Sentences with phrase «fights over climate»

There's a link and excerpt in my recent post «Do Fights Over Climate Communication Reflect the End of «Scientism»?»

In the meantime, I'll conclude by stressing the importance of considering such fights over climate details in the broader context of what's known, unknown, learnable and essentially unknowable on meaningful time scales — and what society might do with the resulting mix of knowledge.

Next year will be full of legal and political fights over climate change.

The challenge here, of course, is that the fight over climate science, to my mind, is a spillover from the more heated, and deeper, debate over climate policy.

Such moments of consensus are rarely visible given how the heated fight over climate and energy policy is mainly shaped, particularly in Washington, as a political tug of war.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

In the fight over climate legislation, environmentalists» early rejection of a «safety valve» looks kind of lamentable in retrospect.

Here's an excerpt from one of my previous posts laying out how the fight over climate - related energy policy is incredibly lopsided regardless of who's spending more money:

I'll be writing more on the fight over climate policy this weekend, which devolves to a battle over costs and benefits using economic models and projections that make climate simulations look like they were high - resolution photographs.

The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight over climate science and policy, beginning with a 16 - author op - ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday and, most recently, with a 39 - author rebuttal published today in the paper.

It's called «Do the Math: Bill McKibben and the Fight over Climate Change.»

McKibben: The media has not done itself any great credit in the fight over climate change.

«They will be less able to fight over climate change than they were before and they will retreat in a process fight over defending the coal industry and the oil and gas industry.»

Not exact matches

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

The miner is withdrawing from the World Coal Association over a clash of views on how to fight climate change, with BHP saying it'll reap little benefit from staying on as a member.

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Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

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«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

ALBANY, NY (01/09/2013)(readMedia)-- «Just weeks after communities were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy — the third massive and deadly storm in just over 12 months — Governor Cuomo showed true leadership by speaking up on the need to fight climate change.

With those numbers in mind, climate negotiators over the past decade have proposed schemes that would fight climate change by paying tropical nations to preserve standing forests or plant new ones.

USGS researchers found that climate change would alter conditions in the Bay Delta, affecting the fish that also are part of the current fight over protections.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

The dispute is the latest skirmish in a fight over whether power plants fueled by wood should be promoted as climate - friendly, or discouraged for putting more carbon into the atmosphere and imperiling forests.

For example, Shell participated in the work of the Global Climate Coalition, founded in 1989 to fight the Kyoto Protocol, only to leave it 10 years later over irreconcilable differences over the protocol's emissions targets, which Shell embraced.

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Whether or not the backers are directly linked to the oil industry, they reflect how the fight over energy policy remains highly polarized, well financed (on both sides), and — so far — has resulted in few policies that oil markets or the climate system are likely to notice any time soon.

What I'm arguing is that the idea that we can win the climate fight without engaging in ideological battle over these core questions about the role of government has always been a fantasy.

That is bound to lead to fights over aid as recipient countries debate which can prove its risk (drought, flooding or otherwise) is related to climate change, as opposed to garden - variety climate extremes.

While reporting a story at the time on the intensifying battle over climate attitudes, between those trying to convince the public to embrace cuts in greenhouse gases and those fighting such a move, I interviewed David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who said the group was eagerly seeking such photos.

I feel that important issues have been raised in fights over the meaning of the climate e-mail exchanges, and some have resulted in changes to how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opclimate e-mail exchanges, and some have resulted in changes to how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opClimate Change operates.

There is no doubt that climate assistance can be highly divisive, especially if countries are fighting over scraps.

Increasingly, in its stead, an accounting fight has broken out over what constitutes additional climate assistance on top of existing development assistance or investments.

The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline is far from the only important issue related to climate change, but it is a symbol in the making.

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

Often I've seen the fight over issues like climate policy revealed, beneath the surface, as the result of a stark divide over values - laden concepts such as the precautionary principle.

Andy also says the fight over Keystone XL is a «distraction from the core issues» of broader climate policy.

The leading experts in climate change, and I mean those with 20 + years studying, unanimously agree that we need WWII style mobilization to fight climate change, meaning actually * reducing * our CO2 * level * from 385 ppm to 350 ppm over the next two three decades if we want to avoid the worst effects of GW (yes, pun intended).

I'd like to do more pieces like «Beyond the Eternal Food Fight» and «Debate Over Climate Risks — Natural or Not,» in which I convene via e-mail a batch of experts on issues related to sustainable human advancement.

In nearly 100 pages, he explores who had the biggest advantage — in money and media spin — in the fight over a cap - and - trade climate bill, along with cultural issues, like the deep liberal tilt among scientists, that flavor how such battles are waged.

While it's fashionable these days to fight over who's in denial about what facts on climate change, a focus on known uncertainty goes way back.

I hope that takes the form of an energy and climate «listening tour,» as I proposed early in 2011 — with the listening aimed at identifying the many points of agreement on energy efficiency and innovation that get lost in fights over global warming.

So if I had to have a bumper sticker on my Prius..., I would choose «Join the Energy Quest» over «Fight the Climate Crisis.»

As I've said here before, it's inevitable that environmental lawyers engaged in the fight over greenhouse gases will use whatever statutes they think help their case (and whatever public relations stunts, including dressing up as a bear at climate negotiations).

Discussions of climate science and policy have seen endless fights over the appropriate role of scientists.

In December, I noted what appeared to be a hint of civility and the prospect that longtime antagonists (one of O'Donnell's co-authors was Stephen McIntyre, a freelance critic and auditor of climate research) might be able to push knowledge forward — even if in the same ugly way that a rugby scrum moves while fighting over the ball.

Just have a look at the fights over finding 60 votes for health care legislation to ponder the likelihood of 67 for a climate treaty.