Sentences with phrase «about climate issues in»

Lowe said churches have been more focused on educating members about climate issues in the past few years, building up a base of support.

Not exact matches

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

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.

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.

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.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

Whilst these blogs are popular - in terms of unique visitor numbers (and before Unity has a go at me, I know there are weaknesses in those numbers)- they tend to be written by people who write about a large number of issues and climate change is not their principle topic (or even one that they discuss very often).

My issue with the arguments about «climate change» are philosophical one about what we can know in relation to truth.

Demonstrators, led by filmmaker Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro and Sally Field, crowded in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower to speak about a variety of issues including health care, labor rights, climate change and protection for immigrants, lesbians and gays.

What has struck me most about Avaaz in its relatively short lifetime is its ability to mobilise imaginative ways to show how positive pressure for change is possible on issues from climate change to the Middle East that are too often prone to debilitating pessimism.

In the current political climate there would be open angst at such a move, but what could be done from a practical standpoint about the issue?

Although Margaret Thatcher was the first world leader to warn about the threat of global warming, and although David Cameron famously highlighted the issue too, other prominent Conservatives including Nigel Lawson and Peter Lilley have been outspoken in their opposition to the mainstream agenda on climate change.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

She rejected the suggestion that David Cameron had lost interest in green issues and said the PM had «specifically» spoken to her about the important of getting a gloal agreement on climate change at the Paris summit in December.

The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.

... in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state....

And in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state.

Today's lead editorial in the Times Union lambasted Cuomo & Astorino for failing to run serious campaigns and praised Howie Hawkins, writing «The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.»

He said he had «some very heated arguments» with Gordon Brown about it, but in the end decided it was better to fight on the climate change issue from inside the cabinet.

They are, in addition, now bent on scoring own goals with issues like not supporting David Davis, mishandling Boris's appointments - why should his man resign over a comment about black people living where they want - and going on about relative poverty and climate change.

Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl talks with Pres. Obama's science advisor, John Holdren, about climate science, space travel, the issue of reproducibility in science, the brain initiative and more.

In this issue, a special report reveals how we have fundamentally altered Earth — its climate, its resources, its ecosystems — and offers ideas for what we can do about it.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

So, it began to be a framework where ecologist [s] and climate experts and chemists and other people concerned about these issues, all could say, «Hey, I see where I fit in this.»

About one in five Americans cited unemployment and low wages (22 percent), and climate change and environmental issues (21 percent) as issues causing them stress.

Some psychologists have long argued that military involvement in green issues could help break down scepticism about climate change on the US right.

The lively debate about climate and water supply in this issue is evidence of that.

Under the Carter administration, CEQ (along with the U.S. Department of State) drafted The Global 2000 Report to the President (pdf) in 1980, which proved prescient about a host of environmental issues, from climate change to biodiversity loss.

In this episode, University of Wisconsin - Madison public health expert Jonathan Patz talks about the ethical issues raised by climate change — who's causing it and who suffers most from it.

John Rennie: Yeah and they are very serious issues about looking into the future about this and possibly a lot of parts of the Southwestern, Western United States, in particular, could really be faced with some very severe drought conditions if the climate starts to the change the way is sometimes feared.

Between being run out of [the popular statistics blog FiveThirtyEight.com] for writing on my research last year and what's happening this week [in] Congress, a lot of folks want to make the issues surrounding climate about me, instead of the issues.

Writer Mooney and marine scientist Kirshenbaum argue persuasively for scientists to step up engagement with the public, in order to dispel misinformation and foster meaningful civic participation in decisions about issues such as nuclear power, climate change, and public health.

Parents appear to be more likely to express concern about critical environmental issues like climate change and more interested in changing their behavior to be smarter consumers when it comes to purchasing energy -LSB-...]

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.

«People certainly were interested to hear about climate issues and interested in thinking locally,» he explained.

Moreover, we found that when respondents» perception of the level of scientific agreement increased, this led to significant changes in other key beliefs about the issue, such as the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused and a worrisome problem.

Paul Bledsoe, who worked in the White House on climate issues under President Clinton, sees Obama's action as a sign of his personal concern about the impacts of rising carbon dioxide, which recently passed 400 parts per million, a measurement not seen on Earth for tens of thousands of years.

(The full Statement of Task appears in Appendix A.) Normally, a technical issue such as surface temperature reconstructions might not generate widespread attention, but this case brings interesting lessons about how science works and how science, especially climate science, is communicated to policy makers and the public.

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

He also noted that the Montreal Protocol, as a side effect, has bought us about 10 years time in the climate issue, because the now banned CFC's also have a greenhouse effect in addition to damaging the ozone layer.

A two - minute PSA about the importance of marine coastal habitats in mitigating climate change, ocean acidification, and other issues related to the increase in atmospheric CO2

In this issue we also review two must read books about climate change and our energy future (pages 10 - 11).

In this issue, we explore part of the international discussion about nuclear power and climate change.

A couple of commentators (Pat Michaels, Roy Spencer) recently raised an issue about the standard scenarios used to compare climate models, in this case related to a study on the potential increase in hurricane activity.

If you read a lot of news about climate change or other environmental issues, you might start to worry whether humans have what it takes to survive on Earth in the long run.

In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.

In an op - ed for Fox News, Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House science committee, made a host of false and misleading claims about climate change and related issues.

Cleveland, Ohio About Blog The focus of Joe's practice is in all facets of environmental law as well providing counsel on issues relating to renewable energy and climate change.

It is vital in sustainability education to give space for learners to develop their own visions for a sustainable future whilst reminding participants about the issues underpinning the need for change — climate change, peak oil, global inequity and the financial cost of fossil fuels.