Sentences with phrase «advocate of action on climate change»

Since becoming governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo has staked out a position as a strong advocate of action on climate change.

Economic stasis continues in Europe, previously the most vocal advocate of action on climate change.

Not exact matches

Most of the advocates for action on climate change are liberal Notable here are people like Al Gore.

Yet a leading U.S. Senate advocate of legislative action on climate seems to be starting off like a sprinter, perhaps because his legislation is pegged to estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon that don't account for the possibility that climate change will turn out to be catastrophically costly.

Steve McIntyre talks about «the team» of scientists advocating for action on climate change — which is how they play, and why they're winning inside the institutional structures of the West.

It also presents action to advocate a multidimensional approach to climate change policies to take into account the potential social co-benefits of effectively addressing climate change as well as opportunities to focus on the most vulnerable and to develop climate - related policies and measures to provide better living conditions in their societies as a whole.

Meanwhile, the company is looking for opportunities to transition the coal plants to natural gas, whose methane emissions are also a potent greenhouse gas, but not yet in the crosshairs of those advocating action on climate change.

To implement these 12 solutions, we call on health professionals to: engage, educate and advocate for climate mitigation and undertake preventive public health actions vis - a ̀ - vis air pollution and climate change; inform the public of the high health risks of air pollution and climate change.

Prof. Hulme himself believes that there is at least some man - made global warming, and in the 1990s was a major advocate of urgent action (see here for his summary of the evolution of his thoughts on «climate change»).

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.

Given a strong commitment to action on the issue and a strong political outlook, advocates like blogger Joe Romm tend to notice and highlight each instance of dismissive media commentary or falsely balanced coverage of climate change while tending to overlook (or go without mentioning) the many other instances of coverage where consensus views on climate change are strongly asserted.

An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian - among the most aggressive advocates for action on climate change - has found that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, and that documents relating to them could not be produced.

Since 2002, when Rev. Cizik was first «converted» to the cause of climate change, he has been an advocate for action on climate change within the US evangelical community and beyond.

We now review what advocates of strong government action on climate change should learn from sociologists.

Advocates of climate change policies need to better educate civil society about how opponents of climate change policies are actually preventing government action on climate change.

2) why should we focus on the climate over problems such as disease and malnutrition 3) there are many reports of scientists fudging # s in order to get more funding — how trustworthy are many of the scientists who seem to benefit from climate change hysteria 4) what reasonable actions are these scientists advocating?

And, if you think it's bad here, you might take a day and pose as an advocate for action on climate change on sites like WUWT, JoNova, Curry, or any of the many other lightly or unmoderated «skeptic» sites.

This week, more than 200 scientists and other academics who have advocated policy action on climate change endorsed an open letter that calls on the museum to remove Ms. Mercer from its board and «end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation.»