Sentences with phrase «about climate protection»

And New Zealand will need to make a choice — is it serious about climate protection, or does it wish to be singled out as an obstacle to progress?

Such a profound lack of understanding of the necessary consequences of one's own actions and depth of ignorance about the climate protection efforts of the member states is hard to imagine, even in Brussels.

Not exact matches

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

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.

Despite our constitutional protection of freedom of speech and despite our vaunted openness, we do not now enjoy a climate of opinion that encourages us to improve our opinions, or to replace them with knowledge or truth — partly because we have become too sophisticated to believe that there are any truths about this subject, separate, of course, from the ones which those in power allegedly «construct.»

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

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.

While he says good things could result from the people calling for a convention, he's frightened about the «really bad things [that] could happen,» citing the conservative climate now prevalent in politics at both the state and national levels which has the potential to revert or even repeal existing protections, such as the Forever Wild provision.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

The Soon and Baliunas paper produced political results in one respect: it seems to have emboldened the Bush administration to edit a June Environmental Protection Agency report so that it no longer represented a scientific consensus about climate change.

«Our work... helps move beyond mere speculation about the economic importance of biodiversity and lends an economic argument to biodiversity preservation for climate protection.»

Nine years later, his name appeared on a list of scientists proposed to the Environmental Protection Agency as arbiters of climate science for a national debate meant to provide Americans «true, legitimate, peer - reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO ₂.»

Leakey campaigned for the protection of the Great Apes and has become increasingly vocal about the threats to biodiversity arising from global climate change.

I just finished a Skype video chat with about 80 people from the new Climate Protection Partnership within the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

I'm not sure about Al Gore's «presentation training» plans, but it may be a large part of the nonprofit Alliance for Climate Protection that he is organizing.

But like Newt Gingrich, who costarred in an ad with Nancy Pelosi for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, Robertson shared a couch with Al Sharpton for ACP's «We Can Solve It» campaign to raise awareness about climate change iClimate Protection, Robertson shared a couch with Al Sharpton for ACP's «We Can Solve It» campaign to raise awareness about climate change iclimate change in 2008:

This is a great time to make connections to other climate activists or to tell interested people about IPL and the connection between faith and environmental protection.

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Regardless of what they think about climate change, however, they should resist demonizing market - based approaches to environmental protection and reverting to pre-1980s thinking that saddled business and consumers with needless costs.

Wide swaths of informational content about climate change science and impacts are being systematically scrubbed from federal agency websites, particularly at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- see the November 22 New York Times op - ed piece «Censoring Climate Change&climate change science and impacts are being systematically scrubbed from federal agency websites, particularly at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- see the November 22 New York Times op - ed piece «Censoring Climate Change&Climate Change».

Originally posted on Open Mind: Barton Bibler, who works for Florida's DEP (Department of Environmental Protection), actually spoke about climate change at an official meeting.

The workshop brought together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from the fields of social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and had two core objectives: to understand better how social protection can be used to strengthen the poor's resilience to climate and natural disaster risk in developing countries; to create a forum for cross-regional learning about good practice for realizing the potential synergies between social protection, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation.

Holding placards with slogans such as «Earth First» and «Climate Change Is Real,» many came to express concern about the Trump administration's removal of environmental protections.

Activists will supposedly converge on U.S. Senate offices and demand that their senators «reject Donald Trump's reckless climate - denying cabinet nominees» particularly secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, and Energy secretary pick Rick Perry (if you're not sure what a denier is, I just wrote about it here for The Hill).

More surprisingly, none of the moderators asked a question about climate change or environmental protection.

Long - term, the environmental movement faces soul - searching about its own direction, and how to turn widespread popular support for environmental protection into an effective political force for urgent climate action.

In presenting the EU decarbonization plan for 2050, Hedegaard said «Climate protection done in a smart way is not about de-industrialization, it is about reindustrialization.»

