A statement
on climate change issued by the vice-president of the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ), Professor Keith Hunter, has been described as «deeply flawed» in an Open Letter to the president of RSNZ by the chairman of the NZ Climate Science Coalition, Hon Barry Brill...
Not exact matches
As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this obje
Climate Change report
issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C
by 2100 (and governments attending the successive
climate summits have agreed in principle to this obje
climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).
«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to
climate change,» said the declaration
issued by the alliance
on Thursday.
These results come from a survey of 1,848 Canadians conducted December 12 to 14, 2016,
by Abacus Data at the request of Clean Energy Canada, measuring Canadians» views of
climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate
climate and clean energy policy
issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework
on Clean Growth and
Climate Climate Change.
Richard Cizik, who is Vice-President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, has created quite a stir among his constituency
by breaking ranks with the NAE's neutrality
on issues of
climate change (a.k.a. «global warming»).
For Christian
climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered
on the
issue of
climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and
climate change is not caused
by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.
There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced
on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these
issues, and
climate changes caused
by too much fossil fuel emissions.
As hundreds of advocates rallied in Albany against
climate change and to push Gov. Andrew Cuomo to do more
on the
issue, his office announced legislation
on Monday that would institute a statewide ban
on single - use plastic bags
by 2019.
President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet
by the president and Democrats that
on the
issue of
climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions and that the environment will be a winning cause in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The forthcoming Live Earth concert, organised
by Al Gore to raise awareness of
climate change, has not really educated people
on the
issues surrounding
change and instead risks closing off debate, he concluded.
The letter comes
on the eve of a House hearing
on the legality of the subpoenas
issued by the House Committee
on Science, Space and Technology to Schneiderman's office over the investigation over whether major energy companies downplayed the risks of
climate change.
On some key
issues, New York voters overwhelmingly (
by more than three to one) back a party to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and also believe that
climate change is a significant threat to the planet.
The focus
on climate change and other environmental
issues by the Tories and other mainstream parties hasn't caused Green Party support to collapse.
Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps
on climate change; A.G. Schneiderman
by issuing a report detailing the need to address
climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli
by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»
Ethics and costs are contentious
issues tackled
by the next Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change report
► In other
climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote
on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired
by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research
on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional
issues.
Clovis» likely nomination, reported
by the farm magazine Agri - Pulse and ProPublica, raised caution among advocates for agricultural research, who say they worry the administration will pay less attention to the effects of
climate change on wheat and other vital crops, among other
issues.
The study included 1,341 people, data collected
by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, and focused
on a specific partisan
issue on which scientific consensus has been widely adopted
by Democrats but challenged
by Republicans.
«The Political Divide
on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in The U.S.»
by Riley E. Dunlap, Aaron M. McCright, and Jerrod H. Yarosh appeared in Volume 58,
Issue 5 of Environment.
A coral reef ecologist
by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus
on ocean conservation and
climate change issues.
The Accu - Weather report was commissioned
by a lobbying organisation called the Global
Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&
Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate
on the global
climate change issue&
climate change issue».
There is probably no greater scientific heresy today than questioning the warming role of CO2, especially in the wake of the report
issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC).
But projections spelled out in a new report reviewing the
issue by the Pew Center
on Global
Climate Change suggests that
by 2050 the total amount of carbon pollution from these sources could increase tenfold, depending
on population, economics, and technology trends.
Understanding how media coverage varies is important because people's knowledge and opinions
on climate change are influenced
by how the media reports
on the
issue.
The papal message did, however, indirectly influence people's beliefs about
climate change by raising the Pope's credibility
on that
issue, most strongly among liberals.
The models» results also play a significant role in the latest assessment report
issued by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), where they are used to link the mitigation options described for different sectors such as buildings, transport, or energy supply.
Sachs made his remarks yesterday at a symposium hosted
by the institute
on how to improve agriculture to address the mounting challenge of feeding the world while combating
climate change and stopping the wholesale loss of biodiversity, among other interrelated
issues.
While not focused entirely
on climate change, the analysis offers a preview of ongoing geopolitical tensions — and legal
issues — likely to be exacerbated
by ice loss.
