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Not exact matches
He covers
policy news for Science with an emphasis on
climate and energy research.
► In other
climate change
news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct
policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.
At an event by The Christian Science Monitor that occurred before
news of the Gore meeting yesterday, Bipartisan
Policy Center President Jason Grumet said the biggest surprise over the next four years would be if Trump deferred to his daughter on the topic of
climate.
According to the Center for Science and Technology
Policy Research,
news coverage of
climate change in 50 newspapers around the globe dropped by more than half in late 2009 to 2010.
The researchers, led by Gary King of Harvard University, asked groups of two to five of these
news outlets to write stories on broad
policy areas, including race, immigration,
climate, and reproductive rights.
While die - hard congressional opponents of President Obama's
climate policies did respond to the mid-December
news that nearly 200 nations had accepted a long - sought deal, those statements were fewer and less vitriolic than expected — especially considering that the White House was claiming the accord as a cornerstone of the president's
climate legacy.
On this week's show: An expanding role for the U.S. judiciary in
climate policy, plus a roundup from the daily
news site
If the world is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by
climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the
news magazine Foreign
Policy.
The good
news about methane is there are already pretty clear paths to progress, explained Jonathan Banks, senior
climate policy advisor for the Clean Air Task Force.
Motivated to action by this
news, Christina co-authored a
policy paper with E4E colleagues that has supported her advocacy with her union and district for better training and support for teachers in using alternative methods for discipline and improving school safety and
climates.
The
news release — appended below — says it all, and the findings it describes reinforce my assertion awhile back that there's plenty of denial to go around in the arguments over
climate and energy trends and
policies.
• Great line: «Some environmentalists have blamed energy - dependent industries and the
news media for stalemates on
climate policy, arguing that they perpetuate a false sense of uncertainty about the basic problem.»
According to
news reports (and a
news release) from a meeting of solar scientists in New Mexico, three separate lines of analysis point to decent prospects for a sustained downturn in solar activity, with important potential implications for Earth's
climate, and for
climate policy.
He's also developed what must be one of the biggest e-mail lists in the field of environmental science and
policy, sending out daily digests of
news on
climate and, occasionally, his own observations.
Remarks by Soon reported at InsideClimate
News are so contrary to the Smithsonian's own published
policy on
climate change and so generally off the rail that the Smithsonian needs to investigate itself, I think.
Updated, 8:38 p.m. There are new revelations from the continuing InsideClimate
News investigation of what the oil industry knew about the potential
climate impacts of carbon dioxide from fuel burning even as it sought delays in related national and international
policies.
There's more on California's (and the world's) energy options in an audio interview conducted by Science's
news staff with one of the authors of the new paper, Snuller Price, an energy and
climate policy analyst at E3, a consulting firm in San Francisco.
NASA Reneges on Transparency — Still No DSCOVR Documents Tags: Desmogger, dscovr
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If you have a dark sense of humor and need a chuckle to deal with such
news, particularly in light of the ongoing stasis over international and United States
policy on
climate and energy, have a look at Marc Roberts's latest cartoon posting, which is from his archives but all too relevant.
In reporting my
news story on a newly revealed pattern of extreme droughts in sub-Saharan Africa, I set off a bit of an e-mail firestorm within a cluster of
climate scientists and
policy experts.
Stern has now offered a reaction to the discussion last week of Princeton researcher Robert Socolow's call for a fresh approach to
climate policy that acknowledges «the
news about
climate change is unwelcome, that today's
climate science is incomplete, and that every «solution» carries risk.»
Try to find slide one — depicting the online tussle over
climate science and
policy — within slide two, which places the first issue in the flow of the moment's
news (via the fascinating newsmap.jp Web site):
«What's wrong with U.N.
climate science: An independent scientific review of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report» (
News Release), Science and Environmental
Policy Project, May 25, 2000.
Worse, the
news media,
climate activists, politicians, and regulators treat the «projections» as predictions, or forecasts, for purposes of stirring up public anxiety and trying to justify draconian anti-fossil-fuel
policies.
11/19/15 — One science watcher is seeing «fantastic
news» in how some Republicans are viewing
climate challenges, with separate groups of federal legislators declaring intentions to «protect our environment and
climate while also bolstering clean energy innovation» and to be «good stewards of our environment... and base our
policy decisions in science.»
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