Gregory Knight
Gregory Knight
Sir Gregory Knightis a British politician and author. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for East Yorkshire and was re-elected with an increased majority in the general election of 2015...
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Choices made in response to demands for more air conditioning could mitigate this problem, but could create other problems at the same time.
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In the 1960s, everyone said that improving environmental quality would cost a great many jobs. By the 1970s and 1980s we realized that environmental quality concerns created jobs, however, new jobs were not necessarily created in areas where jobs disappeared.
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Scale matters and global change is the sum of the actions that take place on national, regional and local levels.
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Ultimately, we need to assess the various pluses and minuses and decide what to do. Integrated regional assessment aims to take scientific information and make it relevant to those on local, regional and national levels who make policy decisions.
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The collective impact of power plants is their contribution to greenhouse gases which would cause warmer and wetter or warmer and dryer conditions. It is likely that the warmer weather would increase the loss of moisture to the atmosphere more than the slightly increased precipitation will add to the overall water balance creating a net moisture deficit.