Sentences with phrase «by some climate campaigners»

To press the case for action, the Obama administration is intensifying a rhetorical shift that's been pushed by climate campaigners for several years — from carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas emissions to «carbon pollution.»

First, I will not retract the post I wrote on Gleick's confession, as demanded by climate campaigner Joe Romm in a piece yesterday on Heartland, Gleick and me.

Katherine Bagley has filed a thorough, interesting piece for InsideClimate News examining efforts by climate campaigners to build their online presence through more engagement in comments on articles or blog posts on global warming.

The concept, while highlighted by climate campaigners, was challenged on two levels — one on technical points about the number of wedges of avoided carbon dioxide that would be needed by mid-century and the other on the broader interpretation (which was never in the work originally) that this meant the challenge of limiting warming was not that hard.

The need for a research boost was long played down by climate campaigners.

Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has long been pummeled by climate campaigners for pointing out the primacy of economic conditions over climate concerns through his «iron law of climate policy.»

Earlier this month, Clinton was heckled by climate campaigners at a New Hampshire town hall - style meeting for a clear (and in my opinion, condescending) response in which she refused to oppose oil drilling on public lands.

This episode illustrates the growing level of interest in a study that will be analysed closely by climate campaigners and sceptics, and will be used by politicians to justify future policies.

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.

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

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

Mr. McCain is clearly trying to woo independents by rejecting the hotter climate - as - calamity and climate - as - hoax messages of the campaigners or lobbyists most aggressively pushing and fighting prompt, big cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions.

Here a tweet by Michael E. Mann, the Penn State climate scientist and author, of a piece by Gates's most persistent critic, Joe Romm, a physicist, former Energy Department official and climate campaigner:

Instead, you'll see something in between the world sought by «climate hawks,» the term proposed by David Roberts of Grist as the label for aggressive campaigners pursuing policies that live up to the picture delineated by science, and the contrasting world of free marketeers and industrialists who speak breezily of climate uncertainty as a reason to relax and let spreading wealth give people the leisure to start to care for the environment and the money and technology to do something to clean it up.

Dr. Somerville was on the team attacking that premise, but he offered a definition of the word «crisis» that was very different than those used by many climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore.

A question for climate campaigners opposed to geo - engineering (by any name): Why not at least explore (and test on reasonable scales) such options.

That's why I see little merit in descriptions of the reinstatement as an exoneration — a word used by Michael E. Mann, a Pennsylvania State University * climate scientist who, like Gleick, has become a prominent campaigner for action on curbing greenhouse gases.

Since October, an apocalyptic message has been making the rounds of anti-nuclear blogs, crystallized in this headline on a post by longtime anti-nuclear campaigner Harvey Wasserman: «Dear Climate Scientists, Please Note the Global Terror at Fukushima Four.»

Traveling in from Appalachia, Brazil, London, and ranging from arrested labor justice campaigners to U.N. climate negotiations youth organizers and a Deutsche Bank analyst, 140 students and young people gathered at the «Transition to a New Economy Conference,» which was an effort to create holistic alternatives to the current economic system — a discourse cracked open by Occupy Wall Street.

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

Updated, 4:54 p.m. «If You See Something, Say Something,» is the headline on a Sunday Op - Ed article by Michael E. Mann, the Penn State climate scientist who, after years of attacks from groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases, has become a prominent climate and political campaigner, as well.

Climate campaigners seem to think they have a winner with this takedown of elected officials who reject global warming science, in which fake news reports talk of the turmoil and tragedy created by Hurricane Marco Rubio, Hurricane James Inhofe, Hurricane John Boehner and more.

In the action, more than 1,200 campaigners, scientists (including NASA's Jim Hansen), students and other concerned citizens — mainly brought there by the project's climate impacts — sat down and waited for handcuffs:

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senate.

John Dudley Miller, a former nuclear engineering officer in the Navy with a doctorate in social psychology and a long career in journalism, sent this «Your Dot» critique of «Pandora's Promise,» the new documentary defending nuclear power, and the more recent videotaped discussion of nuclear energy by the climate scientist and campaigner James E. Hansen [Updated, 12:27 p.m. Hansen has responded below.]

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.

I was also impressed by how the climate campaigners at E.D.F., for example, respond to setbacks like the Lieberman - Warner debacle in the summer of 2008.

This was one point made by the climate communicator and campaigner George Marshall here earlier this week.

The Washington meeting was seen by many climate scientists and campaigners as a delaying tactic.

Students from Unity College and allied climate campaigners, most notably Bill McKibben, are toting a treasured artifact owned by the school — one of the Carter - era solar hot water panels — to make the point.

After years of resisting efforts to define a dangerous level of warming in international climate discussions, the United States joined with the rest of the world's major industrial powers on Wednesday in a (non-binding) pledge to avoid warming the planet beyond a threshold long favored by European governments and many climate campaigners as a no - go zone.

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This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

After each evacuation, New Orleans appears at risk of losing ever more of its population, not in a refugee - style rush like those described by many climate campaigners, but as one household at a time gives up the fight.

The only other interview with Jones et al came on April 9, (09 April Jones and Briffa.pdf) this time by Geoffrey Boulton (a vigorous climate campaigner who worked for 18 years at UEA) and Peter Clarke, Muir Russell once again not bothering to attend.

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.

A reasonable person would suggest that a psychologist that is an active campaigner, and Director and Policy Advisor to climate lobby groups (COIN, PIRC), is perhaps not neutral, or at the very least would be perceived by the public as perhaps having a bias or two

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

He talks about how the message that there isn't a carbon budget left in his view is best communicated by climate action campaigners — drawing a parallel to the anti-nuclear movements» refraining from using the mushroom - cloud in their campaigning because it they thought it would put people off.

«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?»

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.

Climate campaigners would do their movement a favor by getting themselves on the right side of the evidence.

If the climate campaigners still want to make those claims, that's fine by me.

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Ike Teuling, climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Netherlands, said: «It is ridiculous that the Netherlands, as President of the European Union, allows a European summit to be taken hostage by Shell.