Sentences with phrase «broader issues of climate»

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

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«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

Before industry can impact climate issues and cultivate an internationally competitive clean - tech sector, the investment has to be much broader and profound, said Salman Khan, development and strategy director for the environment division of Intertek, an international testing company that helps companies assess their green policies.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) has issued a «broad» subpoena dealing with «our assessment of climate change,» Cohen said.

While security issues from Iran to Syria dominated the three - hour hearing, Kerry also wove climate, food security and competition for scarce resources into a broad new narrative of diplomacy.

But the broader issue is the need to increase the public credibility of climate science.

In turning to a methodological issue, the new archaeological horizons in the Monte Verde area are difficult to trace laterally over areas larger than ~ 8 — 10 m2 and probably represent only fragments of a broader landscape utilized by people adapting to changing climates and environments in the area.

Numeracy and literacy skills are vitally important but we also want school students to be active participants in society and have a broad understand of issues such as climate change and other things that could affect their life after school.

The initiative is considering a broad range of issues including school choice, racial equity, and school culture and climate.

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

Because of the vast academic requirements placed on schools, and teachers in particular, many educators feel like they simply don't have the time to involve students deeply in their own learning, let alone in the broader issues of their school — like climate, governance, or policy.

She delves deeply into broad issues like climate change in a way that is both eloquent and pared down, pushing viewers to extend their own process of thought and interpretation, and allowing them to feel their way through each gesture of weaving, tufting, encasing, and assembling in her material process.

The event is part of a broader programme bringing together artists and specialists to consider current issues related to climate change and alarmism.

In the context of 2016, (Re) Public celebrates the self - determination and agency of the country while tackling contemporary issues in Ireland which have broader resonance globally, these include: — hidden histories of state institutional abuse (Nolan) community identity in post conflict rural border regions (North 55), issues relating to natural cycles in time, climate change and its global effects (Softday), the individual's struggle for autonomy within the field of mental health (Tighe), the importance of creative autonomy and independence for the right to self - expression in movement and dance (Donnellan) and strategies of resistance that include artistic intervention, self - organization, and collectivism (Morley).

Media coverage so far has focused on the prospect of the Trump administration killing off NASA's research on climate change, but the issues are much broader.

Comment 12 conflated my request about actually seeing the specific WSJ article in question with the obviously germane broader issue of «WSJ coverage of climate issues generally,» which was of course a part of why anyone cared about the article in question in the first place.

As with so many issues, including climate, Obama is clearly weighing a broad range of costs and benefits, both political and environmental, in every move.

i feel that sometimes there is confusion between «climate science» and «the issue of climate change» (a much broader concept that includes climate science, societal values, international AND domestic policy, economics, etc. etc.).

Andy also says the fight over Keystone XL is a «distraction from the core issues» of broader climate policy.

There is a even broader issue of how public discourse on a whole spectrum of issues, including climate, is being purposely polluted by propaganda and demagoguery.

There's more below on the broader question of what the media can, and can't, do to galvanize a response to the interwoven issues of climate and energy.

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.

Lets abandon the scientific consensus seeking approach in favor of open debate and discussion of a broad range of policy options that stimulate local and regional solutions to the multifaceted and interrelated issues surrounding climate change.

Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.

A broad array of leading climate scientists and policy specialists were also criticizing the panel for the exact opposite reason: They believe the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too general and too conservative to convey a clear message about the grave threat of warming and to inform policies to address local climate change climate scientists and policy specialists were also criticizing the panel for the exact opposite reason: They believe the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too general and too conservative to convey a clear message about the grave threat of warming and to inform policies to address local climate change Climate Change (IPCC) may be too general and too conservative to convey a clear message about the grave threat of warming and to inform policies to address local climate change climate change issues.

My view is that the broad statement «AGW is true» and the related related null hypothesis «AGW doesn't exist» are not part of good scientific discussion, because the issue is not an independent scientific theory or hypothesis, but a side result of climate science.

I ask myself questions and struggle with this issue, and I think about the issue a lot in terms of my own personal behavior, institutions, and the broader climate community.

The impact of climate variability and change on food security therefore can not be considered independently of the broader issue of human security (O'Brien, 2006).

Despite many of the broad issues around climate equity being well known1, well - funded global mechanisms that are being implemented still do not exist.

This technical document aims to determine, when it comes to the issue of a changing climate, precisely what the types of information input are that financial institutions require to put their risk management expertise at the service of broader adaptation and to provide a first assessment of the current provision to the sector with such information.

So the issues are very much broader than the trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars which the states are being forced to devote to the misguided effort to tear down fossil fuel plants and replace them with much more expensive and much less reliable wind and solar plants which will have no measurable impact on climate or anything else other than the profits of the solar / wind industries.

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

But you * do * keep addressing the issue as if what sort of attitude one shoudl adopt about the self - government project I'm talking about in Fla were somehow an extensio nof the debate about «climate change models» & «climate change science» in some broader sense.

* 3 Mark McDonald (Sustainable Australia) platform includes: Our party policies recognise that climate change is an urgent issue and outline a broad suite of policies to address it.

But because Katharine, in addition of being an outstanding climate scientist, is a person of deep faith and she has really done some amazing stuff to reach out to some unconventional audiences to start fostering a broader coalition around this issue.

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

It addresses key issues concerning climate change in the broader context of global change and focusses on moving from present knowledge to future solutions.

Two days ago, I wrote that for me the real issue in the upcoming Mann vs Steyn trial is not so much my own personal freedom of speech but the broader freedom to speak given «the climate of fear that Mann and his fellow ayatollahs of alarmism have succeeded in imposing on an important scientific field»:

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The central issues of climate change and oil decline are so broad and complex that both science and advocacy fall victim to the recency effect.

Yet who despite lack of relevant expertise, do not welcome the appraisal of experts — and on this topic the experts are those scientists in directly related fields who professionally study this issue — but often, at least with the more general anti climate change efforts that have massively skewed the «discussion,» in fact often expend a great deal of effort to find any possible fault, real or imagined with anything they assert, then erroneously turn that into a refutation of the broader issue, along with, often, denigrating climate science efforts, and often climate scientists.

Yet the administration has taken a cautious and rather passive role on the issue, proclaiming broad goals while remaining aloof from details of climate legislation now in Congress.

Judith writes: «Relative to the broader issue of attribution, which are at the heart of skeptical concern, details of the surface temperature record don't play a terribly large role in most people's skepticism about climate change.»

As policymakers are concerned with the broader issues of SD, it is important to reflect on how climate risks and policies fit in the general outlook.

«Perhaps the most important function of climate science on an issue of broad interest like global warming is to help educate the public and to provide useful input into the policy process.

In an excerpt broadcast on radio national's The Science Show, Goldacre explains why he thinks the show's format is questionable and how, as part of the broader treatment of the climate change issue in mainstream media, it is a «gift» for the likes of Minchin.

Back to the broader issue of whether climate models have been disproved, though: the questions I've just written about are all about how climate change affects hurricanes, and not about the basic fact of human - induced climate change itself.

The USGCRP is mandated by Congress to issue a national climate assessment every four years to evaluate the state of climate science and the broad range of impacts of climate change in the United States.

In a statement, Mr. Boehlert, who is retiring at the end of the year, expressed satisfaction with the results, saying, «There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change — which doesn't rest primarily on these temperature issues, in any event — or any doubts about whether any paper on the temperature records was legitimate scientific work.»