In this way, Sacramento would take the place of Washington as the center of national
climate policy deliberations and action.
Not exact matches
It seems that the primary motivation of this is for the leaders of these professional societies to be called to the big table to engage in the Congressional
policy deliberations about
climate change.
Gradually, in the months after K15 came out, the evidence kept mounting that Tom Karl constantly had his «thumb on the scale» — in the documentation, scientific choices, and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international
deliberations on
climate policy.
After decades of
deliberation, the Paris Agreement has thrust
climate policy into a new era of adaptation implementation.
Adaptation has been a central part of UN and IPCC
deliberations from the very beginning, gaining particular prominence in political negotiations in the mid 2000s (when adaptation could be described as «the most fashionable item on the
climate policy agenda»).
Bates says that Karl did so «in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming pause, rushed so that he could time publication to influence national and international
deliberations on
climate policy.»
This is not a good thing for
climate science, nor for
policy deliberations.