His story was picked up by hundreds
of other climate change deniers, some of whom went so far as to claim that it destroyed global warming theory.
Dr. Hansen, along with a number
of other climate change alarmists (like Al Gore), believes that man is the chief cause of global warming, and that warming is generally harmful.
The past seven days have shown clearly how Lord Lawson and a small clique
of other climate change sceptics are able to use their political and media networks, as well as family ties, to distort so effectively the UK public debate.
The plaintiffs, once again as they are in
some of these other climate change cases are seeking some pretty sweeping, both declarations of their rights under the Constitution and how those rights are being infringed by both what the state of Alaska is doing and not doing, but they're also asking for a science - based plan of attack or a plan of how to deal with climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on what the science requires and that's something on the order of eight percent per year reduction in emissions plus an accounting of the emissions that the state is responsible for, and how fast they're being reduced.
I believe, largely from your presentations of the observed data and discussion, as well as having read thousands
of other climate change articles and discussion, that it's our planet's oceans that are the biggest players in climate warming and cooling, especially on short timescales.
Carbon removal techniques, while important for fighting climate change, have faced resistance from some in the environmental community partly because they have been perceived as a threat to the deployment
of other climate change mitigation techniques.
The only way to promote constructive collective decsionmaking on the climate change that ordinary people, left and right, are worried about, and that farmers and other practical individuals are taking steps to protect themselves from, is to protect our science communication enviornment from the toxic effects
of the other climate change — the one that people believe or disbelieve in to express their tribal loyalties.
This further evidence of episodic emissions of volcanic CO2 as the likely driver of the extinction enhances our understanding of this event, and potentially
of other climate change episodes in Earth's history.»
The undeniable fact is that the planet is warming, that sea level is rising, and a number
of other climate changes are taking place.
This would also suggest that the researchers who have suggested that the great civilizations of South America, Egypt and many other places are completely out of bounds to suggest that drought
of other climate changes affected them.
Not exact matches
And Savage says he and
other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more research in anticipation
of talks to consider
changes to the province's
climate strategy.
The head
of personal investing at a $ 1.2 trillion fund manager says she plans to rescind investments in companies that haven't worked at reducing
climate change — and she's lobbying
other fund managers to follow suit.
«The idea
of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert
climate change, or help us live on
other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.
The
other part
of the Paris agreement is a vague provision that starting in 2020 a $ 100 billion - a-year fund will be established to help developing nations address
climate change.
While
other entrepreneurs sprinkle a pinch
of green into their product lines, Surace's phalanx
of the
climate -
change army is waging a war — a «third industrial revolution,» in his characteristically exalted vernacular.
The problems facing us, many
of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like
climate change, and
other forms
of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none
of these are going to be solved if we think
of the international arena as one
of each nation striving for its individual greatness.
The future
of global commerce will be affected by the impact
of climate change, disruptive innovations and
other game changers.
Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement
of human capital, the eradication
of disease, solutions to global
climate change, and
other really difficult things that are non obvious.»
Trump may see some pushback from the
other heads
of state, however, for his contrarian views on
climate change and free trade.
Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al - Falih has said it would be a risk to list in New York because
of liabilities and litigation, including the
climate change lawsuits against
other oil companies by New York City.
The results
of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each
other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and
climate change,» they said.
The involvement
of other jurisdictions, he said, might, «see adequate pressure applied to these companies to inspire action on
climate change.»
Despite this and
other authoritative warnings about the dangers
of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent
of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.
Other factors that may affect the timing
of a sale are availability
of bank financing, interest rate trends,
changes in tax law, and the general economic
climate.
Democrats, environmentalists, and
other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway
climate change, while many Republican members
of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.
If the federal government required projected
climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would
change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or
other industries to have a wider margin
of safety.
One is adapting to
climate change and the
other is the economic and well being
of the Arctic people.
The study also shows that the length
of the wildfire season correlates closely with
changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and
other climate indicators.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and
other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and
other disasters or
climate change affecting the operations
of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost
of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance
of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost
of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and
other disasters and
other events); (7) the impact
of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and
other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and
other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation
of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and
other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and
other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end
of this century, well above the target set by the Paris
climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.
It would signal that the United States has no interest in cooperating with
other nations on
climate change,» said Alden Meyer,
of the Union
of Concerned Scientists.
As hundreds
of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and
other experts say prolonged modern droughts and
climate change are creating a new perfect storm
of super fires and
other extreme weather events.
But even without
changes in the economic
climate, the last couple
of decades have highlighted several
other, fundamental flaws in this approach:
By Kaz Janowski, editor at SciDev.net I have become aware
of a growing weariness with the pessimistic narratives around
climate change, migration and
other global environmental issues and events.
Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any
other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and
Climate Change, by promoting the production and use
of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.
Yussuff and one
of the
other task force members, Alberta Federation
of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre
of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation
of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN
climate change conference in Bonn.
Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing
of coal - fired generating stations —
climate change is the great battle
of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any
other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.
Even though the intellectual
climate within the Reserve Bank and
other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour
of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance
of the case for
change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group
of independent experts.
PSS: British Columbia's «sister province» is ready, able and willing to throw her under the bus... along with billions
of other human beings that will be negatively affected by global
climate change..
It's a very complicated question because certain businesses in Canada may have a downside to
climate change;
others may have an upside, a couple
of which you have mentioned.
Others on
climate change, energy and related risks — as well as sustainability reporting on strategy and performance — account for almost another 40 percent
of all resolutions, roughly the same as the previous year.
Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights
of climate activists — and
other companies that resisted the need to
change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded
climate sceptics could be vulnerable.
Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one
of Canada's most important
climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any
other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...
A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and
other impacts
of climate change.
If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series
of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and
Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and
other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.
House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu
of California and Peter Welch
of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when
other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive
climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.
During this period the Government
of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system
of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a
climate change leadership plan — among many
other important reforms.
Carbon pricing can be a key policy tool, but a comprehensive national plan to address
climate change must encompass many
other facets
of Canadian life.
Other than
climate change, extreme income inequality and pandemics, the global trust deficit may be one
of the world's direst challenges - noting that they are all interconnected.
But so many
other dimensions
of history, law, human rights, justice, finance, and
climate change motivate the campaign to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.