Sentences with phrase «battle over climate»

One of the world's largest oil producers is about to enter a tit - for - tat battle over climate change with government officials from multiple states.

We're largely in agreement (except really when has the battle over climate change ever not been firmly dominated by the same hands that dominate it now?)

Australian Professor of Ethics Clive Hamilton recognized this some time ago when he issued a call for environmental radicalism and noted that the future battle over climate change will not be a place for the faint - hearted.

That is, if you will, the populist episteme and it's scarcely limited either to America or the delusionals in the battle over climate policy.

My guess is there've been few lessons learned out of coverage of the international climate treaty negotiations and the domestic battle over climate legislation.

As time passes, more information on the strange bedfellow flow of massive funding to the environmental movement in the legislative and policy battle over climate change continues to emerge.

That some climate scientists are playing games in their research, perhaps to get media attention in the larger battle over climate politics, is no longer a surprise.

While reporting a story at the time on the intensifying battle over climate attitudes, between those trying to convince the public to embrace cuts in greenhouse gases and those fighting such a move, I interviewed David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who said the group was eagerly seeking such photos.

«NOAA has an incredibly important part to play in the ongoing battle over climate science,» says Rosenberg.

The long - planned pipeline has become a symbol both of Canada's efforts to get land - locked bitumen to international markets and a flashpoint in the battle over climate change.

California's government agency responsible for maintaining healthy air quality voted on Friday to adopt stricter emissions standards for automobiles, essentially daring President Donald Trump to confront the state in a legal battle over climate change.

Not exact matches

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

It's a new look for Democratic state prosecutors, but it's hardly a novel idea: The Democrats» strategy is borne in part of a calculated decision to coordinate closely and emulate the way their Republican counterparts relentlessly battled the Obama administration over climate regulations, Obamacare and more.

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

What the election of so many climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party, climate change is an issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.

Osprey Lake of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) in the United States, where the battle over the Keystone XL Pipeline and the development of the Alberta Tar Sands is raging, addressed the failure of the COP to deal with the central point of ending fossil fuel extraction: «With the COP taking place in Peru, it is the first time a UNFCCC meeting was held in an Amazon country.

The one thing everyone knows about Texas is the Battle of the Alamo, but most of Texas history occurred before the Alamo, before the Anglo colonists arrived; it was the history of the native peoples who lived there over the course of 14,000 years, some of whom left huge, magnificent cosmological murals in rock shelters along the Pecos River before they moved on as the climate changed and water disappeared.

What I'm arguing is that the idea that we can win the climate fight without engaging in ideological battle over these core questions about the role of government has always been a fantasy.

«There will be a big battle over just about everything with this,» said Dan Weiss, climate strategy director at the Center for American Progress, a policy group in Washington that advises Democrats.

In nearly 100 pages, he explores who had the biggest advantage — in money and media spin — in the fight over a cap - and - trade climate bill, along with cultural issues, like the deep liberal tilt among scientists, that flavor how such battles are waged.

So the pipeline itself is really just a skirmish in the battle to protect climate, and if the pipeline gets built despite Bill McKibben's dedicated army of protesters, that does not mean in and of itself that it's «game over» for holding warming to 2C.

The Climate Reality Project, a group overseen by Al Gore, is trying to win over public opinion by getting people to spread accurate global warming science in the comment sections of news stories online, where the battle rages with particular ferocity.

I'll be writing more on the fight over climate policy this weekend, which devolves to a battle over costs and benefits using economic models and projections that make climate simulations look like they were high - resolution photographs.

California headed for a high - stakes battle over global warming Tuesday, as an oil industry - backed measure to suspend the state's aggressive climate - change law qualified for the November ballot.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

It's the end of the line for the Keystone pipeline (probably), but not for battles over tar sands and climate.

A powerful but unpredictable force is rising in the battle over the future of the climate.

There are similar battles being waged over climate education right now in Texas and Oklahoma.

This option also avoids or at least defers the politically - fraught battle over which biofuels are truly beneficial to climate and avoids the complexity of calibrating a carbon tax to fit the estimated lifecycle emissions of different biofuels, as discussed in option 3, below.

Roger Pielke Jr., never one to shy away from a battle, believes that Dubner and his co-author Steven Levitt have indeed been critized by Joe Romm over at Climate Progress.

As I've argued several times, the battle over coal - export terminals in the Pacific Northwest is the key U.S. climate fight of the next few years.

With carbon, climate and COP 15 in the news, Google and Microsoft are now battling over carbon mindshare, introducing the latest web - based «Carbonware» designed to help combat carbon emissions and global warming.

New Mexico's Public Education Department (PED) did a disservice to New Mexico's students, and the taxpayers who fund schools, last week when it caved in to climate extremists in the battle over how to teach climate science in the state's schools.

As leaders of the industrialized world continue to squabble at home over how to address the threat of climate change — and even as they battle internal factions who don't believe the science of climate change — one group of leaders has come out in favor of swift, comprehensive action to prevent global catastrophe.

In an interview in La Jolla, Dr. Keeling's widow, Louise, said that if her husband had lived to see the hardening of the political battle lines over climate change, he would have been dismayed.

Correspondent America Ferrera profiles prominent climate skeptic James Taylor as he crusades against clean energy, and investigates the battle over the future of renewable energy.

A years - long battle over whether Idaho would require its science teachers to teach about global warming was resolved Thursday when the State Senate education committee voted to adopt standards that included sections on human - caused climate change.

... as early as 1991, says Ross Gelbspan, a retired journalist and the author of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, the energy industry used the media as its mouthpiece for conveying uncertainty.

, many followers of the climate debate are aware of intense battles over 0.1 or 0.2 degree (consider the satellite battles.)

Landlocked areas may also be affected; some experts call the Darfur region of Sudan, where nomads battle villagers in a war over shrinking natural resources, the first significant conflict linked to climate change.

In particular, Obama's other high level picks suggest there may be serious impending battles in the White House over climate policy.

TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has become a litmus test in the U.S. battle over energy policy, as the environmental movement looks for reassurance that President Barack Obama is committed to combatting climate change.

I experienced several examples of the battle between «hard» and «soft» climate over the years and Burnett's essay illustrates it continues.

This is correct that Obama's other high level picks suggest there may be serious impending battles in the White House over climate policy.

Rather than attempting to please every left constituency, Bauman believes, climate policy should sidestep perennial battles over, say, the size of government.

Though they have played out on a fairly small stage, with relatively little national notice, the struggles over climate policy in Washington presage larger national battles.

Inslee is optimistic and eager, having left his longstanding position as a US Congressman to do more good (he hopes) and battle climate change (rather than arguing with Republicans over its existence).

Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s — years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.

PARIS, 11 December, 2015 — Offers of help to the developing countries to battle climate change have been falling out of the sky over Paris in recent days.

The lobbying battle over the EU 2030 climate and energy will keep unfolding over the coming months, extending to a new Parliament and a new Commission and it is crucial that Europe's decision - makers set the goals for the continent according to what science requires and to the principles of climate justice, and not to the wishes of big business.»