Sentences with phrase «makes issues like climate change»

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But «let's not try to make it so» is (unfortunately) premature... climate change appears to remain deeply contested within the Conservative Party (see the campaigns of elected representatives like Douglas Carswell MP, Roger Helmer MEP; the most prominent opinion formers, such as The Spectator and forums such as ConservativeHome; and the weak priority which most party activists give the issue (according to ConHome surveys).

The labor - backed party also would like to see Cuomo do more on criminal justice reform and to address climate change, though Lipton allowed he has made «significant strides» on those issues.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Now it may not be, you know, the solution to climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.

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.

Many environmentalists have been gratified recently to discover that corporations feature climate change in their annual reports, and entrepreneurs make pitches to bankers and hedge fund managers that read like back issues of the environmentalists» own doomsday scenarios.

The news media's financial woes make it difficult to adequately cover issues like climate change, human rights and global poverty.

Even for those of you who are interested in seeing a reduction in our dependence on fossil fuels — and I know how passionate young people are about issues like climate change — the fact of the matter is, is that for quite some time, America is going to be still dependent on oil in making its economy work.

The issue with the Mauritsen and Stevens piece is that it tries to go well beyond a «what if» modeling experiment, and attempts to make contact with a lot of other issues related to historical climate change (the hiatus, changes in the hydrologic cycle, observed tropical lapse rate «hotspot» stuff, changes in the atmsopheric circulation, etc) by means of what the «iris» should look like in other climate signals.

Because, in order to really make a dent in climate change and issues with peak oil, it's going to take both conservation and nifty new technologies like acres of algae to save our hides.

If you want to make it an issue, find people in the center who speak in tones like this — who can sit across and not yell and not throw out invectives and not even use language like people like me create — but have a rational, common - sense dialogue over the challenges of what changes in climate could be doing, are doing, and what is the best way to deal with it.

The third issue is working to make sure the new jobs that are created by working on climate change — like energy retrofits — are high quality jobs.

Such economic clout makes California ideally positioned to take the lead on energy policy and environmental issues like climate change, even as the United States as a whole has failed to make much progress on either front.

We decided to emphasize consumer opposition, but also to make the case that New Jersey should retain oversight over utilities to deal with long - range issues like climate change.

They are distracting the media and public from the lack of credible scientific evidence supporting man - made climate change using issues like gender.

Harvard - Smithsonian strove to make his life harder and harder, first by banning him from working on anything even remotely connected with issues like climate change or CO2, then by moving his office away from the astrophysics department to a remote area Soon calls Siberia.

If you're interested in how misinformation makes its way into the public dialogue on important issues like war in the Middle East or climate change, then you should get to know David Rose, a «special investigations writer» for the UK's ultra-conservative Mail on Sunday tabloid.

THe UK - based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so - called «man - made global warming» (aka climate change): «But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural processes are underway, about which we understand very little and can not control.»

Even in light of the recent policy work in the US energy sector, the ambitious goals and approaches to carbon emissions reductions coming out of global climate summits, and an increasing awareness of the various environmental issues we're facing, any changes we're making in our habits, systems, and policies feel like they're too little, too late.