Sentences with phrase «other climate change advocates»

The problem for McKibben and other climate change advocates — and the rest of us for that matter — is that the fossil fuel industry has also done the maths and knows that it needs to act now to dig those assets out of the ground, or leave their wealth buried forever.

That is the great thing about Toastmasters that I recommend other climate change advocates join.

Not exact matches

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

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.

«We are, however, advocating serious consideration of moving populations from areas where species are seriously threatened by climate change to other parts of the same broad biogeographic region,» meaning in nearby locations sharing similar ecosystems.

Climate change and imported disease may have killed them, but most paleontologists accept the theory Martin advocates: «When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.»

Despite this year's U.N. focus on migrants, security and other issues, advocates say climate change is still receiving ample attention.

EN: This year, I am looking forward to communicating the recommendations made in the Climate Change policy paper to other educators, so we can unite in advocating for a better future for our schools.

As animal advocates know all too well, the role of animal agriculture in climate change and other forms of environmental destruction is often ignored or given minor attention by environmental organizations.

it's just sad how an administration thats taken such an active stance against any attempt to tackle climate change in a comprehensive fashion now lamely complains when scientists and advocates employ the other regulatory tools available to address the problem.

Some issue advocates have argued that the term climate change is more likely to engage Republicans in the issue, however, the evidence from these studies suggests that in general the terms are synonymous for Republicans — i.e., neither term is more engaging than the other, although in several cases, global warming generates stronger feelings of negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States.

Sometimes it's easy to get the impression that public opinion on climate change is split down the middle, with concerned advocates for climate action on one side and science - denying conspiracy theorists on the other.

The more you engage with countries that are «reluctant» to spend a ton of their own money on climate change the more you need to advocate strategies that are linked internationally — so that one country's effort gets magnified by what other countries do.

On the other hand, you argue that climate change is a serious threat and we much work to convince the population that they should implement the mitigation actions advocated by the Greens, socialists, progressives and the so called «environmental NGO's».

Those who argue that Kyoto should be ditched to be replaced by some other scheme (usually the pet scheme of the advocate) implicitly dismiss the extraordinary complexity and difficulty of reaching an agreement among some 200 highly diverse countries, each with its own definition of fairness, on the climate change issue.

The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.

Instead of discussing the uncertainties and seeking to reduce them, many in both the community of climate change advocates or the community of climate change skeptics choose to defame each other with derogatory titles.

Besides being a seasonal park ranger and climate change advocate, my other dream was to find a wonderful woman and get married.

Posted in Other Advocates, Research Blogging, tagged AGU, ben santer, bill mckibben, climate change, education, environment, gavin schmidt, global warming, james hansen, john cook, michael mann, michael tobis, physics today, richard sommerville, science, skeptical science, stephen schneider, susan joy hassol on December 12, 2011 2 Comments»

Other countries are taking note of the public's attitude toward climate change alarmism — almost nowhere does the public believe the scary scenarios painted by the climate change advocates.

In other words, advocates of climate change action, respond to claims of opponents to climate change programs by denying the factual claims of the opponents.

Focusing on five countries in the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), this review captures examples of good practice in climate change adaptation programming, in order to inform Oxfam's learning, enabling it and other organizations to replicate some of these good practices in their own programs and to advocate their adequate financing and governance.

Given a strong commitment to action on the issue and a strong political outlook, advocates like blogger Joe Romm tend to notice and highlight each instance of dismissive media commentary or falsely balanced coverage of climate change while tending to overlook (or go without mentioning) the many other instances of coverage where consensus views on climate change are strongly asserted.

Get a climate sceptic and a climate advocate together and let them take each other around the world to meet people in an attempt to change each other's mind.

The Policy & Legislation team advocates for stronger laws safeguarding children from toxic chemicals, protecting clean water standards, and tackling climate change, among many other things.

In other words, it is not implausible that the demands of «sustainability» could have caused the very problem which its advocates now attribute to climate change.

And, if you think it's bad here, you might take a day and pose as an advocate for action on climate change on sites like WUWT, JoNova, Curry, or any of the many other lightly or unmoderated «skeptic» sites.

The advocates called on governments to do their fair share in keeping global warming below the tipping point to save the Filipino people, and all others who are most vulnerable to climate change.

The «alleged» problem of Climate Change is genuine, and worse than what Al Gore and the EPA, and any advocate of wind turbines or other weather - dependent «renewable energy» realise.

This week, more than 200 scientists and other academics who have advocated policy action on climate change endorsed an open letter that calls on the museum to remove Ms. Mercer from its board and «end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation.»

Recruit others in its industry to shape policies that accelerate markets for low - carbon goods and services: WRI's policy engagement guide, published with the UN and others, highlights how the lighting industry and the information and communications technology industry are advocating strong policies that promote energy efficiency and climate change adaptation.

The report «Oversensitive — how the IPCC hid the good news on global warming,» was released today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)-- a U.K. think - tank which is «concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated» regarding climate change (disclosure: our Dick Lindzen is a member of the GWPF Academic Advisory Council).

It is only sensible that we should do so, and if we do, and if in particular we reach the conclusion that they should use the methodology implied in the impact assessment and not the absurd methods used by Sir Nicholas Stern, now Lord Stern — he received his reward — they would reach a conclusion very similar to that advocated by the hon. Gentleman on Second Reading: that we should put far more emphasis on adaptation to helping poor countries cope with climate change, rather than on crippling our industries — aviation, shipping and all the other industries — to little avail.

I've heard some of the most ridiculous claims by climate change advocates about how we're all going to be dead in a decade or two, how we'll see the oceans rise to cover almost all the land masses and other extreme nonsense.

Posted in Other Advocates, Research Blogging Tagged AGU, ben santer, bill mckibben, climate change, education, environment, gavin schmidt, global warming, james hansen, john cook, michael mann, michael tobis, physics today, richard sommerville, science, skeptical science, stephen schneider, susan joy hassol 2 Comments

Mr. Obama had been under considerable pressure from other world leaders and environmental advocates to make the trip as a statement of American commitment to the climate change negotiations.

The obvious breach of moral principles and the scientific method in ClimateGate strongly motivates me and others to critically examine the science and / or oppose the policies being advocated by those warning over catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.

In other words, the advocates have used bad social science to show that the science of climate change is sound.

Blocking any meaningful agreement, ignoring their mitigation obligations, advocating for market based approaches - which are all false solutions, just as having the private sector lead the charge against climate change -, and blackmailing other less vocal delegations are just some of the actions that clearly indicate their priorities and whose interests these governments represent.