Sentences with phrase «climate debate as»

So it is a sad situation; a sad representation of the difficulty of containing the toxicity of the contemporary climate debate as it migrates from national to local level.

Like the EP Free Riders the FM Free Riders see the climate debate as the evolution of a preexisting debate over the role of government and the individual in society.

If I were new the climate debate as of today, and just scrolled down through this thread it would be enough for me to begin to suspect where my sympathies lay.

I am always amused by solar influences and climate debates as invertible link will be made between climate and sunspots.

Not exact matches

Some critics say the pope should refrain from speaking about scientific matters, while others laud his letter as a major contribution to the climate change debate.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.

As to education being a requirement: well, you should just look at the current debate on climate research to see how unreliable of a proxy education is.

This marks it as unmissable for anyone remotely interested in the climate change debate, whether believers or sceptics.

Mr. Cohn - Bendit began the debate by characterizing the current climate as «a turning point in European history, because the European Union is confronted with one of its most serious crises, caused by the financial crisis».

-- «I welcome Lucas» engagement with Labour party debates, as she rightly notes this affects the broader climate for progressives across parties.

We concluded that the three digital players were beneficial for public debate about climate change, as they had found new ways of covering the «old», sometimes boring, often remote, theme of climate change.

During the debate, Teachout insisted she supported a «fee and dividend» plan, which even her liberal allies like Climate Lobby specifically refer to as a «direct tax or direct carbon tax.»

«We're past the point where we can seriously debate whether climate change is real» Do you mean as a society, separated from the scientific facts?

Let's assume that humanity has decided to rationally debate climate change as a collective, global body.

Still, Cuomo has been hesitant to discuss the cause of climate change in the past, referring to it as a «political debate» that he has tried to avoid while speaking at a State Police graduation in Albany earlier this summer.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, will discuss the primarily election and its impact on the campaign as well as the upcoming march for climate change in New York City, the status of gubernatorial debates, fracking and student debt.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor will discuss the primary election and its impact on November gubernatorial races as well as the upcoming march for climate change and the status of gubernatorial debates.

Cameron's creation of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)-- an association of the Tory MEPS with «homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers», as Nick Clegg described it during one of the 2010 TV leaders» debates — was initially considered a triumph by Cameron.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

But with the election inside of three weeks away, the town hall - style debate at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island firmly established climate change as an outcast issue in the race.

As the public debate shifts from the diminishing possibility of avoiding climate change to adapting to its consequences, some steps are being considered to help the poor.

A testy exchange on energy policy remains as close as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have come to addressing climate change in this campaign's debates

Two Australian academics serving on a government climate panel have publicly criticized their own committee's latest report as «untrue and dangerous,» stoking a long - running debate over the country's carbon emissions reduction strategies.

Given that our own changing climate is hotly debated, the fate of the ancient megafauna could help clarify the future as well as the past.

The graph became a lightning rod in the climate change debate, and I, as a result, reluctantly became a public figure.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.

As the UK's most trusted media outlet, the BBC is vital to the public debate, which is why the criticisms, published this week by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in its Communicating Climate Science report, are so important.

Though he came into office as a centrist who sometimes referred to climate change as a debate, he has spent the last several years tacking to the left on a number of issues and has increasingly made environmental issues a priority.

Starting from the same kernel of scientific truth as did The Day After Tomorrow — that global warming could disrupt ocean currents in the North Atlantic — a study commissioned by the Pentagon, of all organizations, concluded that the «risk of abrupt climate change... should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.»

It might be tempting to dismiss this as yet more evidence of the US right divorcing itself from scientific reality, as has happened in debates over evolution and climate change.

Pielke has been something of a lightning rod in climate debates, sometimes drawing attacks from all sides as a result of his views on research and policy.

The climate debate is complicated enough as it is.

There was a fair amount of chatter on the internet about the lack of climate change in the first presidential debate, popularized as #climatesilence.

The flurry of climate action comes as the Senate is debating legislation requiring Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline's movement of Canadian oil sands crude into the United States.

As Congress debates how to cut climate - warming emissions, insights drawn from the European carbon market can help.

As the nation debates possible structures for federal climate change legislation, many states are already moving forward with carbon - cutting plans of their own.

He also cited climate change as an area where disagreements should be debated in a civil manner.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

«If you're using climate change as a reason not to build this pipeline, you're kidding yourself or you're misleading the public,» said Senator Lindsey Graham (R — SC) during the debate.

Scientists have unexpectedly found themselves at the heart of this debate, as the latest round of leaked climate emails makes abundantly clear.

In polarised and divisive policy debates, as we have seen with climate change, it is all the more important that scientifically accurate and rigorous advice is given freely and without fear or favour.

Others, however, saw it as a turning point in the debate about apportioning responsibility for climate change.

First, climate skeptics enter this debate as trial lawyers, trying to hold climate scientists to a «beyond a reasonable doubt» standard of proof, the standard we use when someone has been charged with a crime.

Extinction, even for these emblems of the notion, was as debated as climate change is today.

Nine years later, his name appeared on a list of scientists proposed to the Environmental Protection Agency as arbiters of climate science for a national debate meant to provide Americans «true, legitimate, peer - reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO ₂.»

Though the vast majority of climate scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing as a result of human activities that increase the amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, researchers like Soon foment debate by publishing alternate hypotheses or denials.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Lamar thinks «the debate should continue» — as though the few imposters and sell - outs who doubt climate science are equal to the vast amounts of international science that calls for action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.