30 July: ABC Big Ideas: What Australians really think about the world An expert panel considers and interprets the results and discusses some of the other findings that shed light on Australians attitudes towards the economy, climate, border protection, our political parties, leaders and neighbours.

DeSmog has also highlighted how Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt's current calls for a «red team» to supposedly critique the fundamentals of climate science has been a talking point of the Heartland Institute for about eight years.

Inhofe said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was in the business of «brainwashing our kids» by releasing «propaganda» about climate change and the role that human beings are playing in the destruction of the planet.

President Obama's chief of staff William Daley said on June 23 («Bill Daley: Obama won't sign anti-EPA bills») that the President is «not going to allow any legislation that impedes the need to improve our health and safety,» when asked about proposals to block or delay climate - related regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Viewed as the Prince of Darkness by climate - protection activists, Morano in his new book describes how he is in fact a real environmentalist and who, as almost every skeptic does, truly cares about the real environmental problems we face.

Between a research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.

We envision a world where our private and public leaders prioritize the protection of our planet; where solutions to remedy climate change are equitable, lift up those that are most impacted, and are rooted in racial and economic justice; and where facts win out over fiction and there is universal agreement about the impacts of climate change on the earth and all of its inhabitants.

What about the authors» argument that the Paris climate agreement clears a hurdle of «reciprocal protections» that had stood in the way of using 115 previously?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides immediate access to a cross-section of environmental data for any geographical location in the U.S. Access useful information about your air, water, energy choices, and ways to lessen the impacts of climate change at MyEnvironment.

To quote Elizabeth Economy from last August, «Whether we're talking about food and product safety, or environmental implementation of anything China might agree to when it comes to global climate change, or trade and investment barriers and intellectual property rights protection, all of them hinge on China having an effective rule of law.

It's a timely move, given that the Environmental Protection Agency seems to be preparing to regulate carbon dioxide for the first time (NY Times) and NASA is about to launch its Orbiting Carbon Observatory (Nature Reports Climate Change).

If you care about climate disruption, the most important thing you can do right now is voice your support for these protections, and get ready for an even more important fight next year to clean up pollution at power plants already in operation.

At present, however, there appear to be at least three possibilities that could advance the international debate about «climate refugee» protections and fill existing gaps in international law.

In the opening panel, California's Secretary of Environmental Protection, Linda Adams pledged, on behalf of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, her support and enthusiasm for the Energy and Climate Registry in China and talked about California's environmental initiatives including the Governors» Global Climate Summit hosted by Gov. Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles last November.

Ebell, who rocketed to national prominence when he was tapped to run Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, faced laughter and some quiet jeering as he conveyed his ideas about climate change and the economy to investors gathered at the BNEF Future of Energy Summit.

«Frankly this report ought to be subjected to peer - reviewed, objective - reviewed methodology and evaluation,» said Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, when asked about the leaked draft of a Federal Climate Science Special Report (CSSR).

The chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has led recent efforts to question the existing climate change science, reflecting some skepticism within the U.S. government about the scale of the challenge.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate climate crisis.

Read more about train travel: Realizing The Potential of High - Speed Rail: For Climate Protection; Business Productivity; and Security Trains vs Planes: Is Rail Always the Low Carbon Option?

Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.

Zapping from one favourite blog to another, I find here a solemn accusation of BBC censorship in the Arctic from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; at Harmless Sky, Alex Cull has unearthed another twitcher, Lord Krebs (whose place on the Climate Change Committee seems to be due to his scientfic expertise on birds), musing on how best to brainwash the British public into agreeing with him; while on Bishop Hill there's a video of an hour long rant about Deniers from an expert on rhodedendrons.

On questions about climate policy, the protection of biodiversity, the regulation of industrial pollution, and the use of natural resources, scientists and the environmentalists are in harmony: scientists tend to identify problems and environmentalists tend to see government regulation as a ready solution to those problems.

Selective censorship of media contacts is not the only means by which communication about global warming and climate change has been stifled at the Environmental Protection Agency.