Sentences with phrase «discussion about climate issues»

The ICSC aims to help create an environment in which a more rational, open discussion about climate issues emerges, thereby moving the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual «climate control» measures.

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In this issue, we explore part of the international discussion about nuclear power and climate change.

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.

It is a guide about how to incorporate discussion of global issues such as gender, climate change and poverty into your subject area.

They were provided with unbiased information about climate change and energy and about the international discussions on policy measures to handle these issues.

It is the decoupling of dispassionate from skepticism that makes public discussions about climate science and environmental issues in general so uninformative.

But I wanted to start a discussion here about the relative importance of forging legislation to cap and trade carbon, negotiating international agreements, or pursuing an energy - technology quest as a way of attacking the many energy - related issues confronting the planet in the next few decades, including climate.

This year's seminar also promises a «lively panel discussion about efforts to develop a national strategy to address one of the most complex policy issues of our time: climate change.»

I was hoping that the book would be accessible to a pretty broad range of readers because I really wanted to use my personal story as sort of this reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change, to talk about the bigger issues, the reality of the problem, the threat that it represents, the need to have a good faith discussion about what to do about it.

John, On the «Presentation: Precautionary Principle...» thread you told me that you think it's «unhelpful to conflate discussion of climate - science issues like the modelling of SO2, about which none of us here know very much, with discussion of economic projections, where we can have a useful discussion.»

The event was advertised as a an opportunity for discussion about issues relating to how and where markets are being addressed under the convention and to the advance the conversation on the role of markets in the context of the future climate regime.

It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse gas emissions and the environment, it also has inhibited the scientific and policy discussions that we need to have about our climate future.»

The climate scientists that worry about these issues don't post here (much - Jeff made a single post) so you aren't really going to see a meaningful discussion on the role of chaos or stochastic processes on climates, how that is handled in model building, and what that means in terms of model verification.

Discussions about climate policy and related issues can be posted here, along with the usual things.

That ACO2 has harmful impact irrespective of any potentially harmful influence on climate change (and I'll even throw in geo - political negative externalities as an exclusion for the sake of argument), is completely obvious are obvious to anyone who is serious about this issue and is even remotely interested in a good faith discussion.

An observation on the discussion on agnotology: as I read the arguments of TonyG, for example, the implication of his argument about what we know and need to know about climate change before we do anything seems to be that unless we have totally complete and utterly accurate knowledge of some matter relevant to an issue, say the reality of climate change, we should do nothing.

Why on earth Mr Lacis raves on about the ins and outs of the technical issues under discussion in the area of climate science / global warming when it is the issue of the ethical and legal aspects of Gleick's actions that are the immediate issue.

Now let's forget about human rights issues in a climate discussion.

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics 72, 951 — 970 (2010), and «Climate Change and Its Causes, A Discussion About Some Key Issues»

(Ten years ago, I attended an off - the - record discussion with Kerry alongside several journalists, and our main takeaway was that he understood and cared about climate change more than any other issue.)

I agree that many of the issues I'd like to discuss do not imply directly climate science and should perhaps be discussed elsewhere, such as the amount of FF reserves, the effect of a tax, the discussion about the benefit - cost of fossils and so on, but they are nevertheless important in the debate, and many of you seem to have also some ideas about them.

Over the past few years, I've been fortunate to participate in discussions about climate change threats and environmental issues with people across private, public, governmental, and research sectors.

The panel recognized that there would be overlap in these discussions, but thought it useful for participants to consider the broad issues of ECV measurement and development of climate data records (CDRs) apart from specific concerns about NPOESS sensors.

«We also felt it was the right thing to do, given the general increasing public awareness about climate change, and discussion at various government levels about carbon taxes and other environmental issues.»