Sentences with phrase «by climate change campaigners»

«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

The move, announced today, has been widely welcomed by climate change campaigners.

Not exact matches

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

A large protest against climate change due to coincide with the Paris talks last month was banned by police, leading thousands of campaigners to symbolically leave their shoes along the route it would have taken.

In an announcement viewed by green campaigners as a key test of the coalition's credentials on the environment, the energy and climate change secretary told MPs progress would be reviewed before the end of the parliament.

Climate change campaigners begged both Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband to make arrangements for the energy secretary to remain, because of the vital role he had been given by the Mexican hosts in leading discussions on the fate of the earlier Kyoto Protocol.

Now that President Obama and other heads of state have left Paris after a round of announcements and events, thousands of diplomats and functionaries — pestered by lobbyists, campaigners and journalists — are getting on with the grunt work of the 21st Conference of the Parties, which is aiming to improve on the ineffectual 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and replace a problematic subsequent agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.

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Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Guy Shrubsole said the record rainfall and repeated flooding in December were a sign of changing climate and highlighted the need for greater action by the government.

«If the case for tackling climate change is backed by science, why do so many green campaigners rely on the language of religion?

Bill McKibben, a high - profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: «For scientists, conservative by nature, to use «serious, pervasive, and irreversible» to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.»

Lord Stern, author of the government - commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more «blunt» about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures.

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Jan Kowalzig, Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The poorest of the poor are hit first and hardest by the impacts of climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The poorest of the poor are hit first and hardest by the impacts of climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the crisis.

Perhaps this is no surprise, because as George Monbiot and others have shown, the methods used by campaigners on nuclear bear all the hallmarks of the methods used by anti-science climate change «deniers».

The story has been picked up by the Daily Mail today, with the headline «Leading climate change group used Greenpeace campaigner to write «impartial» report on renewable energy».

Later that year, the then Director of the Tyndall Centre, Professor Mike Hulme warned that the language being used — not just by the media, but also by politicians, campaigners, and scientists — in the discussion around climate change was increasingly removed from anything scientific, and was likely to encourage people to switch off:

Friends of the Earth International Climate Change campaigner Yuri Onodera said: «We have already seen many empty promises by G8 leaders over the past years but there has not been much real action, so we urge G8 leaders to act now and cut their greenhouse gas emissions drastically and immediately.»