Sentences with phrase «action on ozone»

I wish to make it clear that I do think action on ozone / soot is needed.

«International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story,» WMO Secretary - General Michel Jarraud said in a UNEP statement.

«International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story,» said WMO Secretary - General Michel Jarraud.

Not exact matches

Throughout the essays are scattered references to everything from ozone depletion to recycling strategies to the effects of American pet shops on the population of parrots in New Guinea — and recommendations of particular courses of action: Aeschliman's commendation of conservancy strategies, for instance, through which churches purchase endangered land to ensure preservation.

Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades thanks to concerted international action against ozone depleting substances, according to a new assessment by 300 scientists.

The success of the Montreal Protocol should encourage further action not only on the protection and recovery of the ozone layer but also on climate.

«We tell our patients to watch for days of high heat and humidity, and to be especially mindful on ozone action days,» says Dr. Baptist.

Here's Shindell's argument, which notes, among other things, that action on «easier» targets like ozone and soot can build confidence and institutional capacity that could be applied to carbon dioxide down the line: Read more...

There are many unresolved questions as to the effects on climate of soot and ozone control actions, but let's for the moment accept the argument that these effects would be beneficial.

Here's Shindell's argument, which notes, among other things, that action on «easier» targets like ozone and soot can build confidence and institutional capacity that could be applied to carbon dioxide down the line:

There were early bans on CFC aerosol propellants and actions by environmentalists, together with the predictable opposition of vested interests; but the «tipping point» was the discovery by British Antarctic survey scientists of an «ozone hole» over Antartica in October 1984.

More resources: Ozone Secretariat CAN Briefing Paper: Achieving an ambitious outcome on HFC Phasedown under the Montreal Protocol in 2016 (Climate Action Network International) Momentum growing for HFC agreement as Vienna talks kick - off (Natural Resources Defense Council) Primer on HFCs (Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development) The importance of ambition in the 2016 HFC phase - down agreement (Environmental Investigation Agency)

Now the UN is setting up for the September 23rd meeting using the ozone layer issue as a template for action on CO2.

In this report, a range of compelling, and in many cases highly cost - effective options for fast action on black carbon, methane and tropospheric ozone are outlined in this report.

According to Kelly Sims of Ozone Action, «Efforts by Fred Singer and others to cast doubt on the most thorough, sophisticated and internationally - based consensus on climate change is part of a well - coordinated plan to mislead the public and policymakers.»

Short - term adaptation and mitigation includes predicting extreme events, while long - term actions include modelling the impact of air quality or ozone layer on human health.

Ozone Action, Ties that Blind: Industry Influence on Public Policy and Our Environment, Ozone Action, Washington D.C., 1997, p. 5.

Halogenated gases currently contribute 12 % to overall radiative forcing.1 While actions under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) are already addressing CFCs and HCFCs, atmospheric concentrations of some HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are rising rapidly, by more than 23 % each year.

Clicking on the Ozone.org link back in 2010 only caused a solitary and otherwise worthlessly vague page to open up (Yahoo Cache screencapture of it here), despite people such as Dr S. Fred Singer referring to Ozone Action at his Science and Environmental Policy Project site as a collection of very active environmentalists.

Anticipating charges that the new rules would kill jobs and hurt the economy, Obama said past U.S. environmental actions — on chemicals, on fuel economy, on ozone depletion — always spurred innovation that proved doomsayers wrong.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

National Center or Public Policy Research expert on global warming and the ozone layer (1996) Robert Wesson Endowment Fund Fellow (1993 - 4) at Hoover Institution Marshall Institute Expert bio: http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=38 A darling of the anti-climate movement, Baliunas has been a central scientist in the fight against action on climate change.

Spurred into action by the potentially catastrophic scenario unfolding, the international community pulled off an impressive feat, the conclusion on September 16, 1987 of a landmark multilateral agreement to arrest ozone depletion — The Montreal Protocol — in the space of just under two - and - a-half years.

The Government of Canada has already taken action on SLCPs through implementation of air pollutant regulations targeting ozone precursors, and particulate matter including black carbon.

But what about that last bit above, on Ozone Action prodding politicians?

But the 2013 Desmog piece didn't explain what led them to link to Greenpeace's scans; not one word on why Greenpeace didn't reveal the scans as a major news item back in 2007 when they were archived, not one word explaining why those scans were at Greenpeace when it was reported that the Sierra Club had them more than sixteen years earlier,... and not a word of why those scans have a cover page from some outfit called Ozone Action (lest anyone forget, when the Union of Concerned Scientists breathlessly «revealed» those old scans in 2015, the reason their collection is only 49 pages vs Greenpeace's 50 is because they simply erased the problem of the Ozone Action cover page).

The first of those hearings was on May 17, 2000, proudly announced by Ozone Action the same day.

