Sentences with phrase «delaying real action»

Local power - plants are legal and now necessary given the success of the coal industry in watering down and delaying real action on coal pollution in Congress.

But as long as people are disconnected from nature, it is too easy and comforting to think that we are doing something, if all we are doing is delaying real action.

Of course government all over the world will do anything to delay any real action and they could have another 10 - 20 years to do just that.

An Abbott government will delay any real action until the problem goes away as they don't believe in the global warming scam.

Not exact matches

«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.

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«We know that the conversation around arming teachers and other school personnel was an attempt to delay substantive action on gun violence prevention and deflect attention from real policy proposals.

While that alone is a great addition to the formula, the ability to reserve those points to delay action creates a real tactical advantage.

No matter how you cut it, geoengineering is a mind - boggling proposition, and most scientists are saying it should only be used as a last - ditch resort, rather than as a delay tactic to hold off real climate change action.

My «bean counting» is not meant as a delay tactic, but as a means of addressing what I see as an important cause of limited action, and that is that no jurisdiction has, to date, been willing to impose the types of incentives (carrots or sticks) on a broad enough set of individual and corporate decisions to drive real change.

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 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.

The installation serves as a foundation for future smart grid actions like real - time pricing «The potential benefits of advanced metering to ratepayers and the company are too great to delay,» said the Idaho Public Utilities Commission in a released statement.

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.

In the real world, where UN negotiations have not only failed to agree on an international regime of national emissions targets adding up to a safe global target, but have even agreed to delay such an agreement until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for global action.

When TechCrunch asked the reason for the delay, the company responded that «it took us a while to come up with a complete Class Action case repository where affected people can... be in touch with Class Action lawyers in real time.»

We have litigated a wide variety of real estate and land - use matters, including partition, eminent domain, easement disputes, mechanics lien litigation, restrictive covenants, timber trespass, constructive defects, construction delay, zoning litigation, water rights disputes, landlocked property, and quiet title actions.

Again, in real time, the flight simulations were recreated with a 38 second delay between the time pilots would be aware of twin engine failure, communicate with ground control, assess the circumstances, prescribed protocols and decide on a course of action.

Similar to Twitch, a popular game streaming service with a stellar and solid community, Beam's aim is to bring video game streaming into the fore, although unlike the Twitch, there's almost no delay between the player's actions and the time audiences actually get to see those actions in real - time, as noted by VentureBeat.