Sentences with phrase «climate change at the top»

With oil running out and climate change at the top of the agenda, renewable energy will become a massive growth industry in the UK.

Older Americans might not put climate change at the top of their priorities, but young people do, Posner says.

Not exact matches

MoneyShow Las Vegas — May 15 - 18, 2017 From May 15th to 18th, John Mousseau of Cumberland Advisors will join the nation's top financial minds at The MoneyShow Las Vegas where they'll discuss the economy, the markets, and how the changing political climate will impact them in the coming year.

Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.

Proxy season is back, and climate change is still at the top of the shareholder proposal agenda.

For institutional investors and mainstream retail shareholders alike, climate change is increasingly at the top of the agenda.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

Trump's likely pick to fill the role of a top scientist at the USDA — Sam Clovis, best known for hosting a conservative talk show in Iowa — is a climate change skeptic with no background in science.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

«In the Coalition Government, our Energy and Climate Change Minister, Ed Davey, has worked to make sure the environment stays at the top of the agenda, even though it isn't a priority for the Conservatives.

We'll need to come back to this at the next conference of the climate change convention, to be held in Doha this December — a curious choice, given Qatar's position close to the top of the league table for greenhouse gas emissions per head.

The new climate change minister went to Oxford at the same time as Guardian journalist and green campaigner George Monbiot, who remembers the top Tory as «a firebrand who wanted to nationalise the banks and overthrow capitalism».

The paper reports that Labour is intending to try and highlight divisions with Conservative Party over climate change in the top Tory target seats where the Green Party won more than 2 % of the vote at the last election - in the hope of stopping Green supporters from switching to back the Conservatives and helping to deliver a Tory majority in the Commons.

Still, it is undeniable that a variety of 21st - century forces — a new generation in the military, a change in climate at the top levels of the Pentagon, pressure on the president from a critical interest group, even Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand's anticipated Democratic primary battle in New York — converged to begin repeal of a 1993 law that has led to the discharge of more than 13,000 gay men and lesbians, including desperately needed Arabic translators.

Climate change was at the top of most lists.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

Stepping into that gap — at the request of the Danish government — will be the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, a collection of the world's top scientists and economists set to meet in Copenhagen in March 2009 to deliver an updated state of the science on global warming.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

At the top the trend in annual measured precipitation between 1951 and 2010 is shown from the last scientific report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

«It stands at the top of a pyramid where a lot of the bricks were laid previously, not only internationally, but by the previous administration that had a different policy view of climate change,» said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University professor who served as a lead co-author of the 2007 IPCC report.

This was the dramatic conclusion reached last week at a workshop in Dahlem, Berlin, where top atmospheric scientists got together, including Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin, former chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

As for the long - running political controversy about climate change, especially about the degree to which human activity causes it, the scientists said it tends to become relevant mainly when they are dealing with long time frames — say 30 years or more — and mostly at the top echelons of the political hierarchy.

While previous years have also seen large spikes in November - December temperatures, these peaks are occurring on top of a upward trend, says Prof Jennifer Francis, an expert in Arctic climate change at Rutgers University.

The wedge / identity politics success is probably largely to blame for the inability of the US to move forward consistently (or at all) on important public policy — global leadership on climate change or national gun control policy come to mind, right off the top.

JP Morgan's report, Trading Climate Change, suggests that within the next decade nuclear energy will be at the top of the world's agenda, with the resurgence of nuclear a key element both in the drive to reduce carbon emissions from power generation and to develop zero - emission hydrogen - fuelled transport.

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehuchange,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehClimate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehuChange by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

The» top ten» arguments employed by the relatively few deniers with credentials in any aspect of climate - change science (which arguments include «the sun is doing it», «Earth's climate was changing before there were people here», «climate is changing on Mars but there are no SUVs there», «the Earth hasn't been warming since 1998», «thermometer records showing heating are contaminated by the urban - heat - island effect», «satellite measurements show cooling rather than warming») have all been shown in the serious scientific literature to be wrong or irrelevant, but explaining their defects requires at least a paragraph or two for each one.

