Sentences with phrase «big issues of climate»

But that fear and mistrust may be limiting our options for tackling the big issues of climate change and declining natural resources.

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The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

Big investors including State Street and BlackRock, which together hold about 9 percent of Exxon shares, recently have made clear they are now giving more attention to climate issues.

To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.

Or you could take a stake in a firm that plays a big role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.

And he maintained it was still tackling the two «big issues» of the time, namely child poverty and climate change.

The «nitty - gritty» of how patents are developed and then protected is a big issue when it comes to the role technology can play in the future of energy security and climate change policy, for example.

Fiscal climate, possibly the biggest issue, is tougher to gauge: The February Siena survey showed 48 percent of New Yorkers say the state is on the «right track,» up considerably from before Cuomo took office but down a bit from last year.

«Indeed from my vantage point the direction he gave me about wanting me to use the diplomatic channels to pursue issues like climate changes was absolutely clear and is part of a much bigger picture.»

CLIMATE CHANGE • Torrential rainstorms that flooded northern California in late November and early December are a warning to the government and scientists of a bigger issue: the potential arrival of a megastorm.

Submissions for the competition tackled most of the big - ticket issues, including energy and water consumption, poverty and climate change.

In my main area of research, climate science, the big issue is energy.

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.

But it comes on the heels of «a series of commitments» by big corporations to deal with environmental and social issues, says Glenn Hurowitz, managing director of Climate Advisers, a Washington, D.C. - based consulting firm.

The jump accounts for the single biggest change among all voting groups, and it could symbolize a softening among conservatives on an issue that has sharply divided the political parties, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Other renowned authors have drawn together powerful analyses of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a few.

I've been in the automotive industry for over 25 years and the Hyundai has come a loooong way since its inception when i test drove this car i was totally impressed and bought my baby and i'm glad i did I'm a big guy and find it a little cramped on long drives which i do daily the winshield post kind of creates a blind spot the drivers seat could be repositioned needs more leg room the outside mirrors should also be collasable it has great back seat space and plenty of trunk space it drives incredibly well very smooth love the power of v - 6 it seems to have some shifting issues not smooth all times the sound system is great love the heated seats the climate control system lacks some

AR: You're right, and I've written two book chapters on hurdles preventing effective media coverage of climate and related complex environmental issues — and one of the big ones is the importance of not overplaying the «hot» material and forgetting the real complexities, e.g., polar bears are not going extinct.

We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

Because this is fundamentally an economic issue, I expect people like Larry Summers to play critical roles in shaping Obama's energy and climate strategy — perhaps bigger roles than most if not all of those on the energy / environment team.

This article is an excellent summary of some of the issues involved in climate change, but like the UNFCCCC negotiations, the discussants in Paris seem to ignore the big elephant in the room: energy use.

And crucially, churches in the U.S. have just begun to take up this issue in big numbers, which they see as a moral issue of not just protecting God's Creation, but also not inflicting direct harm on helpless people around the world.A new coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, and churches have been pivotal in changing the momentum for the new «Climate Security Act» co-sponsored by Senator John Warner.

By the time we got to Copenhagen there were people who had mobilised in every country on the issue of climate change, where the biggest successes involved people just going out into communities and talking to each village by village, or college by college.

The new and legitimate issues raised over this energy report are particularly important as a test of the climate panel's readiness to live up to its new pledge to be responsive to criticism as it prepares to release a report on climate and disasters later this year and then its far bigger suite of assessments coming in 2013 and 2014.

In this video, Stott raises the big issue of «cosmic rays» and its contribution to climate change, but then backs off and says he didn't say it was causing global warming and that it's just a «hot topic» of research.

The main reason I cover climate change issues so relentlessly is because any meaningful solution to this problem will cost big bucks and the current economic environment will not allow us to spend that kind of money.

by Deborah McNamara on April 9, 2015 0 dealing with climate change how climate intersects with all environmental issues how to take action when the issue of climate is so big?

