Sentences with phrase «about issues like climate change»

Even for those of you who are interested in seeing a reduction in our dependence on fossil fuels — and I know how passionate young people are about issues like climate change — the fact of the matter is, is that for quite some time, America is going to be still dependent on oil in making its economy work.

Nuttall does this well personally, ridiculing Labour for obsessing about issues like climate change and Palestine when their core voters care about immigration, the NHS and jobs.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

«Indeed from my vantage point the direction he gave me about wanting me to use the diplomatic channels to pursue issues like climate changes was absolutely clear and is part of a much bigger picture.»

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.»

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.

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-...]

«At the end of the day, people buy their product based on value and utility for what they need, and while they may be interested and passionate about certain issues like energy security or climate change, very few customers will actually let that altruistic sense drive their purchasing decision,» Stricker said.

When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.

I would like to have thought there was space for the environment in that mix, even though these issues are still often seen by journalists weaned on politics as a sidenote (remember Candy Crowley «s post-debate comment about «all you climate change people»?).

Grist had played an important role in elevating the issue during the ensuing years, and we're glad more of our media peers are asking questions about what climate change really looks like — and how we're going to deal with it.

Actually, some of the GOP candidates have posted plans that deal with energy issues, although they don't go in the direction that Sanders and scientists concerned about climate change might like.

Their work seems, consistently, to be representative of their Global Warming denier board member Don Blankenship rather than members like Nike, who have issued strong statements about climate change.

6 Jan: Daily Mail: Richard Hartley - parkinson: Prince Charles says becoming a grandfather has boosted his environmental beliefs saying he doesn't want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» The Prince of Wales has spoken about how the prospect of becoming a grandfather is spurring his environmental beliefs, saying he does not want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» Prince Charles, an outspoken campaigner on environmental issues, told ITV's This Morning that he did not want the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's child, due to be born next summer, to ask him why he had not done more to tackle issues like climate change... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257993/Prince-Charles-says-grandfather-boosted-environmental-beliefs-saying-doesnt-want-hand-increasingly-dysfunctional-world.html

In the case of oil companies, one would have to argue that they profited by successfully duping the public about climate change, which would be like «The Mouse that Roared» given the size of their expenditures on this issue.

I know this is largely trivial given the political nature of climate change but it just drives me round the bend seeing the only people ever being critical about this issue being idiot right wingers like Delingpole.

On an issue like climate change, LaRouchites represent the extreme fringe of rightwing opinion, taking the usual conspiracy theories about grantgrubbing scientists and environmentalist plans for world government into utterly paranoid territory.

John Carter wrote: > For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change...

For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change, rather assess what those actual facts of the issue are, and more importantly, why they are relevant.

If you'd like to learn about this issue in more depth, please visit Maplecroft's website and download The Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014: http://maplecroft.com/themes/cc/.

This was really an instance of domestic politics trumping policy, and because domestic politics said, «Your base doesn't like Kyoto, doesn't think global climate change is a real issue, and hates regulation,» we never talked about the things that we were doing that were addressing the issue.

Issues like the Medieval warm period, different possible causes of climate change (such as solar activity, or even the nature of our climate), studies indicating the last interglacial period was warmer than today, and the failure of recent dire predictions about the climate all show the debate on climate change is not nearly as settled as many global warming proponents would have us believe.

People like the AD are primarily about the culture wars, and only became interested in climate change as an issue when it could be seen to be a vehicle for promoting their broader social agenda.

Because when someone like DiCaprio uses his A-List profile to raise awareness about climate change, he can get people talking about the issue in a way few others can, bringing the message to millions and taking climate action mainstream.

THe UK - based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so - called «man - made global warming» (aka climate change): «But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural processes are underway, about which we understand very little and can not control.»

It's understandable to take that position when alarmists are telling you things like don't have more kids and extreme things like that, but at the same time just because scientists were wrong about global freezing in the 70s doesn't mean the current climate change issue isn't worth giving serious thought.

«[O] n an issue like climate change, for example, I think for this country and the world to ask some very tough questions about what are we leaving behind, that weighs on you.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

It does seem that the Right prefers denial of scientific reality than do something about their inability to deal with an issue like climate change.

Every week, I'll bring you important stories from across the country about the impacts and politics of climate change, the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources and environmental issues like water and public lands.

When you have huge economic issues and great amounts of uncertainty with regard to things like sensitivity to a doubling of CO2, feedbacks from evaporation (including increases in clouds and their feedbacks), not to mention regarding consequences, then a legalisitic, «does climate change exist or not» approach isn't the right way to think about the issue.