Sentences with phrase «delaying action on»

All deniers care about is delaying action on climate change as long as possible, and they do this by preventing members of the Reality Based Community (which includes real scientists and scientist wannabes, like me) from teaching newcomers about the basic facts of AGW.

By delaying action on CO2 we force ourselves to de-carbonize faster.

Delaying action on climate change is suicidal.

3) «Climate Destruction Sponsors» — There are some extremely wealthy people, most of which have or have had substantial investments in fossil fuel extraction and sales who have funded climate science denial efforts by institutions such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute as a means of delaying action on climate change.

In delaying action on climate, some people have had a much greater role than others in prolonging our addiction to fossil fuels.

Violent tornadoes throughout the southeastern U.S. must be a front - page reminder that no matter how successful climate deniers are in confusing the public or delaying action on climate change in Congress or globally, the science is clear: Our climate is worsening.

Delaying action on increasing ambition beyond 2 °C is detrimental to averting the worst impacts from climate change.

Exxon Mobil has been astonishingly successful in delaying action on global warming for more than a decade.

It is these tendencies, in part demanded by the governments that created the panel in 1988, that have sometimes offered fodder to critics, some of whom simply want to improve the assessments while others appear eager to undercut the credibility of the enterprise as a strategy for delaying action on greenhouse gases.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

Nassau's Office of Human Resources is delaying action on the aide's job reclassification until County Comptroller - elect Jack Schnirman, a Democrat, takes office in January.

The IDA board unanimously approved the $ 6.7 million project after delaying action on the plan last month when Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown protested that the city did not receive sufficient advance notice of the company's plan to move.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday to fund the government through April and President Barack Obama promptly signed it into law, after Democrats who had sought more generous healthcare benefits for coal miners stopped delaying action on the measure.

«The $ 8 million in donations the real estate industry made to Christy Clark paid for years of delayed action on skyrocketing housing costs,» said Horgan.

Already, the administration has delayed action on its investigation of the national security impact of rising steel and aluminum imports from China, as it weighs the competing interests of companies that produce those materials and those that use them.

In other business, commissioners acting as the Zoning Board of Appeals delayed action on a request for construction trailers at Kmart on U.S. Highway 30 until May.

SCHAUMBURG — The Schaumburg Park District has delayed action on subleasing airport property to an ice arena management firm until contractual details can be ironed out.

At a news conference at Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst, lawmakers said the Assembly must not delay action on the legislation, which the Senate passed 55 - 6 on Jan. 20.

Though the Senate delayed action on the emergency aid for Sandy victims Thursday, Majority Leader Harry Reid said he expects «as many as 20 votes the next few days» en route to final passage.

Despite the political grandstanding that delayed action on this issue until the fourth quarter — the Assembly and Senate had compiled a list of proposals long before the governor convened a last - minute executive panel — lawmakers approved a comprehensive series of bills designed to address the state's insidious opiate crisis.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Senate Democrats did not show up Tuesday and the Republicans who were there delayed action on imposing $ 100 fines for each day the Democrats miss.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress said the palliative committee should not be used to delay action on the commencement of the process for the determination of the new Minimum Wage.

The board unanimously decided at its May meeting to delay action on the state education department's proposal, after receiving testimony from more than 100 individuals and representatives of statewide education lobbies during a two - day public hearing last month.

«Senate delays action on Internet sales tax bill» by AP's Stephen Ohlemacher in The Seattle Times — April 25, 2013

Tens of thousands of former students who say they were swindled by for - profit colleges are being left in limbo as the Trump administration delays action on requests for loan forgiveness, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

A common theme adopted by the industry is that lenders continue to delay action on distressed assets for as long as possible.

# 165 Ray Ladbury My concern is that there are plenty of unscrupulous (and often highly paid) elements in the denialist camp who will stop at nothing to delay action on climate.

My concern is that there are plenty of unscrupulous (and often highly paid) elements in the denialist camp who will stop at nothing to delay action on climate.

But there was a much discussed recommendation in both his oral presentation and a written statement he prepared beforehand: that the heads of oil and coal companies who knowingly delayed action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions were committing a crime.

Industry has used this argument to delay action on endocrine disruptors for years, in spite of calls for the use of the precautionary principle and the obligations in Europe for suppliers to prove safety before they are allowed to sell their products.

March 24, 2016 The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter and Center for Media and Democracy released a report detailing ALEC's attempts to delay action on climate change in Virginia.

Every trick, lie and deceitful attempt by vested interests to delay action on global warming is exposed, along with the tactics of their well - oiled propaganda machine, including the same unscrupulous scientists, handed down from Big Tobacco to Big Carbon.

Well documented and where they refined their methods to delay action on many scientific warnings from acid rain to cfc's.

Which coincidentally is the same PR technique that Friends of Science is using to delay action on climate change; creating the public perception of a scientific debate in order to undermine support for the Kyoto accord or for any real public policy action.

The group hopes to convince the Montana Land Board to reject development of coal in eastern Montana's Otter Creek, or at a minimum delay action on the issue while more studies are undertaken.

The real take away here is that the suit brought by the coalition of state Attorneys General, as well as the previous suit brought by Murray Oil, are just the beginning of what could be a protracted legal battle to come — which would further delay action on reducing dangerous global warming emissions.

A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue.

And the latest IPCC report has reiterated the risks we are facing in the all - too - near future if we delay action on climate change.

Each five years of delayed action on climate change now could result in as much an additional eight inches of sea level rise by 2300, stark new research shows.

Under Raymond, Exxon led a coalition of fossil fuel companies called the Global Climate Coalition, which sought to delay action on climate change and cloud public understanding of the issue.

We find no reason for world leaders to attend the COPs while their aims are to delay actions on the negative impacts they have caused while struggling to develop their regions.

Not exact matches

The legal actions seeking to block or halt the recounts in three states Trump narrowly won could cause delays that would make them extremely difficult or impossible to complete on time.

And continued political tension will delay and complicate government action on big infrastructure projects, among them work on Bangkok's mass transit system.

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Delayed, reluctant or indecisive actions do not build trust when the house is on fire.

This is leading to poor coordination on GHG reduction plans across government departments, and delayed action by industry,» said Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (MP, Saanich - Gulf Islands).

On Tuesday, the Solar Energy Industries Association said that the president's action would result in the loss of roughly 23,000 jobs in the solar industry this year, as well as the delay or cancellation of billions of dollars of investments.

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Police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security system, but soon realized the images were tape delayed.

VICTORIA — New Democrats have tabled legislation that would take action on Surrey's overdose crisis, but Christy Clark continues to delay, calling for action from the federal government.