Sentences with phrase «issue of climate politics»

As an aside, I consider this subject of technology vs. regulations to be one of the seminal climate change issues of our time, maybe the seminal issue of climate politics — so I will continue to devote a considerable amount of ink to it.

Not exact matches

The old rule of never discussing sex or politics is good in theory, but when the political climate gets heated it can be difficult to leave issues at the door

(For a crisp, informed, and cliché - free reflection on climate change, see Thomas Derr's «The Politics of Global Warming» in the August / September issue of First Things.)

But shadow environment secretary Peter Ainsworth hit back saying it was «disappointing» that Mr Huhne had «chosen to play party politics with the serious issue of climate change».

That could propel the climate issue into the initial GOP debates, and maybe beyond, said Barry Rabe, a professor at the University of Michigan who follows climate politics.

Perry also endorsed the idea — first floated in a different form by physicist and former DOE official Steve Koonin — of forming a «red team» of climate science doubters to challenge a «blue team» of mainstream researchers, in order to publicly hash out the issues and «get the politics out of it.»

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.

She still studies issues relevant to culturally responsive schooling, school climate, and the politics of education.

Her essay points to the particular climate of the late 1960s and early 1970s in which artists grappled with central issues of civil rights, gender politics, and anti-war movements — battles that are still questioned and debated today.

She acknowledges they are depending upon viewer sophistication, because in the way paintings perceive nature and issues such as climate change, the art also comments on landscape painting's history and forces of culture and politics behind it.

The Politics of Climate — Polarized views about climate issues stretch from the causes and cures for climate change to trust in climate scientists and their reClimate — Polarized views about climate issues stretch from the causes and cures for climate change to trust in climate scientists and their reclimate issues stretch from the causes and cures for climate change to trust in climate scientists and their reclimate change to trust in climate scientists and their reclimate scientists and their research.

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.

Also, things are the way they are — setting aside the politics (for recieving nations) and psychological costs (for those moving), it would make sense to some extent for people to move toward places set up for efficient wealth generation rather than to spread the wealth among the people whereever they are, so it wouldn't make sense to try to wipe the slate clean of the advantages gained from history let along geography, although the later does bring up the issue of climate change refugees, and some wealth generating capacity is spread out (land), and of course some clean energy resources are rather abundant in the developing world or parts thereof, and energy needs differ geographically even for the same lifestyle — see above... this whole paragraph should reference itself....

«The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change, a Guide to the Debate» by Andrew Dessler and Edward Parson (Cambridge, 2006) is more comprehensive, gives a better - rounded brief treatment of each issue, is much better on the extra science issues, and more thoughtful than the books in Gavin's review, as good as they are.

In case you missed it, here's a Columbia University video of Schmidt discussing the perils when science becomes politicized and politics gets «scientized» and other issues related to climate science and the public:

It's a new way of talking about this» issue of climate denial in U.S. politics, Treichel added.]

[Oct. 23, 3:05 p.m. Updated Here's a Columbia University video of Schmidt discussing the perils when science becomes politicized and politics gets «scientized» and other issues related to climate science and the public:]

The new course will also be six sessions, with sessions exploring food systems — from how agriculture contributes to climate change and how climate change affects global food supply, to food justice and food politics issues, to the health of our bodies and the health of ecosystems.

As long as the Obama Administration is not using the EPA to its maximum potential effectiveness in its proper and lawful regulatory role, then the President can be rightly accused of playing politics with the issue of climate change.

The issue that Judith seems to be addressing in her «advocacy» is the inappropriate influence of politics in climate science, with «inappropriate» meaning only that this political influence is interfering with scientific progress.

Just to reiterate, a careful analysis of the scientific methodological issues exposes most of the politics of Dr T's pronouncements, and draws into question his competence in this domain, and hence his right to be taken seriously as a political voice on matters climate.

We're living in a land of tradeoffs, where climate is just another issue, the politics are partisan, the action slow, and it's all embedded in a culture of compromise and failure.

The panel will further examine some of the science, politics, and media coverage of the climate issue, and go far toward helping debunk much of the alarmism and hype exposed in the Climate Hustlclimate issue, and go far toward helping debunk much of the alarmism and hype exposed in the Climate HustlClimate Hustle film.

