Sentences with phrase «for global warming policy»

A comparison of aggregate energy demand models for global warming policy analyses.

The reality is rather different, as Dr Crockford, a Canadian zoologist and polar bear expert, summarized in a recent paper for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

A new report by University of Edinburgh professor Gordon Hughes for the Global Warming Policy Foundation estimates that 36 GW of new wind power would cost $ 190 billion for just 23 megatons of CO2 reduction per year.

According to the foreword of «Peer Review: Why Skepticism Is Essential,» written by Donna Laframboise for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, «a significant part of the references in the fourth assessment» of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report were made «to «gray literature.»»

Last week, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard gave a speech on climate change for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a conservative think - tank opposed to policies that mitigate climate change.

In the article, Booker also revealed that he was working for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a UK climate change denial think tank founded by Nigel Lawson.

«This shows the depth of our ignorance of this subject,» noted Dr. David Whitehouse, science editor for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Then came Andrew Montford's devastating report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation on how Nurse (and his two predecessors Lord Rees and Lord May) had destroyed the integrity of the once - great Royal Society by transforming it from a scrupulously neutral scientific body into a «policy - driven quango.»

Ridley quoted noted climate change denier Judith Curry (who started writing reports for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in early 2017): [73]

In an article on «the perils of confirmation bias,» published for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (a group firmly opposed to policies that counteract climate change), Ridley suggested that «governments should fund groups that intend to explore alternative hypotheses about the likely future of climate as well as those that explore the dangerous man - made climate change prediction.»

The Canadian investigative journalist Donna Laframboise concluded something similar in a report last year for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

In a paper for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Dr Indur Goklany, who has previously represented the United States on the Intergovernmental

In a foreword to a report for The Global Warming Policy Foundation by Indur Goklany called Carbon Dioxide: The Good News, — as reported here at Breitbart — he says:

Professor Hughes, a commissioner on Britain's Infrastructure Planning Commission and a former World Bank senior adviser, conducted his study for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is chaired by former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson.

Not exact matches

«These policies are important first steps, but much bigger emission reductions will be needed for Alberta to do its part to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius.»

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.

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.

Is the right policy for global warming to seek an 80 % emissions reduction by 2050, or to transition completely out of fossil fuels?

07/26/2011 in Adam Smith Institute, Centre for Policy Studies, Centre for Social Justice, Civitas, Global Warming Policy Forum, Institute of Economic Affairs, Policy Exchange, Taxpayers Alliance Permalink

However, neither laid out any kind of policy plan for how to deal with global warming.

As a result, 10 prominent scientists have written a letter to President Bush and other government leaders urging them to «shape policies to assure that government incentives for biofuels do not increase global warming.»

David Pearce of University College London, another contributor to the IPCC report, stressed that the purpose of the economic studies was purely academic, and not to provide a prescription for what policies governments should adopt in response to global warming.

For heavy carbon - emitting companies, global warming policies are typically a threat to their operations, while greener rivals often view such policies as a way to further insulate themselves from the competition.

IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988 by the United Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.

For decades, American climate scientist James Hansen published important papers on global warming and shared his data at influential congressional hearings — and his policy prescriptions.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

«We are specifically debarred from making policy recommendations, but I am on record many times personally calling for action to address global warming.»

Even people who don't want to use the phrase «global warming» or «climate crisis» are finding new ways to express what they feel with their own senses, and they're responding to political leaders who are using facts as a basis for new policies.

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and has promised to quit the Paris Agreement, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four - year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

- A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto by Ernesto Zedillo, two climate - change books he is writing about for The New York Review of Books

As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.

Co-author Dr Eleanor Burke, from the Met Office Hadley Centre, said: «The advantage of our approach is that permafrost loss can be estimated for any policy - relevant global warming scenario.

«The insurance industry has the ability to change behavior, policies and communicate with clients,» says Nancy Skinner, US director of the Climate Group, which lobbies for business and government action to address global warming.

All of the proposed solutions for global warming involve lots of central control, failed economic policies and enforced poverty for everyone but the elite who are advocating the policies.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

Before his current role, Edgar was a senior policy strategist with Reinvent Communications, pushing state global warming reform efforts and rolling out the «My Brothers Keeper - Whole Village Initiative» for Long Beach Council Member, Rex Richardson.

But there's also the broadest, and most important, question: In the wake of this unfolding calamity, what is the best approach to building an energy policy for the long haul that fosters economic progress (as distinct from simple economic growth) while limiting environmental risks ranging from tainted beaches and fisheries to global warming?

Interestingly, although the [Summary for Policy Makers] clearly talked about the projected global warming being up to 6.4 degrees above 1980 - 1999 average (which is 6.9 degrees above pre-industrial), you often see AR4 cited as suggesting that warming could be «up to 4 degrees,» which I think is partly a consequence of the way a key figure was presented.

Beyond that, I'm not sure about the invoking of the «last fifteen years of science,» but a good reference to support the 1.5 ºC threashold would be Schleussner et al (2015) «Differential climate impacts for policy - relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 ºC and 2ºC»

Obama's visit to Alaskan glaciers this week, aimed at connecting with his administration's global warming policies, won't include one of the diversions staged for President Warren G. Harding on his Alaska voyage in 1923.

After following the global warming saga — science and policy — for nearly a quarter century, I've seen the biases at the journals and N.S.F. (including their press releases sometimes), in the I.P.C.C. summary process (the deep reports are mainly sloppy in some cases; the summary writing — read the climate - extinction section of this post — is where the spin lies), and sometimes in the statements and work of individual researchers (both skeptics and «believers»).

Climate, Energy and the Mind First, anyone pointing to the lack of media coverage of global warming, or the lack of chills and thrills, as the reason for a lack of climate - friendly energy policies and actions hasn't fully explored the findings of Kahan and Leiserowitz.

Noting the large emissions reductions that would be needed to control global warming, Dr. Dietz and his colleagues concluded that «the potential for household action deserves greater policy attention.»

I'm no apologist for the failure of the U.S. to adopt meaningful national policies to address global warming, but accidentally the gas revolution in America is having a big impact.

Mr. Jungbauer gave a talk and slide presentation that he said were aimed at providing ammunition for anyone in the policy arena seeking to counter visions of catastrophic global warming pushed by liberal campaigners.

Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including «The Shock Doctrine,» recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in «Capitalism vs. the Climate,» a much - discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here more than once in the last few weeks.

And if these policies were actually discussed publicly in that way (as being beneficial for many reasons other than mitigating global warming) perhaps we'd get out of the trap that Michael Crichton and his ilk continue to set for us.