Sentences with phrase «authority on climate»

Joe Romm, perhaps the utmost authority on climate policy, agrees with Plumer, and is also feeling confident about the climate bill prospects.

Lord Rees of Ludlow, the president of the Royal Society, Britain's most prestigious scientific institute, said: «The IPCC is the world's leading authority on climate change and its latest report will provide a comprehensive picture of the latest scientific understanding on the issue.

It's all one - way for Duffy, who has in the past used Michael Crichton, the popular novelist, as an authority on climate change science.

«The Pope has great moral authority, but he's not an authority on climate science,» a Heartland employee told the UK newspaper, the Daily Telegraph.

It is 13 years since the top job in the world's leading authority on climate change was last contested.

The IPCC is not the world's leading SCIENTIFIC authority on climate change.

The world's leading authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has concluded that human activity is «extremely likely» to be the main driver of warming since the mid 20th century.

Judith was asked: «Do you consider the IPCC the world's leading authority on climate change and why?»

FOMB: Why on Earth would you cite the Vatican as an authority on climate science?

To ensure it remains the sole authority on climate predictions, the panel plans not to publish the complete report for some time after the release of the summary and not even release transcripts from the negotiations in Stockholm.

This now - widely - known truth was confirmed in September in a leaked report, the result of six years» work by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, touted as the world authority on climate change and its supposed causes.

The more precisely and publicly Jones and the CRU (and, for that matter, any «experts» claiming authority on the climate science debate) are forced to publicly and precisely select a position and defend it, the faster it will get precisely and publicly rebutted by those in a position to do so.

So, that makes him a less - credible authority on climate than an engineer, an economist or a statistician — how?

But conservative publications began to cite him as if he were an authority on climate science.

«Comprising thousands of technical experts from more than 120 countries, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world's definitive authority on climate change.»

«The IPCC — the body widely regarded, until now, as the ultimate authority on climate science — is looking worse and worse.

The IPCC is widely regarded as being the authority on climate matters, and is intended to be a kind of super-charged peer - review process.

Whatever happens, one thing is clear: Even as scientists and policy experts suggest changes, they are clear that existence of the internationally accepted authority on climate science is vital.

On the bright side, while he took some predictable pot - shots (thanks to Mansbridge's feeding of very convenient questions) at critics, notwithstanding all the press he's received in which he's dubbed as «world's leading authority on climate change», he admitted that he's «not a climate scientist».

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the world authority on climate change) has established two simple facts: carbon dioxide traps energy, humans create significant increases on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

[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.»

DAVIS, Calif. — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and three international regional leaders signed a memorandum of understanding today in a bid to assert regional authority on climate change policy.

Some of the world's leading authorities on climate change have endorsed meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming, including former US Vice President Al Gore, Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Lord Nicholas Stern and former UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King.

The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.

Of course, while the Hansens of the world were publishing in the scientific literature, the Michaels of the world were publishing such tripe as «Meltdown», «The Satanic Gases», «Taken by Storm» as well as being constantly marketed to newspapers for op eds as scientific authorities on climate, and of course serving as the justification du jour for the ostrich brigade in various legislatures.

Of course, while the Hansens of the world were publishing in the scientific literature, the Michaels of the world were publishing such tripe as «Meltdown», «The Satanic Gases», «Taken by Storm» as well as being constantly marketed to newspapers for op eds as scientific authorities on climate, and of course serving as the justification du jour for the ostrich brigade in various legislatures.

First Climate has long - standing experience in providing strategic consulting and operational support to authorities on climate topics.

They are not even acting like scientists in this, more like ecclesiastical authorities on the climate consensus.

Several leading authorities on climate change have given a guarded welcome to research suggesting the Earth may warm more slowly than scientists had expected.

Recently I asked some authorities on climate change: «what is the most effective way of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions?»

The logical fallacy comes in when you realize that none of the astronauts are qualified to be authorities on climate modeling, since none of the ones you showed have likely ever performed climate modeling.

Your breadth of knowledge and your influence on global climate change policy may make you one of the most respected global authorities on climate science - policy interface in the not too distant future.

Not exact matches

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, but with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.

In other words, the authorities are already aware that the principled grounds of their restrictions have been compromised by the changes in the climate of opinion that have swept away the moral inhibitions on couples living together outside of marriage.

Abbott has also introduced legislation into parliament to axe Labor's Climate Change Authority, which advises the government on emissions - reduction targets, and to repeal its tax on carbon pricing.

Well, I've long felt that as someone who is intimately familiar with the culture and climate of Christian parenting, Gary Ezzo exploits the fears of many Christian parents by portraying families who don't follow Babywise as families where the children usurp the authority of the parents and bring shame on them with their selfish, demanding behaviors.

Rep. Chris Gibson is taking heat from environmentalists for supporting a House measure that would block the EPA's authority to enforce climate change rules on coal - fired power plant emissions.

Erie County is developing a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations with funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) which is expected to not only reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions but also save the County on energy costs.

He said: «Ministers need to make less speeches on climate change and do more to enable individuals, local authorities, house builders and power suppliers to maximise their contribution to emissions reduction as quickly as possible.»

«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.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

The Climate Change Authority's recommendations are based on this target.

Australia's Climate Change Authority is a panel created in 2012 to provide expert advice on mitigation initiatives.

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water AutClimate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Autclimate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

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.

Under Obama the CEQ is moving forward with plans formulated during his predecessor's tenure for a U.S. policy on oceans — from newly protected areas to reconciling competing authorities and laws — along with continuing the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate as a way to address global greenhouse gas emissions.

Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical on climate change, «Laudato si»,» sought to leverage the pontiff's moral authority and draw attention to climate change as a global issue that disproportionately harms the poor.

On the other hand, if the administration assumes Congress is not likely to act and any further climate action will require more executive authority, that raises the question of whether the White House can reasonably squeeze deeper cuts out of EPA regulations and other unilateral measures.