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Interestingly enough, Mr. Klaus is going to take questions about climate change by email this coming Thursday.

The expedition is part of the Cape Farewell program, started by London - based artist and sailor David Buckland, with a mission to raise awareness about climate change by sailing to the front lines of the issue, and giving artists full access to the advanced — and potentially quite important — research being conducted there.

Energy and Policy Institute's recent report, «Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities» Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968 - 2017» reveals that scientists had begun to warn electric utilities about climate change by 1968.

That's the surprise finding of a study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change last month, which analysed and identified the key themes in more than 16,000 publications about climate change by conservative organisations.

In real life, most people hear about climate change by way of national news outlets, local TV news, conversations, social media and political advertisements.

«ExxonMobil, the world's largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.»

«Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s — and Denied It,» by Bill McKibben, The Nation, October 20, 2015.

As we have documented in numerous articles on the disinformation campaign on this website, although responsible scientific skepticism is necessary for science to advance, the climate change disinformation campaign has been involved not in the pursuit of responsible scientific skepticism but in tactics that are morally reprehensible including: (a) telling lies about mainstream climate scientific evidence or engaging in reckless disregard for the truth, (b) focusing on unknowns about climate science while ignoring settled climate change science, that is cherry - picking the evidence, (c) creating front groups and Astroturf groups that hide the real parties in interest behind claims, (d) making specious claims about «good science», (e) manufacturing science sounding claims about climate change by holding conferences in which claims are made and documents are released that have not been subjected to scientific peer - review, and (d) cyber bullying journalists and scientists.

The Administration has acted in a variety of ways to impede and manipulate communication about climate change by federal scientists and career science program leaders to wider audiences, including Congress and the media.

«Book Launch of Taxing Air: Facts & fallacies about climate change by Bob Carter,» Institute of Public Affairs, September 5, 2013.

Scientists had begun to warn electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the industry's official research and development organization had

Scientists had begun to warn electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the industry's official research and development organization had acknowledged that, «There is growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is real.»

There are wide differences in beliefs about climate change by politics.

I know that you generally like to cite Ted and Michael — but I'm still puzzled by your tweeting of their article with the quote «Efforts to raise public concern about climate change by linking it to natural disasters will backfire.»

If I talk to a buddy on the East coast, I sometimes start talks about climate change by remembering a great time we had searching for trout in the mountains; on the West coast about the great times we used to have eating raw oysters off the beaches — things our children will never get the chance to experience.

John Akomfrah's environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers dialogues about climate change by foregrounding issues such as global warming, animal extinctions and the plastic ocean.

In the tradition of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, this Leonardo DiCaprio produced 2016 film attempts once again to sound the alarm about climate change by drawing attention to some areas of the world that are poised to be most affected in the coming years.

The papal message did, however, indirectly influence people's beliefs about climate change by raising the Pope's credibility on that issue, most strongly among liberals.

Therefore, people who find # 1 absurd can determine whether or not we should do anything about climate change by determining whether or not humans are causing it.

Tomorrow night, you can participate in Earth Hour, a global effort to raise awareness about climate change by turning off nonessential lights for an hour...

Not exact matches

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

In his 2017 book «Climate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opporClimate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opporclimate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opportunity.

If you're worried about climate change, your first concern should be effective policy (by how much will this reduce emissions?)

As Harvey Death Toll Rises, Kellyanne Conway Refused to Talk About Climate Change, by Valentina Zarya

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, also said he was thinking about climate change and American competitiveness and «how much it will cost our companies,» he said, according to a tweet by a Times reporter in the interview.

Meanwhile, the former governor of the Bank of Canada raised a red flag about the «carbon bubble,» Canada's premiers agreed to develop a Canadian energy strategy that would address climate change, and Elon Musk broke ground on his Gigafactory that will slash the costs of electric vehicle batteries and, by extension, the cars themselves.

«According to the studies [the Government Accountability Office] reviewed, climate change may substantially increase losses by 2040 and increase losses from about 50 to 100 percent by 2100,» GAO wrote in a 2014 study.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

We are dedicated to increasing awareness about global climate change and the need to develop solutions that reduce the amount of pollutants created, not just by factory farming, but across all industries.

The Prime Minister seems to believe the recent moves by the US and China to battle pollution are simply a misguided response to fictional claims about climate change.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Peabody Energy has a responsibility to be honest with investors and the public about the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in announcing the settlement with Peabody Monday.

Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

Shaken by shale oil production in the United States, softening demand from China and Europe, and rising global concern about climate change, Canada's tar...

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

From those models, they can make estimates about whether a storm's wind or rain output was influenced by climate change.

David had also come across a speech by former BP chief executive, Lord Browne, in which he spoke of the warnings company scientists had sounded about climate change, and how their arguments convinced him that it was wrong to side with climate denial.

«The Sustainability Leaders Forum is all about encouraging businesses to step up their efforts to tackle climate change and preserve natural resources, and edie must lead by example in this regard.

Moreover, it must be ready to withstand the threats brought about by climate change.

«The Sustainability Leaders Forum is all about encouraging businesses to step up their efforts to tackle climate change and preserve natural resources, and edie must lead by example in this regard,» said Baker.

As he explained to the Financial Times: «[Granata and I] were both very concerned by climate change and we wanted to do something about it, so we started meeting scientists at the Polytechnic University of Milan and started research to develop that technology.»

Why Bother by Crunchy Domestic Goddess â $» CDG discusses a NY Times article by author Michael Pollan about reasons to NOT give up and throw in the towel in fighting climate change.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of climate change by reading our Losing Ground report.

It's being heavily promoted by its producers, TV journalist Katie Couric and Laurie David, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's campaign about climate change.