Sentences with phrase «how environmental campaigners»
To me, it conveys how environmental campaigners, in trying to engage a public for which global warming has little salience, may be helping sustain the still - common view that greenhouse - driven warming remains uncertain science.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«It's vital that everyone with an interest - private motorists, the business community, central and local government, road safety and environmental campaigners - is given the chance to see how schemes operate in the real world.»
The fight over how humans should, and should not, interact with whales has moved from the waters off Antarctica, where environmental campaigners have been harassing Japanese whalers, to the White House.
Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.
The meeting was attended by scientists, environmental campaigners, engineers and policy experts aiming to clarify how global warming might be counteracted either by sopping up heat - trapping carbon dioxide or reducing incoming sunlight in a variety of ways — a suite of options known as geo - engineering.
But the story really only began at the end, given how the battle for Storm King established precedents that have since given environmental campaigners and communities far more influence on such projects.
6 Jan: Daily Mail: Richard Hartley - parkinson: Prince Charles says becoming a grandfather has boosted his environmental beliefs saying he doesn't want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» The Prince of Wales has spoken about how the prospect of becoming a grandfather is spurring his environmental beliefs, saying he does not want to «hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world» Prince Charles, an outspoken campaigner on environmental issues, told ITV's This Morning that he did not want the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's child, due to be born next summer, to ask him why he had not done more to tackle issues like climate change... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257993/Prince-Charles-says-grandfather-boosted-environmental-beliefs-saying-doesnt-want-hand-increasingly-dysfunctional-world.html
«Environmental campaigners use the so - called ecological footprint — how much area each one of us requires from the planet — to make their point.
No one should demand campaigners temper their environmental warnings; if anything, they could do with taking a leaf out of Wallace - Wells» book and identifying more visceral ways of highlighting quite how bad things could get during the second half of the century.
One of the unfortunate side effects of which was that (and this is not necessarily your field's fault in the direct sense) every two - bit environmental activist, campaigner, and pressure group took it as license to fully politicize the science with naive and exaggerated claims about the «effects» of global warming (apparently it's responsible for everything), or where the «tipping point» was (30 years, no 20 years, no 10 years, etc.) or how quickly we could «de-carbonize» our economy (50 % reduction in 40 years, no 70 % in 30 years, no 90 % in 15 years).
Prominent environmental campaigner, and author of Kyoto 2, how to manage the Global Greenhouse, Oliver Tickell protests of carbon trading schemes that, «Carbon fortunes are indeed being made, and many of them in the City of London, which dominates the global carbon marketplace».