Sentences with phrase «because climate and energy policy»

He pointed to the United Kingdom, where long - term investments in power generation have stalled because climate and energy policy keeps changing «week to week.»

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But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&renergy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&rEnergy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

After all, the authors of that letter are all climate scientists, and a critical analysis of their arguments might help to reinforce why RealClimate is wisely NOT a place for «debating» energy policy — at least in part because that's not a field to which climate scientists bring any particular expertise.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

Because the scale of the climate challenge is so large, energy innovations must be paired with bold policy initiatives designed to accelerate the deployment of new technology and to reduce its cost.

Lawson: Well, look, the point is not, just the costs — although we do have in this country, in England, one of the highest energy costs in the world, which is very hard on the poor and hard on business and industry, which is because of our absurd climate - driven energy policy.

It is because of such complications that the National Commission on Energy Policy concluded in its December, 2004, report «Ending The Energy Stalemate» («ETES») that «hydrogen offers little to no potential to improve oil security and reduce climate change risks in the next twenty years.»

The fight over clean energy and climate policy in California is dripping with out - of - state oil money because the oil billionaires want to stamp out the progress that has been made to move toward clean energy and energy efficiency, and keep us addicted to their fossil fuels.

But climate and energy policies were not just drafted in spite of public opinion; there is another sense of «because of», which makes public opinion a driver of them.

This puppy doesn't know who to vote for because lines of democratic accountability have been obscured.The filibuster stands today as the single most important impediment to the significant reforms needed in America's climate / energy policies, its immigration policies, its labor law policies, and its need for a functioning judiciary.

These cases are of particular relevance to energy and climate change policy because each of these sectors is expected to be a major driver of future energy demand and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.

In an e-mail to the Carbon Tax Center yesterday, American climatologist and climate campaigner James Hansen said, «The important thing is to get on the right policy track at the beginning — the policy must attack the fundamental problem, that dirty fossil fuels are the cheapest energy because they are not made to pay their costs to society.»

Ebell: «Yes, I do, and I think that the campaign that we've just witnessed in the United States is interesting because it's the first presidential campaign that we've had where both candidates, Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump, campaigned on climate policy and on energy policy and put forward very different views.

Because climate modeling has produced such fantastic and accurate results, at bargain basement rate $, and has been a godsend for setting energy, transportation policy and dietary guidance.

She is interested in energy efficiency policy because efficiency improvements are often identified as an important and politically feasible step for reducing the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change.

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use «compared to the counterfactual scenario in which climate change and energy policies do not have an impact on energy bills, on average, domestic energy bills will be 1 % higher in 2020.»

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use

In other words, on in every 23,124 people in the UK died last year, because of fuel poverty, caused by the UK's climate change and energy policies.