Sentences with phrase «about issues of climate»

The foreign secretary told the Commons that he planned to talk to the Trump administration about the issue of climate change.

Unfortunately whilst certain political commentators / manipulators and leaders sow confusion about the issue of climate change and anthropogenic emissions, and also state that taking formal action would be «bad for our economy», the firm policy required at global / regional level, the correct signal to society / industry and the global action needed will not happen.

People more concerned about the issue of climate change also tend to know more about science, generally.15

Overall, only 36 percent of Americans describe themselves as personally concerned about the issue of climate change, and more likely to believe that humans are playing some role in a warming Earth.

There's something about the issue of climate change that prompts people to immediately head off to opposite sides of the room — with very few people congregating in the middle.

In general, however, Trump's Cabinet appointees have been largely noncommittal about the issue of climate change and its human causation.

Words carry heavy weight, and when talking about the issue of climate change we must be frank.

Yet he can scarcely be called unconcerned about the issue of climate disruption: it was Broecker who created the image of the climate «beast,» which humanity is now collectively prodding with the «sharp stick» of greenhouse gases.

Party members are in fact divided about the issue of climate change, a new study based on three years of data from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication finds, with 44 percent ready to admit that global warming is happening.

«I don't know what the president or his advisers» thoughts were about the issue, but one thing is certain, the president had not been talking about issue of climate change publicly in quite some time,» Dr. Maibach says.

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.»

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

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.

Big investors including State Street and BlackRock, which together hold about 9 percent of Exxon shares, recently have made clear they are now giving more attention to climate issues.

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.

Asked whether China had talked to the Trump administration about the Paris agreement, she said: «China and the United States have close communications about a wide variety of topics, and of course, this includes the issue of climate change.»

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.

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

Engineers dealing with frequent «100 - year storms» can't talk about «climate - change» when discussing their storm - related infrastructure damage issues because the Rubios of the world shout them down!

They want to know that the issues they care about, from animal welfare to climate change, have been taken care of,» said Jan Potter, Food for Thought's chairperson and headteacher at Belle Vale Primary School.

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».

By thinking hard about what gets shared and liked on social media, they are helping to counter the «climate silence» and ensure that the issue remains interesting and relevant, particularly to younger audiences — something the legacy media would do well to take note of.

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).

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.

Many of us feel hopelessly confused about the whole issue of climate change.

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.

He said energy prices were rising, making nuclear energy an issue across the world; anxiety about climate change and the need to find clean energy sources was rising; and security of supply meant Britain must find new domestic sources of power.

So both right - wing and independent voices also think this is a potentially significant political issue, as This Independent piece shows, However, the main post showing the scale of climate scepticism was primarily about the disagreement between Conservatives, noting the frontbench's support.

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.

«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.»

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.

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.»

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.

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

And they're not all about the standard issues of climate change, vaccines and evolution.

«That's a huge wedge issue,» Steyer said of young voters» concern about climate change.

«We've known just about everything we need to know to do something about this issue for a very long time,» said Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech University Climate Science Center.

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

The initiative encourages Americans to think of climate change as a risk management issue; the panel aims to clarify and contextualize the science so the public and decision - makers can be more adequately informed about those risks and possible ways to manage them.

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.

Since about 2.5 billion years ago, the mantle has been cooling — a phenomenon that doesn't influence the climate on the surface of the Earth and has nothing to do with the issue of short - term human - made climate change.

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.

Reilly, a former astronaut, sidestepped other questions about the agency's mission, not just those on climate, and said he would wait to be confirmed before commenting on specific issues under the banner of USGS.

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.