Sentences with phrase «university on climate change issues»

Today, the President will be giving a speech at Georgetown University on climate change issues, with announcements of initiatives that will be taken leveraging the powers of the Administrative Branch because the Congress is unable (and, to a large extent, unwilling) to take meaningful action to address climate change: whether mitigation or adaptation.

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Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

But with the election inside of three weeks away, the town hall - style debate at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island firmly established climate change as an outcast issue in the race.

«Public opinion regarding climate change is likely to remain divided as long as the political elites send out conflicting messages on this issue,» lead researcher Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement.

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► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.

In response, the U.S. Geological Survey began a study on changing Arctic ecosystems to better understand the consequences of lost permafrost and sea ice habitats, and the Interior Department established a Climate Science Center at the University of Alaska to specifically address Arctic issues.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters) by 2100, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.

This is the second in a series of articles that describe how scholars at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing their varied skills to bear on the issue of climate change and global warming.

I encourage you to read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

However, contrary to this conventional wisdom, new nationally representative survey data analyzed by American University communication researchers and collected by the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication reveal that Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are, for the most part, split on the issue of global warming and, on some indicators, relatively disengaged when compared to older generations.

I've also recommended that Francis watchers read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado has long warned of issues arising from the treaty definition of climate change, one of which is that the science body created to advise the world's nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, uses an entirely different deficlimate change, one of which is that the science body created to advise the world's nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, uses an entirely different definchange, one of which is that the science body created to advise the world's nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, uses an entirely different defiClimate Change, uses an entirely different definChange, uses an entirely different definition.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

The late Bob Carter, former professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia, explained, «Climate change is a moral issue, and there is nothing quite so immoral as the sight of well - fed, well - housed Westerners assuaging their consciences by wasting huge amounts of money on futile anti-global warming policies, using money that could instead be spent on improving the living standards in developing countries.»

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

Prior to joining SEI, Georgia researched and taught on climate change and natural resource issues in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Sir Muir issued a statement last week claiming that the inquiry members, who are investigating leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia, did not have a «predetermined view on climate change and climate science».

Fenton's proposal to Podesta and its prime goal to «make Murdoch's climate denial a major issue,» and «bring the scientific facts on climate change to his audiences,» was ironically released a day after an unwelcome story ran in London's Daily Mail with the headline «Exposed: How top university helped secure # 9million of YOUR money by passing off rivals» research as its own... to bankroll climate change agenda.»

Matthew Nisbet of the American University Center for Science, Society, and the Environment elaborated on this issue in relation to the science of climate change at a recent America Geophysical Union meeting.

Meanwhile, Bryan Jones, a demographer at the City University of New York, and colleagues report in the same issue of Nature Climate Change that the number of people who will want to switch on the air conditioning in the second half of the century will increase dramatically.

Its divided political landscape — plus its sheer size — make Florida a good microcosm of voters» views on climate issues across the country, according to Barry Rabe, an expert on the politics of climate change at the University of Michigan and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Though nearly 84 percent of Floridians believe the climate is changing, according to a Stanford University poll, the issue ranks low among voters who put much higher priority on the state's economy and education.

From the November 19, 2009, New York Times and Washington Post front - page initial news reports of hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia (a place up until then unlikely to find itself on American newspaper's front pages)... to subsequent findings of a silly factual mistake in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment forecasting disappearing Himalayan glaciers just 25 years from now... to the disappointments of last December's international negotiations in Copenhagen... to data pointing to growing uncertainty and confusion on the climate change issue in the minds of many Americans and their public officials....

The list includes former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who spoke about climate change on the 2012 presidential campaign trail; Senator John McCain, who proposed a series of climate change legislation in the mid-2000s; former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed an emissions - reduction law for his state in 2006; and former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, who writes about climate and other issues as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

«We agree that climate change is one of the world's most urgent and serious issues, but we respectfully disagree with Divest Harvard on the means by which a university should confront it,» Harvard spokesperson Tania deLuzuriaga said in a statement.

Phil Elder a retired professor from the University of Calgary and and write frequently on political, environmental and climate change issues.