Sentences with phrase «political climate call»

New Labour took an uncritical view of globalisation that fetishised change for its own sake and, whilst it achieved much in office, a new political climate calls for new ideas and a new direction.

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Given recent political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax created by the Chinese, Patagonia decided to take their donations to a new level.

In her first major party political role as the Green Party Campaigns Co-ordinator, Berry led the Green Energy Works Campaign, calling for low carbon, non-nuclear energy to tackle climate change.

Through art exhibitions and social media, Weiwei spreads word of his dissatisfaction with the political climate in China, calling for greater transparency.

With our resolution, New York City's oldest and most progressive political club calls for immediate government action to address the issue of climate change.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) vowed that the coalition of Democratic state officials would continue to oppose President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE's efforts to ban travel from nations the administration says do not meet information - sharing requirements, calling the ban «discriminatory.»

Rudy Giuliani called the attorney representing adult film star Stormy Daniels a «pimp» on Friday, the latest jab in a feud between the lawyers over the actress's claims she had an affair with President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE.

The week long climate camp near the Kingsnorth power station has met with what protestors are calling «political policing».

The political arm of the League of Conservation Voters endorsed Clinton, calling her «the most effective leader to stand up to Big Polluters and push forward an aggressive plan to tackle climate change and get it done.»

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

A sprawling roster of potential primary candidates is already surveying the political climate and reaching out to campaign consultants in stealthy meetings and calls, according to roughly a half - dozen party operatives familiar with the initial conversations.

The Green Party also launched its manifesto, calling for a «peaceful political revolution» to end austerity and tackle climate change.

Her political team had been focused on calling out Republican skepticism of climate change — but her refusal to take a position Tuesday has turned the spotlight squarely back to Clinton herself.

The political climate is ripe for reform, with a new law calling for federal officials to streamline regulation of animal research and a White House that dislikes regulations.

Stymied by the slow pace of the negotiations — which they are not even allowed to participate in — these so - called «subnationals» have worked on the sidelines for years, using political will, economic leverage and the celebrity status of prominent politicians to advance their climate goals.

In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

Defra science chief is among the prominent scientists calling for reforms at IPCC; NASA veteran climate scientist Andrew Lacis says IPCC is right to highlight anthropogenic warming but is too political about it.

His views: As chair of the Republican National Committee, Priebus oversaw the creation of the 2016 party platform that called the widely respected Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change «a political mechanism, not an unbiased scientific institution.»

Today's political climate has caused some circles to go so far as to call his writing prophetic.

Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, called vouchers «a huge waste of energy» in an interview in late January, and the political climate is even more hostile for vouchers than it was in 2001.

Even the storied Parkway Program, which in 1970 Time magazine called «the most interesting high school in the U.S. today,» fell victim to the changing political climate.

While centralization worked for England's school inspections, Jerald acknowledges a call to centralize a government service likely would be «a hard pill to swallow» in America's current political climate.

In this case, most managers know each country intimately and can make calls based on the economic and political climates.

This seminal painting, alongside the other works in the show, call into question the current political climate and what the future may hold.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

Born out of a necessity to create a safe space for expression and critique among marginalized groups, Strangeways Magazine presents: 823 - Thinking of You, a call to solidarity amidst an uncertain political climate.

The works implicitly call into question our current political climate and contemplate with uneasiness what the future may hold.

Scientific Reticence: A Threat to Humanity and Nature Hesitancy among scientists to express the gravity of our situation is a major block to our understanding and response to climate change, The reticence arises from political pressure, institutional conservatism, so - called «objectivity» and more.

The possibilities that political leaders will soon agree to effective climate policies seem to be close to zero, they are, as James Lovelock noted in «The Revenge of Gaia», only seeking just as Chamberlain 1938 to gain time, and they are not very interested in the realm, because most or all of them subscribe to the by far leading religion of our times: the neoclassical so - called economic «science», which is based on a lot of completely unrealistic assumptions, see fx.

While the scientific case grows weaker, the political and rhetorical proponents of climate fear are ramping up to offer hefty tax and regulatory «solutions» both internationally and domestically to «solve» the so - called «crisis.»

Instead, the leaders pledged to reach some sort of political accord calling for reductions in emissions and aid for developing nations to adapt to a changing climate.

Every political group uses spin to try to persuade the public, but some of the groups that represent conservatives and industry use what can be called extreme tactics in the climate change science debate.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

Step It Up called for political leadership on three aims to help stabilize the climate: cut carbon emissions 80 % by 2050, a moratorium on new coal power plants, and grow green jobs in support of a renewable energy economy.

There's no doubt that these events, that I call experiential evidence of climate change, does raise the issue to the highest political levels.

This means we're putting a man who has written an entire book calling climate change a hoax, who has used scripture to refute climate science, who truly seems to believe that environmental groups are a «political machine» dedicated to «misleading the American public regarding their purely politically partisan agenda under the guise of environmental protection» and who has insisted, with a straight face, that CO2 is not a «real pollutant,» in charge of solving climate change.

However, other religious people are motivated by their faith to study climate change scientifically, to engage in personal and political activism, or even to call for sweeping economic and cultural revolution.

I'm accusing him, and most other so - called climate sceptics, of allowing their political views to guide, or override, their scientific judgement.

This senseless name calling of the scientists on both sides of the political fence, and infighting over the details of the amount of the sensitivity of the climate will soon come to an end, as the experiment on the Earth is continued with out any possible controls by the IPCC policy makers, who only want it to proceed as is, with ADDITIONAL FUNDS taken from taxes paid by the developed world, to hasten to transfer of wealth to the third world, while weakening the Western government systems through self imposed bankruptcy.

You so called (climate) scientists are just pushing dangerous political agenda based on junk science and on flawed & formally invalidated models.

The reason I'm a skeptic is because I see and hear intelligent climate scientist calling for a political solution, and that is just plain nuts.

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».

If you do want to discuss global warming, perhaps call it by its original name & not the recent publicist's and political term du jour — climate change.

It was in this political climate that the EU heads of state and government launched the so - called Lisbon Strategy in March 2000, with the goal of making Europe «the most competitive and dynamic knowledge - based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.

Blackrock, Standard Bank, Schroders and AXA Group are among 348 leading investors calling for governments to deliver strong political leadership on climate change.

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

Respected journalists, including those on the political left, immediately began to question the authenticity of the so - called «Heartland Climate Strategy Memo.»

The political climate was more favorable in Massachusetts, but private development of an offshore wind energy project called Cape Wind was stymied for years by a series of lawsuits by the Koch - funded Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.

Where is the political leadership in calling for «comprehensive» climate legislation, then IMMEDIATELY changing the subject without so much as a nod to what climate legislation must entail in addition to clean energy?

Eilperin glosses over the fact that this latest UN climate «report» is a strategically timed political document peppered with unproven computer climate models that violate the basic principles of forecasting and that even the UN does not call «predictions.»