Sentences with phrase «with issues like climate change»

Harvard - Smithsonian strove to make his life harder and harder, first by banning him from working on anything even remotely connected with issues like climate change or CO2, then by moving his office away from the astrophysics department to a remote area Soon calls Siberia.

With issues like climate change, the same tendency seems to hold.

Until we reclaim this connection to our humanity, our bodies, and nature, we won't be able to completely connect with issues like climate change because a chasm exists between us and what's happening.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

It does seem that the Right prefers denial of scientific reality than do something about their inability to deal with an issue like climate change.

Not exact matches

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

Or you could take a stake in a firm that plays a big role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.

Kaine will try to score points with millennial voters on issues like climate change and student debt, and with moderate independents on infrastructure and campaign finance reform, while addressing Hispanic concerns on immigration and health care.

Each rally deals with a specific issue like healthcare, climate change, and most recently immigration.

«Like every advanced industrial country we are coming to terms with the issues surrounding climate change,» he said, in a monthly press conference dominated by the recent floods.

Esposito, with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, says while her group wants careful consideration of hydrofracking, it's taking attention away from other issues, like coping with climate change.

They are, in addition, now bent on scoring own goals with issues like not supporting David Davis, mishandling Boris's appointments - why should his man resign over a comment about black people living where they want - and going on about relative poverty and climate change.

«Firms with increasingly good or bad performance spend more to influence the outcome of a contested environmental policy issue» like climate change, the authors said.

In the process, they seem to have convinced themselves that they are the keepers of the Enlightenment spirit, and that those who disagree with them on issues like climate change are fundamentally irrational.

With many Americans choosing to eat less meat in recent years, often to help reduce the environmental effect of meat production, UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin began to wonder how much feeding pets contributes to issues like climate change.

«With respect to global issues like hydrocarbon exploration, fresh water, global climate change, this is the important stuff.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.

With an issue like human - caused climate change, or the devastation of ocean - roaming species like bluefin tuna, it seems again that the old kind of framing doesn't work any more.

The psychology of risk perception also confronts us with the reality that issues like climate change just don't ring our alarm bells.

The issue with the Mauritsen and Stevens piece is that it tries to go well beyond a «what if» modeling experiment, and attempts to make contact with a lot of other issues related to historical climate change (the hiatus, changes in the hydrologic cycle, observed tropical lapse rate «hotspot» stuff, changes in the atmsopheric circulation, etc) by means of what the «iris» should look like in other climate signals.

Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues (one being that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerabClimate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerabclimate vulnerability).

Because, in order to really make a dent in climate change and issues with peak oil, it's going to take both conservation and nifty new technologies like acres of algae to save our hides.

With life - dependent issues like climate change, biotechnology, and the availability of clean water facing us, we need to empower our youth with problem solving skills that will help them address these problWith life - dependent issues like climate change, biotechnology, and the availability of clean water facing us, we need to empower our youth with problem solving skills that will help them address these problwith problem solving skills that will help them address these problems.

Grist had played an important role in elevating the issue during the ensuing years, and we're glad more of our media peers are asking questions about what climate change really looks like — and how we're going to deal with it.

Climate change expertise is «critical» to a company like Exxon because of the environmental issues associated with its operations, according to the resolution, filed last month.

«With the issues around climate change and the way technological innovation is going, that seems to me like a very risky bet.

«Climate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» OlsoClimate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olsoclimate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olson said.

Even if this one hurricane had nothing to do with climate change, it seems like people are at least starting to pay attention to the issue.

If you want to make it an issue, find people in the center who speak in tones like this — who can sit across and not yell and not throw out invectives and not even use language like people like me create — but have a rational, common - sense dialogue over the challenges of what changes in climate could be doing, are doing, and what is the best way to deal with it.

Actually, some of the GOP candidates have posted plans that deal with energy issues, although they don't go in the direction that Sanders and scientists concerned about climate change might like.

We decided to emphasize consumer opposition, but also to make the case that New Jersey should retain oversight over utilities to deal with long - range issues like climate change.

So in a 2015 poll, they broke out the question a little to It then asks respondents which areas they would like science and innovation to prioritize over the next 15 years, with areas such as job creation, health and medical care, energy supply, education and skills, and the fight against climate change among the issues they are asked to consider.

And finally I have been encountering a lot of greenies who respond to issues like sea turtle conservation with a shrug and «But until we tackle climate change anything we do to save sea turtles is a waste because climate change will just kill them all off anyway.»

As John discussed in his post, there are some issues with this hypothesis (i.e. we know observed forcings like solar irradiance and aerosols can explain most past short - term temperature changes without requiring major contributions from these «climate shifts»).

Having said all this, I agree with McKibbin that the IPCC models were not done in the way an economist would like, and didn't add a lot to our understanding of the economic issues involved in climate change.

Thanks for that question as it actually gives me an opportunity to say something which I forgot to mention, which is that the extra issue for developing countries like China is that climate change will not dealt with in isolation from development.

Although the report card has been released to coincide with the United Nation's Rio +20 Summit, few observers are holding out any hope for an ambitious agreement that tackles issues like climate change, biodiversity, and desertification.

This is an important question, because (as I have shown in previous research) negativity toward scientists is associated with the rejection of scientific consensus on issues like climate change.

THe UK - based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so - called «man - made global warming» (aka climate change): «But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural processes are underway, about which we understand very little and can not control.»

Oh and to answer your question the reason it has become a «left vs right» issue is that those on the right don't like the policy implications that go along with acknowledging climate change.

[T] he United States» reluctance to confront climate change in a serious way — like a carbon tax to replace the payroll tax, coupled with global leadership on the issue --- [is] as unjust as it is unfortunate.»

The answer to this problem, which is a real one, since many reporters are newbies or don't know the science they are reporting on and are just looking for a few good quotes to bolster their reportagel, is this: scientists who understand the issue of global warming and climate change need to write more oped commentaries for major newspapers like the NY Times and the LA Times and the Guardian, with their names attached as author, and get the truth out that way.

Now, there could be a number of reasons for this: a) he's genuinely unsure how best to navigate the political waters to get climate legislation passed, and is cautiously gathering data, b) curbing emissions and fighting climate change truly does not rank among his highest priorities, c) he's slyly implementing political gamesmanship to push the issue through external forces like imbuing his EPA with the ability to regulate greenhouse gases, or d) a combination of all three.

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a website that draws from both trends.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

When you have huge economic issues and great amounts of uncertainty with regard to things like sensitivity to a doubling of CO2, feedbacks from evaporation (including increases in clouds and their feedbacks), not to mention regarding consequences, then a legalisitic, «does climate change exist or not» approach isn't the right way to think about the issue.