Sentences with phrase «about climate change for»

During the past two years, I have been reading about climate change for several hours every day.

Even if that were true, which it isn't, the world has known about climate change for decades and demand for fossil fuels has only increased.

San Francisco and Oakland have known about climate change for decades and yet they continue to promote and use fossil fuels.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has changed its story after issuing stern warnings about climate change for years

Regarding the drought, I would like to save the discussion about climate change for another day.

So, after reading about climate change for awhile and how the «Temperature of the Earth» has moved up and down in increments of hundredths of a degree, over the past millennium or two, you are looking for a precise, scientific definition of the thing that has varied?

We have climate deniers sowing deliberate disinformation about climate change for no other reason than to confuse and bamboozle the public.

It delivers news and commentary about climate change for free to media outlets worldwide.

The IMO has been talking about climate change for twenty years but the strategy agreed this week marks the beginning of a focused debate about the policies and measures that will help it to modernise and regain the status of a clean and efficient mode of transport.

Exxon has known all there is to know about climate change for four decades.

Today we are sharing an excerpt from an article by Bevis Longstreth, who recently wrote the following reflections on what we can do about climate change for the Huffington Post.

Meat has not been part of the global conversation about climate change for far too long, as governments fear backlash from powerful meat lobbies and the angry public, and as a result many individuals have not yet learned about the impact it has.

Forget about climate change for one moment, a series of six papers appearing in The Lancet says that reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gases has «major direct health benefits.»

A week of activities about climate change for ages 9 — 11.

Forget about climate change for a moment, the biggest threats to the world's imperiled species are deforestation, pollution, poaching and invasive species.

Not exact matches

Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

Asked about President Trump's views on climate change, Gates said, «I hope his administration will decide that funding R&D to invent the next generation of energy (clean, cheap, reliable) is a good deal for the US and for the world.

For some months, ExxonMobil Inc. (xom) has been under investigation about allegations that it lied to investors about the risks of Climate Change.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

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.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

Despite this and other authoritative warnings about the dangers of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

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.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

(For more on what we know about climate change and this year's hurricanes, read Dave Roberts's piece at Vox.)

I have talked about climate change liability risks for company directors here and here.

New York attorney - general Eric Schneiderman is suing ExxonMobil for covering up its knowledge about climate change and lying to investors.

There is a need for a massive re-think about how we build community, rural and urban communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self - reliance in the face of climate change.

During the training in Seattle I learned skills and strategies for effectively communicating about climate change.

For example, as the environmental costs of climate change rack up, planning for the future and thinking about climate mitigation can genuinely help a company's bottom liFor example, as the environmental costs of climate change rack up, planning for the future and thinking about climate mitigation can genuinely help a company's bottom lifor the future and thinking about climate mitigation can genuinely help a company's bottom line.

«Responding to climate change is about doing what's right for future generations of Albertans — protecting our jobs, health and the environment.

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.

After a devastating 2017 filled with natural disasters, questions have emerged about what climate change means for insurance and reinsurance.

One of the lowest points may have come last November when President Obama formally, and forcefully, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, citing climate change priorities that raised questions about the future U.S. appetite for Canadian crude.

In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy.

«In the 1980s, Exxon needed to understand the potential for concerns about climate change to lead to regulation that would affect Natuna [the gas field] and other potential projects,» Bernstein wrote.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

Francis's encyclical joins a number of documents, including the 2006 Evangelical Climate Initiative, a 2011 National Association of Evangelicals report, and a 2013 letter from 200 evangelical scientists to Congress, that «all state in clear and unmistakable terms that caring about climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine Climate Initiative, a 2011 National Association of Evangelicals report, and a 2013 letter from 200 evangelical scientists to Congress, that «all state in clear and unmistakable terms that caring about climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.

«It's really useful, if you get the chance to speak to your candidates, for them to hear that climate change is something that their voters care about and something that the Church cares about.»

alfonse, perhaps you can explain what is logical about believing in a god for which there is no evidence and what is logical about not believing in climate change for which there is a mountain of supporting evidence.

The recent change in the cultural climate, one that everyone from fundamentalists to People for the American Way helped produce and to which each responded, has occasioned fresh talk about civic responsibility.

First, for 20 years, people have talked to evangelicals the wrong way about climate change.

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...

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

Director of Advocacy at the international Christian charity Tearfund, Ruth Valerio, said: «The Archbishop is absolutely right when he talks about the need for immediate attention in the battle against climate change.

Food loss and waste also contributes to climate change, accounting for about 8 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions.

They want to know that the issues they care about, from animal welfare to climate change, have been taken care of,» said Jan Potter, Food for Thought's chairperson and headteacher at Belle Vale Primary School.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

I encourage farmers and ranchers in rural areas throughout the world to learn about the positive impact organic farming can have on protecting the environment, mitigating climate change and improving the health for future generations,» Straus added.