Sentences with phrase «back on climate change issues»

With Trump turning his back on climate change issues, philanthropists and big companies stepped up to tackle the problem.

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As a result of these back - to - back meetings, India and the U.S. are moving ahead on a whole range of issues, including regional security, defence, nuclear power, smart cities, and even climate change.

The labor - backed party also would like to see Cuomo do more on criminal justice reform and to address climate change, though Lipton allowed he has made «significant strides» on those issues.

On some key issues, New York voters overwhelmingly (by more than three to one) back a party to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and also believe that climate change is a significant threat to the planet.

«On issues such as Europe, the integrity of the United Kingdom, climate change, human rights and the spread of the low - wage economy, he has been content to lead the Tories back towards their nastiest and most Thatcherite comfort zones.

As the papal plane prepared to cross over Hurricane Irma's path on its way back to Rome from Cartagena, Francis issued a stern warning to climate change deniers.

Thumbnail of the 8/31/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Help for Houston Tweet of the week: A terrible teachable moment on climate change https://tinyurl.com/ybo4wf2n #HelpforHouston PAA News: Don't miss Public School Shakedown's back - to - school special.

On this particular issue of climate change, the Times will have to shift, in my view, from the normal journalistic paradigm (e.g., try to give equal coverage to both «sides» of a story; communicate stories in a muted way by avoiding most words that convey passion and weight; rotate the news so that even important topics only see the front page once in awhile; keep views to the back pages; avoid upsetting big advertisers too much; and so forth) to what might be called a «wisdom paradigm» (face problems, understand problems, communicate your views loudly and up front, address problems, and so forth).

If they can find other less worrisome activities and sources of entertainment to focus on, issues like climate change, the uninsured, the Iraq war, etc. will take a back seat, considered interesting but remote news at best.

Here's a story we all now know well: A small number of groups backed by the fossil fuel industry have for decades shed doubt on the science of climate change, even as the actual scientific community consensus on the issue — that greenhouse gas pollution posed a significant threat to our climate — remained strong and continued to grow stronger.

Back in 2006, he edited a special issue on responses to climate change and, like most such efforts, the articles were narrowly focused on showcasing exciting low - carbon technologies.

As scientists solidify the links between climate change and health issues like tropical ailments that infect Americans on the backs of whipping winds and warming ocean tides, top medical associations are becoming a high - profile lobbying force for climate regulations.

I talked to Elliot Diringer, who works on international climate issues at the Pew Center for Global Climate Change in Washington, after getting back to the presclimate issues at the Pew Center for Global Climate Change in Washington, after getting back to the presClimate Change in Washington, after getting back to the press room.

So that brings me back to being a «consumer» of the case that you present — as a «bridge builder» between imperfect but sound science on both sides of the climate change issue.

Let's time travel back to August 2010 when the InterAcademy Council issued its damning report about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Worrying about climate change should be put on the back burner until this more existential issue is resolved.

The issue dates back to August 2017, and comments he made on television promoting the book I edited last year — Climate Change: The Facts 2017.

The deal arrives days after dozens of scientists, backed by the United Nations, issued a sweeping review of the latest research that says climate change is already affecting life on every continent and in the oceans, and the window is closing rapidly for governments to avert the worst damage expected to occur this century.

I can go back & check, but I'm pretty sure the last time I collected data on this issue (probably 2009 or so), the connection between «scientific consnesus» & «belief in climate change was much much stronger.

«Instead of organizing meetings with free and open debates on the basic physics and the likelihood of AGW induced climate changes, the leaders of the society (with the backing of the society's AGW enthusiasts) have chosen to fully trust the climate models and deliberately avoid open debate on this issue.

I can go back & check, but I'm pretty sure the last time I collected data on this issue (probably 2009 or so), the connection between «scientific consensus» & «belief in climate change was much much stronger.

It goes back to the even broader issue that even so called «experts» latch on to the sensible tropospheric heat as the best metric and miss a much more accurate perspective on climate change as an energy (in all forms and in all spheres) imbalance issue.

Lynas pushed back on this, arguing that climate change denialism is a political phenomenon that is partly a reaction to the capture of the climate change issue by the Left and the «insistence that only anti-capitalist approaches are viable solutions.»

With healthcare reform a pressing and contentious issue in Washington, it appears climate change legislation has been put on the back - burner for the moment.

During a press briefing today, Ambassador Yu Qingtai, China's Special Representative on Climate Change Negotiations from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reiterated China's stance on the MRV issue, pointing back to the Bali Action Plan and stressing that China will not agree to anything beyond the Bali Action Plan.