Sentences with phrase «authorities over climate»
Mr. Burnett, a political appointee with broad authority over climate - change regulations, said in an interview that he had resigned because «no more constructive work could be done» on the agency's response to the Supreme Court.
https://www.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Many other saintly authorities could be quoted, but one hopes that this helps to reassure those who, in the current climate of tension, have been made nervous and perhaps over cautious about what truly belongs to the orthodox tradition of the Church.
«If we are to use that authority arbitrarily or to withhold these certifications where we should be granting them, what then can happen... is there is an opportunity for the federal government to just take that process over from us and then we no longer have that authority,» Snyder said at a roundtable discussion on climate change Monday sponsored by the state Assembly.
Ruling in a suit brought by Massachusetts over the regulation of car emissions, the court said that the EPA has the authority to regulate such climate - destabilizing greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide — something the agency had denied.
The authority's report favors political feasibility over environmental effectiveness «and makes recommendations that are not soundly based on climate science,» Hamilton, an economist at Charles Sturt University near Canberra and climate scientist Karoly of the University of Melbourne in Australia, charge in their dissent.
[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»
In today's political climate, we are proposing to hold teachers accountable for results while still not giving them much authority over their schools.
Ligon's authority on the subject was probably all Walker needed to settle the dispute around his work once and for all, but in the volatile climate that defines our current times, even the most brilliant view doesn't stick around for long without being challenged a second time, and disagreements over Walker's work reached a new height again on the occasion of «Direct Drive,» his solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis last September.
an over [r] eliance on central planning... delude the warmers... bow to co2 and climate change is utterly kneejerk; the prerequisite kissing of the pope's ring, a kneel to the authority of the new leftist universalist religion.
No one would argue that the current multi-lateral climate negotiations are an attempt to establish «ultimate global authority over humanity» and this is certainly never been suggested by the Planetary Boundaries research.
InsideClimate News (ICN) has insisted over and over that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) and the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF), which have been bankrolling the entire #ExxonKnew campaign, have absolutely no editorial authority over the stories they publish, including the series they released last year proclaiming that Exxon «knew» about climate change in the 1970s before climate scientists even understood the data.
Going after a widely published climate scientist, no matter what they said about Mann's work, would just make Mann look bad (I mean, Judith has well over 100 pear reviewed publications, including a bunch in 2013 and 2014, books, etc), and would pretty much eliminate appeals to authority in front of a jury.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service noted that they have no authority over the warming climate that causes the sea ice decline.
Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.), the outspoken Democratic chairman of the Agriculture panel, has been making it well - known that he wants his committee to have full jurisdictional authority over whatever climate change bill emerges from Chairman Henry Waxman's (D - Calif.)
All told, Brulle has provided statements or been cited as an authority in dozens of posts at Climate Progress over the last few years.
In light of Shukla's authority over federal climate grants to both IGES and GMU, his double dipping indeed has the appearance of a conflict of interest and a climate change profiteer.
«IPCC - selected lead authors are given significant control over the text, including the authority to judge their own work against the work of their critics... this process has led to the propagation of incorrect and misleading information in the assessments, and thus should lead you to question the IPCC's general support for a catastrophic view of climate change.»
Localities have authority over the built environment (e.g. through zoning and building codes); they can implement smart growth initiatives and increase public transportation alternatives; they act as first responders for climate impacts; they deploy green infrastructure such as increasing land for open space and parks; and they drive green economies by offering tax relief and other incentives.
As you might expect from a commentary titled «Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers», he proposes that, with settled issues such as global heating, newspapers return to their glorious «muckraking» days of yore when advocacy journalism was all the rage, and before journalists were stripped by editors and newspaper owners of their authority to advocate for what is right.
Oh, and give up the fiction that atmospheric CO2 is the only important factor in climate variability, the climate models that assume that it is, and the idea that we can «adjust the thermostat of the Earth» by giving the government, any government, taxing and regulatory authority over every human activity with a «carbon signature»
You are also guilty of the «appeal to misleading authority» fallacy with your appeal to the supposed expertise of astronauts over the actual expertise of climate scientists.
The Climate Change Authority, of which I'm a board member, recently looked into the issue and concluded that, over the lifetime of a vehicle, fuel efficiency standards matching those of the US would save motorists thousands of dollars.
23 Dec: ABC AM: Climate Change Authority casts doubt on emissions reduction fund's long term effectiveness SIMON SANTOW: The Federal Government's under renewed pressure over the centrepiece of its Direct Action climate policy — the $ 2.5 billion emissions reduction fundClimate Change Authority casts doubt on emissions reduction fund's long term effectiveness SIMON SANTOW: The Federal Government's under renewed pressure over the centrepiece of its Direct Action climate policy — the $ 2.5 billion emissions reduction fundclimate policy — the $ 2.5 billion emissions reduction fund (ERF).
And over at the online outlet Mashable (11 April 2018: «Climate scientists fight false polar bear narrative pushed by bloggers»), reporter Mark Kaufman quoted Jeff Harvey, lead author of the BioScience paper on the issue, although Harvey is hardly an authority:
Steve's efforts here have positioned CA at the forefront of these ultra-topical issues, to the extent that CA is arguably the default authority (how many lurking young climate scientists have admitted over a beer that they have wanted to post here, yet do not for the sake of their careers?)
In recent days, without any legitimate authority to do so, Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry (shown) has been making hysterical and ridiculous «climate» pledges — including a deal with the communist regime ruling over mainland China.
While the choice of policy mechanisms is up in the air, the forthcoming Climate Change Authority Caps and Targets Review Draft Report should finally reignite the debate over emissions targets.