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Learn about how the issue of climate change has become politicized by those who benefit from convincing people that it isn't real or that humans aren't causing it.

If we look at how the issue of climate change fits into the general perspective we have in politics and the social sciences, we can see the limitations of what I call «methodological nationalism».

In his new book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, he explores how the issue of climate change has come to be such a dominant issue in modern politics.

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The report — «Power Surge: How the DoD Leverages Private Resources to Enhance Energy Security and Save Money on U.S. Military Bases» — is the third in a series of influential studies issued since 2011 by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.

What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

«We will explain how shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and corporate governance matters often raise issues with a direct impact on long - term shareholder value (e.g., effective management of climate change risk or encouraging stronger board oversight and independence).

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

This virtual issue provides a unique opportunity to exchange research knowledge, ideas and innovations, and develop an understanding of how primary industries can tackle the challenge of a changing climate.

These, and the other questions that the co-chairs have framed for discussion, are remarkable because they address deeply the core normative issues of the negotiations that have simmered away in recent years but which have been perennially dodged rather than confronted: How should the benefits and burdens of climate action be distributed in a diverse world?

Such forums give individuals «choice and voice» as to which issues they discuss and how they express their opinions — opinions which necessarily span the range of views on climate science and policy.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

Paul Brannen, head of campaigns at Christian Aid said: «Campaigning on issues such as climate change and how it affects the poor is a vital part of Christian Aid's work.

The «nitty - gritty» of how patents are developed and then protected is a big issue when it comes to the role technology can play in the future of energy security and climate change policy, for example.

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps on climate change; A.G. Schneiderman by issuing a report detailing the need to address climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»

The plan is one of the most comprehensive yet from the Westchester County executive, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a second term, and highlights an issue that both candidates say is a top priority: how to boost New York's business climate and increase jobs, particularly in upstate regions grappling with decades of economic malaise.

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

«The question is, how useful is highlighting the [climate] issue to pull some of these swing voters over with him?»

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

«The evolutionary consequences of climate change are one of our greatest areas of uncertainty because empirical data addressing this issue are extraordinarily rare; this study is a tremendous step forward in our understanding of how climate change can influence evolutionary process and ultimately species biodiversity,» said Ryan Kovach, a University of Montana study co-author.

China has never been represented in front of the General Assembly by its president before, so Hu's appearance there underlines how seriously he takes the climate issue, says Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Hu seems to understand that putting something on the table is critical to helping motivate the members of the Senate who so far have signaled deep reservations.

As many of us are paying attention to the climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar these next two weeks, I think it's important to keep in context just how many moving pieces there are when it comes to crafting domestic policies that address a global issue.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

The National Science Foundation - funded study, published in the April 27 issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looked at how marine communities change across natural gradients to better understand the influence of the three climate stressors.

The finding, detailed in the Jan. 22 issue of the journal Nature, suggests that this process could be important to more accurately modeling how Greenland will respond to climate change and contribute to the already 8 inches of global sea level rise since 1900.

With many Americans choosing to eat less meat in recent years, often to help reduce the environmental effect of meat production, UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin began to wonder how much feeding pets contributes to issues like climate change.

The technique, described in the current issue of Science, could someday be used to equip a variety of crops with the genetic know - how to survive in scorching climates.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

Sachs made his remarks yesterday at a symposium hosted by the institute on how to improve agriculture to address the mounting challenge of feeding the world while combating climate change and stopping the wholesale loss of biodiversity, among other interrelated issues.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

Those with high levels of biospheric concern also were most likely to engage in pro-environmental day - to - day behaviors, such as recycling or energy savings measures, and were the most likely to engage in coping mechanisms to deal with environmental stress, ranging from denying one's individual role in climate change to seeking more information on the issue and how to help mitigate it.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

In a series of experiments, the researchers tested how shifts in moral framing affected attitudes toward environmental issues such as climate change.

The key issue in predicting future rates of global sea level rise is to understand and predict how ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will react to a warming climate.

(The full Statement of Task appears in Appendix A.) Normally, a technical issue such as surface temperature reconstructions might not generate widespread attention, but this case brings interesting lessons about how science works and how science, especially climate science, is communicated to policy makers and the public.

But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.

To provide information to stakeholders addressing these issues, the USGS Groundwater Resources Program made a detailed assessment of groundwater availability of the Central Valley aquifer system, that includes: (1) the present status of groundwater resources; (2) how these resources have changed over time; and (3) tools to assess system responses to stresses from future human uses and climate variability and change.

This is the second in a series of articles that describe how scholars at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing their varied skills to bear on the issue of climate change and global warming.

Richard, who recently delivered a TEDx talk on «Medical Metaphors for Climate Issues», used that talk as an example of how the NCA could be utilized as a resource for science communication.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

Susan Hassol addressed how scientists can improve communication of climate change by what they say and how they say it, dealing with framing, psychological and cultural issues, and questions involving language.

Chu addressed the highly topical issue of climate change and reminded all of us how important it is to treat the earth well.

Now, forgetting entirely the more complex issue of «climate sensitivity» and focusing only on how tiny, minute concentrations of CO2 can make a difference to global temps — one of the oft - repeated and simplistic denialist memes — is there a simple desktop experiment to demonstrate how that can work?

The conference will explore what future holds for moral education, how to promote good citizenship in a divisive society and a climate of distrust, and how do we deal with controversial issues in the classroom.

It is a guide about how to incorporate discussion of global issues such as gender, climate change and poverty into your subject area.

How do you see the importance of these skills in addressing the key trends and issues we are seeing globally, such as climate change and migration?

What are some of the major issues behind diversity and education, and campus climate, facing institutions today and how do you plan to tackle these at HGSE?

This is a hands - on investigative STEM focusing on issues of climate change and how it affects the polar caps, and subsequently the polar bear population.