Sentences with phrase «motivated by changing climate»

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NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a diClimate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a diclimate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

«We need our young people today to embrace science enthusiastically, to realise that challenges like climate change can only be beaten by motivated and dedicated scientists,» he told the Royal Society in Oxford this morning.

Fear, meanwhile, proved to be equally effective across the entire age range, both in raising awareness about climate change's risks and motivating viewers to intend to engage in direct action, although the ominous video was not perceived by respondents to be as informative as the neutral, informational video.

All we need is the will to change, which needs to be motivated by knowledge and an understanding of the science of climate change.

Under the bonnet, the car is motivated by a turbocharged 2.0 litre TFSI four - cylinder petrol engine with 286 hp and 380 Nm of torque between 1,800 to 5,200 rpm — the slight drop in power over the Euro - spec models can be attributed to the changes made to adapt said mill to our fuel quality and climate.

Increased and improved Earth observation is not only motivated by climate change, but also by increased traffic in remote areas like the Arctic and Antarctica.

By making people care about and individually connect to climate change, it can motivate them to seek out the scientific evidence for themselves.»

IMO when someone hears or reads something about climate science they should be careful about taking things at face value, consider that climate change science does have major regulatory / economic / environmental repercussions, realize that the source may be motivated by these potential repercussions, and look at the past behavior of the source (have they usually said accurate statements?).

In his endorsement of you a few weeks ago, Mayor Bloomberg said he was motivated by the belief that you would do more to confront the threat of climate change than your opponent.

He personally knows of at least 10 journeys made by himself and by his friends and family on Eurostar in the last year alone that were at least partially motivated by a concern about climate change (along with the fact that it is just a more pleasant way to travel).

However, other religious people are motivated by their faith to study climate change scientifically, to engage in personal and political activism, or even to call for sweeping economic and cultural revolution.

But I also think the AAAS may have been motivated by the work that Ed Maibach, at the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, has been doing.

I think the AAAS was probably motivated, first of all, by the fact that we — meaning the larger community of scientists — feel like the climate - change message hasn't gotten out.

But it seems obvious that this new research is, to use the climate change communicator's vernacular, «motivated» by political need.

It is very simple to explain: Since the ACC (anthropomorphic climate change, aka «Man - caused global warming») is a by a series of cherry - picked data points represented by constantly flawed and failing models, it was decided to remove the PC motivated opinion aspect.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

Motivated reasoning has been used by Leiserowitz et al in a paper which interprets public perception on climate change (Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust.

This post examines the thesis that motivated reasoning by climate scientists is adversely impacting the public trust in climate science and provides a reason for people to reject the consensus on climate change science.

Leaving aside the PC issues associated with labeling people, I don't think their main premise that motivating skeptics by framing the issue in terms of the welfare of their society, instead of focussing on risks of climate change, works.

I call it «The 3 E» of successful presentations, even if, I know, one of them does not start with an E. My wish is that by doing all this some members of audience will be motivated to take action to reduce the threat of climate change for my nieces and nephews.

when suggested policies are called «Marxist,» or «tantamount to Marxism,» when such charges are completely unqualified with respect to whether climate those change mitigation policies are motivated by intentions to «redistribute wealth.»

Those of us involved in that research are motivated entirely by concern over the suffering of humans and non-humans alike due to climate change, and we think there is sufficient cause for alarm about the future to do the research into the idea of putting something like sulfate (not a significant part of aircraft exhaust) into the stratosphere (higher than the airplanes you see making contrails).

The MENA Region CSP initiative is motivated by objectives of energy security, climate change mitigation, and regional integration in the Mediterranean.

Motivated variously by concerns over security, health, climate change and high energy prices, these nations are now home to robust and growing solar industries and solar panels can be found on hundreds of thousands of rooftops across these nations.

The person who asked me was motivated by the Pope's encyclical, the comments regarding climate change.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

The research project has been motivated by the fact that climate change is a threat that screams for attention to be understood essentially as a problem of ethics and justice, an understanding which has profound significance for national climate change policy development but a fact which our research has concluded is largely being ignored by most nations.

But simply pursuing strategies to motivate individual behavioral change without helping citizens understand how the cultural understanding of climate change was manufactured by morally indefensible strategies, does little to change the cultural understanding of the problem held by many.

«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the politically - motivated insistence by climate change deniers and fossil - fueled politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»

There is a theory that the first farmers may have been motivated by adverse climate change.

These are not corporate stooges of the nuclear industry; to a person, their embrace of nuclear power is motivated by a deep concern about climate change and the conviction that no other carbon - free source of energy is sufficient (and safe) enough to replace coal and gas.

He presumably was motivated by a desire to «improve» Australia, but he aligned it with the USA in that country's wars of global domination and he was George W. Bush's greatest ally in slowing the world's response to the massive climate change problem.

DEBORAH AMOS: These corporate leaders, motivated by the reality of climate change, the fear of state - by - state regulation and the hope of new business opportunities, wanted the federal government to impose mandatory limits on carbon.

I liked how Channel Four averred that, «The revelation is evidence of the well - organised and highly - motivated campaign by climate change sceptics....»

By documenting and communicating youth solutions, the YVFP films give educators tools to teach about climate change in a manner that relates to students» lives, taps into their interests, engages their curiosity and motivates them to retain the information as lifetime learning.

Although we were motivated in this research by an objective to expose effects of human - made global warming as soon as possible, we use an empirical approach that does not require knowledge of the causes of observed climate change.

With respect to those who have genuine concern for the poor, I would remind them that it is the poor that will be disproportionally affected by climate change — and hope that this is enough to motivate them to recognize that it must precedence over their implementation of their personal version of the ideal society — at least for the time being.

In principle, one's skepticism of human - induced climate change could be motivated by a model which both accounts for past observations and predicts no significant changes in the future.

The damage is being done by politically motivated think tanks that are trying to «balance» credible scientific evidence with fringe rhetorical arguments designed to deny that human changes to the environment are altering the global climate.

The obvious breach of moral principles and the scientific method in ClimateGate strongly motivates me and others to critically examine the science and / or oppose the policies being advocated by those warning over catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.

University of Exeter - led research by an international team and published this week shows that cultural factors are key to making climate change real to people and to motivating their responses.

The damage is being done by politically motivated think tanks that are trying to «balance» dubious scientific evidence (as demonstrated on this blog) with fanatic rhetorical arguments designed to assert that human changes to the environment are causing catastrophic global climate changes.

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