Sentences with phrase «position on climate change as»

This month, he framed his position on climate change as «nobody really knows — it's not something that's so hard and fast.»

This latter article contains a representative statement of Kenneth Green's position on climate change as of 2003: «But other scientists, in both Canada and the United States, have shown that the threat of global warming is overstated by the United Nations (McKitrick and Essex, 2002).

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Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

He also had made public statements during a 2012 run as a Republican for U.S. Senate, in which he staked out conservative positions on issues such as abortion, climate change and same - sex marriage.

Mark Dunlea says Cuomo has positioned New York as a national leader on climate change, but «his goals are weaker in several ways than those adopted seven years ago» by former Gov. David Paterson.

The world's largest organization of physicists clarified its position on climate change last week, and it no longer believes, as it did in 2007, that the evidence for global warming is «incontrovertible.»

The votes this week reveal a new list of Republicans who stand out as more moderate on climate change than their party, and it's happening as candidates are jockeying for early positions to replace President Obama.

She is on leave from a position as a research scientist at the University of Wyoming where she researches the effects of climate change on plants and ecosystems.

De Boer's position as executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change requires him to use three passports, two of which are constantly in cycle as he gets new visas.

Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.

(Memo to Podesta: Was referring to Bernie Sanders as a «doofus» for his extremist position on climate change really necessary?

«Researching Don't Even Think About It, which I see as the most important book published on climate change in the past few years, George Marshall discovered that there has not been a single proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward during international climate negotiations.

You'll recall that he's the Princeton nonclimatologist physicist who's one of the leaders of American Physical Society opponents of APS's position on climate change, and that he served as director of energy research at the Department of Energy from 1990 to 1993.

Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common PoClimate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common PosChange in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Poclimate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Poschange as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,

He has helped shape the U.S. military position on climate change to a more proactive one, casting climate change as a «threat multiplier» for national security.

Following the Climate Change argument daily from a pro AGW position 7 years ago I have come to the conclusion that the specialisation of Science itself precludes agreement on a subject so all encompassing as Climate, it covers so many disciplines that there is no independant body that covers them all, even if there was, there is violent disagreement between branches, i.e. Cosmology — gravity v electrical universe theory.

Political scholar Steven F. Hayward recently presented in Issues the conservative position on global warming and climate change, including a look at measures that conservatives might accept as part of any action plan.

[72] Since climate change has been recognized as a global problem with grave environmental, social, economic, distributional, and political implications, [73] activists and the body politic have now firmly put climate science in the position of having to support policies to protect the threatened planet and the human, animal, and plant life on it.

As I say, time will tell on pressure via the EU or the UN and that will depend on trumps final position on climate change so let's jump that hurdle first before we speculate.

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

And so because the position of the ten senators as stated in their letter to Obama appears to assume that the US obligations to the rest of the world on climate change are not triggered unless other nations are living up to US expectations of them, this opposition to US climate change legislation is ethically problematic.

Heartland's position on climate change is controversial only in the mainstream media (which has decided to treat global warming the way liberal environmental groups tell them to, as a matter of settled science) and in the view of far - left organizations such as «Forecast the Facts.»

«So, imagine you are a climate scientist and climate change ideologue, and want to «take down» the single organization (or individual) that is doing the most damage to the movement (i.e. with the end result of thwarting CO2 emissions / stabilization policy)» And why would you ever imagine that this activity was as or more important than working on evidence supporting your position?

On 2014/03/13, Mr Fraser, in his current position as chair of the Climate Change Authority, gave a scathing speech to the National Press Club.

Based on the evidence as it currently exists, it just is not a valid scientific position to assert with certainty that human emissions have caused recent changes to the climate, and therefore the policy implications that stem from that.

«There is an incoherence at best between oil companies on the one hand positioning themselves as being on the side of the world's developing countries and while on the other actively pursuing strategies which will entail catastrophic climate change which we already know is having a significant impact on the global south,» she said.

For his part, Holdren has served for the past eight years as the science advisor to President Obama, a position from which he laments that Americans don't take his warnings on climate change seriously.

Such economic clout makes California ideally positioned to take the lead on energy policy and environmental issues like climate change, even as the United States as a whole has failed to make much progress on either front.

