Sentences with phrase «done about climate change»

With so much not being done about climate change, it's easy to lose hope in the idea that the American government, and t...

The polling that we see, you know, certainly there are folks that believe that something has to be done about climate change.

This is the year to stand up and be counted and be seen as a supporter of Earth Hour, as someone who wants something done about climate change, and as someone who votes for parties and people who actually have some comprehension of what is happening.

My criticism of IAMs should not be taken to imply that because we know so little, nothing should be done about climate change right now, and instead we should wait until we learn more.

Science can't settle what should be done about climate change.

Climate Change National Forum is on the verge of creating an ongoing, scientifically grounded marketplace of bi-partisan policy ideas on what can or should be done about climate change as a nation.

When Steig engages in this kind of behavior with a mere amateur and an engineer to boot and endangers our ability to get something done about climate change I have to think «what were you thinking eric?»

There is a titanic gulf between what we say ought to be done about climate change and what we are doing.

DG: Another key thing we followed was a gentleman named Rick Piltz, who recently resigned from his job in Washington, D.C. after 12 years, working for a program that oversees all of the federally - funded science that's done about climate change.

Many others are simply not very good — for example, Jason Harrow's 2011 reprint from The Harvard Law and Policy Review Blog argues that nothing should be done about climate change because, well, nothing can be done right now; renewables are too expensive, and are unlikely to get cheaper very fast.

RP: If he's not able to make a strong binding commitment it might leave a lot of people disappointed, and yet the «conservatives» who don't want to have anything done about climate change will just find it one more thing to attack him on, that he showed up at all.

My criticism of IAMs [Integrated Assessment Models] should not be taken to imply that, because we know so little, nothing should be done about climate change right now, and instead we should wait until we learn more.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

What's more, until recently, it benefited from the general public mood that «something ought to be done about climate change» and wind power — supposedly «free», «renewable» and «carbon - friendly» — was the obvious solution.

What I'm saying, in short, is if you actually want something DONE about climate change, elect the candidate from the party that gives a damn.

Ontario's government enlisted Grey Canada to demand something be done about climate change now instead of passing it off to children.

Consider however that something may actually be done about climate change, Canadian oil sand companies and many of your funds are going to get hammered.

While the economics of any cap - and - trade system are worthy of debate, it's clear something has to be done about climate change and Chao has shown no interest in any alternative.

Famously, Stern and Nordhaus really disagree on what should be done about climate change.

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

If it's not the increased carbon dioxide though, then what should we do about climate change?

... in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state....

And in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state.

Skeptic: Let's talk in 30 years While debate flared around what to do about climate change, the notion that the earth is warming might be more widely accepted.

Several lessons are devoted to developing climate action plans and deciding what — if anything — students should do about climate change.

A major test of the world's willingness to phase out greenhouse gases will arrive in December, when nations gather in Paris to try to agree on what to do about climate change.

In November 2014, Science Director Richard Somerville spoke at a TEDx event at the University of California, San Diego, on «What Should We Do About Climate Change?»

At the end of last year, the world's eyes were on Lima as 196 nations debated what to do about climate change at the United Nations Climate Change...

The diesel - powered 740i version starts at $ 81,300, but if you're a one - percenter who spends as much time concerned about the price of a gallon of gasoline as you do about climate change, you'll want the gasoline - powered 750i, which starts at $ 94,400.

Today we are sharing an excerpt from an article by Bevis Longstreth, who recently wrote the following reflections on what we can do about climate change for the Huffington Post.

(It makes sense to debate what to do about climate change, but the fact of it has been thoroughly established.)

Finally, we need energy — the human kind — which can be found in large supply in places like this and among young people across America, whose stake in what we do about climate change couldn't be higher.

In November 2014, Science Director Richard Somerville spoke at a TEDx event at the University of California, San Diego, on «What Should We Do About Climate Change?»

When asked what they would do about climate change, including options to change to a green energy supplier or sign a petition, only 14 % said they would contact their local MP on the issue.

Now if you had asked me, or any other engineer, what to «do about climate change», and we had gone away and analysed it, the answers would have been as follows.

Instead, we should have a legitimate policy debate between the center - right and the center - left on what to do about climate change.

There's plenty of room for argument over what to do about climate change, but cheap political point scoring of the «you didn't vote for the ETS so you don't want action on climate change» is not helpful.

An aristocratic British member of parliament has decided it is time to lecture the Australian colonies, on what they should be doing about climate change and carbon pricing.

We all deserve an informed and democratic discussion about what to do about climate change, whatever our political persuasion.

Once all the FUD is out the window, we can have serious and rational discussions about just what to do about climate change.

Actually it reflects more than editorial agendas.The problem is the broader expectation that science can be instructive; that «what to do about climate change» can be simply read off from clear scientific evidence.

This policy emphasis - what the world is doing about climate change - sets this material apart.

But let's also not forget that the question about what to do about climate change is a question of risk management, so even a very small risk of hugely disasterous consequences must be taken seriously and I do not see how any sincere and diligent investigation of rapid climate change can rule out completely a number of truly catastrophic possibilities.

Easily the proudest moment of that campaign and my entire year with Green Corps was the Saturday before the New Hampshire primary when John McCain, in a school gymnasium, stood up and said, «I've heard from young people all across this state and around the country, for the last couple of months about «What are you gonna do about climate change, what are you gonna do about global warming?»

The economist coming up with a solution for what to do about climate change is never going to win a Nobel Prize in economics because he died eight decades before the first Prize was given out.

The poll also asks «What should we do about climate change?»

We've given Mike Hulme of the Tyndall Centre a bit of stick in our time, but he's very good in this — «The real issues are about why we disagree about what to do about climate change, and science can not provide us with the script from which we all read from» — as are Chris Rapley of the British Antarctic Survey, Hans Von Storch, and Joe Kaplinsky.

But it is a problem because it states that the science — real or not — is decisive in the question about «what to do about climate change» in exactly the same way environmentalism does — it expects science to be instructive.

Eneco, IKEA and Unilever: leading the way on sustainability What can businesses do about climate change — and what is already being done?

Any fruitful discussion of what to do about climate change — however serious a problem it turns out to be — must first recognise that it is this background of degraded political aspirations that has provided the ground on which environmental politics has been able to flourish and onto which the science of climate change, resource use, and biodiversity has been superimposed.