Sentences with phrase «officials whether climate change»

She opposed setting a target to reduce carbon emissions, backed plans - which were later reversed - to sell off Britain's forests, and last year, after being appointed energy minister, asked officials whether climate change really existed.

Not exact matches

«Do you support Attorney General Schneiderman's investigation to determine whether Exxon Mobil deliberately misled investors, elected officials and the public about Climate Change?»

And action depends largely on whether the public and elected officials understand climate change and think it's a high - priority issue, said Burbank.

The Antarctic blogs, whether official or personal, raise awareness of climate change issues and communicate directly with the public on current polar projects and life on the ice.

Whether there is a divide between weather and climate scientists out in the field, the meteorological society's official 2007 statement on climate change very clearly accepted that people are jogging the system: «[S] trong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.»

According to its 2012 fundraising document, Heartland is paying a US Department of Energy (DOE) official named David Wojick $ 5,000 a pop for modules teaching high school students that «whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy.»

Even the official position of the Bush Administration vis a vis climate, whether or not this is their way of playing the reluctant bride, only serves to make people fallaciously deduce that if Bush is wrong then climate change must be real.

It is NOT about whether or no «skeptics» have used «bad practices» (i.e. «hide the decline» methods) to support their various objections to the «official» IPCC «mainstream position» on climate change.

In this situation the government official has a strong duty to go beyond his or her own uninformed opinion about whether humans are causing dangerous climate change.

«We need to stop judging climate action by whether we get a so - called legally binding treaty,» says Paul Bledsoe, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC and a White House climate - change official under former president Bill Clinton.

After months of delayed and rescheduled meetings on the topic, the administration has suggested it will make its official decision this week about whether or not to stay in the global pact, which encourages almost 200 nations to cut their climate - change causing emissions.

When he first started calling transportation officials across Alaska in late 2006 to ask whether climate change had damaged any roads or bridges he would often get laughs.

As serious governments shift the climate - change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause — and how much measures to fight it might cost.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil aimed at stopping an investigation by New York and Massachusetts officials into whether the oil giant misled investors and the public about its knowledge of climate change.