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Though they have played out on a fairly small stage, with relatively little national notice, the struggles over climate policy in Washington presage larger national battles.

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On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

But the current economic climate is challenging for several reasons, including the mop - up project in the wake of the extraordinary policy decisions over the last decade.

There's also $ 135.4 million (over four years, starting in 2018) to the two lead departments, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climatClimate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climateclimate plan.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was protested in Albany on April 23 over his policies on the environment and climate change.

TransCanada pledged to seek another permit for its Keystone XL pipeline after the Obama administration rejected the project, ending a seven - year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

Over the long term, he worries that climate skeptics in the policy world, after dismissing climate change as a risk in recent years, could later change positions and say it was real, embracing climate engineering «as this magic solution that could solve the problem.»

A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»

Depending on how climate impacts unequally affect the rich or poor within every region, the optimal policy may involve a lenient or sharp increase in the price of carbon over the next decades (lenient when impacts are proportional to income, sharp when impacts are concentrated on the poor).

«Given his background,» Cohan adds, «Jason would have been a leading voice on health care and adherence to evidence in debates over climate and energy policy.»

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

Many of the youth in the room were leaders who were instrumental in LAUSD's passing the Student Climate Bill of Rights, which favors alternatives that promote positive behavior over punitive school discipline policies.

Though the School Climate Bill of Rights was passed in 2013, discipline policy reform has been in the works in Los Angeles for over a decade.

Climate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserClimate Change: Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conserclimate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - over, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

Whether or not the backers are directly linked to the oil industry, they reflect how the fight over energy policy remains highly polarized, well financed (on both sides), and — so far — has resulted in few policies that oil markets or the climate system are likely to notice any time soon.

@ 196 Ray... John Howard is an EX politician and former PM who lost his seat in 2007 primarily over Climate Change inaction and asylum seeker policies.

The pricing policy that would achieve climate objectives with the least cost to the economy would begin modestly and ramp up predictably over time, allowing capital stock to turn over in a more climate - benign way without prematurely scrapping it.

In part because of the findings in the climate panel's reports over two decades, policy makers are slowly respondinIn part because of the findings in the climate panel's reports over two decades, policy makers are slowly respondinin the climate panel's reports over two decades, policy makers are slowly responding.

We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

However, it is not hard to see that some of those who have attempted to perpetrate this tale about man - made global warming are more interested in climate change as a way of increasing the power of government over all of our lives instead of implementing a sensible energy policy.

The news release — appended below — says it all, and the findings it describes reinforce my assertion awhile back that there's plenty of denial to go around in the arguments over climate and energy trends and policies.

«There will be a big battle over just about everything with this,» said Dan Weiss, climate strategy director at the Center for American Progress, a policy group in Washington that advises Democrats.

If you're looking for a policy solution you're talking about a different mix of individual behaviors of lots of citizens in very different climates all over the country.

However, it is not hard to see that some of those who have attempted to perpetrate the concept of man - made global warming are more interested in climate change as a way of increasing the power of government over all of our lives instead of implementing a sensible energy policy.

Such moments of consensus are rarely visible given how the heated fight over climate and energy policy is mainly shaped, particularly in Washington, as a political tug of war.

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prClimate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

As debates over national and global climate and energy policy continue to drag out, there's been an intensifying exploration of climate miscommunication among those seeking concrete actions that will make a noticeable difference in the atmosphere someday.

If you have a dark sense of humor and need a chuckle to deal with such news, particularly in light of the ongoing stasis over international and United States policy on climate and energy, have a look at Marc Roberts's latest cartoon posting, which is from his archives but all too relevant.

Over all, in considering policy options related to African progress, it's vital to keep in mind that the climate history of peri-Saharan regions includes millenniums - long patterns of mega-drought far more extreme than anything experienced in modern times.

This is one reason the policy debate, essentially over how much to invest in a climate insurance policy, remains turbulent.

The first group of authors tries to label the climate science community as an army of influential catastrophists, alarmists, and profiteers — glossing over the reality that the vast body of climate science and climate policy analysis is, as in any field, full of gradations (not to mention that there's not much evidence of substantial influence).

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

In an appearance last week at Purdue University I was on a panel with Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado and Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology exploring the heated state of the debate over climate science and policy.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

Try to find slide one — depicting the online tussle over climate science and policy — within slide two, which places the first issue in the flow of the moment's news (via the fascinating newsmap.jp Web site):

The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight over climate science and policy, beginning with a 16 - author op - ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday and, most recently, with a 39 - author rebuttal published today in the paper.

Specialized reporters have tracked the developments in climate science and the policy debates over the implications of that science.

As a member of the NCC First Climate together with representatives from over 160 of the world's leading organizations, spanning business, finance, accounting, conservation, academia, and policy, under the roof of the Natural Capital Coalition, took part in the central launch ceremony in London.

We'll be arguing over climate policy for a long time to come — but more and more, in my opinion, it will be about policy, and not about the existence of the problem.

The Heartland Institute is a fossil fuel - funded front group with over $ 800,000 in contributions from fossil fuel interests that has routinely attacked clean energy policies and the science behind climate change.

We have gone back and forth on when Hansen knew that CFCs would probably decrease over time, but if one recalls that Hansen is a political animal and seemingly interested first and foremost in policy and further that these scenarios were revealed to a Congressional hearing on climate, it takes no great imagination to assume that he put a scenario out there that might just scare and attract attention and particularly if he can see that that scenario may be called «business as usual».