Sentences with phrase «important issue of climate»

At town halls and candidate debates across the country, Republican and Democratic election hopefuls are being asked where they stand on the important issue of climate change.

Wishing Carl Pope all the best wishes as he focuses his hard work and energy to this very important issue of climate change.

Not exact matches

For most of the issues CEOs thought were important, such as controlling spending and taxation, and creating an investing - friendly climate, Harper had roughly three times the support of Ignatieff.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

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.

Climate change is an important issue to the long - term health of our community and the world, however policies in our relatively small jurisdiction which are not aligned with the realities in other Canadian provinces and the United States put us at a competitive disadvantage.

A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

Climate change - the issue David Cameron described a year ago as «one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces» and on which all three leaders signed an important pledge as recently as February — has been studiously avoided in this campaign.

The issue of the environment and climate change is very important, because of its impact on many countries in the Commonwealth.

She rejected the suggestion that David Cameron had lost interest in green issues and said the PM had «specifically» spoken to her about the important of getting a gloal agreement on climate change at the Paris summit in December.

While a good knowledge of environmental issues is important, he is convinced that «you don't need a double PhD in climate science», but a good range of skills.

The study appears in the current issue of the journal Nature, and provides important information on the predictability of long - term climate fluctuations.

Last, it is important to remember that even though Florida has the turbulent climate of the subtropics, weather is an issue in most places.

Trenberth cites issues from the low - resolution ocean model to the lack of important ocean - climate patterns such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

Anticipating the future under the influence of climate change is one of the most important challenges of our time, and the topic of the special section in this issue of Science (see p. 472).

«Due to the current void in national leadership on the issue of climate change, efforts at the state and local level are more important than ever,» Saikawa says.

Anthropogenic climate change is an extraordinarily important issue, which we have done a remarkable job of neglecting up to this point.

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.

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.

The letter ends with a promise of collaboration, saying, «We in the scientific community are prepared to work with you on the scientific issues important to your deliberations as you seek to address the challenges of our changing climate.»

«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.

«It is not going to solve any climate change issues, for sure,» Arrigo said, but the research is important in understanding the impacts of glacial melt on marine ecosystems.

The environmental state of the coastal sea, adaptation to climate change and alternatives to conventional fuels — the current issue delves into important topics concerning the future.

While it is unlikely that we can obtain complete certainty on this issue, it is important for mainstream climate scientists to continue to debate this issue in a manner that can be interpreted by rest of the academic community.

The authors highlight some potentially important issues about the impacts of climate change on our future health.

And when climate scientists are forced to respond to the constant propagation of misinformation on these settled issues, it just detracts from our investigation of the legitimate, unresolved, important questions.

Accepting faults you find in Flannery's The Weather Makers, I think his book still has merits — including with regard to some aspects of the politics, viz criticism of the behaviour of the Australian government, an important ally of the US administration on climate issues.

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

«To me, climate change is the most important issue of our century.»

Yet the story of Pushtar is not only one that could be followed, it should be followed for its approach to an issue so important yet surprisingly difficult to explore on - screen; climate change.

Recycling initiatives As well as stocking the right sorts of products within education vending, it has become more and more important for premises to consider recycling initiatives — especially now that issues relating to climate change, carbon footprints and energy management at the forefront of protecting the environment.

Numeracy and literacy skills are vitally important but we also want school students to be active participants in society and have a broad understand of issues such as climate change and other things that could affect their life after school.

The Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, convened earlier this year and of which I am a member, issued a set of recommendations last month that include measures to reduce school suspensions and arrests, address racial disparities, and collect more important data that will show what we know has been happening inside our schools.

«We use images of wildflowers, and the natural communities they're a part of, to attract attention to important climate and conservation issues.

This NZ climate website has a list of tweets of the latest and most important stuff on the climate issue, imho, and its updated constantly.

And insiders credit Cartagena meetings with having helped patch up the relatively successful outcome seen at Cancun, which cleared up the mess of Copenhagen and made progress on important issues like technology transfer and the $ 100 - billion - a-year Green Climate Fund.

In additon, WMO's rule of transmission of synoptic observations is designed far before climate change is an important issue.

The loss of this satellite was undeniably heart breaking as the data it was to supply is critical to our understanding of important climate issues.

Their initial piece, «Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community,» is on The Conversation, an academic Web site aiming to provide a credible source of information and analysis on important issues as traditional journalism shrinks.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

So while polls may reveal a significant proportion of Americans concerned about climate change, it is not an important issue in comparison to all of the other concerns.

I feel that important issues have been raised in fights over the meaning of the climate e-mail exchanges, and some have resulted in changes to how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opclimate e-mail exchanges, and some have resulted in changes to how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opClimate Change operates.

In a postscript Socolow also pointed to his forthcoming paper in a special October issue of the journal Climatic Change on «helping the policymaker decide how important climate change is.»

It remains to be seen whether the series draws a substantial and sustained audience, but the Showtime team, at least in episode one, deserves plaudits for taking a compellingly fresh approach to showing the importance of climate hazards to human affairs, the role of greenhouse gases in raising the odds of some costly and dangerous outcomes and — perhaps most important — revealing the roots of the polarizing divisions in society over this issue.

At the same time, the scientific issue of how climate change might affect the incidence of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes should form an important avenue of research.

As many of us seem to be saying (you might call it, pleading), the Times can and should play an important role in that, but it will have to «step up» its coverage a few notches on this particular issue, i.e., global climate change.

Rather than focussing on the important but inherently incremental developments in the science behind the issue, the media would do us all a favor by maintaining a consistent message regarding the underlying issue (i.e. human action is causing climate change, and climate change has the potential to do great harm to our way of life) and focus on how ordinary people can take steps in their own lives to help address the problem in ways that don't require inordinate sacrifice.

I think what Hansen did raises a whole host of very important issues about climate research, the science - policy interface, and how research is publicized.

The new and legitimate issues raised over this energy report are particularly important as a test of the climate panel's readiness to live up to its new pledge to be responsive to criticism as it prepares to release a report on climate and disasters later this year and then its far bigger suite of assessments coming in 2013 and 2014.