Sentences with phrase «climate change at home»

Some people do their part fighting climate change at home in front of a computer (say... most of us here at TreeHugger).

Not exact matches

Trump has promised to «cancel all wasteful climate change spending from Obama - Clinton,» which would include global warming payments to the United Nations but also incentives for clean energy here at home.

The remaining funds went towards two companies aimed at reducing humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and so counteracting the problem of climate change: Tesla Motors ($ 70m), a luxury electric car manufacturer that has since expanded to provide energy to homes and businesses through battery technology; and SolarCity ($ 10m) which seeks to offer a cleaner and more affordable energy solution.

Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said: «The cold weather we're experiencing at the moment reminds everyone how important it is to have a warm home so I'm urging anyone who's eligible for a Warm Front grant to pick up the phone.

The UK has already taken a strong lead at home and abroad on climate change.

A climate change bill is due shortly which will set out ministers» plans to cut emissions at home in the UK, and changes to the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) are also planned, including its expansion into the emissions - heavy aviation industry.

People could be given meters in their homes to show exactly how much electricity they use, in new proposals aimed at tackling climate change.

«There is no security or prosperity at home unless we deal with global challenges of security, globalisation, climate change, disease and poverty.

«The AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute empowers the fellows to act as change agents within their institutions; each fellow will make it possible for many more scientists in their professional networks or home institutions to engage public audiences on climate change,» said Jeanne Braha, project director in public engagement at AAAS.

Environment Minister Afridi says his government plans to drive that point home to other nations at climate change talks scheduled for Mexico at the end of this year.

«When you can make that connection between a climate event and your home, it can change the game,» said Rebecca Moore, founder of Google Earth Engine, at the rollout of yesterday's White House Climate Data Initclimate event and your home, it can change the game,» said Rebecca Moore, founder of Google Earth Engine, at the rollout of yesterday's White House Climate Data InitClimate Data Initiative.

The premiere installment, «Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change,» featured UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas and the Engagement Project, which examined the most effective ways to encourage apartment users to reduce their energy use at home and the impact of «gamifying» energy savings.

The U.S. efforts abroad to tackle climate change have been counter-balanced by Trump's aggressive push at home to increase production of the fossil fuels scientists blame for global warming.

«Nature» sticks close to home for Bay Area viewers with tonight's episode at 8 on KQED: The episode looks at the ecosystem of the Yosemite Valley, as filmmaker Joseph Pontecorvo follows scientists who are measuring the impact of climate change on the wilderness area.

Laudato Si, in short, is Pope Francis» appeal to the faithful to take a closer look at how we are shaping the future of our planet, the effect of humanity on global issues such as climate change and poverty, and the protection and care for what Francis calls «our common home.»

Our environmental setup «Holocene climate» has changed drastic and the result is, survivability of your civilization and the habitability of the places we call our home and use to feed is at stake.

Climate change is the cumulative effect of thousands upon thousands of individual decisions we collectively have made daily at home, at school and at work over generations.

Watts described a friendly two - hour trading of very different views on many points of climate change science but also on at least a few areas of common ground on pollution problems and energy choices, including on the value of household photovoltaic systems, which both men have on their homes.

Back at home, I've been looking at the websites of these organizations, particularly their climate change research.

Our decisive action at home empowers us to make more progress internationally on the shared global challenge of climate change.

I. Lead by example through strong action at home and abroad: Making significant progress in combating climate change through domestic actions within the Department and at the federal, regional, and local level.

Just to hammer home the point a bit more — and there is some repetition here — this is how I explained in 2007 why even a folk singer had a place at the table in considering choices on climate change:

Advocates of tackling climate change through innovation are at risk of dangerously overreaching at home and abroad; a more modest program could produce better results.

The (now standard) violence perpetrated by Climate Change activists at the UN's latest climate boondoggle in Paris, is further proof that Left - wing ideology is the natural home of the barClimate Change activists at the UN's latest climate boondoggle in Paris, is further proof that Left - wing ideology is the natural home of the barclimate boondoggle in Paris, is further proof that Left - wing ideology is the natural home of the barbarian.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

This, given the climate change requirements, and technology cost forecasts for wind and solar, the emergence of battery storage and home management systems, as well as solar thermal plus storage at utility scale, not to mention the fuel cost of coal and gas, and the financing risk attached to that, seems an extraordinary prediction.

Unfortunately, Alice feels all alone at home when she reads stories about climate change or sees them on TV.

Canada is home to over 1 million lakes and one of the largest freshwater supplies in the entire world, but scientists are discovering that these vast freshwater resources, and the ecosystems they support, are increasingly at risk due to the effects of climate change.

For now, let us look at the evidence close to home of the change in our climate.

More than eight in 10 said they would buy more energy - efficient appliances and cut down on energy use at home, while 53 % said they would be willing to make significant lifestyle changes to address climate change.

Writing at DeSmog, Graham Readfearn has noted that the Mont Pelerin Society has long been home to some of the most ardent supporters of climate change denial.

Our home planet is dangerously near a tipping point at which human - made greenhouse gases reach a level where major climate changes can proceed mostly under their own momentum.

Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, one of Africa's major wildlife sanctuaries, 2 is home to the critically endangered black rhinoceros.5, 6 Climate change threatens biodiversity in the park and elsewhere in Africa, 11 and a warmer, drier climate in Namibia could put tourism at Climate change threatens biodiversity in the park and elsewhere in Africa, 11 and a warmer, drier climate in Namibia could put tourism at climate in Namibia could put tourism at risk.10

Well, everyone who's a parent go home and look at their chilc / children and answer me this - is it right to spend billions on something as nebulous as climate change, or should we stop children, 5 million of them, just like ours, dying needless and painful deaths each year?

Energy Policies of IEA Countries: France 2016 The IEA praised France's leadership role in climate change mitigation and green finance around the world and at home.

Both have a strong background in national security matters, and both echo the point President Obama has already made, that climate change has profound implications for America's security interests both at home and abroad.

4 Aug: Crikey: Ellen Sandell: Abbott's European holiday might make him hot and bothered Abbott seems to still be confused about the science of climate change, moving between «climate change is absolute crap» and aligning himself with the climate deniers, and at other times accepting that climate change is a problem, but just not one worth acting efficiently on... All of this will be news to most Europeans, who have long accepted the science of climate change and have been measuring their CO2 emissions in tonnes through the trading scheme, and are benefiting from climate change solutions... Studies predict an increase of up to 6.1 million jobs in 2050, and the EU - wide emissions trading scheme is expected to generate between $ 143 billion and $ 296 billion over the next six years... Maybe on the plane on the way home to Australia, Abbott could use the time to catch up on some reading.

Meanwhile the E.U. shows no sign of abandoning the system, leaving business leaders like Mr. Thumann with little choice but to speak out at home and to press developed nations abroad to match Europe's efforts when they gather at the U.N. summit meeting on climate change in December in Copenhagen.

As leaders of the industrialized world continue to squabble at home over how to address the threat of climate change — and even as they battle internal factions who don't believe the science of climate change — one group of leaders has come out in favor of swift, comprehensive action to prevent global catastrophe.

Second, major emitters like the United States and China are now closely cooperating in implementing climate change solutions at home and finding ways to cooperate internationally.

Mind Your Carbon Footprint and Reduce Energy Consumption Reduce the effects of climate change on the ocean by leaving the car at home when you can and being conscious of your energy use at home and work.

«Responsible development of natural gas is an important part of our work to curb climate change and support a robust clean energy market at home.»

«Everywhere I travel as secretary of state — in every meeting, here at home and across the more than 100,000 miles I've traveled since I raised my hand and took the oath to serve in this office — I raise the concern of climate change,» he wrote just last week in an opinion piece in Grist.

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A locally tailored home retrofit programme is reaching hard - to - engage homeowners and over 88 % of participants have already implemented at least one retrofit action that contributes to climate change mitigation.

In the play we hear nothing of the real climate scientists who have had to upgrade their home security and change their children's bus routes, or the young woman who after speaking about carbon footprints at her local library emerged to find her car smeared with excrement spelling out «climate turd».

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the currenClimate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the currenclimate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

Think Progress: Understanding The Historical Conflicts Behind Violence In Assam, And How Climate Change Could Make It Worse.Recent violence between the Bodo tribe and immigrant minorities in the northeastern Indian state of Assam has cost the lives of at least 96 people and caused more than 300,000 residents to flee their homes for refugee camps.

At the root of the global climate change debate is an intractable claim on the part of those who would readily cripple our economy with new regulations and attack our personal freedoms with intrusion into our homes, automobiles and offices.

He was at home telling denialist shock jocks that scientific reports on climate change were «wholemeal sandal - wearing religious stuff».