The politics associated with these issues is directly pertinent to our discussions, but political ideologies are not because persons of all political views are to be found among «warmers» and among «climate realists».

I don't know so much about the particular situation regarding the funding of climate research but it seems apparent that politics has competely overtaken science, so on this particular issue I don't doubt a deal will have to be made and given that there are those in positions of influence who would quite happily scrap all funding for climate research altogether I guess such a deal would represent a genuine compromise.

It concerns the thorny issue of right - wing political values and climate change, but rather than discuss the politics, I am interested in possible solutions to GHG mitigation that don't offend the political Right.

In terms of U.S. politics, I expect the Republican dominated Senate to hold more congressional hearings related to climate / energy issues.

«The upcoming climate change will be the most important challenge and a priority issue for the world and define the main events in politics, the economy, and the most important areas of the whole of humanity in the coming decades,» Abdussamatov concludes.

These attempts to mislead the public may well have huge adverse effects on the climate issue, the future of blue / red politics, public trust in the press and public officials, serious damage to the economy and the environment, and even whether science will continue to be judged by using the scientific method.

There has been an obvious attempt to turn the climate debate into an issue of Left vs Right (in terms of party politics).

But the distribution of wealth is amatter of justice among countries, and a major issue in the politics of climate change (Stanton, 2011).

This was really an instance of domestic politics trumping policy, and because domestic politics said, «Your base doesn't like Kyoto, doesn't think global climate change is a real issue, and hates regulation,» we never talked about the things that we were doing that were addressing the issue.

But given the un-diametric mutual opposition between Davey and Flint's parties on the climate issue, this hardly counts as a battle of ideas, and barely even a disagreement about policy beyond the superficialities of inter-party politics.

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».

Progressive politics requires narratives to help communicate big issues such as climate change or the refugee crisis, says the editor of Knock Twice: 25 Modern Folk Tales for Troubling Times

Well, that strategy didn't work in terms of a justification and even prescription for policy, and it shouldn't have worked; energy and climate policy has much more complex issues to deal with than consensus science (issues of politics and values).

In his climate encyclical earlier this year, Francis framed climate change as a key human rights issue and called for a radical transformation of global politics and wasteful high - consuming lifestyles.

Ideal for youth and adults, FISH TANK, by Scott Bischke, is an insightful allegory about the human condition, tackling issues of politics and power, limited resources and climate change.

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 poClimate Change, he explores how the issue of climate change has come to be such a dominant issue in modern poclimate change has come to be such a dominant issue in modern politics.

Its divided political landscape — plus its sheer size — make Florida a good microcosm of voters» views on climate issues across the country, according to Barry Rabe, an expert on the politics of climate change at the University of Michigan and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

If it continues unchecked, humanity will soon be running out of food and water... the environment, especially climate change, is going to be the central issue for all society, including business, politics and the economy...

Global climate change is so divisive and naturally there's a lot of hate thrown by each side of the debate, just like every divisive issue in American politics.

I would note that because the issue of politics is a large one on the topic, a great deal of scientists (addressed with the drama effect discussion a little) might studiously avoid quantification, or even mentioning «global warming» or «global climate change» so as not to get dragged into defending their paper on a political, rather than scientific basis.

Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.

In his comments he adds a good deal of intensity to the issue, writing about «blacklists» and «possible loss of grants» This is just as over-the-top as the PNAS paper, and just as unhelpful — if Pielke's concern is to improve the role of climate science in policy and politics

It's an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform?

On the plus side, countries like Britain now have something like a «mainstream» politics of climate — mainstream in the sense that the major political parties compete in pledging their commitment to green growth, and the issue is extensively debated in the news media.

For many of the groups working for the equal involvement of women in climate change issues, the deliberations on climate change are too narrowly focused on the politics of emissions reductions, rather than the long - term social and community initiatives that could underpin a real shift in a global consciousness or more effective practices of post-disaster rebuilding.In a statement to the U.N. General Assembly in July of this year, executive director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), June Zeitlin, points out: «Women have always been leaders in community revitalization and natural resource management.

We must use Copenhagen to rise above the petty politics of climate change, to instead recognize it as a clearly moral issue, with a clear choice between what is right and what is morally wrong.

The October issue highlights issues of climate and agriculture issues and the need to revamp the current practices; also the October issue of Nature covers the need or the overhaul of economics as a discipline and politics as usual.