Sentences with phrase «climate hawks»

We do network with others on the lookout for climate hawks who can think globally and lead locally.

In contrast, one party in this country has finally embraced the blunt — and scientifically accurate — language of climate hawks as to what those measures actually entail.»

The qualities I'm looking for in climate hawks are a willingness to call for a price on carbon, a willingness to call for phasing out and ending a reliance on coal, and strong support for renewable energy, for solar and wind in particular.

Instead, they demanded an unworkable framework of legally binding international emissions targets, influenced and supported by climate hawks who demanded a laser focus on increasing renewable deployment and energy efficiency, mainly through market mechanisms such as cap - and - trade and carbon taxes.

Even the most ardent climate hawks agree that we can't afford for utilities to go out of business altogether.

Climate hawks won a major victory over industry groups who fought the bill tooth and nail.

David Roberts of Grist made a related point: «I'd like climate hawks to talk more about creating a new world.

The news is welcomed by climate hawks and environmental activists, who say that continuing to search for new sources of fossil fuels will contribute to climate change while also putting ecosystems at risk in the face of oil spills.

The poll numbers are consistently on climate hawks» side, but their support is shallow and fickle.

Do the ideas and explanations of climate hawks need to be more compelling, more urgent, more emotionally resonant?

Weighing CarbonWA's Tax Swap Ballot Initiative: Washington climate hawks» guide to the pros and cons of I - 732 (Sightline Institute, August 1, 2016)

Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, a longtime climate hawk and top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said Trump and Pruitt «are on the wrong side of history.»

With more than 200 people arrested on Burnaby Mountain in the last month in protests over the Kinder Morgan pipeline, climate hawk Tzeporah Berman...

A Globe and Mail columnist and self - described Ontario climate hawk is calling for a just transition for tar sands / oil sands workers, as a key...

Washington state climate hawks have tried repeatedly to pass a carbon tax, only to see their efforts defeated at the ballot box and in the state Legislature (Climatewire, March 2).

But climate hawks point to the support Seattleites have given to transit investments in recent years.

Even the ultimate climate hawk, David Roberts, has acknowledged deep uncertainty.

Well, it turns out that carbon is getting priced, not in the big, dramatic, simple way climate hawks would prefer, but incrementally, piecemeal, country - by - country, region - by - region, still inadequately but in a way that's starting to add up.

Passing a carbon tax in Washington state would be to U.S. climate hawks what Massachusetts» adoption of universal health care in 2006 was to America's health care debate.

But what right - wing and industry - backed opponents are missing is that this isn't just coming from climate hawks.

And while environmentalists and climate hawks rightfully shamed the candidates for not addressing the issue, apparently Mother Nature wasn't going to let «climate silence» continue.

Climate hawk David Roberts (Grist) accurately describes Adler's piece as «an eloquent, principled case for the simple notion that «embrace of limited government principles need not entail the denial of environmental claims.

Crucial new EPA rules are in the works, including regulations on carbon dioxide from new power plants and, climate hawks hope, existing power plants too.

becomes secretary of state, as is expected, he'll be the most ardent climate hawk ever to hold the office.

Why aren't climate hawks talking about it more?

ICN: On your website, you talk about wanting to elect climate hawks.

However, self proclaimed climate hawks on the left and their doppelgangers on the right are likely to be the last to know.

A growing share of global coal demand comes from those countries, though the coal boom climate hawks feared seems to be slowing somewhat.

Bauman remains bewildered that more people haven't come forward to support a policy so many climate hawks have spent years advocating.

As the years went by, Bauman and other climate hawks watched impatiently as the climate movement suffered failure after failure.

That turns out to be a complex and ill - fated story, revealing divisions among climate hawks — over who pays, who benefits, and who decides — that will not long stay confined to the West Coast.

Environmentalist climate hawks may have to tolerate large - scale carbon sequestration or new rivers given over to dams.

Being a committed, consistent climate hawk will occasionally put one at odds with the rhetorical tropes, policy preferences, and priorities of environmentalism.

That's where climate hawks are — their own 1964.

Judged by that harsh criteria, genuine climate hawks are a rare species indeed.

Farmer climate hawks may have to tolerate swaths of their land being claimed for transmission lines or wind turbines.

Wealthy climate hawks may have to tolerate restrictions on their consumer purchases or airline travel.

As an American climate hawk, I had to do just exactly this, for I had to watch as the corporate populism of the «Tea Party» swept away a years - in - the making push for carefully calibrated climate legislation as if it was a minor thing, an irrelevancy.

Conservative climate hawks may have to tolerate climate solutions that involve heavy government intervention.

But even if the moral reason is set aside, there are still two practical reasons to doubt that disasters will prompt the kind of change climate hawks would want.

This year's U.S. delegation includes many of the administration's most influential climate hawks — Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, top climate negotiator Todd Stern and John Podesta, counselor to Obama, who has become the administration's de facto point man for climate policy.

They are a species trying to bolster their waning numbers: GOP climate hawks.

In other words, it's a defining issue for climate hawks.

Climate hawks need to dial down the emotional resonance and add more hedges and nuances to their explanations.

It's not surprising that the first substantive energy exchange between the two candidates dealt with gas prices, given — as a national poll by the University of Texas just found — that this is by far the most pressing energy issue on voters» minds (to the consternation of climate hawks).

We'll just have to continue to wait and see what happens, but make no mistake about it, the fact this conversation is even happening and that the future of KXL is still unknown is a huge victory for environmentalists and climate hawks who want to keep the tar sands «carbon bomb» from detonating.

Democrat Jay Inslee (ardent climate hawk and co-author of an early book on the clean - energy transition) became governor of Washington in 2013.

It might seem that environmentalists who fall short as climate hawks are uniquely annoying because they say they prioritize climate change.