Sentences with phrase «climate debate by»

This allows any superficially plausible scenario to have weight in the climate debate by amplifying any possible risk to its maximum; what - if stacked upon what - if stacked upon what - if.

George Monbiot wades into the meat - and - climate debate by explaining how «ethically» raised meat is actually worse for the planet than those raised in confined spaces.

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What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

By throwing millions at various diversity initiatives, university administrators propitiate the idols of diversity and tolerance while contributing to a climate that actively undermines the ability of students and faculty alike to engage in free speech and debate in an atmosphere of respect and civility.

A climate in which the terms of debate blow inch by inch to the right.

His comments, made during a House of Commons debate on climate change, were welcomed by opposition parties, who have been calling for a bill for some time.

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

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».

Delaying infrastructure decisions is no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected by the adverse consequences of climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science

The forthcoming Live Earth concert, organised by Al Gore to raise awareness of climate change, has not really educated people on the issues surrounding change and instead risks closing off debate, he concluded.

In a video posted on his official Assembly website, Hanna is seen debating a bill on the floor and decrying a «conspiracy» by scientists who engage in climate research to «suppress» research conducted by those who challenge the existence of global warming.

A report by the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee criticises ministers for failing to do enough to help millions struggling with soaring energy bills and reopens the debate on benefits for wealthy older people.

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.

The letter, which included a statement on climate science by the leaders of 18 scientific societies, stated, «Although debate about policy options exists, climate change is not a scientifically - controversial topic.»

Climate change is a topic that is debated, doubted and covered by news outlets across the world.

A surrogate debate on climate change was held in Washington, D.C., this week by an independent organization advocating for science - related dialogue by candidates for office

To what extent the 2010 flood disaster was caused by climate change versus other human impacts is a subject of growing debate in Pakistan.

The Accu - Weather report was commissioned by a lobbying organisation called the Global Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&climate change issue».

Researchers still debate why the megafauna died off: Hunting by humans and climate change are the main suspects.

By bridging the perceived divide between religion and science, these unique voices have the potential to fundamentally alter the climate debate.

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.

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.»

By comparing recent measurements with results from new models, the network challenged the long - debated assumption that the Sun's slight change in radiation could cause Earth's climate to change.

The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to a burgeoning debate over the climate impact of replacing oil - and coal - fired power plants with those fuelled by natural gas.

The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

Debate over «natural refrigerants» In November, 400 such retailers committed to stop using hydrofluorocarbons — coolants that affect the climate far more than CO2 — by 2015.

By deviating from sound scientific principles they have caused serious damage to the climate change debate.

In the debates, Perry distinguished himself by comparing the persecution of a 17th - century astronomer by a powerful religious and political body with the plight of those who doubt the science of climate change.

COPENHAGEN — Not a lot of U.S. Senators will make the trek to the United Nations» climate summit here — a delegation led by California Sen. Barbara Boxer will stay home to focus on the ongoing health care debate while arch-contrarian Senator James Inhofe (R — Okla.) stopped in but briefly.

«The purpose of this new form of cyber-bullying seems clear; it is to upset and intimidate the targets, making them reluctant to participate further in the climate change debate,» Hamilton wrote in a column published last week by Sydney's ABC News.

February 8, 2007, Climate Change Verdict: Science Debate Ends, Solution Debate Begins, by David Biello.

A study published in April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) started this debate by projecting that a warming climate would render many of the traditional European wine - growing areas unsuitable for wine production by 2050.

This is clearest in the Americas, where the debate over whether humans or climate caused Late Pleistocene extinctions has raged for decades (the truth is probably a combination of these two factors, including a trophic cascade caused by human - mediated extinctions of large carnivores).

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Mayors of 21 cities in Florida on Friday called on the moderators of next week's presidential debates in Miami to ask candidates how they would deal with rising sea levels caused by climate change, a concern of the state's coastal communities.

Meanwhile, the science of climate change is currently being overshadowed by a media - driven public debate, mainly in the U.S..

«It reframes part of the climate change debate by encouraging individuals around the world to better understand where their electricity is coming from before they adopt supposedly eco-friendly technologies,» he says.

In the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolution.

Some of the proposals reviewed by Stephen Battersby for geoengineering a cooler planet will be a hard sell given the polarised debate on climate change (22 September, p 30).

While it is unlikely that we can obtain complete certainty on this issue, it is important for mainstream climate scientists to continue to debate this issue in a manner that can be interpreted by rest of the academic community.

The episode also illustrates how the climate misinformation camp has exploited opportunities to influence climate policy, by targeting those with a direct stake in the policy debate.

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.

Two of those books were published by Cato, while The Heated Debate was published by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), another cog in the climate denial machine.

The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions — it's also polluting the debate over climate policy by funding bad science.

Contributors to climate change debate websites and written submissions to us claimed that these e-mails showed a deliberate and systematic attempt by leading climate scientists to manipulate climate data, arbitrarily adjusting and «cherry - picking» data that supported their global warming claims and deleting adverse data that questioned their theories.

While we were at the Amsterdam Film Festival last week Franny took part in a debate with some climate sceptics, which was hijacked by a medieval protestor from the Flat Earth society who wanted to shake hands with them as he had been all alone for 400 years with no friends.

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The vast majority of climate researchers are convinced by the data that human - caused warming is underway, though spirited debate surrounds the complex feedbacks in the climate system.

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