Updated, Nov. 25, 10:41 a.m. Ruth Teichroeb, the communications officer for Oceans North: Protecting Life in the Arctic, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, sent a note this evening about new steps related to an issue I've covered here before — the rare and welcome proactive work by Arctic nations to ban fishing in the central Arctic Ocean ahead of the «big melt» as summer sea ice retreats more in summers in a human - heated climate.

Big issues separate large blocs of countries, including the necessary level of cuts in emissions of industrial powers and the amount of money that would flow from rich to poor nations to help them withstand climate hazards and move to cleaner energy sources.

3) One other hard reality, hidden by squabbles over which side wielded a bigger portion of its giant war chest, alliances and person - hours toward climate victory or defeat, is that the issue has never had the salience that would be required to get anywhere near 60 votes in the Senate, let alone a simple majority.

It's hard, because those of us concerned about the climate problem need a certain unity and solidarity, and focus on the big issues as you say.

(He's skipping the conference despite taking direct heat in a YouTube message to Rio from Senator James Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma and steadfast ally of big coal, and indirect heat from Senator John Kerry, the Democrat of Massachusetts who gave a long floor speech on global warming and the Rio meeting yesterday, decrying «the conspiracy of silence that now characterizes Washington's handling of the climate issue.»)

There are no big surprises in the voluminous reports, but they do provide a great guide to both the scientific and societal issues attending using «climate interventions» — the reports» phrase for geoengineering techniques — to counter humanity's continuing intervention: the release of tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide a year.

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).

Your reading of my work as neutral on the question of anthropogenic climate change — and the need for a big response / / j.mp / eQuest — is so divorced from reality that it's hard to believe you read anything I write, or have written, in covering this issue since the mid 1980s.

I was hoping that the book would be accessible to a pretty broad range of readers because I really wanted to use my personal story as sort of this reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change, to talk about the bigger issues, the reality of the problem, the threat that it represents, the need to have a good faith discussion about what to do about it.

To me, climate change is the biggest threat facing our planet today, connecting issues of national security, human health, economic development, and environmental justice.

Kortenhorst: About nine years ago I decided that climate change is the biggest issue that we face as humanity, and that I would dedicate my life to trying to make sure that the planet we have enjoyed will be enjoyed the same way by the generation of my children and grandchildren.

If you extend the definition of «climate related» to include the political response then Sandy is the biggest story simply because any single event that erodes US complacency on the issue is, by definition, a big deal.

«Climate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» OlsoClimate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olsoclimate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olson said.

«The change of phase from snow and ice to water is the biggest tipping point in the Earth's system and so, although International Polar Year covers a huge range of science, for me the big issue is climate change and the impact that it's having here,» said Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, in a video message from Antarctica.

And then you have the bigger issue of a saturated media landscape with cable channels expressing only one point of view, heavily slanted toward providing misinformation about climate change.

Asia Sentinel: The world faces another 17 years of potentially growing emissions from China's industries Despite having become the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases nearly two years ago, China is at least another 17 years away from peak emissions, according to a new report by the HSBC Climate Change Team, issued late last year.

In an email, Myles R. Allen, a climate scientist and policy analyst at Oxford University, said Trump's decision hinted at a bigger issue, simmering well beyond the United States, that would continue to hinder progress — the enduring abundance of, and demand for, fossil fuels:

This is a big issue with the advocacy surrounding climate... the misuse of English words to imply something that they are not, and they are pet peeves of many a skeptic.

To get back to the topic under discussion — surely the big issue with global climate time series is how temperature is related to atmospheric CO2 concentration since this relationship is the core of the AGW theory.

Accountants, engineers, geologists and medicos do it all the time but these venal climate low life want to avoid the same ethical standards for what they claim is the biggest issue of all time.

«As we are all vulnerable to climate change, we have shared experiences about facing the same issue and we have the same dedication to fighting climate change, to make a big difference for women» said Chrisda Kaeti, of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Kiribati at one of the gender events in Bonn.

The only way to ensure support that can span a career is to have some major issue — like climate disaster or the existence of the Higgs boson — that has enough «crowd appeal» to have a chance for multidecadal big science funding, at which point it grows coattails that reach far and wide.