Sentences with phrase «changes conversation about climate change»

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A podcast conversation about the impact that food technology can have on climate change, sustainability, and healthcare costs.

They still do: virtually every conversation about climate change in Canada these days includes the words «Trump» and «competitiveness.»

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

So, in an effort to inspire a bit of «climate change,» at least in this little corner of the blogosphere, I thought I'd start a conversation about hope.

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

«I think that art and comedy and humor — if you put those first, you might get past that emotional barrier, and have an honest conversation about climate change.»

In February unusually high tides — «higher than anyone has ever remembered,» Stege says — sparked conversations about climate change among Marshall Islanders.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

They wanted to have a nice conversation about climate change.»

It may enable the restarting of the discussion (Rosina Bierbaum [a PCAST member and professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor] called it the «conversation») about climate change.

That's the conclusion of a 5 - year study, which found that when news organizations ran a number of stories on controversial topics like water quality and climate change in close succession, they significantly boosted public conversations about these topics — and even changed some people's minds.

«But if we change the conversation to bullying can actually damage the entire school climate, then that motivates and galvanizes the overall will of the school community to do something about it.»

«I think I'm about as young as you can get for being a person who started in glaciology at a time when climate change was not a primary part of the conversation,» says Moon, who is 35.

His weekly show Radio EcoShock is broadcast on about 100 radio stations around the globe, and we always have great conversations about the latest climate change zeitgeist.

The dating sites plastered all over the news and radio, such as Eharmony and Match.com, don't cater to us nerds and geeks, and it might be hard to fall in love with someone who refuses to even go, forget cosplay, with you at the next anime convention, or who doesn't want to sit and have a marathon of your favorite sci - fi show, or have an intellectual conversation about climate change..

You can even propose questions for a POT SD to answer as a conversation starter with you like, How do you feel about climate change?

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«It is now so big that it will inevitably be part of conversations about climate change, pollution and migration.

The agency is hoping that the new logo will spark more conversation about the pressing issue of climate change.

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate chAbout to Happen traces the artist's long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate chabout discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.

There are two new papers in Nature this week that go right to the heart of the conversation about extreme events and their potential relationship to climate change.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

Meat has not been part of the global conversation about climate change for far too long, as governments fear backlash from powerful meat lobbies and the angry public, and as a result many individuals have not yet learned about the impact it has.

Both magazines have other articles in their current issues that will likely be of interest to Dot Earth readers, including a conversation in Creative Nonfiction with Al Roker about the beauty and peril in hurricanes and Nico Stehr's piece in Issues, «Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?»

It was very interesting that not one of them could recall any conversation about anthropogenic climate change in relation to the fires.

But the Vatican - led campaign is a significant sign that the conversation about climate change may be shifting.

In fact, on some levels it's not really about the climate at all, because if the climate just changed and that didn't affect people, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

As was reported on Earthblog, no one I spoke to could recall a recent conversation about climate change.

«Conversations about protecting peatlands tend to focus on the carbon they store that can be released into our atmosphere and cause climate change,» says Sofyan Kurnianto, a PhD researcher associated with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

As a result, the conversation on climate change rarely talks about climate change as the mess that it is; instead, this conversation tends to devolve into the abstractions around future damages and the pursuit of sustainable lifestyles, complicating our understanding of the climate challenge.

FCEA was constituted in 2013, out of a recognition that the conversation about climate engineering responses to climate change was growing rapidly in importance, yet was narrowly restricted in terms of the scope of actors and interests.

It's understandable how, if a person had never once consulted a scientific paper or sat down for a serious, ideology - free conversation about climate change with one of the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that man - made climate change is a real, observable phenomenon, he could be confused into thinking that the greatest challenge of our time is comparable to the medieval superstitious that arose in the absence of scientific understanding.

What's the best way for someone to engage in a productive conversation about climate change with someone who dismisses the facts?

In conversations about climate change, two different worlds tend to emerge: the scientific community and public opinion.

This conversation is greatly needed because most Americans are unaware that climate change poses a danger to their health and the health of their loved ones, and learning this information has been shown to help heighten people's concern about the problem.

Most of the conversation about research into such technologies has been broadly about responding to the phenomenon of climate change, specifically global warming.

The President has reportedly told U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt during several conversations that he supports Pruitt's plan for a «red - team, blue - team» debate aimed at challenging the prevailing scientific consensus about humans» impact on climate change, a senior administration official reportedly told E&E News.

That's a good thing because it offers a new approach to talking about climate change, beyond the impoverished and mendacious conversation U.S. politicians have been having for 20 years.

On NASA's Vital Links blog, Laura Faye Tenenbaum writes about a conversation she had with Director Susan Hassol on how to move past fear and despair over climate change and instead face it with courage, optimism, and integrity.

Friedman's article, titled «Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report,» delivers a classic alarmist warning that the Trump administration may try to «change or suppress the report,» ignoring Trump administration officials» repeated calls for «honest open discussion» and «intellectual conversation» about humans» role in climate Climate Report,» delivers a classic alarmist warning that the Trump administration may try to «change or suppress the report,» ignoring Trump administration officials» repeated calls for «honest open discussion» and «intellectual conversation» about humans» role in climate climate change.

Now, health advocates say physicians like Szema need to study up on the environment and bring conversations about the fingerprints of climate change right down to the doctor - patient level.

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Conversations about climate and clean energy, great meals with wonderful people, any kind of writing and going to events with inspiring speakers that change the way I see the world

Any time he wants to continue the conversation about how we solve the problem of climate change, which we both agree needs solving (after all, we live in the same flood plain), he is more than welcome.

What could these lobbyists and Astroturfers for dirty energy corporations that deny the threat of climate change possibly have to offer in this conversation about how to move towards a clean energy future that will provide millions of jobs and secure our economy?

Anxiety can be reduced simply by restricting exposure to distressing information, such as by skipping news stories about climate change or disengaging from conversations.

Whether speaking to her digital audience, or with fellow parishioners, Hayhoe's approach is patient and compassionate and modeled after conversations she had with her husband, a linguistics professor and pastor who once himself had doubts about climate change.

Surely the combination of these two facts should have changed somewhat the conversations we have about climate change.

Shifting the Conversation about Climate Change: Strategies to build public demand for action.