Sentences with phrase «climate change language»

Combined with the apparent White House censoring of climate change language in EPA's draft Report on the Environment, this move signals further Administration backtracking on climate change.

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by Deborah McNamara on May 16, 2017 0 climate change language climate change perspectives Drawdown Ecotrust global warming solutions global warming vs. climate change Paul Hawken

The Environmental Protection Agency has scrubbed climate change language from its website and barred agency scientists from speaking at a recent conference in Rhode Island.

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One of the tweets had noted the changing language around certain issues, including climate change, on the new White House website.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

BuzzFeed used a more informal, irreverent and entertaining language, found for example in its article: «10 Adorable Animals that Climate Change is Killing Off».

This polling data evinces the changed political climate and concomitant change in language and values since the announcement of the Budget in 2012.

If climate change zealots simply changed their language and stopped implying there is absolute truth in science I would be happy.

Wisconsin utility regulators removed references to climate change from their website months before state environmental officials altered global - warming language on their own site.

«Because of that, we have to develop narratives, frames of reference, language, and tools that connect climate change to people's religious values and identity.»

Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

On the first day of the Copenhagen climate conference, 56 newspapers publishing in 20 languages in 45 countries publish an unprecedented joint editorial calling for meaningful action to face the threat posed by climate change.

Most notably, the two agreed on new language on how to fairly divide responsibilities among countries for tackling climate change, which has found its way into several subsequent agreements.

«The language style used by climate change skeptics suggests that the arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.

A third video used a neutral tone and language to present an informational view of climate change.

«When people communicate as advocates, they tend to use more certainty in their language than may be warranted,» said Vanessa Schweizer, a professor with the Department of Knowledge Integration in the Faculty of Environment at Waterloo, and who is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.

Although the IPCC clearly warns of the threat of climate change, the text analysis showed that their report used more cautious, less explicit language to present their claims.

Proponents of climate change tend to use more conservative, tentative language to report on the science behind it, while skeptics use more emotional and assertive language when reinterpreting scientific studies, says research from the University of Waterloo.

Experts, charities, the media and government confuse the public by speaking «different languages» on climate change, a new study says.

To do that, strategists might want to exclude such treaty language from any piece of domestic climate change legislation.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

«The privileged position of industry to craft language in the trade agreement without public input, and the unlimited potential of TTIP to affect the ability of countries to regulate on toxic chemicals, energy and climate change, food and agriculture and other critical issues.»

A key portion of the long awaited Fifth Assessment Report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is slated to be released on Friday in Stockholm, where scientists and government representatives are currently meeting to finalize the report's language.

Susan Hassol addressed how scientists can improve communication of climate change by what they say and how they say it, dealing with framing, psychological and cultural issues, and questions involving language.

Such derogatory language has become commonplace in the climate change academic world and reflects badly on the authors who use it.

In Ribble and Craven working with primary age students, many with English as a second language, on a Bug Project brought together the arts and sciences in a project raising awareness of climate change.

The standards also aren't some conspiracy to force children to learn about climate change and evolution; they cover basics in language arts and math.

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The festival will take a closer look at the issues of climate change and our future relationship with the changing landscape, while also examining the language surrounding future projections that are more akin to works of science fiction than empirical truth.

Sebastian began in the traditional mode of nudes and portraits, and moved onto more personal work that deals with themes of income inequality and climate change, using an idiosyncratic visual language he has been slowly developing for the past five years.

Climate change critics have indeed understood the importance of language and rhetoric for some time.

To help «climate change communication» in the public debate, I have been trying to create a natural - language - style flow - chart cartoon language that illustrates the principles of the lack of precise prediction in complex systems, for purposes of elementary pedagogy.

Many climate scientists would undoubtedly suggest some tweaks in the language in the statement — the line about «stopping climate change,» for instance.

Let it be noted that this aggressive language about climate change comes two months after the end of a presidential campaign in which the subject was barely mentioned, to the frustration of a great many voters.

The assaults have been fueled by a batch of liberated / hacked / stolen climate files that, at their root, have yet to be shown to indicate much beyond ill - advised language and strong passions among some climate scientists and by several missteps after two decades of grueling work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate files that, at their root, have yet to be shown to indicate much beyond ill - advised language and strong passions among some climate scientists and by several missteps after two decades of grueling work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate scientists and by several missteps after two decades of grueling work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

The administration also suggested eliminating language in the draft calling for «sufficient, predictable, additional and sustainable financial resources» to help poor nations adapt to climate change, on the grounds that it is vague.

A big part of the public confusion about climate change comes from sloppy language.

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

The draft text was shaped by rounds of comments and reams of proposed language submitted this spring by parties to the original climate treaty, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins everything from the Kyoto Protocol to whatever comes next in Dclimate treaty, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins everything from the Kyoto Protocol to whatever comes next in DClimate Change, which underpins everything from the Kyoto Protocol to whatever comes next in Denmark.

And its language on climate adaptation creates big challenges because the treaty only applies to impacts from human - driven climate change.

Your piece makes the important point that, on vital questions, there's enduring deep uncertainty behind the «97 Percent of Climate Scientists Agree» headlines and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report summary language.

Rigg doesn't just point a finger at President Obama though, she also has words for developing nations (who need to recognize too that they need to get on board with commitments to low - carbon energy and not just stand behind historical obligations to combat climate change) and the EU (who have tried to eliminate language on fisheries reform, no doubt under domestic political pressure).

Just prior to Obama's climate change speech, The Washington Post reported that a one of Obama's scientific advisors used the war on coal language:

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Climate change denial has been so effective because the «denial community» has mischaracterized the necessarily guarded language of serious scientific dialogue as vagueness and uncertainty.

In the language of game theory, the repeated nature of the oil extraction «game» that encourages OPEC to collude to prop up oil prices simply evaporates in a world that bans oil in order to fight climate change.