Koonin, who worked for two years in the Obama administration and now teaches at New York University, has long called for a public
debate on climate change science.
2007/04/18: BBC: First climate debate divides UN The United Nations Security Council has held its first ever
debate on climate change with some members arguing it was not the place for such a discussion.
David Doniger, climate policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the introduction of the Boxer - Kerry bill on Wednesday would signal the beginning of
Senate debate on climate change.
Yet the
US debate on climate change has made cost to the US economy of climate change policies, or economic impacts on specific US industries the key criteria for the acceptability of US action on climate change while ignoring what US ghg emissions were doing or threatening to do to tens of vulnerable people around the world.
Achim Steiner, speaking ahead of the U.N. Security Council's first -
ever debate on climate change, said that global warming should be considered a security issue as shortages of water and fertile land in the next 10 to 20 years may lead to conflicts.
A
surrogate debate on climate change was held in Washington, D.C., this week by an independent organization advocating for science - related dialogue by candidates for office
Some of the proposals reviewed by Stephen Battersby for geoengineering a cooler planet will be a hard sell given the
polarised debate on climate change (22 September, p 30).
As has been hinted at here there is resistance to
factual debate on climate change that amounts to intrigue — as Sir David King said, he was «being followed around the world by people in the pay of vested - interest groups that want to cast doubt on the science of climate change».
«We have not until now had a national
debate on a climate change proposal, period,» said Karen A. Harbert, a former senior Energy Department official who now heads the United States Chamber of Commerce's energy institute.
Annually, the event brings together global leaders from business and government to
spur debate on climate change and to showcase pioneering solutions for a cleaner, more prosperous future for all.
While the present policy
debate on climate change focuses on 2020, 2050 and 2100 targets, our present use of fossil fuels will continue to affect the atmosphere and the oceans for many, many thousands of years.
The government is still keen to
stifle debate on climate change just as they have tried to stifle debate on the EU (by seeking to exclude UKIP from the TV debates) and same sex marriages (Telegraph reports that senior officials have personally urged bishops to stay away from this week's vote in the House of Lords).
In late July, Sen. Inhofe referenced McIntyre s work during a
Senate debate on climate change, declaring, We have the Energy & Environment report that came out in 2003 that says the original Mann papers contain collation errors, unjustifiable truncations of extrapolations of source data, obsolete data...
Jessie Smith Noyes Fdn grant for «General support for an organization working to ensure that low income communities, indigenous groups, and communities of color participate in
policy debates on climate change and food justice issues in Minnesota and the Midwest to achieve solutions»
Tim Maughan reports from New York on the first of a series
of debates on climate change, starting with the impact of catastrophic events and global injustice
Phrases with «debate on climate change»