Environmentalists claim that simply growing hemp for industrial uses would go along way toward solving the global warming problem.
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In my view, injecting this post-consumerist perspective into environmental and energy policy would not address the gravamen of the global warming problem, which is not over-consumption but under-consumption.
Climate change has become a focus where - I heard this morning that 33 people - 33 percent of people don't believe global warming is a problem.
Prime Minister Blair said that the G8 achieved his main goals of getting the United States, China and India to admit global warming is a problem that needs urgent attention and to get them to re-engage with the rest of the world to address it.
About 3 out of 4 people said rising sea levels caused by global warming is a serious problem.
Is the Montreal Protocol a model for negotiations on the much tougher problem of global warming?
The problem of global warming is real, and will not be going away any time soon.
The typical baseline economist response to the problem of global warming is a very simple and straightforward one.
And measures can and should be taken to ensure that the future economic growth of the poor world, if that happy outcome occurs, does not unduly exacerbate the problem of global warming.
It said that global warming was likely to exacerbate the problem, causing more droughts, heat waves and floods.
Their services are needed because the problem of planetary global warming is so large and insoluble that it defies our ability to understand it.
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Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe that global climate change and warming is a legitimate problem.
The problem will be worsened by global warming affecting the population balance of animal predators such as owls, snakes, birds and bats, animals that keep insects and rodents in check.
Electric cars are not a silver bullet solution for global warming, but could they actually be part of the problem?
Indoor air pollution (IAP) is an excellent example: A massive global problem and the second-largest driver of global warming, IAP causes over 3.5 million needless deaths each year, mainly in the developing world, and has a disproportionate impact on women and children.
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But they would not address the big problem with shale gas and all fossil fuels: the global warming they cause.
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The science group said in the report that although global warming is getting worse, it is not clear how much of the problem is caused by human activity.
The problem here is that Mr. McKibben did not say that global warming causes more hurricanes.
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Fighting money laundering is rather like tackling global warming: unless everybody joins in, there is little hope of curbing the problem.
The problem: Harnessing energy that doesn't generate the gases said to lead to global warming remains a difficult, gritty business.
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