Sentences with phrase «american climate effort»

Now, with a Trump presidency appearing bent on reversing American climate effort, the carbon competitiveness doom and gloom seems a little more plausible and a lot more threatening.

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As North American producers massively ramp up plans to export coal to Asia, B.C. figures large in their plans — and in opposition efforts of citizens worried about climate change.

Canada's AI industry stands to benefit from the American political climate and the Trump administration's efforts to sharply restrict travel into the United States from six predominantly Muslim...

In a larger sense, however, Berry's work must be counted a failure, As in the effort to get Americans to protect the climate, small victories have been overwhelmed by crushing losses, As Berry points out in the opening essay, America now has half the number of farms it had in 1977.

He has pledged to undo American efforts to prevent a global warming catastrophe, including retreat from the Paris Agreement on Climate, Clean Power Plan, and new EPA

Greenpeace portrays the company's efforts as a secret campaign to keep climate doubts pinging around an «echo chamber» that includes groups like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

The American public is eager for dramatic change in U.S. energy policy, but Democratic efforts to sell their agenda on energy and climate change aren't reaching voters, a prominent Democratic Party polling firm is warning.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cClimate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cclimate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.

A new paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) summarizes efforts by the ARM Climate Research Facility, through collaborations with university and federal partners, to develop and use unmanned aerial capabilities for atmospheric research in the Arctic.

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Meanwhile, to support its efforts at promoting higher industry standards and to give live - animal retailers a more powerful voice in an increasingly contentious climate, Pet Express» owners have joined a retail advisory board for the American Kennel Club (AKC) that convenes at major industry events and remotely to discuss standards for live - animal retail.

Like the Organization of Black American Culture in the same city, which had created the Wall of Respect, the first of many murals by community arts organizations, AFRI - COBRA sought «to liberate its audience and define a national Black consciousness «9 This effort was in part a response to a climate that permitted what now seem acts of amazing insensitivity by mainstream institutions.

Furthering Nanashe's efforts to catalogue modern American simulacra, the art presented in his solo show suggests a socio - political climate so dire as to be teetering on the absurd.

That's why the new center's latest effort, «An Open Letter to the American People and America's Leaders: A New Era for U.S. Energy Security,» focuses arguments for action on oil mainly on the basis of economic and geopolitical conflict, with the environment and climate in the background.

5:23 p.m. Updated Gavin Schmidt, the climate modeler at NASA and Columbia University who has long endured the slings and arrows that come with blogging on climate, has now gained a laurel for his efforts — the inaugural $ 25,000 Climate Communications Prize of the American Geophysicalclimate modeler at NASA and Columbia University who has long endured the slings and arrows that come with blogging on climate, has now gained a laurel for his efforts — the inaugural $ 25,000 Climate Communications Prize of the American Geophysicalclimate, has now gained a laurel for his efforts — the inaugural $ 25,000 Climate Communications Prize of the American GeophysicalClimate Communications Prize of the American Geophysical Union.

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

Mr. McCain (a spokesman): «John McCain has been a leader in the fight against global climate change, working with Democrats on this issue since 2003, but no one has more successfully recruited Americans into this effort than Al Gore.

At a State Department ceremony today, senior Chinese and American officials signed a memorandum of understanding setting up an ongoing effort to team up on energy and climate initiatives.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

And this is yet another example of how the Chamber wields its massive influence — its role in shutting down clean energy and climate efforts are well known — and is pushing corporate - friendly policies at the expense of the American people.

The e-mail exchanges among several prominent American and British climate - change scientists appear to reveal efforts to keep the work of skeptical scientists out of major journals and the possible hoarding and manipulation of data to overstate the case for human - caused climate change.

Bill McKibben is an American writer and climate catastrophe activist who founded 350.org and is the chief architect of the failed #ExxonKnew effort to criminalize...

In support of his case, Whitehouse offers up a supposedly sinister 2008 internal memo from the American Petroleum Institute and a quote — taken from a report by Drexel University professor Robert Brulle — to the effect that there has been «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect the public discussion and distort the public's understanding of climate.»

