Sentences with phrase «for acting on global warming»

Heavy on science, the film also lays out the biblical case for acting on global warming.

Not exact matches

PSAC has produced educational tools for our members and the wider public on the global warming crisis and the importance of acting now.

Yet, a mere seven pages later, he praises the «acts of faith» of Cardinal Mahoney, the archbishop of Los Angeles, for his stand on immigration, Al Gore on global warming, and select «clergy and rabbis» on gay rights.

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.

«(2) the carbon dioxide equivalent value for purposes of this Act for any greenhouse gas not listed in the table under paragraph (1) shall be the 100 - year Global Warming Potentials provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

In a new documentary on climage change, Chris Hayes urges everyone to act quickly: «The price for politics as usual is just too high, our timeline too short... The solution to global warming is just that — global.»

I agree that we should be watching what the planet is doing and the need for research to be ongoing, but surely we should be acting on what we now have as evidence on global warming.

Just imagine what might happen if a US Justice Dept were to now conjure up powers for George that would allow him to act unilaterally in the «war on global warming».

Australia and the world will suffer for decades, probably centuries, because of G. W. Bush's and your failure to act on global warming.

«The Australian Greens are congratulating the US and China on their agreement to act on global warming and say it's not too late for Australia to get on board.»

Christy is correct to note that the model average warming trend (0.23 °C / decade for 1978 - 2011) is a bit higher than observations (0.17 °C / decade over the same timeframe), but that is because over the past decade virtually every natural influence on global temperatures has acted in the cooling direction (i.e. an extended solar minimum, rising aerosols emissions, and increased heat storage in the deep oceans).

And yet, in the act funding the Department of Defense for Fiscal Year 2015, the Republicans in the House added an amendment funding the Department of Defense specifically prohibiting any money be spent on researching global warming.

Ahead of delivering October's annual lecture for climate skeptic campaign group the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a number of frontpages trumpeted Paterson's message that the UK simply can't keep the UK's lights on unless MPs scrap the Climate Change Act.

Coalition hon, secretary, Terry Dunleavy, calls on New Zealand Prime MInister John Key to rein in his Chief Science Adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, who, Dunleavy claims is acting as a «propagandist for global warming zealotry.»

The memorandum, obtained by NRDC from the White House Council on Environmental Quality under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that ExxonMobil began a secret campaign for Dr. Watson's removal in the first weeks of the Bush administration, and reveals ExxonMobil's intention to replace Watson and other key scientists with contrarians known for disagreeing with the prevailing consensus that man - made pollution is causing global warming.

The bill preserves key Clean Air Act tools for sources not in the program, and it calls on EPA to continue setting tough emission standards to reduce global - warming pollution from cars and trucks.

He implemented historic improvements in fuel - efficiency standards for automobiles, and instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward on the regulation of global - warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.

It is surprising for me that all this fierce fighting here is not really on the trend of the Hurricanes, not even on a potential influence of global warming but just on the question if this influence acts by SSTs or by affecting the vertical wind shear.

In fact, all the Center's work to fight global warming — from petitioning and litigating for warming - threatened species to enforcing key laws like the California Environmental Quality Act to opposing too - low national fuel economy standards — have played an enormous role in putting climate change on the political map, making it that much harder for those who would deny it to suppress the truth.

For example, the Center recently petitioned for listing of the polar bear (link to polar bear page) under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the detrimental effects of global warming on habitat for this speciFor example, the Center recently petitioned for listing of the polar bear (link to polar bear page) under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the detrimental effects of global warming on habitat for this specifor listing of the polar bear (link to polar bear page) under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the detrimental effects of global warming on habitat for this specifor this species.

Few people are better at getting a message across than Bill Clinton, who, while not known for being a staunch advocate for addressing climate change, has on multiple occasions voiced full - throated — and well - worded — support for clean energy, energy efficiency, and getting our act together on global warming.

Earlier this year, the Committee on Climate Change, a body of experts set up under the Climate Change Act to advise government, said Britain was poorly prepared for global warming.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

But then, we could ask if people who genuinely fit the old definition of journalists — such as those seen on the PBS Newshour — are committing acts of journalism when they don't report half the story of global warming, and can't answer the direct question of why they've apparently excluded skeptic climate scientists» lengthy and detailed viewpoints from their program for the entire 20 year time their news outlet has been discussing the issue.

I think Terje actually is something of an example of what Michael was referring to in calling for another category: the habit of responding to points where the «skeptics» are obviously wrong by admitting that on this point they're wrong, but there are other «chinks in the data,» and a «problematic culture,» (no specific examples given) which make the theory of global warming somehow not to be acted on.

Past and ongoing contributions to global warming, public nuisance and damages caused by certain defendants, acts in conspiring to suppress the awareness of the link between their emissions and global warming... Based on examples from the United States, there may be scope for litigation outside administrative review in Australia.