Sentences with phrase «discussions about climate»

This is just some commentary on the discussions about climate change taking place at the G8 summit.

«This lesson from economics is essentially what the «lukewarmists» bring to discussions about climate change.

Big coal's presence throughout this long election season as a major sponsor of the presidential debates stands in striking opposition to the absence of any substantive political discussions about climate change in the debates themselves.

Discussions about climate change, natural disasters, and financial markets often center on risk management, highlighting the extreme losses that can occur.

Green concepts of sustainability and resilience were also hard sells in a country where discussions about climate are so politicized.

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.

I think discussions about climate ought to take a lesson from this.

Even if the environment doesn't fall on your top 10 list of priorities, discussions about climate legislation at national and international levels will affect your lifestyle in the long run.

In discussions about climate change, there's a certain constituency of economists and business leaders who say the market will fix the problem.

Although the rich world's energy poor are largely forgotten in discussions about climate policies, they bear an unfair burden for well - meaning proposals.

Indeed, the discussions about climate policy among economists have begun to take on a similar surreal quality to those that have characterized policy discussions at the U.N.'s climate confabs.

In serious discussions about climate change, it is universally acknowledged that the world must become carbon neutral in order to stop global temperatures from increasing.

My real point in all this, aside from pointing out a Cognitive Dualism, is that I think most thinking observers see that many discussions about climate change on BOTH SIDES are infused with a desperation to change minds, and are couched in terms that one would not normally associate with dispassionate science.

Many discussions about the climate these days seem to inevitably draw somebody to claim that the Nazi's were in fact a Left movement because, National Socialism has the word «socialism» in it (d'uh), and because it's a «collectivist» ideology, whereas the Right is more concerned with the individual... This stop, Obama - care; next stop, death camps.

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

Last Tuesday's debate featured extensive discussions about climate change policy, a first for a presidential candidate debate of any stripe.

Some of these big Universities also have» Climate Change» departments and during lunch breaks at staff canteens, I have made it a point wherever possible to go engage them in discussions about climate science.

Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International, said: «It is nonsensical to conduct abstract discussions about climate ambition inside a conference centre without addressing the continued pursuit of fossil fuels outside.

If, indeed, climate scientists predicted a coming ice age, it is worthwhile to take the next step and understand why they thought this, and what relevance it might have to today's science - politics - policy discussions about climate change.

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

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

Nevertheless, I hope there will be more discussions about climate indicators and more resources in the future that can offer up - to - date information about the state of the climate, based on these.

Demand the inclusion of breastfeeding in any list of actions to reduce our carbon and water footprint and in discussions about climate change.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters on the Italian island «the entire discussion about climate was very difficult, if not to say very unsatisfying», while Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, said: «I hope they [the US] decide in the right way.»

But Foley hopes that, after the election, Hurricane Sandy will spur a long - term discussion about climate change and extreme weather events.

Join us for this urgent and important discussion about climate extremes in Texas.

iSeeChange stories flip the script on traditional top - down climate change reporting to let people's curiosity — and not just the questions raised by professionals in the field — to tap into the discussion about climate change impacts.

Fact: Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin Bacon, KYRA SEDGEWICK, Zach Braff and Emmy Rossum were among the stars who turned out to listen to an open discussion about climate change at The Darker Side of Green event in New York on Tuesday night (30Mar10).

Even if in the United States, the discussion about climate change continues to be framed as a debate, Goodell isn't arguing its...

Soil Health Series: Drought, Climate Change, & Soils April 10, 2018 1 — 4 pm Location: Marin Headlands Join Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor specializing in soils) for a proactive discussion about climate change and drought through a soils lens.

The last chapters in Washington and Cook book provide a more subjective and compassionate discussion about climate change — which I think also is important.

The discussion about the climate science is fairly brief, but I think that the book would have been even more convincing by citing more broadly, rather than keeping referring to a handful of central people.

From that perspective this discussion about climate change and species loss is moot.

An advantage to doing this is it would force discussion about climate to use system energy instead of transient maxes or mins that contain so little information.

Why some try to direct any discussion about the climate gate emails into an argument over hacking.

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.

The assertions of the contrarians about these emails are irrelevant to the scientific discussion about climate change.

Join us and help make change locally and globally by broadening the discussion about climate change and participating in effective campaigns!

«The Pause» has a very limited purpose in a serious discussion about climate science agenda setting and fraud.

This precludes a sober public discussion about climate change, and turns it into something resembling a Hollywood B - movie.

Perhaps the IJOC got what they wanted, but it seems that what they wanted is not a full debate and discussion about climate science.

No, I'm not a fan of «trends» since they are usually simplistic and misleading but since they seem to dominate about 95 % of the discussion about climate I thought a more detailed analysis may help give some insight that the usual attempts to resume any dataset with on straight line fail to do.

Further, there can be no legitimate discussion about climate engineering without addressing the completely engineered cool - downs via atmospheric manipulation and patented chemical ice nucleation processes.

Personally, I doubt Dan's «central role,» conclusion, as I think that the tribalism evident among some of the different groups speaking for climate scientists is a reflection of a preexisting dynamic more than that those groups are responsible for creating the landscape where the discussion about climate change has become one more of who you are than what you know.

There's plenty of discussion about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, but are we ready to actually do something substantive about reducing those emissions?

This general confusion about terminology makes it hard to even begin a sensible discussion about climate change.

This distinction is central to any discussion about Climate Change and Global Warming.

Brian assured him that we want this to be an ongoing conversation and discussion about climate policy and CCL.

The skeptics and alarmists are as loud as ever, dividing us and distracting the world from any sensible discussion about climate change.

I've seen the discussion about climate change morph over the years.