«Radiative forcing Radiative forcing is the change in the net, downward minus upward, radiative flux (expressed in W m — 2) at the tropopause or top of atmosphere due to a change in an external driver of climate change, such as, for example, a change in the concentration of carbon dioxide or the output of the Sun.»

Here — in the Figure at the top — what we see are that white males are decidedly more «skeptical» about climate change risks only among «hierarch individualists.»

I am not suggesting that the media is not exaggerating effects of climate change (like they to with every other topic), I was merely pointing out that the graph at the top is missleading.

What will prove to be more pressing at the Cancun climate change talks, therefore, will not be agreeing on an end goal, but on coming to a consensus on how to move forward at all, with ensuring nations make some sort of deal on cutting emissions from airplanes and shipping among the top priorities in the days ahead.

The right - hand panel shows ranges of global average temperature change above pre-industrial, using (i) «best estimate» climate sensitivity of 3 °C (black line in middle of shaded area), (ii) upper bound of likely range of climate sensitivity of 4.5 °C (red line at top of shaded area)(iii) lower bound of likely range of climate sensitivity of 2 °C (blue line at bottom of shaded area).

We can see that the technology - led response to climate change (involving increased funding for energy R&D) is the top - ranked climate solution, and is in a very respectable eighth place among all of the priorities that readers have looked at so far.

Dr Pearman's comments echo those of Dr James Hansen, the top climate change scientist at NASA, who says the Bush Administration had tried to stop him speaking out since he called for urgent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The top 200 oil, gas and mining companies spent $ 674 billion last year finding and developing fossil fuel resources, according to research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and a climate - change research unit at the London School of Economics.

Posted in Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Disaster and Emergency, Disasters and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Environment, Glaciers, Global Warming, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Lessons, Nepal, News, Opinion, Population, Rainfall, River, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Nepal: Country At The Top Of The World Has Had More Than Fair Share Of Tragedies

Our friends at the 10:10 climate change campaign have given us the scoop on this highly explosive short film, written by Britain's top comedy screenwriter Richard Curtis, ahead of its general release....

That sort of climate silence at the corporate top leaves the public wondering what Dominion executives really think, or whether they think much at all, about climate change.

Kerry, in remarks to foreign ministers of the 20 biggest economies, said climate change should be at the top of the agenda despite competition from more immediate challenges.

Welcome @wattsupwiththat: Straight in at # 29 on @SustMeme Climate Change & Energy Top 500, with @solarcentury https://t.co/WvfJNNL85K — SustMeme Top 500 (@SustMemeTop500) October 29, 2013 The encouraging news is that WUWT is beating Andy Revkin's «Dot Earth», Climate Central, and «any weather event is AGW» CAP paid - for - activist Brad Johnson, see the screencap:

An internal variation can expose climate energy to gain or loss at the top of the atmosphere, so that total energy changes (for example, an El Nino warming event can increase the availability of heat capable of escaping to space).

DECEMBER 7 2015 - Calling climate change a defining issue of our time, United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon today told top government officials that the opportunity exists «to define our own destiny» at the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris.

I've been blogging about the faulty climate change study discussed at the top of this piece.

UNEP News Center: Climate change, chemicals and waste management, and biodiversity conservation are top of the agenda as ministers and high - level officials from 31 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean gather for major environmental forum aimed at strengthening regional cooperation.

You might think that as a member of the Australian parliament, at a time when changing from fossil fuels to renewables is top priority if the damage from climate change and ocean acidification are to be limited, Mr Ramsey would be singing the praises of this wonderful local achievement, but no, all he can manage is negativity.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

When I hear a politician putting «Climate Change» in his top three problems that need to be solved and then browse either here or Steve McIntyre's website, I'm literally gob - smacked at the unbelievable stupidity of the whole warming thing.