Sentences with phrase «global warming action»

At ALEC's coal - sponsored meeting, where state legislators and corporate representatives meet to create template state laws ranging from attacks on clean energy to privatization of public schools, Indiana's Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Management Tom Easterly laid out a plan to stall the US EPA global warming action in a power point clearly addressed to coal industry representatives at ALEC's meeting.

Sponsored by the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition.

New York Times blogger Andrew C. Revkin echoed Wasserman's sentiments in his recent article Obama's Ambitious Global Warming Action Plan, «Of course this climate plan is just rhetoric until it is translated into on - the - ground actions.

In any case, John Abraham replies in the Guardian and rips them a couple of new ones (Global warming action: good or bad for the poor?).

The goal is to turn global warming action into the moral issue of this generation.

he has arrived in terms of his mission to establish himself as a lead spokesman in their efforts to thwart global warming action.

«People who didn't want there to be any global warming action, and still don't, are terrified of national assessments,» Mooney said.

22 years ago the UN said we had only 10 years to take global warming action.

Also, we (my organization, Kids vs. Global Warming) are going to be holding training sessions in February - May of this year to train kids from San Francisco to San Diego to be leaders in give a version of my presentation, to green their schools, start activism projects (like SLAP, Sea Level Awareness Project), and lead a GWAT (global warming action team) in their school.

She also co-founded Houstonians for Global Warming Action and the Artist Rescue Mission.

The US Global Warming Action Plan, published last October, says the government will «narrow the scope of uses allowed for HFCs with high global warming potential where better alternatives exist».

Not exact matches

Nearly every country in the world has committed to take action under the Paris Agreement to slow global warming.

Our action is creating new businesses and jobs now, and that will only increase as nations move to combat the impact of global warming.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.

Current projections of global warming in the absence of action are just too close to the kinds of numbers associated with doomsday scenarios.

Take that ad Gingrich did with Nancy Pelosi on global warming, advocating urgent government action.

Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, also testified, as did the National Council of Churches, the Episcopal Church and a group of evangelical Protestants who signed a statement warning against global warming.

He refers to meetings his office has held with global warming groups and says «such gatherings can create an environment of dialogue and common ground for common action on climate change,» and he urged that such gatherings be expanded.

• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

The massive problem of global warming will be helped only by massive action.

Join industry leaders gathered at Natural Products Expo West to get the tools, information and inspiration you need to help your company take meaningful action to reverse global warming.

The 75 - minute session filled most of the 80 seats in the far hallway of the Baltimore convention center as the panel shared their idea: to feed the craving for coordinated industry action to address global warming.

First, the serious side: the new CARMA.org site (Carbon Monitoring for Action) defaults to showing you the worst power plants in the world from a global warming perspective, but it'll also let you find your own power provider and take a look at their plants» emissions.

Mr. Gore, a Democrat who has made drawing attention to global warming his signature cause, called the governor's proposed mandate «a terrific and bold action,» noting that it comes a week before the United Nations will hold a conference on climate change in Paris.

400,000 marched in NYC on September 21 to demand action on climate change - a great march that, unfortunately, has done little to change the politics of global warming at the state or federal level.

I will be one of tens of thousands — hopefully hundreds of thousands — marching on the UN Climate Summit in New York City this Sunday demanding that the world's governments take decisive action to stop global warming.

The government has called for urgent international action to tackle climate change, after a new United Nations report found «unequivocal» evidence for global warming.

Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance of action on climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the impact of global warming.

Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.

Former Transport Minister, Stephen Byers, has called for immediate action on global warming to stave off irredeemable damage to the environment.

Hundreds of thousands are expected to demand greater action by the US and other world governments to reduce global warming.

The people remain far ahead of our political and economic leaders in wanting action to protect us from the increasing threat presented by global warming.

On Sandy Anniversary, the Green Party calls for Full Employment through Climate Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 years.

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 years.

Biello: What I was surprised by in my own kind of interviews and interactions with people was, how aware everybody I spoke to, from people in the most remote villages to, you know, sophisticated urbanites, were aware of global warming and had a fairly progressive view of action that needed to be taken to do something about that now.

The latest research shows that climate talks must lead to more aggressive action to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming

A Florida Republican calls for action to address rising sea levels as a result of global warming

«Adequate management of agricultural and forestry land uses are amongst the lowest - cost actions that can reduce global warming, and most actions are either neutral cost or of positive net profit to society, requiring no substantial capital investment,» the report says.

A pending U.N. report notes that a lack of fast action to combat global warming will lead to severe impacts

The concept of rapid, full - scale mobilization against global warming is a hard sell; dramatic actions are normally driven by immediate threats, not distant, uncertain trends.

These results relate to no action taken to mitigate global warming.

Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers by coming across as alarmist.

«If we do take rapid action to counter global warming and slow the rise in temperatures, southern storms tracks are likely to return to a more northerly position.

It gives examples of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and city actions to adapt to heavy rainfall events.

A short list of relatively simple actions taken to reduce greenhouse gases other than CO2 could help put the brakes on global warming — if implemented globally

That said there should be no excuse for not taking immediate action on global warming on climate change or whatever you want to call it, which is probably the reason for a large part of the reaction to this article.

Proponents of demand - side climate action are already talking about a $ 100 billion climate fund to help poorer nations adapt to the results of global warming.

If we want to save anything, proactive and efficient conservation efforts but, above all, coordinated global action against global warming should start now.»