Ten Reasons Why Examining Climate
Change Policy Controversies Through an Ethical Lens Is A Practical Imperative.
Why Overcoming Instrumental Rationality In Climate
Change Policy Controversies Is a First Order Problem Preventing Ethical Principles From Getting Traction to Guide Climate Change Policy Formation
Yet it is clear that there has been widespread failure of those engaged in climate
change policy controversies to understand the enormous practical significance for policy formation of the acknowledgement that climate change is a moral issue.
More importantly, to do this work well one must follow climate
change policy controversies as they unfold.
Not exact matches
Without an invitation, and with only a legal threat, the ACLU was able to force the school board the
change its
policy, dictate the outcome of the
controversy, and lower societal standards.
Labour's defence
policy review has been dogged by
controversy, with pro-Trident Labour MPs accusing Ms Thornberry and Jeremy Corbyn of trying to force through a
change of its long - standing position of supporting Britain's nuclear deterrent.
In the first place, as others have noted, climate
change is unique as an intensely politicized public
policy controversy (in fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of science).
In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the
controversy,» climate
change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and
policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate
change education.
To ensure that we shape education for the future that we desire, some
changes need to be made: to college entrance requirements that presently focus on efficient sorting; to assessments that measure the narrow traditional disciplinary goals of partially antiquated knowledge; to politics /
policies that shrink away from
controversy — we need courageous cathedral builders!
New York officials are responding to the
controversy with what Glynn sees as minor
policy changes.
ROBUST AGREEMENT IN FAVOR of exploring less - punitive disciplinary measures has not prevented the emergence of
controversy, however, especially as elected officials and districts move to implement broad
policy changes quickly.
The alert comes a few weeks after Air Miles sent a note to its members apologizing for the
controversy it caused last year over
changes to its expiration
policy.
There remains
controversy, failure to comply with current national vaccine
policies and guidelines (Wellborn et al, 2011), resistance to
change, and denial of adverse events within the general veterinary community as well as within society as a whole (Dodds, 2013, 2015a).
Progress is hampered, however, by the ongoing
controversy surrounding vaccines, failure to comply with current national vaccine
policies and guidelines, resistance to
change, and denial of adverse events within the general veterinary community as well as within society as a whole.
In the first place, as others have noted, climate
change is unique as an intensely politicized public
policy controversy (in fact, I think it's unique in the entire history of science).
It is my opinion that media outlets and
policy makers often cite
controversy rather than consensus with regard to anthropogenically induced climate
change.
Controversy arises as people translate the science into
policy change?
On October 3, the Greenwire daily news report on environmental and energy
policy featured in its # 1 position a story on the continuing
controversy over the administration's decision to kill the National Assessment of Climate
Change Impacts process and suppress... Continue reading →
The Google Drive privacy
controversy is reminiscent of the Dropbox Privacy
Policy imbroglio back in July 2011 where Dropbox introduced language similar to the offending clause of Google Drive's Terms of Service; in response, Dropbox clarified its Terms of Service,
changing the offending section to read: