Sentences with phrase «policy over global warming»

From now on, it looks like policy over global warming will be a political football, tossed back - and - forth over the widening chasm between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative.

Not exact matches

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

Over two dozen lawmakers who favored efforts to clamp down on heat - trapping emissions were swept away on Tuesday's anti-incumbent wave, ushering in a new class of Republicans who doubt global warming science and want to upend President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies.

Social scientists also know, with decent rigor, that the fight over human - driven global warming — both over the science and policy choices — is largely cultural.

Any discussion of global warming, whether in a news story or debate over policy or Gallup poll question, ideally should start with clarity about what's being discussed.

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.

To keep a full view of the debate over relevant policies, you'd also do well to track the flow of links from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a pro-fossil, anti-regulation group * in Great Britain.

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.

Nov. 8, 8:09 a.m. Updated In the face of probes by a state attorney general, hints of hostile congressional hearings and assaults from critics in the blogosphere, hundreds of members of the American Geophysical Union are preparing to speak out * to challenge disinformation and misinformation deployed in the policy wars over global warming.

The problem with that statement in this textbook is that these authors misuse it to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support.

You say that this uncertainty is used «to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support», but it seems to us that it is less the case that your objection is based on an argument made as much as the fact that they outlined a difference of opinion.

The top ten contributors alone were responsible for 186 of the papers (over 20 %) cited by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

The political impasse over global warming legislation stems from obstacles in the mass media arena, public awareness, electoral politics as well as governmental policy.

«Ex-Chancellor Backs Prince Philip Over Attack On Wind Farms,» The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 21, 2011.

These questions have become acute due to the investigative work of Vivian Krause, an independent researcher whose articles on this page have in voluminous detail exposed the extent to which U.S. foundations fund activities in Canada, most notably to influence Canadians and Canadian policy over our tar sands, the chief target of global warming activists.

154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science «While the Paris Agreement remains unbinding and global warming has received minimal attention in the recent elections, governments worldwide are presiding over a large - scale demise of the planetary ecosystems, which threatens to leave large parts of Earth uninhabitable.

Carbon Brief folks got their knickers in a knot over my «Twenty Good Reasons Not to Worry about Polar Bears» blog post that the Global Warming Policy Foundation released as a Briefing Paper (pdf here).

A truly serious public policy debate over what to do about GHG - driven global warming has not yet occurred in this country.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

Lubos Motl, «Nobel Prize Winner Ivar Giaever Resigns Form American Physical Society Over Global Warming Alarmism,» Global Warming Policy Foundation, Sep. 14, 2011, http://thegwpf.org/science-news/3870-nobel-prize-winner-ivar-giaever-resigns-from-aps-over-global-warming-alarmism.html 41.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

Perhaps the most outrageous revelation of «Denialgate,» the leak of internal Heartland Institute budget and fundraising documents detailing their 2012 work plan to obstruct global warming policy, is a project to develop school curricula to teach K - 12 students that there is doubt over the causes and implications of global warming.

Canadian climate denier Ross McKitrick has officially taken over as chairman of the academic advisory council of Lord Lawson's controversial climate denying charity, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

Over the last 30 years, world efforts to try to halt human - caused global warming have dominated energy policy in developed countries.

Although Lawson and his Global Warming Policy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate cPolicy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate cpolicy debate over climate change.

Almost every time I post something on climate change policy, the comment thread quickly devolves into a debate over the existence of antrhopogenic global warming at all.

This strategy could help policy makers overcome a fundamental conflict in the debate over global warming: carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas in the air, is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuels like coal and oil — and combustion of fossil fuels is the foundation of industrial societies.

As the headline over at the Global Warming Policy Foundation's website observes, we are regressing Back To The Dark Ages.

Hysteria over global warming is now pervasive in the federal government, driving not just the Obama Administration's energy and environmental policies, but also those of nearly every federal department and agency.

However, mounting evidence against climate change theory and the «consensus» is unlikely to stem the tide of policy designed to combat global warming, thanks to the sheer size of the climate change industry that has built up over the last few decades.

Global warming policy is the institute's largest advocacy program, spending over $ 200,000 in 2007 and over $ 300,000 in 2006 on the program.

All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.

In his letter, Lieberman quoted Jeremy Symons, a former EPA climate policy adviser, who wrote in the «Washington Post» on July 13, «What began with the Bush administration exercising its discretion over policy choices on global warming has devolved into attempts to suppress scientific information.

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Over two dozen lawmakers who favored efforts to clamp down on heat - trapping emissions were swept away on Tuesday's anti-incumbent wave, ushering in a new class of Republicans who doubt global warming science and want to upend President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

WASHINGTON - President - elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

In one annual report, it declared:»... [T] here has been a close to universal impulse in the [fossil fuel] trade association community in Washington to concede the scientific premise of global warming... while arguing over policy prescriptions that would be the least disruptive to our economy... We have disagreed, and do disagree, with this strategy.»

The turmoil over the United States» climate and energy policies under the Trump administration could slow the push to cap global warming, but it won't derail the effort, according to policy experts and climate advocates gathered in Germany for the latest round of international climate talks.

London 27 March 2018: A new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) counters media hype over recent warm global temperatures, showing that almost all of the sudden increase in temperatures in the last couple of years was caused by a record strong natural El Nino phenomenon rather than global waGlobal Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) counters media hype over recent warm global temperatures, showing that almost all of the sudden increase in temperatures in the last couple of years was caused by a record strong natural El Nino phenomenon rather than global wWarming Policy Foundation (GWPF) counters media hype over recent warm global temperatures, showing that almost all of the sudden increase in temperatures in the last couple of years was caused by a record strong natural El Nino phenomenon rather than global waglobal temperatures, showing that almost all of the sudden increase in temperatures in the last couple of years was caused by a record strong natural El Nino phenomenon rather than global waglobal warmingwarming.

As for dialog over policy, if I suspect somebody is pursuing a socialist agenda while pretending simple concern over «global warming», I'll treat their arguments differently.

Five years ago, the Maine Republican jumped right into the congressional fray over global - warming policy.

Our starting point is to recognise that we won't stabilise the climate until we base global climate policy on a binding, global «emissions budget», which covers all countries and declines over time to keep the world on course for warming of less than two degrees» celsius.

In the public policy debates over climate change, critics of strong action to mitigate global warming have often described proponents as «religious zealots», and vice-versa.