Sentences with phrase «of concerned scientists»

Brenda Ekwurzel is a senior climate scientist and the director of climate science for the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

This time, he's trying to tie up the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

According to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the carbon impacts of fueling your electric car depend on where you plug it in.

The Union of Concerned Scientists published the results of the study on its climatechoices website and summarized them thus:

The 17 organizations are: Sustainable FERC Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, Acadia Center, American Wind Energy Association, Clean Wisconsin, Conservation Law Foundation, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Fresh Energy, NW Energy Coalition, Sierra Club, Southern Renewable Energy Association, Union of Concerned Scientists, Vote Solar, Western Grid Group, and Wind on the Wires.

Exxon was recently accused by the Union of Concerned Scientists of funding a Big Tobacco — style PR campaign — to the tune of $ 16 million over the past 10 years — to misinform the public on climate science.

Mike Jacobs is leading the Union of Concerned Scientists's work on electricity markets and regulatory reform.

In 2009, this report Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Midwest by the Union of Concerned Scientists stated:

For example, a number of leading wind companies and other industry players are partners in the American Wind Wildlife Institute, which the Union of Concerned Scientists helped launch in 2008.

Bill has previously worked for The League of Conservation Voters and The Union of Concerned Scientists.

The agreement «sends a very powerful message to the business and investment community that the age of fossil fuels is ending,» explained the Union of Concerned Scientists» Alden Meyer.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a left - wing advocacy organization that spreads unscientific alarmism about environment and energy topics.

It is directed by a 21 - member board comprised entirely of officials from wealthy far - left Big Green groups including Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Union of Concerned Scientists report also doesn't account for the methane released during natural gas fracking, the side effects of hydroelectric dams, and other externalities from energy production.

The announcement by the U.S. and China was important for several reasons: Together they account for around 40 percent of global GHG emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists; there had heretofore been few signs of a Chinese willingness to commit to capping emissions; and it raised hope that future global negotiations might actually yield an agreement to rein in emissions enough to keep the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

According to a new factsheet released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, and the American Council for and Energy - Efficient Economy, we have the technology to cost - effectively reduce new truck fuel consumption 40 percent by 2025.

According to Dave Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists, there are more than two transformer fires per year at United States nuclear plants.

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollution.

Hours before the first story hit, Daniel Melling — who is hosting an event Thursday entitled «Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Change Harms in California,» along with the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bill McKibben — broke the news of Richmond's filing before a press release was even available.

The signatories of the letter include American Rivers, Center for International Environmental Law, Citizens for Global Solutions, Clean Water Action, Defenders of Wildlife, Earth Day Network, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Environment America, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, Native American Rights Fund, National Tribal Environmental Council, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Population Action International, Population Connection, Rails - to - Trails Conservancy, Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«If we keep assuming we can stay below 2 °C as a matter of course, then we aren't being honest about the adaptation challenges,» says Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«I was invited about a year or so ago to New York to speak to the staff of the New York Attorney General's office mostly about the work we did in Merchants of Doubt... And I also participated a few weeks ago in a meeting in Boston with some colleagues from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which also involved the staff of attorneys general offices from a number of states who came to listen to again factual presentations about climate science, history of climate disinformation,» she told Rep. Paul Tonko, D - N.Y., at the hearing.

«Ten years ago, it was possible to model a path to 2 °C without all these heroic assumptions,» says Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

says Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

In a new report, experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists examine different future energy scenarios and find that it is possible not only to scale back energy's reliance on water, but also to reduce carbon emissions and provide reliable power at a reasonable price.

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How Exxonmobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science, Cambridge, MA, Union of Concerned Scientists, 68 pp Online here.

Climate change - related threats to 31 World Heritage sites in 29 countries are highlighted in a new report released by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Program and the Union of Concerned Scientists today.

«Some people just want to plant a few seeds and some want the rosebush in full bloom,» said Alden Meyer, an observer of the talks from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Union of Concerned Scientists (2007a).

As reported by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit advocacy coalition of scientists, the waste that coal creates is catastrophic:

Union of Concerned Scientists, Government Accountability Project (Timothy Donaghy, et al.)(2007b).

One of the bigger blunders of this type was when the Union of Concerned Scientists decided to repeat the most prominent accusation line used by Ross Gelbspan and Al Gore as though it was a breaking news item.

See «Coal vs. Wind,» Union of Concerned Scientists, 2009, Accessed December 14, 2010.

Erika Spanger - Siegfried, a senior analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, researches, writes and speaks about U.S. climate change impacts and preparedness.

WASHINGTON (June 25, 2013)-- President Obama's speech today, in which he laid out a suite of climate and energy policies, demonstrates the growing demand for heeding the risks scientists have identified from a changing climate, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

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«Students Powered the Vote Main Union of Concerned Scientists Report Finds One - Third of US Coal Plants Ripe For Retirement»

By James Taylor Sitting in on a March 1 Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) press conference regarding global warming and heavy snowfalls, I couldn't help feeling like the chairman of the Senate committee questioning mafia capo Frank Pentangeli in Godfather II.

Sallie Baliunas is listed by the Union of Concerned Scientists as being affiliated with nine different organisations who have all received funding from ExxonMobil, including the George C Marshall Institute.

Shana Udvardy is the climate preparedness specialist with the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has a «Clean Energy 101» section on their website that is very useful for people who have little or no prior knowledge of what clean energy is.

Recently, Jane Flegal, Doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California at Berkeley, and FCEA scholar in residence chatted by phone with Peter Frumhoff, Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

In a lawsuit filed today, seven public interest groups — including the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)-- sued the Trump administration over this determination, asking the court to uphold the previous administration's science - based finding that the standards are appropriate and achievable.

Gore's presentation at the meeting, plus the prominent presence of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy organization, suggested to me that my area of science was being exploited for political purposes.

Below is a statement by Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), who has actively participated in the UN climate change negotiations since they began in 1991.

It all rests on the phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», which has been endlessly regurgitated by, among others, Al Gore, Naomi Oreskes, George Monbiot, the Union of Concerned Scientists, James Hoggan and Eric Pooley.

At present, he is a member of the Science Advisory Panel of the Climate Commission, the recently established Climate Change Authority, and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has spent decades advocating for clean energy technologies.

The article quotes Elliott Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists who says, «They're presenting themselves as a neutral, fact - based public interest group when they're not.»