Sentences with phrase «dispute over climate change»

The former barrister and journalist's astonishing political comeback is a complete turnaround from his situation six years ago, when he was dumped as party leader for Mr Abbott in bitter dispute over climate change policy.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

International disputes over the climate change problem were shunted into a bureaucratic maze in 1992 with the UNFCCC treaty.

Not exact matches

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

Disputes have broken out among ecologists over a study that suggests climate change might not increase the range of tropical diseases after all

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There are as many different definitions for that term, and for «climate change,» as there are factions in the national and global disputes over this issue.

In a posting on one of the incredibly busy geo - engineering Google groups, Kenneth Caldeira, a climate researcher for the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University, criticized a British newspaper article — «Climate change experts clash over sea - rise «apocalypse»» — for overplaying the momentousness of one paper projecting a calamitous rise in seas by 2100 and then overplaying the level of dispute over the finding based on neclimate researcher for the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University, criticized a British newspaper article — «Climate change experts clash over sea - rise «apocalypse»» — for overplaying the momentousness of one paper projecting a calamitous rise in seas by 2100 and then overplaying the level of dispute over the finding based on neClimate change experts clash over sea - rise «apocalypse»» — for overplaying the momentousness of one paper projecting a calamitous rise in seas by 2100 and then overplaying the level of dispute over the finding based on new work.

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I'm confident you can see why it would be useful — in the midst of disputes like the ones over climate change, nuelcaer power, gun control, etc. — to be able to distinguish these two sources of persistent disagreement.

One last inconvenient truth lies at the center of this dispute over funding: all the nonprofit funding on both sides can't compare to what the federal government spends on climate change programs and messages.

U.S. Attorney Marissa Piropato answered that the dispute lies not in disagreement over whether climate change exists, but rather with the kids» conclusion that climate change imperils their future.

Developing countries, some of which are already embroiled in military conflict, may be drawn into larger and more protracted disputes over water, energy supplies or food, all of which may disrupt economic growth at a time when developing countries are beset by more egregious manifestations of climate change.

As we have frequently reported in EthicandClimate.org over the last several years, (See articles on the website on the US media in the Index), the US media has been utterly ignoring the climate change justice issues that increasingly have become the most contentious issues in dispute in the international search for a global solution to climate change.

Jokes «about» climate change can in fact be «about» any of the dozens of subjects — family disputes over energy bills, travel and tourism, or changing consumer habits — that are directly impacted by climate change.

What they do — and have done at length in one form since 2009 — is dispute in massive detail how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to make the case that what little global warming we've seen over the last 150 years is primarily driven by human activity.

The fact that the Earth's climate has changed over its history - sometimes with cataclysmic consequences, called mass extinctions, for many of the planet's inhabitants - is not disputed.

The vociferous dispute over nuclear winter (along with dinosaur extinction) made scientists and the public more sensitive to the idea that stuff we emitted into the air could provoke a severe climate change.

Whether the dispute is over vaccination, intelligent design, atomic energy, genetically - modified crops or climate change, the unfashionable camp's complaints are rarely against science, and are indeed framed — at least superficially — in scientific terms.

http://www.government.nl/issues/energy/sustainable-energy «The European Commission last Friday approved a certification scheme which would brand biofuels produced from palm oil as «sustainable», despite evidence that their production contributes to deforestation, peatland degradation, disputes over land rights, and climate change.»