Sentences with phrase «changing human agency»

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Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

Meanwhile, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told CNBC that he doesn't think human - produced carbon dioxide is driving climate change.

«2 Somehow we must continually revitalize the educational establishment, organized religion, and community agencies so that they respond to changing human needs — becoming (in John Gardner's words) «self - renewing institutions.»

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

Zucker, testifying under oath, blamed the federal Environmental Protection Agency for any mix - up, saying they kept making «sudden» changes on their guidelines for safe levels of PFOA for human consumption, and the state health department struggled to keep up.

Or, are you just asking if regulating agencies like the Health and Human Services Department can «sneak» in and make changes to the law?

There could be changes coming to the human services agencies and departments in Onondaga County government.

The Environmental Protection Agency calls climate change a threat to human health.Judith Enck, EPA administrator for the region that includes New York state, says the new standards will make the air easier to breathe for people with repertory illnesses, like the 25 million Americans who live with asthma.

In 2003 the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to delete from its annual Report on the Environment any reference to a study showing that human activity contributes significantly to climate change, and also to delete temperature data showing a worsening warming trend.

In an about - face, the agency agreed that global warming is happening; that humans, by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, are responsible; and that the American environment is likely to change dramatically over the next century.

The topic of the event, the 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, could hardly have been more timely, given the February budget request from President Obama that sought to drastically change NASA's direction for human spaceflight and the way the agency does that business.

The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who called human - driven climate change a hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more climate - change doubters to run the government's environment and energy agencies.

AAAS CEO Rush Holt today expressed reservation regarding reports that President - elect Donald Trump plans to select Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who views human - caused climate change as unsettled, to run the Environmental Protection Agency.

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

The news of the increase in U.S. human - caused GHG emissions comes at a critical moment in the global battle against climate change, particularly after the International Energy Agency announced last month that global carbon emissions related to energy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing economy.

The agency approved the vaccines with scant clinical data, relying instead on the same «strain change» rules that allow manufacturers to change the seasonal vaccine without conducting human studies.

The interagency committee shall include research and program representatives of agencies conducting global change research, agencies with authority over resources likely to be affected by global change, and agencies with authority to mitigate human - induced global change.

With support from numerous federal agencies, the initiative promises to develop scientific tools and training programs centered around the microbiome to combat chronic human diseases, climate change, food security, and more.

The UK Space Agency has provided a grant to support the project, which will look at human behaviour through analysis of the carbon footprint of homes and schools alongside the monitoring of changes in polar ice using Earth Observation data.

18 - 21 — Education counseling: «Facing New Frontiers Prospects for Challenge and Change in Group Work,» conference sponsored by the Association for Specialists in Group Work, for school counselors, members of community health centers, human service agencies, and similar organizations, to be held in Athens, Ga..

Former Education Secretary Arne DuncanArne Starkey DuncanObama Education secretary mocks Pruitt over staff raises Parkland survivors talk gun violence with Chicago high schoolers Trump administration is putting profits over students MORE mocked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittTrump signs order to boost efficiency in federal agencies Overnight Energy: EPA moves to roll back chemical plant safety rule NASA chief says humans contribute to climate change Pruitt gets outside lawyer Trump officials propose easing EPA chemical plant safety rule MORE on Friday over reports that the EPA chief directed staff to approve sizable raises for two top aides even after the White House rejected their applications for pay increases.

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5:30 pm: Join Queens Museum staff at Peace Table, 1997, to learn how to participate in upcoming dialogues on key aspects of Ukeles» work, including artists embedded in city agencies, the future of garbage in NYC, diverse explorations on the subject of peace, human agency in changing the world, and how care and service work scales from family to city to planet.

Inspired by a belief that artistic practices broaden the scope of human agency and have the power to both touch and change the world, Mendes Wood DM cultivates a program premised on conceptualism, political resistance and intellectual rigor.

The HDR is very well suited to help us reframe climate change as a development problem, because its use of Amartya Sen's human development paradigm is rooted in human choice and agency, as opposed to more narrow economic development.

Machinations involved in the establishment of the UN agency include the restrictions created by the definition of climate change to «only those changes caused by humans» and the bureaucratic structure designed to prove that human CO2 was the problem.