All this pride, despite the presence of skeptic climate scientist Dr John Christy (Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences) in the first McCain hearing (not listed in Ozone Action's list from that same hearing), and the presence skeptic climate scientist Dr S. Fred Singer (Ph.D., physics) in the second hearing, a person previously held in massive dislike by Ozone Action regarding his congressional hearing appearance on topic of ozone depletion, and held in massive dislike by Ozone Action on the topic of global warming — in a press release attack of Dr Singer, (screencapture here), having Kalee Kreider — future spokesperson for Al Gore — as one of the contOzone Action's list from that same hearing), and the presence skeptic climate scientist Dr S. Fred Singer (Ph.D., physics) in the second hearing, a person previously held in massive dislike by Ozone Action regarding his congressional hearing appearance on topic of ozone depletion, and held in massive dislike by Ozone Action on the topic of global warming — in a press release attack of Dr Singer, (screencapture here), having Kalee Kreider — future spokesperson for Al Gore — as one of the contOzone Action regarding his congressional hearing appearance on topic of ozone depletion, and held in massive dislike by Ozone Action on the topic of global warming — in a press release attack of Dr Singer, (screencapture here), having Kalee Kreider — future spokesperson for Al Gore — as one of the contozone depletion, and held in massive dislike by Ozone Action on the topic of global warming — in a press release attack of Dr Singer, (screencapture here), having Kalee Kreider — future spokesperson for Al Gore — as one of the contOzone Action on the topic of global warming — in a press release attack of Dr Singer, (screencapture here), having Kalee Kreider — future spokesperson for Al Gore — as one of the contacts.

On top of that, how entertaining is it that among Brulle's Facebook Friends we find Gelbspan, Ozone Action's John Passacantando & Kalee Kreider, Aaron McCright, Peter Dykstra (who I covered here), and, well, several others I'll cover at this blog later.

• what's with his mention of Kert Davies, one of the old Ozone Action guys as a source for information on corrupt industry funding of skeptic climate scientists?

Ozone Action, Ties That Blind: Industry Influence on Public Policy and our Environment.

He later helped organize Green Corps, a nonprofit focused on grassroots organizing, and the group was hired as a contractor for Ozone Action, which prodded politicians to address climate change and protect the Earth's ozone lOzone Action, which prodded politicians to address climate change and protect the Earth's ozone lozone layer.

Additionally, the seven member countries of the Arctic Council «[urged] the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to take action as soon as possible... to phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to the warming of the Arctic region.»

Prior to that, he worked at the Environmental Working Group, which produced an undated Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) report titled «Affiliations of Selected Global Warming Skeptics» («Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action»» s copy here), which says the following near the end of page 2....

Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.

Ross Gelbspan's association with Ozone Action likely began sometime between their switch in December 1995 from pure focus on ozone depletion to one which also concerned climate change (happening in the same month that Gelbspan first publicly mentioned his «industry corruption» findings), and their March 1996 «Ties That Blind» report mentioning that he and they «obtained» industry documOzone Action likely began sometime between their switch in December 1995 from pure focus on ozone depletion to one which also concerned climate change (happening in the same month that Gelbspan first publicly mentioned his «industry corruption» findings), and their March 1996 «Ties That Blind» report mentioning that he and they «obtained» industry documozone depletion to one which also concerned climate change (happening in the same month that Gelbspan first publicly mentioned his «industry corruption» findings), and their March 1996 «Ties That Blind» report mentioning that he and they «obtained» industry documents.

... a former NCAR director now serves as trustee on the boards of several environmental non-governmental organizations; Stephen Schneider and other scientists published in a book on global warming edited and published by Greenpeace; and when controversies such as that around the IPCC chapter 8 erupt, the involved scientists often exchange Emails with representatives of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Ozone Action.

Even before the first evidence that global warming had already begun, British and US scientists confirmed that human action — in the release of a suite of industrially - important gases called chlorofluorocarbons — had begun to erode the invisible shield of stratospheric ozone that has always sheltered life on Earth.

And as I've noted on several times, Ozone Action and Ross Gelbspan sure appear to be the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry corruption accusation against skeptic climate scientists.

How odd, considering that Greenpeace's Kalee Kreider, (alleged creator of Ozone Action who moved on to Greenpeace before Greenpeace merged with Ozone Action) emailed an alert about skeptic climate scientists / Western Fuels in October 1996 to (among other people, including two at Ozone Action) Dan Becker, who was the Sierra Club's Global Warming Program director at that time.

Entertaining how Part B of the exercise cites a dire statement by Gelbspan before even introducing the second half of the exercise, and then has him among its references on page 18, along with the old Ozone Action organization, and Ozone Action's spin - off web site Cool.Policy.net, which was decidedly anti-GCC when it was operating back in 2000.