Article XXXII of the 35 Articles of Impeachment, introduced on June 9 by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D - Ohio), charges President Bush with «Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change.»

On June 1, 2017, 385 American mayors from towns and cities both big and small pledged to «adopt, honor, and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement» through the Climate Mayors effort.

On balance, most Americans believe it is possible to reduce the effects of climate change, and about half say that policy efforts to diminish those effects have a net benefit for the environment.

There have been other more overt recent efforts using improper methods like CPA at places like Real Climate, or Mann with a bogus temperature graphic in Scientific American in April.

No, we're not talking about the right - wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Alec Baldwin.

Environmental groups have launched a new effort, the Safe Climate Campaign, to radically transform the American automobile and fight climate Climate Campaign, to radically transform the American automobile and fight climate climate change.

Likewise, the American Natural Gas Alliance ($ 88 million) seems to work mainly on advertising and public - relations efforts to promote fracking or the use of natural gas rather than other fuels, and the group takes no obvious position on Global Warming / Climate Change.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.

Over the course of eight conference sessions, the Business Showcase at the US Climate Action Pavilion will bring together corporate leaders from many iconic U.S. brands to explore their efforts to help decarbonize the American economy.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

We do not believe the American people will for long wish to stand apart from the global effort to limit the damage from climate change.

President Bush plans to use a Rose Garden speech on global warming policy today to propose several ways to improve the situation, government officials say, including an increase in money for basic climate research and an effort to coordinate American climate - modeling efforts with those abroad.

The heart of the effort, which had been requested by Congress, was a series of modeling studies that had to be run on computers in Britain, Canada and Japan because American climate centers lacked the capacity to perform the calculations.

Its author, its publisher and its billionaire supporters have all been key to the coordinated public relations effort that has blocked climate policy in this country by making climate science a partisan issue in this country and rallying the American public behind the very lies they themselves fabricated.

We Are Still In is an effort coordinated by The American Sustainable Business Council, B Team, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Center for American Progress, Ceres, CDP, Climate Mayors, Climate Nexus, C40, C2ES, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Entrepreneurs, Georgetown Climate Center, ICLEI, National League of Cities, Rocky Mountain Institute, Second Nature, Sierra Club, Sustainable Museums, The Climate Group, We Mean Business, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Because when the American public is overwhelmingly concerned about the climate crisis and supports participating in international efforts to address it, it becomes that much harder for the current administration to just sweep the issue under the rug and hope that people will forget about it like with the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.

President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American efforts to shrink our carbon footprint.

First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.climate science.»

Likewise, despite environmentalists» concerns, the American exit is unlikely to have an immediate effect on global efforts to address climate change.

«The American public should be deeply troubled to learn that EPA is actively working to increase energy prices based on predicted global temperature increases without first undertaking efforts to determine if temperatures are actually increasing to the extent predicted by the climate models they are using,» reads the Senate Republicans» report.

At the end of the event we asked Mr. Rogers why Duke Energy continues to support climate science denial (an obviously global and critical issue facing us today) and voter suppression by funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), especially since Duke's policies seem to oppose such efforts.

North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international effort that produces high - resolution regional climate model simulations of North America's climate, for regional analysis and impacts sClimate Change Assessment Program The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international effort that produces high - resolution regional climate model simulations of North America's climate, for regional analysis and impacts sClimate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international effort that produces high - resolution regional climate model simulations of North America's climate, for regional analysis and impacts sclimate model simulations of North America's climate, for regional analysis and impacts sclimate, for regional analysis and impacts studies.

The memo notes that such an effort has strong allies in Washington in the form of will receive help from people like Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK), who has called global warming «the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people» and Rep. Joe Barton (R - TX) who has been leading a witch hunt against Dr. Michael Mann, one of the country's pre-eminent climate scientists.

It's what Joe Romm at Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate climate change.