Trend scepticism would be disbelieving of evidence that suggested a change in climate was occurring, whereas attribution scepticism would be doubtful that such trends were predominantly caused by human agency.

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Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

Requires such committee to include research and program representatives of agencies conducting global change research, agencies with authority over resources likely to be affected by global change, and agencies with authority to mitigate human - induced global change.

This idea, first proposed six years ago and formally endorsed by the International Energy Agency in 2011, has been gaining traction because of the ever - stronger scientific consensus that carbon emissions from human activity is the principal driver of destructive climate change.

As readers may recall from previous posts, the 6 O'clock news on BBC Radio 4 on 18 January started with the false claim that «The world's leading climate agencies have said for the first time that global warming caused by humans now dwarfs natural temperature changes.»

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Coleman went on to add that he based most of his views on the findings of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international body that says «because it is not a government agency, and because its members are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent «second opinion» of the evidence reviewed - or not reviewed - by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the issue of global warming.&Change (NIPCC), an international body that says «because it is not a government agency, and because its members are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent «second opinion» of the evidence reviewed - or not reviewed - by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the issue of global warming.&change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent «second opinion» of the evidence reviewed - or not reviewed - by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the issue of global warming.&Change (IPCC) on the issue of global warming.»

Inhofe said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was in the business of «brainwashing our kids» by releasing «propaganda» about climate change and the role that human beings are playing in the destruction of the planet.

Two, in response to arguments from some climate change skeptics, many scientific organizations with expertise relevant to climate change have endorsed the consensus position that «most of the global warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities» including the following: • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Astronomical Society • American Chemical Society • American Geophysical Union • American Institute of Physics • American Meteorological Society • American Physical Society • Australian Coral Reef Society • Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO • British Antarctic Survey • Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences • Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Environmental Protection Agency • European Federation of Geologists • European Geosciences Union • European Physical Society • Federation of American Scientists • Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of Australia • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Royal Meteorological Society • Royal Society of the UK

A group of 49 former NASA employees from Johnson Space Center have written a letter to NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, requesting that the space agency refrain from «unproven and unsubstantiated remarks» regarding how human activities are causing global climate change.

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Together, the participating agencies are charged with providing «a comprehensive and integrated United States Research Program to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human - induced and natural processes of global change.»

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, through the Environmental Protection Agency, released a major scientifically based assessment report on the implications of global climate change for human health and public weChange Science Program, through the Environmental Protection Agency, released a major scientifically based assessment report on the implications of global climate change for human health and public wechange for human health and public welfare.

Below is one of the «Key Findings» from the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States produced by the U.S. Climate Change Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was used as a major support for the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency's «Endangerment Finding» that human carbon dioxide emissions are a threat to health and welfare.

As the scientific world was rocked the past few days by the fraud and lies perpetrated by IPCC climate scientists, it should not be forgotten that lying, and other non-scientific methodologies, have been employed by various UN agencies to make ludicrous claims about human CO2 and climate change.

Our organizations are committed to working with officials at all levels to reduce emissions of heat - trapping pollution, and to work with health agencies to promote research on effective interventions and to strengthen the public health infrastructure with the aim of protecting human health from climate change.

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«Will you acknowledge the existence of a recently released report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an agency with 195 member countries, which concludes with 95 % confidence that the climate is changing, due to human activity.»

The next biggest spikes in coverage in the past three years included the week of April 1 - 6, 2007, (5.3 % of the newshole) when the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate car emissions, and the week of January 28 - February 2, 2007, when a UN climate report found that humans were very likely the cause of climate change (4.9 %).

The Dutch government has already accepted the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations Environmental Programme, and several Dutch agencies, that warming of more than 2 ° C above pre-industrial temperatures will likely entail catastrophic consequences for humans and the environment, including the Dutch.

Exterro — launched Fusion Employee Monitor, which pulls from Human Resources data centers to identify employee status changes and create alerts and rules that ensure custodians and IT staff take action to preserve ESI that may be relevant to matters or agency actions.

Collaboration at the state and local level with county human service agencies, child placement agencies, community partners and school districts is taking shape to target efforts to recruit foster parents from areas with children in need to avoid a school change while children are temporarily living in a foster home.