Sentences with phrase «climate measures proposed»

New York City teachers call on de Blasio administration to fund and implement school climate measures proposed by mayoral task force

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Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

Leach's argument, advanced in support of Prime Minister Trudeau's criticism of British Columbia's proposed pipeline safety measures, is that the federal government's climate plan requires Alberta's buy - in, and the price of that buy - in is a pipeline to tidewater.

This proposed legislation would help prepare Massachusetts for the impacts of climate change by identifying where we are most vulnerable and taking measures to protect public health, public safety, and the economy.

Sen. Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerDem lawmaker spars with own party over prison reform A country as wealthy as the United States should make affordable housing a right Democrats urge colleagues to oppose prison reform bill MORE (D - N.J.) criticized Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Defense bill amendment would protect open transgender military service Hillicon Valley: Lawmakers target Chinese tech giants Dems move to save top cyber post Trump gets a new CIA chief Ryan delays election security briefing Twitter CEO meets lawmakers MORE as complicit with President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE for saying she did not hear him say the United States should not accept immigrants from «shithole countries.»

On Tuesday, Florida GOP Reps. Carlos CurbeloCarlos Luis CurbeloAnti - Maduro Venezuelans not unlike anti-Castro Cubans of yore Farm bill revolt could fuel Dreamer push Three Republicans join climate change caucus MORE and Ileana Ros - LehtinenIleana Carmen Ros - LehtinenOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Defense bill amendment would protect open transgender military service Tensions on immigration erupt in the House GOP MORE called on Pruitt to resign or be fired.

If the measure of President Obama's proposed power plant regulations is their impact on climate change, they would be doomed to failure, according to climate scientists.

The European Union (EU), for example, has proposed a multi-stage process, whereby commitments for climate action post-2020 would be registered next year and then subjected to an international assessment to determine how well the commitments measure up against each other and against scientific assessments.

Just because the proposed measures might not help climate as much as previously presumed, Rogelz says, «doesn't diminish the effects that they could have on people's lives.»

The rules do not require emissions reductions, although EPA said the proposed measure would help with future climate policies.

The abstract certainly says so by concluding «The validity of the anthropogenic nature of global warming and climate change and that of the effectiveness of proposed measures for climate action may therefore be questioned solely on this basis.»

Although emissions are projected to continue decreasing until 2020 in all 27 members of the EU, the 20 % reduction target compared with 1990, endorsed by European leaders in 2007, will remain out of reach without the implementation of additional measures, such as the EU energy and climate change package proposed by the European Commission in January 2008, the agency said.»

What is your position on the following measures that have been proposed to address global climate change — a cap - and - trade system, a carbon tax, increased fuel - economy standards, or research?

It's just one of several drastic measures proposed to combat global warming, now that most scientists are in agreement that carbon dioxide, primarily from burning fossil fuels, is changing Earth's climate.

The former say new climate measures being proposed unfairly handicap their still developing economies — an issue that similarly divides rich and poor nations on climate measures across the globe.

In Issues, a scholar of conservative policy has looked at areas where action on climate measures might win favor, while an energy analyst has proposed combining climate policies drawn from across the political spectrum.

The effort you propose just measures model precision and is the wrong approach to learning how to model the climate.

(The «I think» was because I was hoping to extricate myself from CE for a while to finish off a paper explaining why climate sensitivity as currently defined can neither be measured nor estimated with an error bar less than 1 C per doubling, and proposing a different definition that shrinks the error bar by an order of magnitude.

The document should aid planners accessing climate finance to support sustainable transport initiatives, as well as to assist evaluators in understanding and measuring GHG benefits of proposed investments.

If the proposed nomenclature change is adopted by the United Nations, which collects greenhouse gas inventories from nations every year, it could change the optics of the climate change reductions nations are implementing, said Bryce Payne, director of science and technology at Gas Safety Inc., a company that measures methane emissions.

Australia's carbon dioxide tax is typical of the climate - mitigation measures now being proposed or implemented.

The industry tends to present itself as a technological leader, but the measures it proposes to tackle climate change are mainly technological or market - based and thus firmly embedded within the corporate world's drive for profits.

Objective measures of climate model performance are proposed and used to assess simulations of the 20th century, which are available from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) archive.

Brazil proposed SBSTA take on recommendations for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) develop degree measures for historical emissions in line historical responsibilities.

Climate Neutral Now supports this objective, because it is an initiative that acts as a climate action tool: its work contributes to the objective of limiting the raise of the temperature by proposing an immediate and economically advantageous set of climate actions: measure, reduce and offset with trustworthy units, vetted by the United NClimate Neutral Now supports this objective, because it is an initiative that acts as a climate action tool: its work contributes to the objective of limiting the raise of the temperature by proposing an immediate and economically advantageous set of climate actions: measure, reduce and offset with trustworthy units, vetted by the United Nclimate action tool: its work contributes to the objective of limiting the raise of the temperature by proposing an immediate and economically advantageous set of climate actions: measure, reduce and offset with trustworthy units, vetted by the United Nclimate actions: measure, reduce and offset with trustworthy units, vetted by the United Nations.

If we were to take this broader view, and take measure of the full breadth of complementary actions contemplated by the proposed Waxman - Markey legislation [the U.S. climate bill currently being considered by the House], then we get a different picture of the potential impact of this legislation.

His Climate Action Plan, in general, proposes a lot of measures that cut emissions.

The validity of the anthropogenic nature of global warming and climate change and that of the effectiveness of proposed measures for climate action may therefore be questioned solely on this basis.

The nation will be essentially kissing an estimated $ 4.6 billion in oil revenues goodbye, making the commitment one of the most significant and ambitious measures proposed by a developing nation to tackle climate change.

We propose a transdisciplinary approach to identify demand - side climate solutions, investigate their mitigation potential, detail policy measures and assess their implications for well - being.

While weather predictions and long - term climate are very complex and beyond the author's expertise, he feels the single issue of heat absorption and radiation due to carbon dioxide is much simpler, well understood, and better modeled and measured as proposed here.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, showed that reaching the 3 energy - related objectives proposed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, launched in 2011, would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level oClimate Change, showed that reaching the 3 energy - related objectives proposed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, launched in 2011, would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level oclimate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level of 2 °C.

Selwyn Duke — New American — January 8, 2016 It's no wonder climate alarmists are getting hot under the collar, proposing measures such as imprisoning climate realists.