Sentences with phrase «of alternative climate»

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Yet as an environmentalist, philanthropist and alternative energy investor, he is trying to halt the accelerating affects of climate change and make people understand the connectedness between climate and financial markets.

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

Whether you're looking for the latest content on the impacts of climate change, the fossil industries that produce the emissions, renewable energy and energy efficiency alternatives, or climate solutions outside energy, you've come to the right place.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

The unanimous position among the UCP leadership candidates to repeal the carbon tax without proposing any alternatives to reform or replace it suggests that none of them see climate change as a serious issue.

Furthermore, 75 % of respondents at least partially agreed B.C. could strengthen the economy if it embraced clean alternatives, according to the poll commissioned by Pembina Institute, Clean Energy Canada and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

Explaining Max's «s decision to offer more meat free fare, its president, Richard Bergfors, said: «Meat consumption is one of today's great climatic challenges, so it is important for us to be able to offer a really good and climate - friendly alternative.

Recently, Jack has worked with The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, to implement a humid climate trial of the intermediate wheatgrass Kernza, a wheat variety that is hoped to be a commercially viable perennial alternative to annual grain production.

Objective: To determine the impact of alternative dietary strategies on climate change mitigation and the nutritional quality of the Australian diet.

One of the world's greatest explorations of cool climate, alternative white wines from a single vineyard, we focus on creating refreshing, easy - drinking yet complex white wines that go great with a vast variety of foods.

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I think «green new deal», «green / sustainable growth» and «green jobs» are going to be some of the most attractive arguments for a broad climate coalition, and for an alternative.

The alternative is a car - dependent, exurban sprawl disfiguring our towns and villages, worsening climate change, leeching cities into wilderness, and doing nothing to bring down the cost of housing.

He faces a more real threat from energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who has been at the forefront of dissent against the Conservatives» approach to the rejected alternative vote referendum.

«Instead of expanding these airports the government should introduce a frequent flyer levy to reduce the need for any new runway capacity and invest the money raised in further measures to offer climate - friendly alternatives to air travel.

Sound economic management, the currency of economic credibility, is not an alternative to advancing left wing values, improving working class conditions or tackling climate change.

This magma plume isn't an alternative possible cause of recent upticks in melting along the West Antarctic Ice Sheet attributed to human - generated climate change.

He called upon the government «to quickly make alternative arrangements» to continue a «national program of climate research.»

The $ 100 billion a year was supposed to help developing countries adapt to changes being wrought by climate change, and to help them bypass fossil fueled development in favor of cleaner alternatives.

He notes, however, that the investment climate for alternative energy R&D can fluctuate with the price of traditional fossil fuels.

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To preserve these services or develop viable alternatives, humans must recognise feedback — signals of climate change and ecosystem decline — from natural systems.

However, a new study by VTT and the Finnish Meteorological Institute suggests that the uncertainties associated with climate engineering are too great for it to provide an alternative to the rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Smil has forced climate advocates to reckon with the vast inertia sustaining the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels, and to question many of the rosy assumptions underlying scenarios for a rapid shift to alternatives.

The search for economically viable alternatives to fossil fuels has attracted attention among energy communities because of increasing energy prices and climate change.

This is especially true in a world of climate change, where many species have no alternative but to migrate to keep up with moving climate zones.

While there is the development of new hydrocarbon sources, including deepwater / horizontal drilling and fracking, are contentiously underway, commitments to mitigate climate change are driving efforts to develop sources of alternative and renewable energy.

But developing countries are in a different position: They're at the beginning of phasing out HCFCs and can leap directly past HFCs» to benign alternatives, says Nathan Borgford - Parnell, regional assessment initiative coordinator for the UN's Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

In addition to JGU, also involved in the project are the Technical University of Madrid and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain, the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (Inria), the Foundation for Research and Technology in Greece, Seagate Systems in the UK, the German Climate Computing Center, CA Technologies Development in Spain, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH.

Climate deniers are accused of practicing pseudoscience, as are intelligent design creationists, astrologers, UFOlogists, parapsychologists, practitioners of alternative medicine, and often anyone who strays far from the scientific mainstream.

The environmental impacts of alternative energy need to be balanced against the impacts of the energy they replace, such as fossil fuels driving global climate change, Schimel said.

With threats such as climate change and declining oil stocks looming, we should be going all out to find alternative sources of energy.

Beehives were donated to poor households in the communities for them to improve their livelihoods given the lack of alternative income generating activities and the adverse effects of climate change on their traditional agricultural production.

He calls on Congress to take 5 % to 10 % of the funds that the United States gives to IPCC (which have averaged about $ 3 million annually over the last decade) and dedicate it to «a group of well - credentialed scientists to produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses that have been (in their view) marginalized, misrepresented or ignored in previous IPCC reports (and thus EPA and National Climate Assessments).

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

The research offers a more complex, alternative view of current assumptions in climate change communication.

HFCs are chemicals that can be thousands of times as climate - forcing as carbon dioxide and that proliferated largely because the protocol tapped them as an alternative to ozone - depleting coolants.

The deal sets different baselines and timelines for developed countries and for two distinct groups of developing nations, including a group of more than 100 nations led by China that has committed to move quickly toward more climate - friendly alternative coolants and a more cautious group of high - ambient - air - temperature countries that has insisted on more time.

To this end, the SuMaRiO researchers developed a system that supports decision - making processes by enabling politicians to evaluate the consequences of different farming alternatives based on future changes in climate.

The high - carbon alternative, the report warns, will lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change that will upend economies for the foreseeable future.

If scientists conclude that the burning of fossil fuels is inducing unacceptable global climate change, then we have a limited number of alternatives to turn to: solar - based sources (photovoltaics, ocean, wind, etc.), nuclear fission and fusion.

Specifically, in the case of rapid action to slow catastrophic climate change, the best alternatives appear to be: methane and black carbon (otherwise known as soot).

Either «we have to see the coal industry dwindle and disappear or sit back and see what impacts we get from climate change, both of which are not good alternatives.»

CAS insists translation of climate - skeptic tome was merely to enlighten its scholars to alternative viewpoints

While the economics of any cap - and - trade system are worthy of debate, it's clear something has to be done about climate change and Chao has shown no interest in any alternative.