«It is defined
by leadership
on life - threatening
issues like
climate change,» he said.
A Warmer Earth, and Fewer Insured Private insurers also point fingers at a
changing climate, citing a report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this year that concluded global warming is to blame for a doubling over the past five years of natural disasters — and that the situation will worsen if nothing is done to s
climate, citing a report
issued by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this year that concluded global warming is to blame for a doubling over the past five years of natural disasters — and that the situation will worsen if nothing is done to s
Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this year that concluded global warming is to blame for a doubling over the past five years of natural disasters — and that the situation will worsen if nothing is done to stop it.
But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters)
by 2100,
issued by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.
-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may
issue international offset credits in exchange for instruments in the nature of offset credits that are
issued by an international body established pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change, to a protocol to such Convention, or to a treaty that succeeds such Convention.
What the election of so many
climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party,
climate change is an
issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax
by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing
on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.
For oceans There was a publication released last year
by the Pew Center (Pew is a charitable foundation whose main focus is education) «Coral Reefs & Global
Climate Change» a summary of the current science
on this
issue.
This expertise is needed to deal with
climate issues in the North Central US, where
changes in temperature and precipitation could have significant effects
on streams, forests, agricultural lands, and mountain ecosystems, in addition to the fish, wildlife, and human communities supported
by these environments.
[Response: A similar conclusion to the one cited
by Gavin above was reached independently
by a panel of scientists (of which I was a member) convened to report
on these
issues by the National Academy of Sciences last year, resulting in the NAS report «Radiative Forcing of
Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties (2005)».
The conferences have focused
on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or
on ocean development tax; and more recently
on emerging
issues and challenges presented
by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.
Trenberth has been a lead author in at least two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, and he's an acknowledged world expert
on some of the
issues raised in the paper
by Hansen et al..
The threats posed
by climate change are worse than those imagined
by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research
on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel
on climate -
change issues.
Based
on Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's nonfiction report of the same name, Robert Kenner's documentary looks at the scientists hired
by corporations and conservative think - tanks to appear
on news programs, touting skewed data about public health
issues and
climate change.
We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just
by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused
on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring,
Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health
issues.
The report is one of a series that the Brookings team has conducted
on the impact of
changes in mainstream news media over the past five years, where general reporting
on local and statewide education
issues has fallen dramatically as print media has struggled in the current economic
climate and
changes brought
on by the internet.
We've stood
by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction
on issues as broad - ranging as
climate change to gun policy.
Continue the development of the Toolkit,
by updating of Version 1.0, to include DOT and public feedback as well as additional sections
on specific
issues such as: safety (NHTSA), pipelines (PHMSA),
climate change, and emerging technologies, sharing economy and alternative fuels (OST Research).
Following the direction set
by President Obama
on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have
issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence
on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global
climate change.
Intelligence Squared U.S. energy and environment debates shine a critical light
on the most pressing
issues spurred
by climate change and 21st century environmental priorities, including clean energy, fracking, organic and genetically modified foods, and whether or not global warming poses an immediate threat.
Summer 2017 —
Issue 6, cover art by W. Jack Savage • Sixth issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.&r
Issue 6, cover art
by W. Jack Savage • Sixth
issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.&r
issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused
on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined
by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline,
climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.»
Ultimatum
by Matthew Glass A cross between a Michael Crichton novel and The West Wing, Ultimatum is a brilliant political thriller that focuses
on the pressing
issue of
climate change.
KEY FEATURES — Stunningly detailed pixel graphics — 10 challenging, well - designed boss battles — Hypnotic electronic score
by composer Karl Flodin — Modern take
on the classic Metroidvania genre: Players can freely explore the world at their own pace — Organic storytelling: The environments tell the story, along with some holo - tapes that are scattered around the drowned cities — Plausible plot driven
by real - life
issues: Explore the effects of
climate change and technological progress
The week includes workshops
by writers and artists whose work focuses
on social and political
issues, including the environment,
climate change, gun violence, racial violence, police brutality, violence against women, racial equity, homophobia, and immigration, all through the lens of creative action.