Sentences with phrase «on climate change as»

By the way, when Combet labelled Tony Abbott's statements on climate change as bullshit, we must remember that Combet himself is the foremost climate bullshitter.

Maybe there just isn't enough to climate, enough emotional calories, to sustain a broad social movement focused directly on it... There is simply no way to take on climate change as such.

All deniers care about is delaying action on climate change as long as possible, and they do this by preventing members of the Reality Based Community (which includes real scientists and scientist wannabes, like me) from teaching newcomers about the basic facts of AGW.

Although the meteorologists are not as direct in their message of skepticism on climate change as they were a year or two ago, their message continues to be skepticism on global warming happening or being a problem.

There is a small chance it is (serious action, that is), although it doesn't seem likely, but even this is if you focus on climate change as the only issue threatening civilization, while it may not even be the first one to catch up with us.

Tuesday's announcement isn't just a bilateral deal, but the first indication of what the US will be putting forward: «The United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an «Intended Nationally Determined Contribution» no later than the first quarter of 2015,» the White House said in summarizing Tuesday's announcement on its web site.

This month, he framed his position on climate change as «nobody really knows — it's not something that's so hard and fast.»

On climate change as a security threat: In an October debate, Sanders said climate change was the greatest threat to U.S. national security: «The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable.

The Canadian government is being accused of turning its back on climate change as it is confirmed 776 jobs are to go at Environment Canada.

-LSB-...] The Economist now discounts the high - end estimates of warming coming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as being unlikely if not far - fetched.

Elaine McKewon is about as wired up to the moon on climate change as is Lewandowsky.

WASHINGTON - The US Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a UN meeting on climate change as a «brainwashing» session.

All of this abuse excludes the public attacks on climate scientists which have been made, and continue to be made, by some newspaper columnists and many bloggers who see action on climate change as an affront on freedom or a socialist plot.

In his Tagesanzeiger commentary, Kachelmann characterizes blaming the tragedy on climate change as false, and reminds that such weather anomalies are typical of Switzerland's rugged mountainous terrain, and is well known.

The US Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a UN meeting on climate change as a «brainwashing» session, putting him at odds with Sen. John McCain who noted «there's great urgency... and the scientific evidence continues to accumulate.»

Bloomberg news: People Don't Fear Climate Change Enough With respect to the science of climate change, many experts regard the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the world's authoritative institution.

«This is proof of India's decisive leadership on climate change as they embrace the clean energy revolution to power their homes and create jobs,» said Paula Caballero, from the World Resources Institute.

He joined us last year as the Green Man on the Street for 24 Hours of Reality and has founded the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which focuses on climate change as well as animal rights.

You are right of course in saying that it is disappointing that the Vatican should have a non peer reviewed book on climate change as their key top level contribution to the subject.

It goes back to the even broader issue that even so called «experts» latch on to the sensible tropospheric heat as the best metric and miss a much more accurate perspective on climate change as an energy (in all forms and in all spheres) imbalance issue.

Many people from faith institutions have joined the Pacific Climate Warriors in their call to end the fossil fuel era and sign the Declaration on Climate Change as part of the #HaveYourSei campaign.

«You might be right Charles, and that would further indicate how generally uniformed this particular group might be in terms of a more accurate perspective on climate change as issue of energy imbalance, and not just the narrow metric of measuring sensible heat in the troposphere.»

President Obama will today give a high profile speech on climate change as the biggest threat to national security, according to the New York Times.

And Washington's communities of color have taken on climate change as a core concern.

It is also defined by the United Nations Convention on Climate Change as «change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods»

We both knew we wanted to take some kind of action on climate change as soon as we met, but we were not sure what it should be.

Previous research has identified public perceptions of the scientific consensus on climate change as an important gateway belief.

[For an argument for the need to end the «war» mentality on climate change as exemplified by the reaction to George Will, see this essay by Jonathon Foley, director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota.]

Senate leaders are expected to release new proposals for action on climate change as early as this week.

Ya'll are my proxy for a class on climate change as I'm not in a position to attend one at this time, so if I'm speaking out of turn let me know.

The Poverty of Global Climate Change is a briefing on climate change as a justice issue that is also offered by the NCC's Eco-Justice Working Group.

Natural release of methane from the ocean floor may not be as influential on climate change as before.»

Women from around the world are mobilising today to call for action on climate change as international leaders meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly.

The pressure is on for leaders to move forward on climate change as delegates descend into Peru for the two - week UN climate change conference in Lima today.

He compares our conversation on climate change as similar to growing up in Tennessee during the Civil Rights era.

He promoted the findings of his Copenhagen Consensus project, which earlier that year had ranked projects on climate change as the lowest on a list of 17 potential issues to spend money on.

Recognized as a Champion of Change by President Obama in 2016, Michael was honored for his focus on climate change as an equity issue.

This latter article contains a representative statement of Kenneth Green's position on climate change as of 2003: «But other scientists, in both Canada and the United States, have shown that the threat of global warming is overstated by the United Nations (McKitrick and Essex, 2002).

China would facilitate south - south cooperation on climate change as third party, said former minister Xie Zhenhua

The current negotiating text for Rio +20 does not fully and explicitly recognise the urgent need to act on climate change as part of a global action plan for delivering sustainable development.

• action on climate change as a threat to their personal freedom.

Klaus rejected the executive summary published by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as all politics and environmental activism, «not science.»

Despite satellite estimates that more than doubled the population of known Emperor Penguins, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed their ranking of Emperors from a species of Least Concern to a Near - Threatened species based on modeling studies blaming the decline of DuDu's penguins on climate change as presented in Jenouvrier and Caswell's study.

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular but misguided works such as «An Inconvenient Truth»; that all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

But please do not interpret my silence on climate change as a statement that I do not believe in it, or that it is a serious problem.

I offer the following as a general and basic answer to those who deny the need to act on climate change as the scientific evidence suggests.

The United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an «Intended Nationally Determined Contribution» no later than the first quarter of 2015.

The following is offered as a general and basic answer to those who deny the need to act on climate change as the scientific evidence suggests.

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

That decision gave Clinton credibility on climate change as she faced Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, both of whom were promoting more aggressive policies than Clinton to reduce greenhouse gases.