Sentences with phrase «debate about climate change»

We — a growing number of volunteers and coalition members — are raising public debate about climate change and taking responsibility into our own hands, right here in our own city.

I can speak personally for the lively debate about climate change policy.

To win the scientific debate about climate change, we just... oh wait, we already did.

I don't hear this very often when hearing debates about climate change.

Bringing together some of the world's foremost economic experts to contribute to the global debate about climate change and economic policy, and to inform government, business and investment decisions.

When I hear debates about climate change, very often it seems like the debate has been centered around whether or not it is caused by human activity.

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

Dr. Wie - Hock «Willie» Soon of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addressed a gathering of the American Freedom Alliance on Thursday night at the Luxe Hotel, describing the current state of debate about climate change as «spitting science in the face» and «treating science like a piece of rubbish.

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) represents a threat to humanity,» said Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State University climate scientist who was not involved in the study.

«These papers are very relevant to the current debate about climate change policy and the extent to which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be reorganised to meet the new challenges.

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 — 14).

Four mixed - media paintings come from a series Smith began in the early»90s that recalls her father's stories of older Native Americans who survived colonial violence, while sculptural work framed by a canoe refers to the ongoing debates about climate change that persist today.

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 - 14).

When lawmakers began a heated debate about climate change legislation in 2008, electric utilities Southern Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spent tens of millions on lobbying efforts.

Obsessive rainbow - inspired doodles take over the planet; transcending partisan debates about climate change.

It's probably conservatives trying to seize the attack ground in view of a possible pending debate about climate change in Washington, but the chorus of denialist opinion is so coordinated and their «logic» so simple it is convincing many, even among educated people (science PhDs) who can not be bothered to look deep into things but try to form an opinion based on a few journalistic pieces.

Scholars» Research Offers Insight Into Future Debate about Climate Change.

In the end, the only question that matters [for the public debate about climate change] is, what are we going to do about it?

Koonin said any federal debate about climate change should involve all the government's science agencies, not just EPA.

The science is in», and the continued debate about climate change impedes the possibility of «rising to the challenge» we are faced with.

Continue reading «I Can Engage In A Flawed Debate About Climate Change»

Discussions about hockeysticks and feedbacks are all very interesting, but they are not the crux of why there is a such a heated and politicized debate about climate change.

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

now surrounds debates about climate change, which in many ways is more powerful and pernicious than an outright ban.

With wisdom, wit and winsome writing, he shows us that debates about climate change turn out to be disputes about ourselves - our hopes, our fears, our aspirations, our identity.

Nor little wonder Quiggin will not meet him in open debate about climate change or the lack of it

Publication of the document inflamed an already - fraught debate about climate change.

The message from all this must be that the environmentalists who bang on about funding must be very, very desperate indeed to find ways of avoiding debate about climate change.

Debates about climate change also abound.

We concluded that the three digital players were beneficial for public debate about climate change, as they had found new ways of covering the «old», sometimes boring, often remote, theme of climate change.

Although current debates about climate change, evolution, and vaccines may suggest otherwise, trust in science has remained relatively constant over the decades, pointed out Yves Gingras, a historian and sociologist of science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

This is a call for researchers in different nations to investigate how national debates about climate change policies have expressly considered or not ethics and justice issues in formulating climate policies.

The polarized and politicized nature of the societal debate about climate change can make it challenging for teachers to present the science honestly, accurately, and completely.

Anyone invoking the consensus in debates about climate change are thus separated from reality by at least five degrees.

Nonetheless the debate about climate change crosses national borders so I believe I can still contribute a useful answer on one of your points.