Sentences with phrase «fights over climate change»
Next year will be full of legal and political fights over climate change.
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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!!!
«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.
Find out how the larvae may have economic and environmental advantages over some conventional livestock, and could even help fight climate change.
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.
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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 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).
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.
In a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.»
As for the EU, they have other things to worry about than picking a drawn out fight with America over climate change as many countries, especially east European ones, are fairly indifferent to it and the UK now has other fish to fry.I think it's high point of alarmism has been reached, whether that is merely a temporary lull or more permanent, the next few years will tell.
Over the past year, the United States has helped draft the rulebook for implementing the Paris climate accord, signed international memoranda calling for global action to fight climate change, boosted funding for overseas clean energy projects, and contributed to global research on the dangers and causes of the Earth's warming.
Negotiators working on a deal to fight climate change had agreed on just a single paragraph of text as the deadline loomed large, casting a shadow over the prospects for a strong outcome in Lima.
Activists are also fighting Rover and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects on climate change grounds because the new installations can have a lifespan of 50 years or more, locking in new carbon emissions over the long term.
As the controversy over the proposed rules continues to unfold, two important questions loom: What is the likelihood that these new regulations will actually be put into effect, and how big an impact would they have on the fight to slow climate change?
So in a 2015 poll, they broke out the question a little to It then asks respondents which areas they would like science and innovation to prioritize over the next 15 years, with areas such as job creation, health and medical care, energy supply, education and skills, and the fight against climate change among the issues they are asked to consider.
It justifies fighting climate change based on the precautionary victory over Y2k!
The above illustration depicts, in a very abbreviated and sketchy form, that as the scientific evidence of the threat from human - induced climate change became stronger over a 40 - year period and as the US political opposition to climate change policies successfully fought to prevent the adoption of robust US climate policies, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rose from below 320 ppm (parts per million) to current levels of over 400 ppm.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
On Dec. 13, 2007, towards the end of the U.N. climate change conference held in Bali, indonesia, the Financial Post section of the National Post published an open letter to the UN signed by over a hundred climate change skeptics under the title «Don't fight, adapt» [23], along with the list of signatories [24].
Our team, allies and network of over 50,000 supporters across the region are on the front lines of fights to incentivize clean energy, challenge dirty energy like fracking and coal, and protect communities from the escalating impacts of climate change.
The ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.
They are also key because their shell contributes to fighting climate change, since it helps the sea snail sink to the bottom when it dies, dragging down all the CO2 ingested over its short lifespan.
On December 13, 2007, towards the end of the U.N. climate change conference held in Bali, Indonesia, Corcoran published an open letter to the UN signed by over a hundred climate change skeptics under the title «Don't fight, adapt», along with the list of signatories.
All of the signatories have some power over their own organizations to take «climate action» aimed at fighting «climate change.»
From getting grouchy over pay - as - you - throw trash metering, to concerns over what their Big Society agenda means for the fight against climate change, the party far from embracing sustainability whole heartedly.
Given the cuts to Government spending that are kicking in everywhere, is it time to ask what role green groups should play in a shrinking state?Transition Movement Gets Political I started pondering this question having read a heart - felt and passionate account by Sarah Nicholl and Marietta Birkholtz over at Transition Culture of how climate change and peak oil activists are fighting swinging cuts to schools, libraries and other essential public services.
In this way, I think it's important for McCutcheon vs. FEC to be framed as a fight not just over campaign finance, but also over the future of climate change and whether we'll have a chance to see major action taken to address this crisis in this generation.
With Norway considering divesting from oil and coal, the Church of England using its economic muscle to fight the «great demon» of climate change, and the Bank of England receiving warnings over a carbon bubble, divestment is by no means limited to liberal universities anymore.
Field says the fight over Keystone is largely symbolic but still important, because other countries are looking to the United States to lead on climate change.
Schneider's words have since been fought over, selectively redacted and sometimes misrepresented by climate change advocates and opponents alike — alarmists and sceptics, in their extreme forms.
The anti-Keystone movement can be traced to former NASA climate scientist James Hansen's dire warning in June 2011 that if the pipeline were built it would be «exceedingly difficult to control the tar sands monster» and would be «game over» in the fight against climate change.
On Mr. Tillerson's watch, ExxonMobil was at the forefront of efforts to gut laws to fight corruption in the oil, gas and mining sector, and has been accused of purposefully misleading the public over climate change.
Simply called «Scenarios for 2035,» the report never once mentions voting trends or red - blue divides, but it does explain how changes in climate could quickly and radically reshape American politics — upending the power balance in Congress, scuttling traditional paths to the White House, and igniting new fights over natural and financial resources.
As with fights under way over the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and plans to build coal export terminals on U.S. coastlines, the new fossil fuel abundance is touching off a backlash among those alarmed by the consequences for climate change.