Sentences with phrase «concern over climate change»

I suspect that the heat wave itself will result in a short - term rise in concern over climate change.

Between rising oil prices and ongoing concerns over climate change, there is growing pressure on the global shipping industry to cut its fuel consumption.

It seems the scientists criticizing the current concerns over climate change are not producing any fraudulent anything, or anything at all, for that matter.

The demand is coming from concern over climate change, air pollution and peak oil.

But many see a long - term trend and expect a rash of business failures, as companies heavily invested in high - cost oil reserves face a world in which demand is restricted by growing concern over climate change and prices are tumbling in consequence.

Duke Energy has repeatedly stated concern over climate change, yet is participating in ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force, which includes notorious climate skeptics like the Heartland Institute and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (which we understand Duke Energy disassociated from in 2009 due to its role in obstructing national climate policy).

Efforts to balance rising energy demand with public concern over climate change have led to debates within these societies over their future energy mix.

With so - called geoengineering proposals proliferating as concerns over climate change mount, Philip Boyd of New Zealand's NIWA warns that «no geo - engineering proposal has been tested or even subjected to preliminary trials».

«There is a larger context for this latest development,» he wrote, «namely the onslaught of dishonest and libelous attacks that climate scientists have endured for years by dishonest front groups seeking to discredit the case for concern over climate change.»

I'd like to think we did it because we didn't want to press our luck anymore, because repairs cost more than the Blue Book said you were worth, because you didn't have anti-lock brakes or passenger - side airbags, because we really couldn't have you breaking down on a late - night drive home from the airport or on a busy interstate, because of fuel economy and our deepening concern over climate change.

Advocates for climate change mitigation had hoped that that urgent message, coming from the leader of a socially conservative religious institution, would raise concern over climate change among U.S. conservatives, especially Catholic conservatives.

The quiet cut - off of funding for a USGS Study on the health impacts of mountaintop removal and continued delayed in rule - making processes, indicate that the administration is ignoring the issue, despite new studies linking mountaintop removal to increased rates of cancer and growing national concerns over climate change and water shortages.

Other surveys show most Americans put concern over climate change near the bottom of their concerns, and even at the bottom of their environmental concerns.

Chief among those is what policy makers will actually do with a document that voices concern over climate change with even stronger language than before, and with greater resolution on predictions about global sea - level rise.

With all the stern talk about global warming and widespread concern over climate change, you would think that we humans would have a propensity for cooler temperatures.

Concern over climate change needs to be understood in its historical context.

In a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinion.

As concern over climate change continues to mount, the Bush administration has announced plans to eliminate federal support for geothermal power.

In an unprecedented move, the British government rejected plans for a new open - pit coal mine in Northumberland county in northeast England, citing concerns over climate change as a reason.

The U.S. Green Building Council has updated its LEED green building rating system to reflect increasing global concerns over climate change and the fact that environmental issues, just like real estate itself, are tied to location.

In 2015, despite increasing awareness and stated concern over climate change, 22 % of multilateral development bank energy financing still went to fossil fuels.

However, Campbell said she is optimistic that the delay in the release of the update means that the government is responding to rising public concern over climate change.

And I quickly found myself at the center of attacks by climate change critics looking to discredit the hockey stick curve as a way of supposedly discrediting the case for concern over climate change.

It also means seven gubernatorial elections in states that border the lakes, and growing concern over climate change.

Concerns over climate change have encouraged governments and consumers to demand that electricity is decarbonised — which means no more burning of coal and gas wherever possible.

State Street Corp.'s asset management arm on Wednesday launched its first fossil - fuel free exchange - traded fund, citing investors» concerns over climate change.

The reason for the uptake in spending for alternative fuels at that time was due to oil embargos (and general instability of supply) from OPEC nations, not due to any concern over climate change.

I think a substantial impetus behind those policy decisions, 1975 - 1980, was concern over Climate Change (with a change in administration the process shifted back to favoring fossil fuels).

As I wrote last week — with unemployment dropping below 9 % for the first time since the start of 2009 — public belief and concern over climate change may be headed for an upward swing.

This optimism will hinge strongly on events in Europe this week and moving ahead, but if these trends continue, we should expect a slow and gradual corresponding rise in public belief and concern over climate change, a trend that will be important analyze by comparing findings across multiple survey firms and forms of question wording.

Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially.

Wary of how public concern over climate change could drop demand for fossil fuel products, the Kochs have spent the last 15 years dumping over $ 61 million to front groups telling us that global warming doesn't exist, or that it would destroy our economy to stop runaway climate change.

Concern over climate change is especially high in Latin America, where a median of 74 % think it is a very serious problem.

For a variety of reasons unrelated to concerns over climate change, we should advance energy conservation and move away from fossil fuels to renewable resources.

Concern over climate change and the ongoing challenges of managing degraded ecosystems have made the field of ecological restoration a growing focus in the agendas of national and international conservation organizations, including the United...

With high oil prices, concerns over climate change, and uncertain economic conditions keeping

With high oil prices, concerns over climate change, and uncertain economic conditions keeping airlines nervous, the return can not come a moment too soon.

With concerns over climate change and health impacts of air pollution growing and due to cost reductions in renewable technology, similar developments are taking place in many parts of the world, making the German experience an interesting case study for energy policy in other countries.