Sentences with phrase «climate policy experts said»

In interviews, more than half a dozen environmental economists and climate policy experts said yes.

Without concrete action by the United States, climate policy experts say, the rest of the world — which is eager to replicate America's high - revving, energy - hungry economy — will be unlikely to conserve coal or oil for the sake of the shared atmosphere.

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- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

Joel Clement, the former top climate policy expert at the Interior Department before he resigned last summer, said he's also concerned about why employees aren't filling out the survey.

«If you want a stable climate, you have to bring emissions to zero,» says David Keith, a physicist and public policy expert at Harvard University.

«On the one hand you wouldn't want to bet the future of U.S. climate policy on it until one has done more work, but on the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration expert.

Richard Lazarus, an environmental law expert and professor at Harvard Law School, said courts have played an «outsized role» in climate policy in recent years because regulators are working with an old law to deal with a problem its authors weren't specifically addressing.

When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

Jerry Taylor, an economist at the Cato Institute, also sharply criticized the scientists» statement, saying, «I do not believe that «the experts» in any field should be dictating climate policy because there are plenty of important value judgments built in to those policies, and experts, however defined, have no objectively better values than you or I.»

Many experts on climate and energy policy say China will never move meaningfully to curb its carbon dioxide emissions until it sees such steps in the United States.

It's not hard to find climate scientists and policy experts who strongly feel the world needs to move rapidly to curb emissions, but who say there are no such clean lines.

A commentary in this week's issue of the journal Nature adds to the chorus of economists, climate scientists and experts in energy policy saying that the major approaches to combating global warming are deeply flawed.

However, the Climate Action Tracker, a group of climate scientists and policy experts, says the EU submission is «less ambiClimate Action Tracker, a group of climate scientists and policy experts, says the EU submission is «less ambiclimate scientists and policy experts, says the EU submission is «less ambitiousâ?

«There is no question that there has been a change in momentum on this subject,» said Dana Fisher, a climate policy expert at Columbia University.

«There's growing external pressure on China and also its own problems with energy and the environment, and these factors are coming together to make it more active and focused on climate change,» said Goerild Heggelund, an expert on Chinese climate change policy at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway.

One climate policy expert is quoted as putting it rather graphically, saying this:

According to another New York Times report, «Energy experts said prosecutors may decide to investigate companies that chose to fund or join organizations that questioned climate science or policies designed to address the problem, such as the Global Climate Coalition and the American Legislative Exchange Council.climate science or policies designed to address the problem, such as the Global Climate Coalition and the American Legislative Exchange Council.Climate Coalition and the American Legislative Exchange Council.»

Brown says «the IPCC's comprehensive approach to evaluating climate science makes sense, with experts providing an overview of the science for policy markers.

Foreign policy experts say the Keystone could have been used to forge a grand, cross-border bargain to jointly address climate change — a bargaining chip toward agreements on carbon taxes, cap - and - trade regimes, or other comprehensive approaches.

Hansen said the problem climate experts face is that no prominent politician in the US has backed policy that has any shot at preventing an average of 2C (3.6 F) of warming in this century, a widely agreed upon point of no return for climate change.

The initiative is being designed so that additional states and provinces can sign on, said Kathleen Drew, Gregoire's climate policy expert.

Fraser repeated the authority's view that policymakers need to use a «toolbox» of policies to reach an emissions reduction target, but he also said Ross Garnaut, an expert climate adviser to the former Labor government, had made some «good points» about the capacity of Direct Action — as so far outlined — to meet the targets.

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But in translating these general commitments into hard numbers, says Elliot Diringer, a climate - policy expert at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, «the cash flows really have never been enough.climate - policy expert at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, «the cash flows really have never been enough.Climate and Energy Solutions, «the cash flows really have never been enough.»

«This finding reinforces not only that climate policies will necessarily be made in the face of deep, irreducible uncertainties,» says Roger Pielke, a climate policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, US.

Climate expert Fahad Saeed, who heads the Climate Change Unit at the Islamabad - based think tank Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), said it could be a good time for Pakistan to invest in clean energy by tapping intelligently into the international funding available and demanding technology transfer or investment from the USD 100 billion figure per year earmarked for the Green Climate Fund by 2020.