Sentences with phrase «us federal climate»

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

Opinion: Most provincial and federal climate plans use carbon pricing as a revenue tool to fund government programs that subsidize inefficient carbon reduction strategies

Even normal rain won't end California drought, expert says: California will likely remain in a drought this winter even if most areas receive normal rainfall, according to an expert from the federal Climate Prediction Center...

The decisive shift in federal climate policy will have little impact on businesses: Shareholders and large state governments have already pushed big business to act on the issue.

AAAS leads intersociety letter expressing «grave concern» about congressional inquiry that unfoundedly called into question federal climate scientists» integrity [November 24, 2015]

Major sources of federal climate research dollars include NASA's Earth Science program, NSF's Geosciences directorate, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s climate research programs, among others.

Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

Their report emphasizes the utility of rapid - response airborne chemical sampling in providing leak rate data, and it reveals how single vulnerabilities in the natural gas infrastructure can impact local and federal climate policies.

Instead of pursuing federal climate - related jobs after earning her Master's, Coleman chose regional and state climate policy, «where the action has been.»

Thus, single vulnerabilities can have major implications for state and federal climate policy.

Previously, the committee had sway over federal climate policy.

Looking to the next five years, Browning is hoping to lay the groundwork for federal climate legislation, an admitted slim possibility under the Trump administration.

But he predicted that politics nationally would shift to the point where federal climate legislation would be possible and presidential contenders will need to have a position on the issue.

After the failure of federal climate legislation in Congress this year, the fate of California's law was viewed as a US turning point — either away from addressing global warming or toward stronger action to curb greenhouse gases.

As the nation debates possible structures for federal climate change legislation, many states are already moving forward with carbon - cutting plans of their own.

With a federal climate bill stalled on Capitol Hill indefinitely, companies wanting to invest in projects are in limbo, panelists said yesterday.

Smith, one of the leading opponents of mainstream climate science in Congress, has repeatedly accused federal climate scientists of engaging in a massive conspiracy to falsify climate data.

The renewables milestone comes amid actions by the Trump administration to turn back federal climate policies intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions by embracing wind, solar and other renewable energy.

«The massive transformations underway in the U.S. electricity sector will likely continue, but they won't be driven by federal climate policy,» depending instead on state policy and technical innovation, he said.

Federal climate plans created under the former president, tribal assistance programs and references to international cooperation have been stricken from the EPA's Web site

(l) Clearinghouse of Federal Climate Service products and links to Federal agencies providing climate services.

-- The President shall establish or designate an interagency climate and other global change data management working group to make recommendations for coordinating Federal climate and other global change data management and archiving activities.

The federal case demands sweeping changes in federal climate efforts and in government programs that subsidize or foster development of fossil fuels.

Nonetheless, the Trump administration is dismantling federal climate policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Nowhere is the gap between climate science and federal climate policy more obvious than at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

He was the lead in the development of the USGCRP's new Ten Year Strategic Plan and a key player in the Third National Climate Assessment, the President's Climate Action Plan, and other activities related to the federal climate change enterprise.

The White House's proposed «America First» budget forcefully kicks many federal climate - related energy programs to the curb, representing a possible turn away from renewable energy and a broad disinvestment in the research and development needed to transform the U.S. energy system into one better able to adapt to climate change.

We don't have federal climate change legislation in place in the United States, but the Obama administration is pushing for a carbon tax in the new budget.

«In addition to its reliance on existing and primarily recent synthesis reports from the peer reviewed literature, it also underwent a technical review by12 federal climate change experts, internal EPA review, and interagency review.»

This group includes Susan Solomon, the federal climate scientist who led the 2007 science review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Kenneth Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University and Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago and (on occasion) Realclimate.org.

A new study led by Susan Solomon, a federal climate scientist and co-leader of the 2007 science review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is fascinating not only for the revelations, but the underlying lessons, too.

There's been an ongoing attack on the credibility of federal climate monitoring efforts that has been partly inspired by Anthony Watts.

Addendum, 8:00 p.m. It's important to note (as a reader who prefers anonymity helped remind me) that no federal climate analyst predicted a «monster» or «super» event.

Even as Senate Republicans blocked Democrats» attempt to move forward with global warming legislation today, other approaches to federal climate action have already begun to percolate.

Washington, DC — «The nation's mayors are disappointed that the U.S. Senate is unwilling to move beyond initial debate on needed federal climate legislation to position America to do its part to combat the global threat of climate change.»

Yesterday on our blog, my colleagues David Bailey and David Bookbinder offered a close look at how far Republicans could go in the course of unwinding federal climate action.

Then, Dave Hasemyer learned from scientist Michael MacCracken, who had long helped run federal climate research programs, that Exxon scientists had worked with the government on climate science as far back as the early 1980s.

Two major federal climate science reports — one on climate change - induced extreme weather, the other on increasing difficulties in dealing with climate impacts on federal lands — were released last week with two nearly opposite communication strategies.

She led local field work collaboration with our partners toward passing a federal climate bill, and is currently working to ensure we stop any coal export from the U.S. West Coast.

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

Atmosphere of Pressure: Political Interference in Federal Climate Science, Cambridge, MA, 92 pp.

Blue - state lawmakers, emboldened by protests and worried that federal climate action may stall, say they sense new momentum to take action following Trump's victory.

(See related story: «Federal Climate Change Report Highlights Risks for Americans.»)

Hopefully, we can avoid being crushed by the avalanche of FOIA request responses from the federal climate science community.

Federal Climate Emergency Declaration petition including actions data People who sign this petition can also answer a few quick questions about how they reduce their carbon emissions.

The main requirement for achieving a federal Climate Emergency declaration, however, is building the public demand for an emergency response to the point where politiicans can not ignore it.

Just when leaders in the U.S. Senate admitted to abandoning their plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end of this year, top Chinese officials were discussing how to launch carbon trading programs under their country's next Five - Year Plan (2011 - 15).