Sentences with phrase «political climate inform»

To what degree does the current political climate inform your work?

Not exact matches

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

In a political climate increasingly challenging the value of science, scientists and engineers need to summon their scientific knowledge and play a larger role in helping inform public policy with solid evidence, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt during a webinar that explored the outlook for science and technology during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Corbyn & Trenberth are similar in wasting our time on hyperpartisan political rants, rather than sticking to succinctly informing us about observation - based natural climate variations.

Informed by Ringgold's legacy as well as the current political climate, the exhibition poses questions about how to reconceptualize cultural representation, engagement, and critique: What spaces for agency are available to black artists today, and by what means have they produced spaces for themselves?

Largely informed by the contentious political climate and the socioeconomic issues dividing Americans, the exhibition will explore themes including «formation of self and the individual's place in a turbulent society.»

Kass's newest body of work is deeply informed by the political climate of the last seven years and the notion that our past optimism has now been replaced by a more provisional relationship to the world.

«This is not a technical book on climate change, as others have said, however if you want your opinion on the AGW debate to be an informed one or are interested in the political forces even now shaping the future global climate, this is essential reading.»

This article certainly addresses the exaggeration in the political pro green blogs, media and informed webistes on which if real climate was not here I would be presuming those artciles to be true.

This is to say that the «consensus» has political, rather than practical utility: it is more useful to the task of mobilising towards «action on climate change» than it is informing the debate about what kind of problem climate change is, and what the options for dealing with it are.

Although assessment reports are scientific in nature, their purpose is to inform international political negotiations on climate issues.

Very interesting, Mr. S. For those of us unfamiliar with the literature can you answer for us the most pressing question about this as a reply to Alson's question: are the paleoclimate runs referred to in this abstract performed by one of the models used for contemporary climate prediction and informing the global political process — i.e., one of those referred to in the IPCC reports?

We all deserve an informed and democratic discussion about what to do about climate change, whatever our political persuasion.

They told the Commission that they could not make political decisions based on predictions and economic modeling (both generally used in climate science) and that the report should not be used to inform further modifications to the two Directives.

Indeed we're more likely to establish good quality data if people accept it's actually going to be used for something, as opposed to just scoring points in a political shouting match which is more about justifying climate alarm than it is about informing policy.

I'm not sure how much the counter-intuitive or paradoxical juxtaposition you highlight really informs about the dynamics of how motivated reasoning and cultural cognition play out in the climate change / political proxy food fight.

If Americans are not well - enough informed to successfully tackle issues like climate change, Otto contends that seeing political leaders directly address the issues will foster greater public interest in the topics, help Americans distinguish scientific finding from rhetoric, and encourage our children to devote their education to the subject.

Let me guess, like Mr. Steele, you argue that it is much better to publish your science on blogs because it «gets the word out», and avoids «suppression» if your work had to be subject to peer review by informed climate scientists, and you remain amusingly self - unaware that this preference actually accidentally reveals that your aspirations are political — you desire the exposure, or less euphemistically, propaganda, which a blog can provide, not the vigorous hearing in the court of logic that the scientific and peer review process offers.

It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well - informed and yet largely unresolved debates among a substantial cohort of the world's climate change researchers gets reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority — «there is no excuse for inaction» — and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to resolve nothing in political terms.

«Our current climate models are just not up to informed decision - making at the resolution of most countries,» says Leonard Smith, a statistician and climate analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

And open and informed conversation seems crucial to Randers's project — indeed, he posits that unchecked climate change is not a technological problem, but a political one.

Meanwhile, political scientists at Texas A&M University report people who consider themselves well informed about climate change are actually less concerned about the problem than those who admit they know little.