Sentences with phrase «about climate change working»

As I blogged previously, I became worried about climate change working as a ranger in Everglades National Park from 1998 - 2008.

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«Since 2007 I have been working on Drowning World, a long - term global project about flooding as my way of responding to 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.

The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.

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.

The other myth is that this is a work of «environmental propaganda» (or, as Glenn Beck apparently put it, that Noah is a drunk who is worried about climate change).

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.

As international awareness about the environmental costs of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide — the work of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.

My most recent collection of work is called «Eyes of Arctic Ice» and it's all about climate change in the far north.»

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

Department for Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker mentioned a meeting he'd had with the FSB while talking about the work the Government were doing to inform small businesses about the opportunities available in being suppliers for the Green Deal.

«We are working with the Chinese about how they're thinking about climate change and energy security within a global context.

He now has enough financial backing to travel all over the world gathering footage for his work - in - progress — title as yet unannounced — documenting the effects of climate change, from Africa to Iceland to the Amazon, and what people are doing about it at the grassroots level.

Others have become more sceptical after reading the work of scientists who refuse to accept the broad consensus in their community about 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.

Several speakers expressed concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's denial of climate change, Vice President Mike Pence's creationist beliefs, and Trump's willingness to work with prominent antivaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. «In the face of fanaticism and fear, science is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico here.

«When people talk about climate change, or droughts, or are worried about wildlife habitat, these are all things we've been working on the last 20 or 30 years,» said Kenna.

This will come about as a result of a cultural change whereby the university is not only seen as «a marginal phenomenon», a place to practice skills, but instead as an academic meeting place which offers a stimulating and pleasant working climate for everybody who works there.

Audience member: I work in a hard - rock mining industry, and the majority of my colleagues tell me I'm crazy when I talk about climate change.

Sarah Reece, a malaria researcher at Edinburgh University, UK, who reviewed the study but was not involved in the work, says that although interest in the effects of climate change on the transmission of malaria is increasing, details about the interactions between parasites and mosquitoes are often overlooked.»

I realized I could make a meaningful contribution to combating climate change by working on something I was passionate about, even if it was less directly related to a specific technology.

He said last night that he also is working on a documentary about climate change that has brought him to Greenland, China, India and elsewhere.

His time at the U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), during which he helped write a four - page brief about international efforts to reduce deforestation ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, was a tremendous learning experience, says Richardson, who is now a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

As part of their weeklong orientation, they worked with a media trainer and each other to develop and refine key messages about their climate change research, and they began to develop public - engagement plans to be implemented at each of their institutions.

In May, citing a law designed to fight misuse of state contracts, Cuccinelli filed a request for e-mails, files, and software relating to two scientific papers about climate change that Mann wrote while at the university, where he worked from 1999 to 2005.

Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today about the impacts of climate change on health.

Put another way, asking people to think about how they themselves contribute to climate change had a similar effect on donations as asking people to think about brushing their teeth or going to work every day.

Seminar chair and ThinkForest president Göran Persson sounded a note of caution about the COP21 process, saying that perhaps the United Nations framework is not a practical tool, despite its important and good work in keeping climate change on the agenda.

«Our intent was to create a climate change resource that will be relevant to people who work, study, recreate, manage and care about the ecosystems in the Central Hardwoods Region.»

Top of her list of duties, according to Ward, should be working to reverse public misconceptions about climate change and preparing the nation for its impacts, particularly increased flood risk.

Pompeo, who's skeptical about climate change, might not approve an allocation — even a tiny one — to U.N. climate work, some observers say.

Senator Tom Udall (D — NM) asked Tillerson about reports that President - elect Trump's transition team had asked the Department of Energy for names of staffers who had worked on climate change.

The mediagenic wunderkind of French presidential politics has a message for U.S. scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs working on climate change and worrying about their future under President Donald Trump: Come to France.

No one in the U.S. government is detailing those issues, and BOEMRE won't allow Monnett to speak to the media, but the disclosure has generated a firestorm on the blogosphere as climate change skeptics are wildly speculating about scientific misconduct in regard to Monnet's polar bear work.

A brief stop in a Dutch ministry on housing led in 1994 to a job working on climate - change negotiations, something he knew little about.

«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively impacted by climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.

He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.

«Our intent was to create a climate change resource that is relevant to people who work, study, recreate, manage and care about forest ecosystems in the Central Appalachians region.»

Due to the nature of their work, climate scientists know more than the rest of us — but even they don't always agree about the ways in which climate change will affect weather in specific places.

At the University of Ottawa he is working on his PHD with a thesis about abrupt climate change.

My second Sidney Byers Scholarship will allow me to continue with my PhD studies and to work on my dissertation, which will be about understanding perceptions of local mountain herders towards climate change, while investigating its impact on their daily life, routines and livelihoods.

The newly revealed information about the growth of phytoplankton in polynyas could provide scientists with improved insights into how the marine food web in the Antarctic works and how this could be impacted by climate change.

Robbins, son of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, directs this short about one of the first films in American cinema to address climate change — that also happens to be a work of hardcore pornography.

If you like this work, then please look at the full version of PowerPoint presentations and colouring pages about climate change and global warming here: - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11533172

Functions The teacher leader: a) Increases the capacity of colleagues to identify and use multiple assessment tools aligned to state and local standards; b) Collaborates with colleagues in the design, implementation, scoring, and interpretation of student data to improve educational practice and student learning; c) Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection in order to engage colleagues in challenging conversations about student learning data that lead to solutions to identified issues; and d) Works with colleagues to use assessment and data findings to promote changes in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning.

We hesitated to describe climate change, as many children are already worried about it, but we feel that an understanding of exactly how it works is essential for the decisions we will all have to make as the changes increase over our lifetimes.

Targeting environmental events for messaging about the relationship between animal agriculture and environmental problems (especially including climate change) seemed to work very well.

«Lin's passionate commitment to advancing knowledge and awareness about the effects of climate change permeates her works and has even prompted her to launch What is Missing?

Together the work offers timely narratives about this city, touching on issues including immigration, indigenous reality, and climate change.