Sentences with phrase «climate change in a way»

Just as important, it would unite Americans in the fight against climate change in a way that no other policy would — as citizens who are all co-owners and caretakers of the air.

«We had hypothesized that thinking about climate change in any way would incline people to donate more to climate change but that's not what happened.

Given the high sensitivity inherent in tornado formation and the lack of any clear pattern in tornado events, scientists have been cautious in linking the storms to climate change in any way.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

«This changes the way we think of the nitrogen cycle and, more generally, anaerobic metabolism in the ocean, and suggests that both could respond to climate change in ways that challenge our current understanding.»

For instance, if you invested in a company that tried to combat climate change in some way.

She delves deeply into broad issues like climate change in a way that is both eloquent and pared down, pushing viewers to extend their own process of thought and interpretation, and allowing them to feel their way through each gesture of weaving, tufting, encasing, and assembling in her material process.

By last April he was questioning the basic science of climate change itself, offering this mealy - mouthed attempt to placate the anti-science right wing without going whole hog into the denial camp: «Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe.»

The report of Susan Solomon's National Research Council Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations is the place to go to see a collection of impacts that have already been observed and will be amplified as the climate changes in ways that have been quantitatively estimated.

«This would have the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act all addressing climate change in a way that is not the way that they were intended to...»

«This would have... the Endangered Species Act... addressing climate change in a way that is not the way that (it was) intended to.»

«This would have the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act all addressing climate change in a way that is not the way that they were intended to,» she said.

One can't say from the story whether this is definitely related to climate change in any way — I can't even tell from this link whether it is attributable to precipitation (though the timing is certainly suggestive).

These influential components of risk perception psychology, of our Inconvenient Mind, identify opportunities to frame climate change in ways that are emotionally resonant to the audiences that climate communicators are trying to influence.

The Bush administration has repeatedly been questioned about incidents in which political appointees adjusted government reports, statements, news releases and other material on climate change in ways that toned down a sense of urgency.

We focused initially on the enormous seabed earthquake off Japan and the resulting tsunami and then on the challenges facing journalists and activists trying to communicate about human - driven climate change in ways that hew to the science but also gain traction (a very tough challenge; we have very different views).

Rose is a guy who denies climate change in the way creationists deny evolution, and flat - Earthers deny the Earth is, well, not flat.

More importantly, has the last 100 years seen the climate change in ways that are unique, much less more dangerous, than the 100 years prior?

To that end, it offers twelve key messages and a series of practical case studies showing how cities can respond to the challenge of climate change in a way that ultimately improves urban sustainability.

In a press release dated July 18, 2002, Bob Mills defended climate change skeptics like the Friends of Science and Richard Lindzen: «The fact that Dr. Lindzen and thousands of other scientists disagree with the Canadian government's one - sided view of climate change in no way invalidates their valuable contributions to understanding this complex science.»

These focus in particular on building the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change in ways that allow them to moderate potential damage, to take advantage of new opportunities and to cope with the consequences of climate change, and on enhancing the resilience of communities and the ecosystems on which they depend.

We will continue to confront the problem of climate change in ways that a university as an academic institution most meaningfully can and should — through research, education, innovative sustainability practices, and thoughtful engagement with others who can help the world find real solutions to such a complex and consequential challenge.

So the advent of the Anthropocene shatters the self - contained world of social analysis that is the terrain of modern social science, and explains why those intellectuals who remain within it find it impossible to «analyze» the politics, sociology or philosophy of climate change in a way that is true to the science.

We have the opportunity to address climate change in a way that reduces both, emissions and the gender gap.

John Samuelsen, International President, Transport Workers Union of America, said, «Today's announcement represents New York seizing the opportunity and responsibility to address the growing crisis of climate change in a way that creates good jobs and begins to reverse inequality.

«The president had made clear when he was a candidate that he did not believe the Kyoto Protocol addressed the problem of climate change in a way that the United States could support,» she said.

Climate change communicators should present climate change in a way that affirms the listener's sense of self and emphasizes the linkages between his or her values and environmentally benign behavior.

This analytical document presents the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries — and provides useful guidance to business leaders and policymakers alike.

I also have to ask, inasmuch as there's been no warming in 18 + years, specifically how has the climate changed in a way that can be confidently attributed to CO2

Each year in international negotiations, pleas of vulnerable developing nations have become louder calling for developed nations to respond to climate change in ways that are consistent with their ethical obligations.

These elements are crucial to help vulnerable communities cope with the enduring effects of climate change in a way that is both just and equitable.

For all these reasons it is sad that he has decided to become embroiled in climate change in the way he has.

Not exact matches

Political analysts and experts predict we'll see some changes in what they might entail in along the way - based both on political climate and economic factors.

Stopping overpopulation is one way the dangers of climate change can be mitigated, according to two of the most prominent believers in global warming.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

The economist accused Jill Stein of spoiling Clinton's chances in Florida and said with Trump as president there would be no way to reverse the impact of global climate change.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

But what a lot of people don't realize is that earth science data and earth science in general goes way beyond climate change.

«In a nutshell, it looks like Canada is becoming a leader in just transitions in the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the timIn a nutshell, it looks like Canada is becoming a leader in just transitions in the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the timin just transitions in the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the timin the same way that they've been a leader on climate change policy for the past two or three years,» McGowan said at the time.

It's maybe one reason why people are so easily misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is presented in various different ways that most ordinary people are interested in.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

As director of the Nathan Cummings Foundation's Corporate & Political Accountability program, Laura employs both grant making and active ownership strategies to address the ways in which corporations can both advance and hinder progress on climate change and inequality.

So it was this afternoon that he yawned his way through three questions from Michael Ignatieff on the government's policies on climate change and shrugged away three questions from Jack Layton on the extension of this country's military mission in Afghanistan.

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

«In conclusion, while we can not say climate change «caused» hurricane Harvey (that is an ill - posed question), we can say that it exacerbate several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life,» Mann wrotIn conclusion, while we can not say climate change «caused» hurricane Harvey (that is an ill - posed question), we can say that it exacerbate several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life,» Mann wrotin a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life,» Mann wrote.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

He said the risk applied equally to companies, especially those that have been in denial about climate change risk to their business, and investors, some of which had been pressuring companies to lift their game on carbon risk disclosure but still had a long way to go themselves.

But given the existential threat of climate change, or for that matter, the general state of our public goods, I find it awfully hard to accept the contention that there's nothing productive in which to invest the excess savings surplus countries continue to send our way.

There are basically two ways to cut carbon emissions, and neither one of them involves global climate change summits like the one just held in Cancún, Mexico.

«I also can't see her getting behind the Keystone pipeline in a serious way given the emphasis on climate change within her party, particularly the more progressive left,» Hagle said.