Sentences with phrase «efforts like climate»

But with efforts like climate engineering (whatever that really means) I can see the danger of expending colossal resources on a solution to one symptom only to find we've wasted our efforts on the wrong problem.

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That effort has subsided, and though climate change remains on the overstretched agenda of the council's talented Ecojustice Task Force, much of the heavy lifting is being done in avery few states like Oregon and Maine.

This advantage is unique to Ferrari and sticks out like a sore Halo in the current climate, where efforts towards levelling the field seem to be in place.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

Conversely, climate policy that results in little or no effort to control greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would likely result in a substantial release of carbon from the permafrost region by 2300, the study found.

Democrats were hurt by factors like the president's unpopularity and the large number of conservative Democratic Senate seats in play, but the GOP victories come despite efforts by environmentalists to make climate skepticism a politically dangerous position.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climatclimate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green ClimateClimate Fund.

Greenpeace portrays the company's efforts as a secret campaign to keep climate doubts pinging around an «echo chamber» that includes groups like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

The deal seems like a big step forwards for efforts to tackle climate change, but so far it is unclear how powerful the controls will really be.

This five - year forecast isn't like the ones that appear on the evening news, rather, it is a research effort aimed at improving climate models.

The goal is to get models to the point where they can have skill in predicting features like drought or seasonal hurricane activity a few years ahead, said climate scientist Doug Smith, who leads the Met Office effort.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

Many of these people were a part of the writing teams» listening sessions that occurred early in the process — a focused effort to get out into the state and ask Montanans, «What do you know about climate change in the state, what do you need that you don't already have, and how would you like information delivered?»

It's not the first time sequel rumors have been swirling, so it might be Crowe trying to ignite a grassroots effort, but we're in a climate of reboots and sequels long after the fact, so it doesn't seem like the project is necessarily DOA.

Together with smaller environmental initiatives at the school, like widespread installation of energy - efficient compact fluorescent «twisty bulbs» and automatic light sensors, the various components of the Bloom effort have begun to save the school thousands of dollars in energy costs while simultaneously helping many of the school's 1,700 students understand the science behind the climate crisis.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

The solutions to challenges like climate change are not going to be found solely by personal effort and individual action.

Positive School Climate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LClimate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LClimate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -Lclimate turnaround and how efforts -LSB-...]

Like the Organization of Black American Culture in the same city, which had created the Wall of Respect, the first of many murals by community arts organizations, AFRI - COBRA sought «to liberate its audience and define a national Black consciousness «9 This effort was in part a response to a climate that permitted what now seem acts of amazing insensitivity by mainstream institutions.

I think that short commentaries like this on recent climate science papers and reports that are «in the news» are very valuable to your readers, and hopefully don't take as much time and effort as the longer, in - depth analyses of studies that you do so well.

South Durham Green Neighbors would like to be a contributor to the efforts of the Durham community to support the incentives of the Paris Climate Agreement.

The bulk of communication (and $ to support communication efforts) about climate change has occurred within and between the IPCC members and some policy makers, fewer media folks like yourself are in that network.

To my mind, the sessions and negotiations, despite the zombie - like quality, do encourage, display and memorialize countries» efforts to live up to their 1992 pledge to avoid dangerous human interference with the climate system.

However, it is important to keep in mind that we might easily more than double it if we really don't make much effort to cut back (I think the current estimated reserves of fossil fuels would increase CO2 by a factor of like 5 or 10, which would mean a warming of roughly 2 - 3 times the climate sensitivity for doubling CO2 [because of the logarithmic dependence of the resulting warming to CO2 levels]-RRB-... and CO2 levels may be able to fall short of doubling if we really make a very strong effort to reduce emissions.

This seemed to me like perhaps a more realistic effort at decadal climate prediction.

One lesson is that anyone hoping to up - end decades of research pointing to a growing human influence on the climate by challenging a single batch of studies (in this case efforts to chart past temperatures using indirect clues like tree rings) is almost surely on a fool's errand.

Energy - efficiency efforts in the computing industry, such as Climate Savers consortium, resulted in more standardized parts and measurements in things like as power supplies.

Like it or not, our lives will be governed in many ways by the impacts of climate change and by the efforts to slow climate change.

Some of the low - hanging targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions have been highlighted in recent months in a «By Degrees» series in The Times, which explores topics like the electrical demand of our new electronic gadgets, efforts to curb methane leaks and the move to install light - colored roofs in warmer climates.

I agree with her that there is plenty to debate, both on the science in tough areas like attribution and climate sensitivity and on what mix of incentives, investments, policies, communication efforts and other actions can build a more durable human relationship with the climate system.

This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

I know that you generally like to cite Ted and Michael — but I'm still puzzled by your tweeting of their article with the quote «Efforts to raise public concern about climate change by linking it to natural disasters will backfire.»

[24] Odwyer's Magazine describes Exxon's efforts as misleading: «ExxonMobil, absurdly praised in August by Forbes as «green company of the year,» was discovered the same month by the New York Times to have given major funding to industry groups like the now - defunct Global Climate Coalition, an organization that had silenced its own scientific reports and falsified information for more than a decade.»

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

While Congress members like Fred Upton (Republican, Michigan) yowl about the EPA's efforts to regulate carbon emissions as «an unconstitutional power grab» and attach the term «job - killing» to every piece of environmental legislation with a political pulse, national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.

The Union (Industry) Super Funds — controlled by the likes of former Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet and his best mate Garry Weaven of Pac Hydro fame — into which hundreds of $ billions of union members» money is siphoned — have thrown $ billions at wind power outfits (see our post here) in an effort to cash in the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the Commonwealth (see our post here).

Most of ALEC's 2013 efforts were defeated through lobbying and grassroots initiatives undertaken by renewables advocates and climate change activists like Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

I try to give every visitor the assumption of sincere interest and a chance to defend their point of view (an effort that has been slipping over the years, I think I am tired) but the majority are immune to logic and scientific reason even on the trivial points like «weather is not climate» and «arctic sea ice is increasing ``.

I don't know where the best value for effort in communicating the seriousness and urgency of the climate problem lies but one thing that I would like to see is National Academies and the like increasing their role.

There should be support for things that will better define climate response to forcing, like better quality aerosol data and better cloud data, but much less for duplicative modeling efforts, studies that use wildly uncertain models to make wildly uncertain predictions, and silly chicken - little scare - story studies of utter doom.

Her overall address focused on her government's efforts to tackle climate change and the critical role clean energy technologies like wind energy must play.

There is a growing recognition that the magnitude of health «co-benefits,» like reducing both pollution and cardiovascular disease, could be significant, both from a public health and an economic standpoint.273, 272,309 Some climate change resilience efforts will benefit health, but potential co-harms should be considered when implementing these strategies.

Back in 2006, he edited a special issue on responses to climate change and, like most such efforts, the articles were narrowly focused on showcasing exciting low - carbon technologies.

There have been other more overt recent efforts using improper methods like CPA at places like Real Climate, or Mann with a bogus temperature graphic in Scientific American in April.

Whether to even accept the overwhelming evidence that climate change is real and human - caused has become a partisan political issue, thanks in large parts to the efforts of bad actors like the Koch Brothers to poison both our atmosphere and our public discourse.

Unfortunately their efforts are undermined by rogue agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is failing to do its job and evaluate the environmental and climate impacts of the massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects it approves.