Sentences with phrase «about a climate policy with»

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Prime Minister Abbott's speech «Daring to Doubt» described climate science with a skeptical viewpoint then went on to talk about climate policy with an emphasis on Australia.

Not exact matches

As the Spuds continue to splash their cash and find yet another # 15m to sign a striker today, we at Arsenal are left to make do with both manager and club chairman talking about the affects of the current economic climate and how it influences our transfer policy.

With energy part of his remit, it might please climate change activists to know that among the achievements he boasts about on his personal website are «landmark policy papers» connected to Britain in the low carbon economy.

«When you're starting to talk about policy, you're not playing on a level playing field,» said Hill, herself a former Los Angeles - area judge who came to the Obama administration with little experience on climate.

Given the White House's preoccupation with health care and climate change, however, NASA officials and their industry backers see the new policy as welcome proof that Obama also cares about space flight.

«You always hear a lot of hype about the timetable of EPA regulations, and we think that the timetable is already generous in that compliance is, with the first target in 2020, still more than five years away,» said David Doniger, policy director for NRDC's climate and clean air program.

He comes to the table with strong feelings about keeping federal lands in the hands of the government, a belief that «something is going on» with the climate and an embrace of an «all of the above» energy policy.

Her special areas of focus include U.N. policy, U.S. foreign policy and stories about how other nations are grappling with climate change.

With no insight into how climate projections are judged, the public could take away from situations such as the IPCC's uncertain conclusion about Antarctica in 2007 that the problems of climate change are inconsequential or that scientists do not know enough to justify the effort (and possible expense) of a public - policy response, he said.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

OECD Secretary - General Angel Gurría said: «Countries need to demonstrate with concrete actions and policies that they are serious about combating climate change.

They were provided with unbiased information about climate change and energy and about the international discussions on policy measures to handle these issues.

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Now, dividing my time as always, I have to head to Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival festival, where I'll be speaking about climate and energy policy at 12:30 and then performing with my Breakneck Ridge Revue ensemble on the Mystic Whaler at 2:30.

Postscript When I was writing that piece (in haste) I forgot to add a note about the comment policy established by Michael Tobis, a retired climate researcher who dove in online early, and with vigor.

The comments about rich versus poor give me an opportunity to replay a letter I wrote to a newspaper yesterday — a scientist from a corporation with a very strong climate policy mentioned that affluence increases per capita emissions.

I recently asked whether the world is poised to enter an Obama - style «trance» on climate policy given the focus on economic turmoil and plunge in oil prices, which have in the past seemed synchronized with concerns about transforming energy policy.

His biggest goal in life was to see a rational approach to policy about climate change, where he tried to evaluate the odds and show people, just like in many other decisions in life, with climate they had to play the odds.

But I think the discussion right now is about people realizing that geo - engineering is one of the many solutions that we have to take a look at, and that at very low cost it could provide us with a bridge of a couple of decades and an insurance policy against unlikely catastrophic climate change.

«There will be a big battle over just about everything with this,» said Dan Weiss, climate strategy director at the Center for American Progress, a policy group in Washington that advises Democrats.

It began with the observation that public debate on climate policy has long been misinformed about the balance of evidence.

For more on my views of Steve (whom I considered a friend after more than 25 years of consulting him on climate science and policy), revisit my conversation with Stewart Brand about him for the Edge Web site.

I have to agree with Barton's questioning stance about this post: I haven't noticed anything resembling an actual climate change policy in the US yet.

According to the Center for Climate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has prClimate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has prclimate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has proposed.

Arguments about how to discuss such extreme events in the context of climate policy — while important — are down the list, as well, even with a presidential election days away.

So he has come up with a new formula that he says uniquely addresses the most inconvenient truth about climate policy: It will be expensive.

Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz talked with KPFK - FM in Los Angeles about a letter to President Obama from nine Senate Democrats setting out conditions for supporting a US climate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate confClimate Science Watch director Rick Piltz talked with KPFK - FM in Los Angeles about a letter to President Obama from nine Senate Democrats setting out conditions for supporting a US climate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate confclimate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate confclimate conference.

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

The proposition that «science» somehow dictated particular policy responses, encouraged — indeed instructed — those who found those particular strategies unattractive to argue about the science.36 So, a distinctive characteristic of the climate change debate has been of scientists claiming with the authority of their position that their results dictated particular policies; of policy makers claiming that their preferred choices were dictated by science, and both acting as if «science» and «policy» were simply and rigidly linked as if it were a matter of escaping from the path of an oncoming tornado.

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

Energy security, together with continued concerns about climate change and the ongoing G8 work on energy efficiency and new technologies, have provided a strong focus for the work of the IEA and set key policy trends in IEA member and key non-member countries.

His view accords with that of a growing number of scientists concerned about the pursuit of «intensely political» areas of science, such as the debate over climate change, amid fears that views contrary to government policy were unwelcome.

The IPCC was chartered in 1988 under the United Nations to provide governments with an assessment of climate science every six or seven years to inform policy decisions about the climate threats facing the world.

René is writing his master's thesis about sub-national contributions to the 1.5 C target with Climate Analytics and supports the Climate Policy Team.

As the public learns more about climate engineering technologies, they will look to ENGOs to understand what the policy issues are, and understand how these ideas fit in, it at all, with a climate change response portfolio.

A month ago, I was chatting with journalist John Fleck about his (terrific) new book on water policy in the American West, and he mentioned something that seemed deeply relevant to climate policy.

Goreham's session was summarized in the NEPPA conference material as offering «a discussion about energy, electricity and modern society, with common sense about climate change, public policy, and implications for the power industry.»

Jonathan Koomey, independent analyst and Consulting Professor at Stanford University, comments on our July 2010 interview with Stephen Schneider on climate science expert credibility, and their exchange on clarifying a point about the need for policy expertise in deciding what... Continue reading →

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This has been another simple answer to a simple question Air capture is the Nigerian scam letter of climate policy and about the last thing to invest anything but the buck you buy the odd lottery ticket with.

I believe the kinds of accusations you (and most climate change advocates make) make about people who disagree with your judgment and priorities ensure that reasoned public policy on long term energy supply will not happen any time soon....

These days, Abbott is more careful with his language but his appointments to cabinet and his policy positions say much about the extent of his concern for the risks of human caused climate change.

Without the politicization then climate science just becomes scientists in a lecture theatre talking about climate science with no relavance to policy.

Discussions about climate policy and related issues can be posted here, along with the usual things.

The vast majority of the public knows a lot less about climate sensitivity, the link between hurricanes and CO2 or analogues with past climates than either you or I do, but the link between these issues and actual policy is quite convoluted.

To equate climate models with «bad» science must be understood to be an attempt to undermine any scientific justification for climate change policies because models are needed to make predictions about the future states of complex systems.

She said this five - year period could be valuable if offering the world time to secure a global agreement by 2022 — the current climate change negotiations about to resume in Doha call for an agreement by 2015, with policies to be put into place by 2020.

«We've already locked in a certain amount of climate policy,» Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Norway, who was not involved with the research, said in a New Scientist article about the ficlimate policy,» Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Norway, who was not involved with the research, said in a New Scientist article about the fiClimate Research in Norway, who was not involved with the research, said in a New Scientist article about the findings.

Climate is about more than energy policy and can not legitimately be folded into it, despite the messaging strategy that many in the environmental and sustainable energy communities have been going along with.