It is true that most scientists around the world who
work on climate issues do work for their government, in a variety of states, in a variety of countries.
Whether or not this post is too complex for us lay people it should certainly be required reading for any journalist
reporting on climate issues.
There are likely to be complex reasons why people's scientific knowledge is not strongly linked to their
views on climate issues.
As for energy, policy options that are not
based on climate issues are not related to climate issues, so how are they relevant here?
His six years of
research on climate issues was ignored by a bureaucracy that has absolutely no education on climate change simply because the policy was already decided, and no evidence was needed.
When you take a moment to step back from the dusty battle taking
place on climate issues sometimes you gain a little perspective.
In a short interview with E&E News after the panel, Inslee attributed his own 2012 election as governor in part to his focus
on climate issues in the campaign.
To determine the degree each group
focused on climate issues, we considered IRS filings; organizations» profiles by the news media and opposition - research organizations; mentions in the Lexis - Nexis news database and on the Web as reported by Google; and the groups» own websites, annual reports, and other publications.
Boykoff observed that in the mind of the public, local weather forecasters — many of whom do not have a science degree — have as much credibility
on climate issues as experts.
Continuing this theme, in April 2010, Dr Hansen called on President Obama to seize moral
leadership on the climate issue with a «carbon fee and green check.»
Some newer members of Congress who are
active on climate issues seem receptive to the idea of bringing back a select committee.
He is a retired geophysicist who has worked
on the climate issue through his involvement with the Friends of Science group over the last few years.
The findings will be a blow to the EU's efforts to be seen as a global
leader on climate issues as the world tries to implement the landmark Paris climate pact.
And the Seattle teen is not an anomaly: Statistically, young women of color such as Margolin are the demographic most
engaged on climate issues.
ALBANY — In just 12 months, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has positioned himself as one of the nation's most aggressive
governors on climate issues.
The initiatives fit with Cuomo's shift toward a more aggressive
position on climate issues in the last year, since he banned fracking.
Accepting faults you find in Flannery's The Weather Makers, I think his book still has merits — including with regard to some aspects of the politics, viz criticism of the behaviour of the Australian government, an important ally of the US
administration on climate issues.
She has designed and implemented communications strategies that elevate the public discussion on climate change, create support for climate action, and expand earned media
coverage on climate issues.
To allow liberals to fall out of
line on the climate issue would be to reveal the nebulous character of mainstream liberal thought — without the spectre of immenent catastophe, there's not much keeping it together.
Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — and the departure of National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, as well as one of his staffers who was a climate negotiator in the George W. Bush administration — amounts to a purge of high - level administration staffers who believe the U.S. will benefit from international
cooperation on climate issues.
C2ES is the successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which was founded in 1998, and is widely recognized as an influential and pragmatic
voice on climate issues.
Her local work is complemented by international advocacy work, including participation in several UN Forums and a testimony before the U.S.
Congress on the climate issue and its links to issues of health, identity, and well being on tribal lands.
If you are interested in the topic of how we get more people to listen and take
action on climate issues, clinical psychologist and climate emergency campaigner Jane Morton's 45 - minute presentation provides some food for thought.
I'm not so confident that big music events will do as
much on the climate issue as they've done on causes more directly related to human suffering (like the ones you mention).
Pachauri was part of a spirited discussion with Gov. Brown and Sir Richard Branson, the entrepreneur and adventurer who's
taken on the climate issue through his Carbon War Room effort (the moderator was Felicity Barringer of The Times).
This pathetic status of government accounting limits the reporting of federal expenditures
on climate issues for years after FY 2013, which is why the numbers provided here for FY 2014 are estimated.