Sentences with phrase «against climate change because»

This power plant has the potential to be a key ally in the fight against climate change because it provides a way to get rid of CO2 emissions.

Otters might also offer a defense against climate change because healthy kelp forests can grow rapidly and store large amounts of carbon.

Not exact matches

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al - Falih has said it would be a risk to list in New York because of liabilities and litigation, including the climate change lawsuits against other oil companies by New York City.

On climate change, Macron predicted the U.S. would return to the Paris climate agreement because «Let's face it: There is no planet B.» On the U.S.'s aluminum and steel tariffs (to which Trump has offered Europe only a temporary exemption), Macron warned against trade barriers, noting that «commercial war is not the proper answer.»

«Without forcing the parallels, because climate change is in many respects sui generis, a similar suite of allegations could readily be brought against a company for its responses to this new challenge,» they write.

Replacing the grass is necessary because of the wear and tear on the field and the changes in climate through the course of a Bears season, from exhibition games in August through the final home game on December 28 against Minnesota.

IN because in the fight against climate change, and in a world where some of the biggest players are also the biggest polluters, Europe's nations can only make a difference if we work together.

Because protesting against climate change and animal cruelty can be ways of expressing anger and discontent with the capitalist establishment, whereas the cause for nature is fuelled merely by love of wildlife.

The contamination is particularly troubling, Chapela says, because areas of crop origin and diversification like Oaxaca house «bank accounts» of genetic diversitythe best insurance against disease, pests and changing climates.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

We should be strengthening public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical diseases even if we weren't worried about the climate change, we should be avoiding further development on flood plains at next to sea level just because of storm damage even in an unchanging climate.

It is because of this that the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has a Climate Change Program that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate Climate Change Program that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate cChange Program that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate climate changechange.

It is because of this that the Green Belt Movement has a Climate Change Programme that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate Climate Change Programme that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate cChange Programme that aims at strengthening the understanding and capacity of rural communities to take action against climate climate changechange.

There is all sorts of evidence for and against natural climate change at various stages of history (and prehistory) that bears discussing, but we rarely ever get to it because everyone is banging on about the hockey stick being inaccurate or accurate (depending on your point of view).

People who want to deny climate change and express racist ideas should feel free to come to my blog, and you can be sure that I'll have a full and frank reply for you, of the sort Revkin can't have because abusing readers is probably against some NYT code of practice;)

In the USA the political right are so against action to combat climate change because it appears to somehow appear to be communist in nature, anti freedom and individual restrictive and hence against the seemingly free market economy that the USA has embraced since the end of the 2nd world war culminating in such neurotic / paranoid behaviour as being labelled a left wing conspiracy.

This is particularly true because no nation will be considering human - driven climate change in isolation, but pitting it against energy security and other real - time risks.

We should be addressing the meanings that divide us on an issue like this, because they divide us on lots of things — not just the use of violence by individuals of one race on those of another, or even the use of it by the police against private citizens, but also matters as diverse as whether climate change is occurring or whether schools should vaccinate pre-adolescent girls against HPV.

And yet, 400 years later, here we are: watching a public official tasked with guiding the educational trajectories of his community's children rail against the accepted science on climate change — because its conclusions threaten to undermine the local political culture.

How many people have campaigned against efforts to curtail man - made climate change because of the misinformation he has published?

• $ 365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is «inevitable» and expensive to address.

Those who push using RICO laws against «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («other organizations» meaning conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their accusation.

If there's a film which questions climate change, it's because the broadcaster has declared a war against science.

A spokesman for ExxonMobil said: «ExxonMobil will not respond to Guardian inquiries because of its lack of objectivity on climate change reporting demonstrated by its campaign against companies that provide energy necessary for modern life, including newspapers.»

«We've got to get much more aggressive in this fight against climate change, because we know what we put off today will only make the cost and the damage greater for our children tomorrow.»

The fact that the models can be made to simulate unforced climate behavior is of course only a first step in enabling them to simulate forced climate change, but because it involves validation against observed data, it is informative at least in terms of the unforced phenomena in showing that the models have probably estimated the real world phenomena with reasonable accuracy.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.

This topic is enormously practically important because nations and others who argue against proposed climate change policies usually rely on various economic arguments which often completely ignore the ethical and justice limitations of these arguments (In the case of the United States, see Brown, 2012.)

Dr. Smalley generally slips quickly over the environmental dimensions of competing technologies because the Bush administration has taken such a strong stand against factoring climate change into policy.

Climate Change will likely greatly re shape the world, largely against our interests, and particularly (ironically because «helping the poor» has suddenly become the new and somewhat ill founded argument against Climate Change redress the poorer people of the world.

The kids at the protest say that «We're here because our parents» generation has failed us and its now down to young people to stop climate change...», but really, they're doing the work of the very institutions that they imagine themselves to be pitched against.

Should poor and vulnerable countries continue to hold the right to file for damages against permanent loss caused to them because of climate change

Likewise, the present demagoguery in the UK against the EU arises at least in part from the same well - funded but nebulous network of organizations who deny that the climate is changing because of human activity.

«Centennary - scale predictions of anthropogenically forced climate change can not be verified, because there is no past analogue against which to assess the models,» explained Smith.

This analysis says that's why we have low taxes, bailouts of wealthy investment banks, lack of action against those who caused the financial crisis and a failure to deal with climate change — because the rich 1 % want it that way.

We're big fans of simple steps (and not just because they're easily caught on video), and encourage you to visit CoolMove.org to learn more about the actions you can take (and record) to do your part against climate change.

We want to work but mother nature is working against us because of climate change.

At the time that he denied the waiver (acting against the better advice of his staff, which had strongly urged him to grant it), Johnson claimed that California's law was unnecessary because of the recently enacted energy bill, which would do more to mitigate climate change than «a confusing patchwork of state rules» — this despite the fact that 13 other states, representing about half of the country's drivers, were also on board with the plan.

Because you can very well accept that climate change exists and still find arguments against climate action because the costs of doing something are soBecause you can very well accept that climate change exists and still find arguments against climate action because the costs of doing something are sobecause the costs of doing something are so great.

One former Cooler Heads member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of a punitive backlash, said the coalition's mission under Ebell was to be a «Johnny - on - the - spot for climate denialism» and to simulate a «cacophony of voices» against climate - change science.

Insurers against risk (eg death) generally fare better than banks in financial crisies, because their risks are actuarially based, at least until they move into banking like AIG which took on all kinds of «risks» that were actually uncertainties (like political risk as in Greece)-- «the use of «risk» to cover uninsurable contingencies [like climate change] conveys a spurious precision» — like the spurious correlations that VS has demonstrated.