Sentences with phrase «bearing on climate change policy»

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But as this is not the case, the conclusions have little bearing on policy debates on the severity of climate change risks from multiple exposure pathways.

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prClimate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

2008 will be very busy both for business and policy - makers and much of what happens this year will have a strong bearing on the future, especially as concerns climate change.

«Climate - Change Policies Can Be Punishing for the Poor,» an article by Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal, suggests that climate policies «bear an unfair burden» on «the rich world's energy poor.Climate - Change Policies Can Be Punishing for the Poor,» an article by Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal, suggests that climate policies «bear an unfair burden» on «the rich world's energy poorPolicies Can Be Punishing for the Poor,» an article by Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal, suggests that climate policies «bear an unfair burden» on «the rich world's energy poor.climate policies «bear an unfair burden» on «the rich world's energy poorpolicies «bear an unfair burden» on «the rich world's energy poor.»

Therefore, it is important to bear in mind that these analyses overestimate the policy impact on the economy as compared to a realistic BAU scenario in which climate change impacts the economy.

I judge that it is more important in the case of climate science and its bearing on climate policy to understand these limitations than to be able to change the peer review process in a major way.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

On top of paying a bit to implement climate policy, the world is going to have to bear the cost of climate change that is already locked in due to greenhouse gases that have already been emitted, the IPCC says.

In her description of the science, the former prime minister draws heavily on a pamphlet called A plain English guide to climate change which was published in December 1997 by the Reason Foundation, another lobby group that the following year received $ 70,000 from Exxon to «assess public policy alternatives on issues with direct bearing on the company's business operations and interests».»

The March 20th -26 th cover story of The Economist, «Spin, science and climate change,» deftly bypasses the politics surrounding «climategate», to tackle the more important issue: whether any of this has any bearing on climate change science and policy.