The advertising statements regarding the science of climate change also echo Conservative positions on specific scientific issues, as seen in each of the «myths» described, and declared to be false, in the second FoS ad:

Thus, we can recognize scientific consensus by position statements by prestigious scientific organizations, such as this statement from 18 associations on climate change, or the result of meta - analysis studies (evaluations of a series of other prominent studies) that come to a clear determination, such as this study on the relationship of vaccines and autism.

The group just hired Paul Bailey, a former operative for the oil and electric power industries, as its top lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Tol's line of reasoning here is similar to his misrepresentation of Oreskes» results, by taking the number of acceptance papers not just as a fraction of papers that take position, but rather as a fraction of all papers, including those that take no position on current anthropogenic climate change.

Ya'll are my proxy for a class on climate change as I'm not in a position to attend one at this time, so if I'm speaking out of turn let me know.

On climate change in particular — as on other contested science issues — both sides think their position is consistent with scientific consensuOn climate change in particular — as on other contested science issues — both sides think their position is consistent with scientific consensuon other contested science issues — both sides think their position is consistent with scientific consensus.

As explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectlAs explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectlas their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectly.

As a funding organisation neither Donors Trust, nor its sister organisation Donors Capital Fund, take positions on the science of human - caused climate change.

As PolluterWatch points out, Koch's PR team recently posted on the company's Facebook page about a piece written by Steven Hayward that seemed to support Koch's anti-science position on climate change and predictably tooted the old Climategate dud.

(Skeptical Science) When these politicians are asked about the basis for their positions on climate change, they almost always respond by saying such things as they «have heard that there is a disagreement among scientists» or similar responses that strongly suggest they have informed an opinion on climate change science without any understanding of the depth of the scientific evidence on which the scientific consensus view 0f climate change has been based.

Aside from the astroturf nature of the planned events, which appear aimed at passing off industry employees as independent citizens, the memo also raises questions about the positions of several major oil companies on the issue of climate change.

As a funding organisation neither Donors Trust, nor its sister funder Donors Capital Fund, take positions on the science of human - caused climate change.

Since becoming governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo has staked out a position as a strong advocate of action on climate change.

Mr. Joubert, Senior Advisor and Special Envoy Energy and Climate at WBCSD, currently serves as the Chair of the Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, sits at the Advisory board of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership where he is part of Faculty; he is also Executive Chairman of the Global Electricity Initiative at the World Energy Council; He holds several Advisory positions to the CEOs of major Global Cites and sits on various Boards and Advisory Boards as Non-Executive Director.

The insight that nations will not agree to what equity requires of them because it is not in their national interest should not be the basis for abandoning an equitable approach to climate change as recommended by the above referenced World Bank paper because national interest is not a morally acceptable justification for national climate change policy yet it is likely to remain the criteria for setting national climate change policy unless a nation is shamed for its ethically bankrupt position on climate change.

As such, the U.S. should remain diplomatically engaged in international climate talks independent of the administration's position on climate change.

Real Climate «has clearly aligned itself squarely with one political position on climate change» — January 14, 2005 — Excerpt: The site's focus has been exclusively on attacking those who invoke science as the basis for their opposition to action on climate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and MyronClimate «has clearly aligned itself squarely with one political position on climate change» — January 14, 2005 — Excerpt: The site's focus has been exclusively on attacking those who invoke science as the basis for their opposition to action on climate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and Myronclimate change» — January 14, 2005 — Excerpt: The site's focus has been exclusively on attacking those who invoke science as the basis for their opposition to action on climate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and Myronclimate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and Myron Ebell.

'' whether you are starting from a position of general acceptance of the mainstream view on anthropogenic climate change across disciplines (as expressed in IPCC, national academy summaries etc.)»

This doesn't actually help any framing, because it still seems to intentionally obfuscate the interesting question, whether you are starting from a position of general acceptance of the mainstream view on anthropogenic climate change across disciplines (as expressed in IPCC, national academy summaries etc.) or not.

The POLITICO report focuses on 20 Trump appointees with positions as agency heads or advisors in the administration who have made public statements dismissing the threat of climate change or the science behind it.

While the parties» positions on climate change is unlikely to be a decisive factor — immigration, austerity, and welfare have that more or less locked - down — it is emerging as one way to differentiate between the candidates.

He and those like him, in positions of power who dishonestly oppose action on climate change, so abetting irreparable damage to this planet that we all share and love, will be seen by future generations as the worst of the worst.