Sentences with phrase «about climate change policy»

I can speak personally for the lively debate about climate change policy.

To not respond to a request for that information would seem to be hiding behind the letter of FOIA rules (we shall see what the IC says), rather than responding in its spirit; if the information exists at all, it is surely in the public interest for it to be made public, to improve the quality of the debate about climate change policy.

One of CSPW's complaints about climate change policy under President Barack Obama is that his preferred «all - of - the - above» approach to the nation's energy mix did not in any way, shape or form reflect the urgency of the climate threat, even as articulated by the President himself on multiple occasions.

Note: you are discussing my beliefs about the climate change policy debate.

However, when talking about its climate change policy, we tend to talk about US policy as a whole and ignore the variety of sentiment on key issues throughout the States.

Because debates about climate change policy formation at the national level have often ignored questions of equity and fairness, there is a need to publicize how debates at the national level about proposed climate change policies acknowledge or ignore questions of equity, ethics, and distributive justice.

Debate about climate change policy in the United States has almost always assumed that US policy - makers can look to US economic interests alone in establishing US climate change policies.

Last Tuesday's debate featured extensive discussions about climate change policy, a first for a presidential candidate debate of any stripe.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

7.23 pm: Asked about climate change policy, Huhne says David Cameron «is committed to this agenda».

My blog is a way of focusing on actual arguments about climate change policies as they unfold, teasing out these arguments the often hidden ethical questions, and inviting the world to see these questions not as «value neutral» scientific or economic questions but as ethical issues.

This is a call for researchers in different nations to investigate how national debates about climate change policies have expressly considered or not ethics and justice issues in formulating climate policies.

The effect they were testing: That is, Republicans more than Democrats see climate change solutions as a greater threat to the economy, and Republicans» economic beliefs about climate change policies mediate their skepticism of climate change science...

It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.

Therefore, many of not most climate policy advocates focused on how to improve messaging about climate change policies or how to we incentivize individual behavioral change through the use of economic incentives.

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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.

So far Coady's work at Enbridge has been about conducting outreach around specific areas such as water stewardship and updating climate change policies.

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

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.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

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.

See what else Mass Audubon is doing to combat climate change and learn about our multi-pronged policy strategy.

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

As you can see, the answer to the question about whether or not climate change is man - made has a direct impact on which policies should be enacted to solve this problem.

Rosa's selection could bring about a climate change in state educational policy, as she has been critical of the more arduous tests introduced under Tisch.

Similar to the debate on fracking, public opposition to the gas port became part of a larger discussion about New York State's energy policy and how the state should respond to climate change.

He admitted that green taxes would be a shock to many voters, but said: «If we are serious about the environment and climate change there have to be policies that hurt.»

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.

The letter, which included a statement on climate science by the leaders of 18 scientific societies, stated, «Although debate about policy options exists, climate change is not a scientifically - controversial topic.»

At the end of 2016, Selin and several colleagues wrote about the need for «policy literacy» education for climate scientists in WIREs Climate climate scientists in WIREs Climate Climate Change.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

They're more about adapting to climate change,» says Laura Diaz Anadon, a science - policy researcher at Harvard University.

This two - valued approach would provide clarity to climate change policy analyses, which often result in misleading debates about policy trade - offs.

Concerns about the permanency of forest carbon stocks, difficulties in quantifying stock changes, and the threat of environmental and socioeconomic impacts of large - scale reforestation programs have limited the uptake of forestry activities in climate policies.

«This is important, as it shows that Mexico is serious about addressing climate change even if there is a change in leadership,» agreed Jake Schmidt, international climate change policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Nature Climate Change study estimates the Clean Power Plan accounts for about half of emissions cuts from the U.S.'s current and proposed policies.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

Not only are Americans deeply divided on what to do about health care, budget deficits, financial markets, climate change and more, but government is also failing to execute settled policies effectively.

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.

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

He also asked about comments she made that likened acceptance of climate change science to a «kind of paganism» and suggested that top United Nations climate policy advocates were effectively supporting communism.

Previously, Pompeo has said that scientists think «lots of different things» about climate change and called President Barack Obama's climate policies «radical.»

«In the past, many scientists were understandably afraid of talking about their use of animals, but the climate has very much changed,» says Frances Rawle, head of policy at the Medical Research Council.

As discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.

- A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto by Ernesto Zedillo, two climate - change books he is writing about for The New York Review of Books

According to Evanega, the high quality of the report could help improve the policy environment for GE crop use and to convince more people that there is scientific consensus about the safety of GE technology and that biotechnology can help the country respond to climate change.

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

On 29 October, 2015, a daylong symposium will review what scientific research has revealed about climate change over the past 50 years, and offer a forward - looking assessment of the range of scientific, technological, communication, and policy options for the future.

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.

We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate - change field — namely, climate sensitivity — operates as an «anchoring device» in «science for policy».