Sentences with phrase «position on climate change by»

2007/04/24: TheAge: Howard undermined on climate The nation's leading scientific body, the CSIRO, has undermined Prime Minister John Howard's position on climate change by advising that big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions appear to be both inevitable and affordable for Australia.

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This position was later confirmed in October 2010 by Xie Zhenghua, China's Head Negotiator on Climate Change and Vice Chairman of the NDRC on occasion of the press conference to the UN Climate Talks in Tianjin, when he noted that «China is for full consultation in the UN framework but we are not against smaller consultations» in the respect of the principles of openness, transparency and full consultation.

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.

On the other side, environmental groups led by NextGen Climate, which aspired to spend $ 100 million, unleashed waves of advertising to attack Republican positions on climate change, energy and the environmenOn the other side, environmental groups led by NextGen Climate, which aspired to spend $ 100 million, unleashed waves of advertising to attack Republican positions on climate change, energy and the envirClimate, which aspired to spend $ 100 million, unleashed waves of advertising to attack Republican positions on climate change, energy and the environmenon climate change, energy and the envirclimate change, energy and the environment.

Against all political intuition, Republican candidates could win votes by taking «green» positions on the controversy over climate change, according to new poll results released Tuesday.

But they believe that the UK «is bucking these positive trends» and they call on the government to phase out unabated use of coal by 2023 to «improve air quality, protect the health of our population, and reclaim the UK's leadership position in tackling climate change.»

«In 2003 Soon said at a US senate hearing that he had «not knowingly been hired by, nor employed by, nor received grants from any organisation that had taken advocacy positions with respect to the Kyoto Protocol or the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.»

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Quoting from their initial proposal, «Four disparate artists, distinct in their mediums and yet, banded by an analogous cause, have come together to propose an exhibit on Climate Change and how it impinges four positions of the Earth.

I consider my work to perfectly jibe with that which was expressly called for by the American Geophysical Union (of which I am a member) in its recent position statement on climate change, that is:

The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007:

Or it may be caused by any other mechanism (like the influence of solar changes on the jet stream position) which enhance the simple direct insolation change which is incorporated in several current climate models...

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

He said that the large majority of governments at the Second Meeting of the conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in Geneva in June 1996), «while recognizing uncertainties, believe that we know enough to take some actions now,» and that this position was supported by more than 2000 independent scientists in a letter to President Clinton several weeks ago.

And, of course, McIntyre is entirely dispassionate in this demand, it's not like he has taken a public position on climate change and is being entirely hypocritical by demanding people he disagrees with be fired for fake political reasons.

But we are supposed to think that that's irrelevant because immediately after experimenters told them «97 % of scientists accept climate change,» a group of study subjects, while not changing their own positions on whether climate change is happening, increased by a very small amount their expressed estimate of the percentage of scientists who believe in climate change?

«Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change» When trying to position the Amazon tipping point on the scale of the global temperature rise, one of the most - often cited studies is one from the year 2009, performed by a team of researchers of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, led by Chris Jones and published in Nature Geoscience.

Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.

It was also promoted by climate change denier Matt Ridley in his regular Times column, which did not note his position on the GWPF's academic advisory board.

We're not offering a «counter-claim» about the science, because our position is that even the concrete, incontrovertible, unassailable fact of human influence on global warming and climate change does not, by itself, make a case for action.

60 Plus ($ 16 million) is a senior citizens organization that supports conservative and free - market ideas and, on some occasions, sharply criticizes the positions taken by climate change activists.

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).

There is a fairly clear consensus position on climate change among those who know something about climate, and that is summarized by the IPCC, which, contrary to our host's bluster, does list and evaluate outlying positions, but you can not define a minority position.

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 authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

For all the admirable positions taken by many business leaders on climate change, Musk is the only high - profile figure to publicly envisage the true scale of the transformation that is required over the next three decades.

This question is designed to expose that refusals of nations to reduce their emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions is implicitly a position on acceptable levels of atmospheric ghg concentrations which is essentially a moral issue because a position on acceptable atmospheric ghg concentrations is a position on who shall be greatly harmed by human - induced climate change.

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.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has reaffirmed the position of its Board of Directors and the leaders of 18 respected organizations, who concluded based on multiple lines of scientific evidence that global climate change caused by human activities is now underway, and it is a growing threat to society.

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 indirectly.

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.

All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.

(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.

Australia's official position at the international climate change talks is to have a range of ambition from a 5 per cent reduction in 1990 emissions by 2020, out to 25 per cent, depending on what other countries do.

I am probably in a 3 or 4 position on this: We are changing the climate by land use, CO2, particulates, etc..

The consensus position is understood to be that which has been articulated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

And he has recently been called by Republicans in Congress to provide testimony on climate change to support their positions.

This is quite different from the INQUA official position on climate change, which opens by saying (emphasis added):

This mechanism should provide that any government's positions on their climate change commitments can be questioned by other governments and NGOs in regard to the adequacy of the commitment to achieve a warming limit and the fairness of the reductions.

Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.

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.

Obama has held the position that climate change is caused by humans, especially by fossil energy burning, since at least his time in the US Senate, when he and 39 other senators in 2006 wrote President Bush calling for government - imposed limits on heat - trapping gas emissions.

The Post «s opinion section creates a strong perception that «climate change is in doubt» that is at odds with reputable scientific research and at odds with the position on climate change taken by every single relevant scientific institution globally (with the exception of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists).

Today, Stern is celebrated by radicals, liberals and lefties, while he advances the climate change cause, and positions himself to take financial advantage of the carbon markets created by the regulations that he was instrumental in devising, which foist «sustainability» on both the developed and developing world.

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.

He added that the large majority of governments at the Ministerial segment of the Second Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in Geneva in June 1996), «while recognizing uncertainties, believe that we know enough to take some actions now,» and that this position was supported by 2000 independent scientists in a letter to President Clinton several weeks ago.

If I attempt to put myself in the position of a robot from Mars who doesn't know anything about the climate change debate except that it seems important to humans, I don't believe I could conclude that anyone was «taken to the cleaners» in this exchange (assuming a robot from Mars knows what that expression means:) I think I'd have to conclude that both participants were framing the issue in different ways and so there wasn't a meeting of minds, nor any change of the needle by either one on the attitudes of the other, nor likely much to help inform locals who were just as mystified by the debate as I was.

By Ben Webster Britain's premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind's contribution to rising temperatures.The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350 - year - old institution's official position on global warminBy Ben Webster Britain's premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind's contribution to rising temperatures.The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350 - year - old institution's official position on global warminby members who question mankind's contribution to rising temperatures.The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350 - year - old institution's official position on global warming.

Rotten though the American legal system is, and despite the fact that most of these organizations do not agree with Steyn's views on climate change (nor necessarily with Mann's either), amicus curiae briefs supporting Mark's position have been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters» Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associations of American Publishers and of Alternative News Media (e.g. Village Voice), NBC Universal, Bloomberg, Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other publications and groups.

The Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics has endorsed a position statement on climate change adopted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Council in December 2003.