This paper incorporating articles by three leading Australian experts has been virtually ignored by the Australian Government and the media, including in the voluminous reading
lists on climate change issues published on the websites of the Australian Greenhouse Office, CSIRO and the ABC.
Not exact matches
And while most congressmembers aren't going to
change their minds
on climate change, women's reproductive rights, guns or immigration (the
issues listed as priorities in Carson's email), rallies or meetings to put pressure
on them can get local public and media attention.
In a statement
issued Wednesday, he noted: «This marks the first instance of a species being
listed based upon a computer model of future
climate from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
climate from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Climate Change.
Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that
climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the
issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher
on their priority
list.»
Unless you understand the severity of the
issue motivating these actions, I think it's easy for people to look at
climate change protests as just another item
on a long
list of pet
issues of environmentalists.
If you look at the leading candidates
on both sides, one is more ambiguous than a patch of fog, one doesn't even
list climate change as one of his «driving»
issues in key public speeches, and another seems to think
climate change's importance derives mainly from its relationship to 9 - 11.
Formerly known as «Eco-Cell at St. John's,» the group has grown over the past five years to include a core group of 12 along with a wider involved community of 40 members who organize meetings, community events and maintain an email
list focused
on climate change and other environmental
issues.
Will we ever see a
list of the delegates who in Stockholm concocted the latest
issue by IPCC
on what the public and politicians should think about
Climate Change?
«As far as I'm concerned, this
issue isn't
on the
list of government priorities,» said Ahmed Hassan, of the Save Alexandria Initiative, a group that works to raise awareness of the effects of
climate change on the city.
«There is a long
list of important
issues before all of us, but the grave threat that
climate change poses warrants a prominent position
on that
list.»
For instance, the Reason Foundation ($ 7.2 million) is
on Brulle's
list, despite the fact that its top writer
on science
issues shares some of environmentalists» views
on Global Warming /
Climate Change.
Heritage, which has a staff of nearly 300,
lists five experts
on climate change, including one specialist and four more who also deal with other
issues such as agriculture and government regulation.
He promoted the findings of his Copenhagen Consensus project, which earlier that year had ranked projects
on climate change as the lowest
on a
list of 17 potential
issues to spend money
on.
MC: That might be the cause, but
on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about
issues that are of concern to the American public, and
climate change just isn't near the top of those
lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus
on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.
I was really surprised to see his name
on the
list, considering he's the guy who runs all the surveys for the AMS to figure out where all its members stand
on climate change issues.
It's the hope that those people — especially younger voters — who rank
climate change high
on their
issues list will warm to Gore's pointed rhetoric and get motivated to do things like, you know, vote.
As these are «humanitarian challenges,» I wonder how responding to
climate change differs from responding to the other
issues on the
list.»
The
list includes former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who spoke about
climate change on the 2012 presidential campaign trail; Senator John McCain, who proposed a series of
climate change legislation in the mid-2000s; former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed an emissions - reduction law for his state in 2006; and former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, who writes about
climate and other
issues as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
A new organization, appropriately named the Green New Deal Group, has picked up
on this idea and is laying out an ambitious 100 month agenda that it says is necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, reports the BBC.Tackling the triple crisis of energy prices, the credit crunch and
climate change Comprising a number of experts from the fields of finance, energy and the environment, this group has
issued a
list of proposals that it claims will tackle the threats of high oil prices,
climate change and the credit crisis.
This conference has highlighted just how much local leadership there is
on the
issue of
climate change and how many innovative new projects are going
on in cities around the country: Seattle's incentives for greening existing buildings, Los Angeles's million tree initiative, Miami's bus rapid transit program — and the
list goes
on.
That's right, you can now put «Madoff law»
on the
list with
climate change and FDA regulatory
issues as the hot new practice area for 2009.
The Ministry of Environment, and
Climate Change must
issue a Renewable Energy Approval (REA) for every wind farm, based
on a lengthy and stringent
list of conditions.