Sentences with phrase «concerns about climate issues»

Ever growing concerns about climate issues coupled with recent major European rail investments means that travelling the continent by rail is a cleaner, less expensive and more enjoyable choice.

Obama has also sought to use the star power of his office to raise public concern about climate issues.

Not exact matches

2008: A month before Exxon's annual meeting, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune held a press conference to publicly express their concern about the company's attitude toward climate change and other issues.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

A key Senate committee approved Trump's top diplomatic pick yesterday, but Democrats cited concerns about Tillerson's position on climate change issues

«Reducing methane emissions is a critical issue not only for the industry, but for everyone concerned about climate change,» he said.

«That's a huge wedge issue,» Steyer said of young voters» concern about climate change.

So, it began to be a framework where ecologist [s] and climate experts and chemists and other people concerned about these issues, all could say, «Hey, I see where I fit in this.»

Parents appear to be more likely to express concern about critical environmental issues like climate change and more interested in changing their behavior to be smarter consumers when it comes to purchasing energy -LSB-...]

The reason that Keystone got so much attention is not because that particular pipeline is a make - or - break issue for climate change, but because those who have looked at the science of climate change are scared and concerned about a general lack of sufficient movement to deal with the problem.

Paul Bledsoe, who worked in the White House on climate issues under President Clinton, sees Obama's action as a sign of his personal concern about the impacts of rising carbon dioxide, which recently passed 400 parts per million, a measurement not seen on Earth for tens of thousands of years.

It's an idea spawned on Reddit, where several scientists — concerned about the new president's policies on climate change and other issues, and hyped from the success of the Women's March on Washington — were discussing the best way to respond to what they feared would be an administration hostile to science.

In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.

Whilst particularly in the primary sector many educators would say that there is an issue with respect to over-crowding of the curriculum, we would be concerned about some of the discussion around removing things such as sustainability and climate change and environmental issues from the curriculum.

I am concerned about the blog whats up with that, why is this issue (climate change) such a controversy to them and others?

So while polls may reveal a significant proportion of Americans concerned about climate change, it is not an important issue in comparison to all of the other concerns.

My point in doing this post was to remind folks that the main environmental issues driving the popularity of farmers markets are most likely not concerns about energy issues and climate, but more about sustaining local conditions and practices that people desire — greenery, connectedness, a link with seasons, and the rest.

Workshop participants — who ranged from university facilities managers and administrators to professors and student activists — cited a variety of reasons for their interest in climate issues, including concerns about health issues, energy carbon saving potential, and the worrisome prospect of having kids in a world facing a climate crisis.

re — «My point in doing this post was to remind folks that the main environmental issues driving the popularity of farmers markets are most likely not concerns about energy issues and climate»

Peter Gleick, an analyst of global water and climate issues, chides the newspaper in a Forbes post, noting that the Journal turned down a letter of concern about human - driven climate change from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences (which ended up published in the journal Science).

It's hard, because those of us concerned about the climate problem need a certain unity and solidarity, and focus on the big issues as you say.

And let us not forget that, even on this most politically polarized of issues, there are large numbers of conservatives who are deeply concerned about climate change and bravely hold onto this conviction despite the social pressure towards «stealth denial».

Another reality is that while worries about climate - related instability are rising, near - term concerns about energy insecurity are already a top - tier issue both here and in China, the two dominant contributors to the planet's greenhouse - gas blanket.

Concerning the «debate» highlighted by the above exchanges between Pielke and Holdren, the issue isnt about analogues to past droughts (which, by the way, the California resource managers were more interested in), but about the scientific evidence that California droughts have become more severe due to climate change.

There's more in USA Today on whether climate scientists» concerns about their attackers are overblown, given other issues weighing on peoples» minds and blunting interest in climate change.

2008: A month before Exxon's annual meeting, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune held a press conference to publicly express their concern about the company's attitude toward climate change and other issues.

H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the non-profit Plants Need CO2, noted that many of the former NASA scientists harbored doubts about the significance of the C02 - climate change theory and have concerns over NASA's advocacy on the issue.

Beyond partisanship, younger Americans are significantly more concerned about climate change, an issue that is expected to have a much larger impact if temperatures rise consistently over coming decades.

Whatever the merits of the papers at issue (and even some climate skeptics were unimpressed), it appears that PRP did violate accepted peer review norms in producing the special issue — as Anthony Watts details here — and concerns were raised about the journal last year.

Actually, some of the GOP candidates have posted plans that deal with energy issues, although they don't go in the direction that Sanders and scientists concerned about climate change might like.

People more concerned about the issue of climate change also tend to know more about science, generally.15

And they are pursuing this agenda despite global warming again being dead last in the latest Gallup poll of 15 issues of greatest concern to Americans: only 25 % say they worry about it «a great deal,» despite steady hysteria; 24 % are «not at all» worried about the climate.

The effects of science knowledge tend to be modest and inconsistent in predicting people's views about climate change and climate scientists, especially in comparison with the clearer and more striking way that people's views are tied to their political party preferences, ideology and level of personal concern with climate issues.

Despite climate policy being something of a sleeper issue in this election, our results suggest that concern about the climate is more widespread now than it was five years ago.

That's thrown the future of US climate policy into some doubt, as Republican voters and politicians are generally less concerned about the issue than their Democrat colleagues.

Overall, only 36 percent of Americans describe themselves as personally concerned about the issue of climate change, and more likely to believe that humans are playing some role in a warming Earth.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.

That last one leads into the logical next issue of concern about global warming and climate change ramifications in society.

These «Concerned,» «Cautious,» and «Disengaged» segments for the most part do not have a strong political or partisan identity and rely mostly on local TV news, local newspapers and word of mouth for information and to form decisions about climate change, if they had even considered the issue much at all.

Judith writes: «Relative to the broader issue of attribution, which are at the heart of skeptical concern, details of the surface temperature record don't play a terribly large role in most people's skepticism about climate change.»

When I started Climate Etc., John was one of the few climate scientists that contacted me, sharing concerns about various ethical issues in ourClimate Etc., John was one of the few climate scientists that contacted me, sharing concerns about various ethical issues in ourclimate scientists that contacted me, sharing concerns about various ethical issues in our field.

I have also noted that the message strategy employed in An Inconvenient Truth likely appeals to a base of those already concerned about climate change and that Gore's visibility on the issue and political efforts likely have unintended negative consequences relative to public opinion.

This is especially handy when you're at a party and someone makes an incorrect statement about climate — you can then quickly find the exact issue and show why their concern is unfounded.

Because when the American public is overwhelmingly concerned about the climate crisis and supports participating in international efforts to address it, it becomes that much harder for the current administration to just sweep the issue under the rug and hope that people will forget about it like with the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.

(Fwiw, I define myself as more of a «lukewarmer» since I see reasons to be concerned about warming and climate issues, but I think the imminence and magnitude of any civilizational»em ergency» are being exaggerated in many quarters — I'm more of a «policy skeptic» about the steps being proposed, if you care).

For polls see e.g., Brett W. Pelham, «Awareness, opinions about global warming vary worldwide,» Gallup (2009), online here; Leiserowitz et al. (2010b) and other work by Leiserowitz's group; Council on Foreign Relations, «Public Opinion on Global Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, online here.

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By questioning the science on global warming, these environmentalists say, groups like the Global Climate Coalition were able to sow enough doubt to blunt public concern about a consequential issue and delay government action.

So if you're concerned about climate change as a major issue then you may want to consider switching to a party that supports climate responses more readily.

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