Sentences with phrase «climate wonks»

Climate wonks would recognize the charts and graphs that university professors and policy think - tank experts shared showing how our planet is being affected by carbon pollution, where the tipping point is for our climate, and how much the Keystone XL pipeline will make our climate crisis worse.

A consensus has formed among economists, climate wonks, and progressives that a carbon tax is the best way to address climate change.

It's a great example of climate wonks doing what climate wonks do best.

It's a great example of what climate wonks do worst.

And like so many experts in so many other science fields, the IPCC climate wonks were wrong, spectacularly.

I'm an energy and climate wonk.

If you're a climate wonk, you undoubtedly already know all about that, but if not, skip down to the end and read the appendix first.

Many may take in the President's words, like «meaningful,» and «step forward,» and miss the details, which anyway are hard to appreciate unless you're a climate wonk or have been writing about the talks for a week.

Not exact matches

[Nov. 23, 4:47 p.m. Updated Brad Johson, who blogs at the Wonk Room, used the new «Climate Rapid Response Team» to test some of Lomborg's assertions and found lots of problems.]

While most policy discussions around climate change focus on energy wonks, the Times says that military analysts are increasingly of the view that «climate - induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions».

Thus what we maths wonks call the proportionate change in CO2 concentration if [Australia's multi-party climate change committee] got its way would be 505.826 divided by 506, or 0.9997.

What doomed I - 732 was a fissure within the climate movement, with centrist economists and other policy wonks in favor of the initiative and progressive greens opposed.

Known as a policy wonk, Campbell was profoundly affected by the 2006 Stern Review, which warned that 20 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) could be lost by climate inaction.

Policy wonks will talk of historical responsibility, climate justice, the right to development, political will and economic capacity.

Climate policy wonks in the UK spent most of 2017 waiting for the government's Clean Growth Strategy.

Where climate scientists, energy wonks, academics, and eco-journalists go wrong is in abstracting climate change from the larger political situation.

On our Grist 50, you'll find scientists, policymakers, artists, farmers, social justice advocates, entrepreneurs, technologists, chefs, clean - energy wonks — all kinds of people who can help bail us out of our current climate code red.

At the same time, it is still under pressure from centrists and wonks to make climate policy bipartisan, and that pressure will only grow more intense when the number of Republican lawmakers willing to negotiate on climate grows (from its current tiny handful).

Romney's position on climate change science has shifted around as Brad Plumer documents on the Wonk Blog:

The two wonks, working for organizations that are typically locked in opposition, recognized a shared interest in finding an alternative direction for U.S. climate policy.

Among climate economists and wonks, the hunches, pet theories, and ritual invocations of «political will» too often are substitutes for deeper, systemic political analysis.

Unlike most SkS authors, I am not a climate science wonk and therefore am not able to respond to your question.

Indeed, in the community of scientists and scholars and wonks that thinks about geoengineering, there is a persistent worry that some changes in mindset might come terribly quickly: Specifically, they fear that a significant part of the political class, especially in America, might move with Necker - cube instaneity from «climate change does not exist / is not man made and thus is not a problem to address» to «climate change can be easily sorted out by geoengineering and is not a problem to address any further.»

In late November 2015, tens of thousands of negotiators, policy wonks and climate activists descended on Paris.