Sentences with phrase «inaction on climate change as»

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We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

He is recorded as one of the «scientists» who signed the open letter to Prime minister Stephen Harper in 2006 that vehemently denies climate change while urging inaction on climate policy.

The next day headlines will celebrate the «stunning» reduction in GHG and Peter Kent will be quoted as saying that Canada has met half of its Copenhagen target (a 50 - something Mt drop would mean total emissions of around 680Mt), etc., neutralizing any criticism of Canada's inaction on climate change on a hot political year, with 7 provincial elections and, in all likelihood, a federal one.

Just as hundreds of thousands of people protested political inaction on climate change on Earth, a satellite swung into orbit that should help explain why climate change happened — on Mars.

It might be tempting to base a lawsuit on the right to a stable climate as part of the right to life, but litigants would be wise to challenge specific government decisions in lieu of inaction on climate change.

It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well - informed and yet largely unresolved debates among a substantial cohort of the world's climate change researchers gets reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority — «there is no excuse for inaction» — and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to resolve nothing in political terms.

To foreshadow briefly, there are three reasons why uncertainty should not be taken as a reason for inaction on climate change:

In essence you are telling your fellow citizens and mine (Canada; 17.3 tons p.c.) to ignore thousands of your fellow scientists who contribute to the IPCC and that we North Americans might as well keep on burning those fossil fuels at a vastly higher rate than any country in the world because the IPCC isn't 100 % certain that such action / inaction is causing global climate change!

As scientists, frustrated with government inaction on climate change, decide to speak out and get involved in advocacy and politics, the conversation is going to change away from the well - rehearsed talking points of politicians and activists and move towards following facts and arguments wherever they may lead.

International lending institutions also understand that inaction on climate change is as at least as risky as the status quo, and likely more so.

The question will be whether the flooding of land will be interpreted as an «act» despite the fact that the cause of that rise is essentially inaction on the part of governments to protect native title interests by taking steps to prevent climate change.