand that any belief system, particularly ones as young as global warming, cannot easily survive more than a few ounces of self-doubt.
Other Icelandic authorities believe the intent is to gain a foothold for China for future deepwater drilling in the Arctic as global warming opens up the northern climes.
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Authorities in Italy are preparing to deal with an expected 120, 000 anti-globalisation demonstrators from hundreds of protest groups with agendas as diverse as global warming to third world debt.
"As global warming starts to take hold, the need for air conditioning will become that much greater and the problems of insulating buildings will become even more accentuated, " he says.
When a hurricane strikes the U.S. Northeast it only seems unusual because during recent decades, as global warming has gradually occurred, once-frequent Northeast hurricane strikes have almost ceased to exist.
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Bush's critics argued the former president allowed political factors improperly to influence funding decisions for science initiatives as well as to skew official government findings on issues such as global warming.
But the law's supporters argue that other places will inevitably regulate greenhouse gases as global warming begins to bite and that Californian businesses will benefit from being in the vanguard of this trend.
Using ever fancier technologies, the oil business is drilling in deeper waters, more difficult terrain and even in the Arctic (which, as global warming melts the polar ice cap, will perversely become the next great prize in oil).
The WEF's own Global Risks 2013 report -- compiled from an annual survey of more than 1, 000 experts and industry leaders -- offers a pessimistic outlook, saying the global community's ability to address significant challenges, such as global warming, is undermined by the continuing economic weakness plaguing major economies.
The big attraction of carbon taxes these days is not as a global warming policy but as a revenue enhancer.
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Similarly, I documented how environmental activists directed the findings of a recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) global warming report and how nearly all of the 23 NAS authors were already on the record as being global warming alarmists before being chosen to write the report.
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And they say commercial jets add almost as much to global warming annually as the whole of Africa.
And despite relatively high energy prices, as well as the widespread acceptance of global warming as reality, those political decisions will not come easily.
But given the zeal of global warming alarmists and their media allies to paint anything and everything associated with global warming as a harbinger of doom and gloom, we are unlikely to see even a single news article this spring pointing out how global warming is benefiting plant life as a whole.
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If there is any global warming topic non-scientists should examine as an understandable proxy for the global debate as a whole, the alleged link between global warming and tornadoes is it.
Just as concepts like global warming, locavorism, and OWS have communities of support, they become branded ideas.
Asked about glacial melt, which many observers point to as evidence of global warming, Lindzen said the way glaciers change and move are phenomena largely unexplained.
At this point, McCain may need to remind the larger general election electorate of the maverick senator who more than once has been willing to break with the Republican establishment on issues such as taxes, global warming, campaign finance, immigration, torture and the execution of the war.
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Dr. TRENBERTH: That's one of the - that's one of the ironical things that people don't understand, I find, about global warming, is that ironically you can get more snow as a consequence, in part, of global warming.
Surely this must be occurring more frequently as man-made global warming alarmists have predicted.
However, wrapping such measures in green paper and presenting them as anti-global-warming strategies might help their acceptance.
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