Not exact matches
When visiting leading figures from Europe, there were discussions that the U.S. and Europe met eye - to - eye on,
like fighting the so - called Islamic State, while
other issues revealed divided opinion including Russia and
climate change.
Trump's platform often runs counter to those endorsed by
other G7 members, especially as it relates to
issues like climate change, immigration, and trade.
This billionaire entrepreneur says that «it is amazing how focusing your mind on
issues like health, poverty, conservation and
climate change can help to re-energize your thinking in
other areas.»
Previewing his campaign before an election night audience Tuesday, Suozzi said, «People have been screaming at each
other for 30 years on
issues like gun control, immigration, and
climate change.
Esposito, with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, says while her group wants careful consideration of hydrofracking, it's taking attention away from
other issues,
like coping with
climate change.
Now it may not be, you know, the solution to
climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look
like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and
other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.
I'd already been covering
climate change and
other environmental
issues for more than two decades, and blogging seemed
like a great way to cover gaps that didn't fit well in a standard news article.
[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on
issues like greenhouse - driven
climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and
other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.
President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on
climate change,
like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many
other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.
The
issue with the Mauritsen and Stevens piece is that it tries to go well beyond a «what if» modeling experiment, and attempts to make contact with a lot of
other issues related to historical
climate change (the hiatus,
changes in the hydrologic cycle, observed tropical lapse rate «hotspot» stuff,
changes in the atmsopheric circulation, etc) by means of what the «iris» should look
like in
other climate signals.
Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate
issues (one being that the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerab
Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or
other factors,
like population growth, that contribute to
climate vulnerab
climate vulnerability).
If they can find
other less worrisome activities and sources of entertainment to focus on,
issues like climate change, the uninsured, the Iraq war, etc. will take a back seat, considered interesting but remote news at best.
In
other words, it feels to me
like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental
issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise
climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu,
like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in
climate change or the need for our
change).
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.
While CNN and MSNBC frequently aired segments discussing the link between
climate change and hurricanes
like Harvey and Irma, Fox News hosts almost exclusively covered the
climate change - hurricane link by criticizing
others who raised the
issue.
Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the
other measures and indicators of
climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to
changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of
issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..
John Carter wrote: > For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the
issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs
like this (and many
others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of
climate change...
For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the
issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs
like this (and many
others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of
climate change, rather assess what those actual facts of the
issue are, and more importantly, why they are relevant.
If Pope Francis is Right that
Climate Change is a Moral
Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against
Climate Policies Based on the Failure of
Other Countries
Like China to Act?
Comments
like that (and similar ones by some
others who, on the
climate change issue, come across as actually interested in science) are surprising to me.
From my experience watching the
climate science
issue advance over the years, what I continually see is people,
like yourself who have clear expertise in a specific area, believing that they understand the entire breadth of the
climate change issue when, in actuality, they understand very little of the
other broader elements of the global
climate system that come into play.
Because when someone
like DiCaprio uses his A-List profile to raise awareness about
climate change, he can get people talking about the
issue in a way few
others can, bringing the message to millions and taking
climate action mainstream.
There are several
other issues like natural variation component, solar components, ecological
changes components [that influence local and regional
climate], physical impacts on ecological sensitive zones
like ice, etc..
The bigger
issue which I'd
like TreeHugger readers to consider is whether or not the idea of a specific
climate change tariff ought to be put in place in
other countries.
«Our belief is that, on
climate change like other issues, you must be for something rather than against everything.
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