Sentences with phrase «favor of action on climate change»

Voter turnouts this year were substantially different from 2008, skewing toward groups least likely to be in favor of action on climate change: older and more conservative.

Not exact matches

«She also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» Squillace said.

Rather than focussing on the important but inherently incremental developments in the science behind the issue, the media would do us all a favor by maintaining a consistent message regarding the underlying issue (i.e. human action is causing climate change, and climate change has the potential to do great harm to our way of life) and focus on how ordinary people can take steps in their own lives to help address the problem in ways that don't require inordinate sacrifice.

From the Wall Street Journal A new poll out today on Americansâ $ ™ attitudes about climate change presents sobering findings for those that favor aggressive action to curb U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases.

A new poll out today on Americansâ $ ™ attitudes about climate change presents sobering findings for those that favor aggressive action to curb U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases.

A new poll out today on Americans» attitudes about climate change presents sobering findings for those that favor aggressive action to curb U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases.

After UCS held pre-shareholder-meeting panels in Texas on the urgency of climate action, ExxonMobil shareholders voted in favor of the company reporting how climate change affects its bottom line.

This finding contradicts the often - held assumption that projected warmer conditions always favor mosquitoes and clarifies some of the uncertainty in complex feedbacks involving climate and climate change influences on vectors and virus transmission, enabling more targeted public health action by using location - specific knowledge of vector responses to climate.

In his 2010 book The Climate Fix, the University of Colorado's Roger Pielke Jr. notes that polls show the public for several years has favored action on climate change but at low levels of intensity, suggesting that, at least at some level, it is not a lack of public support limiting policy Climate Fix, the University of Colorado's Roger Pielke Jr. notes that polls show the public for several years has favored action on climate change but at low levels of intensity, suggesting that, at least at some level, it is not a lack of public support limiting policy climate change but at low levels of intensity, suggesting that, at least at some level, it is not a lack of public support limiting policy action.

It was a rough election night for those in favor of aggressive action on climate change.

At the same time, the company spends millions of dollars in political donations to candidates who favor dirty energy and oppose action on climate change.