Sentences with phrase «about acting on climate change»

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We are most concerned about Mr. Pruitt's reluctance to accept and act on the strong scientific consensus on climate change.

When informed about Tom Steyer — a retired billionaire investor who plans to spend $ 100 million during the 2014 elections to pressure lawmakers to act on climate change — Teachout said that his money would be better spent on addressing the root causes of our government's failure to address climate change.

«For years, Senate Republicans have been one of the main obstacles to progress on some of the issues working families care most about, like fair elections, the DREAM Act, reforming our broken criminal justice system, and fighting climate change,» the email states.

Things might be different if Virginia had acted on the shelved 2008 climate action plan, which called for state agencies to educate residents about causes and impacts of climate change and costs of taking action.

While the vagaries (i.e. AMO) of climate change study may glaze the eyes of all but dedicated scientists who are paid to examine these climate change causative permutations, the consequences of being WRONG about the facts and acting on those wrong beliefs prematurely, are hardly vague.

In my view, unfortunately, people in the younger (college - age) generation may well have to get «peaceably vocal» regarding climate change, and do some walking, and paint some signs, to bring about some healthy movement on the issue of climate change IF more of our leaders don't begin to act responsibly and maturely, soon.

But what does Baroness Bryony know about the consequences economically, she is only good friends with Ed Milliband (Labour party leader, former Minister for Energy and Climate Change) Ed made Bryony a Baroness for her work on the Climate Change Act

Among the scientists who testified before this Committee on the issue of climate change in the last Congress, Pat Michaels was the only one to dismiss the need to act on climate change... Dr. Michaels may have provided misleading information about the sources of his funding and his ties to industries opposed to regulation of emissions responsible for climate change.»

As to what we should do about it, we found that 57 % of people want Australia to act on climate change irrespective of whether other countries do or not.

the UK made an early burst with its monumentally crass Climate Change Act but coming up on the outside we now have the Commonwealth of Australia, about to implement an economy crippling and entirely pointles carbon tax and being spurred on by a bunch of brain dead nob - jockeys from Brisbane

Rud, when I talk to those of the Progressive Left who are most concerned about climate change, and who want the United States to become the leader in finding ways to reduce carbon emissions, they pretty much go silent when I inform them that the EPA has legal authority under the Clean Air Act and the 2009 Endangerment Finding to do much more in placing limits on carbon emissions than the agency is actually doing.

This post examines the ethical duty to act to reduce the threat of climate change even if one assumes there is more scientific uncertainty about the causes and impacts of climate change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate change even if one assumes there is more scientific uncertainty about the causes and impacts of climate change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (change even if one assumes there is more scientific uncertainty about the causes and impacts of climate change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (Change (IPCC).

We need to care about climate change and act on it as «responsible citizens and followers of Christ» as Pope Francis has said.

4 Aug: Crikey: Ellen Sandell: Abbott's European holiday might make him hot and bothered Abbott seems to still be confused about the science of climate change, moving between «climate change is absolute crap» and aligning himself with the climate deniers, and at other times accepting that climate change is a problem, but just not one worth acting efficiently on... All of this will be news to most Europeans, who have long accepted the science of climate change and have been measuring their CO2 emissions in tonnes through the trading scheme, and are benefiting from climate change solutions... Studies predict an increase of up to 6.1 million jobs in 2050, and the EU - wide emissions trading scheme is expected to generate between $ 143 billion and $ 296 billion over the next six years... Maybe on the plane on the way home to Australia, Abbott could use the time to catch up on some reading.

If they don't enact a stiff tax on carbon in 2021; and if they don't start using the full legal authority of the Clean Air Act to regulate all sources of carbon emissions — implementing what is in effect a carbon fuel rationing scheme — then they can be rightly accused of being totally dishonest and hypocritical in claiming to be concerned about the impacts of climate change.

Misunderstandings and willful denial about our changing climate have had real impacts on policy decisions, and the consequences of our inability or unwillingness to act are real.

Thus, while the model predicts that the perceived level of scientific agreement acts as a key psychological motivator, its effect on support for action is assumed to be fully mediated by key beliefs about climate change (H3).

If we are truly serious about reducing the threat of climate change, then we step out of our comfort zones to act, organize, and put polite pressure on our members of Congress.

However, I love and fear the high wire act of answering questions about climate change on the spot.

Previewing the plan on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, Sanders emphasized the urgency of tackling climate change, saying, «I am frightened about the planet we're going to leave our kids if we don't act.»

Then again, now that the UK has its Climate Change Act and the USA's is well on its way, and with the climate Satan out of the Whitehouse, perhaps there is just less demand or need for salacious news items about our imminenClimate Change Act and the USA's is well on its way, and with the climate Satan out of the Whitehouse, perhaps there is just less demand or need for salacious news items about our imminenclimate Satan out of the Whitehouse, perhaps there is just less demand or need for salacious news items about our imminent doom.

Scientists estimate that if it warms by about 4 to 5 degrees Celsius (7.2 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit), which is projected to happen by the end of the century if we don't act on climate change, then all the ice will eventually melt.

Here at Budweiser, we pride ourselves on our close relationship with our consumers and we know they care about climate change and want to act.

An IPSOS survey presented during Climate Week NYC, on behalf of The Climate Group and Futerra, shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about addressing climate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new techClimate Week NYC, on behalf of The Climate Group and Futerra, shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about addressing climate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new techClimate Group and Futerra, shows that a majority of people globally are optimistic about addressing climate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new techclimate change if we act now — with people in emerging economies the most positive about the role of new technology.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

With the American Clean Energy & Security Act just passed in the House, let's look at what WWF has to say about how well the G8 countries, plus five developing nations are doing in terms of climate change policy: The 2009 G8 Climate Scorecards rank the members of the G8 on a range of issues — emission trends since 1990, growth of renewable energy and renewable energy policy, emissions per capita and per unit of GDP, CO2 per kWh of electricity, industrial energy efficiency, transport policy, among climate change policy: The 2009 G8 Climate Scorecards rank the members of the G8 on a range of issues — emission trends since 1990, growth of renewable energy and renewable energy policy, emissions per capita and per unit of GDP, CO2 per kWh of electricity, industrial energy efficiency, transport policy, among Climate Scorecards rank the members of the G8 on a range of issues — emission trends since 1990, growth of renewable energy and renewable energy policy, emissions per capita and per unit of GDP, CO2 per kWh of electricity, industrial energy efficiency, transport policy, among others.

At the time that he denied the waiver (acting against the better advice of his staff, which had strongly urged him to grant it), Johnson claimed that California's law was unnecessary because of the recently enacted energy bill, which would do more to mitigate climate change than «a confusing patchwork of state rules» — this despite the fact that 13 other states, representing about half of the country's drivers, were also on board with the plan.

Gov. Don Heineman, who has expressed skepticism about climate change, is unwilling to act on behalf of his state climatologist and the other climate scientists speaking out about the bill.

With awareness of climate change at an all time high, it just makes good business sense to show that you know about this issue, and that you are acting on your knowledge.

«Dear Alan, I am writing to express my immense gratitude and respect for your courageous act of activism for our community by speaking out against climate change and expressing serious concerns about Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain.

In response to Action 29 of WtC, the Chief Minister's Office has commissioned work on the «Social Impacts on Climate Change in the ACT» which will also consider the possible impact on all vulnerable groups of people, however it does not say anything specific about Indigenous people.