Sentences with phrase «public about climate risk»

It seems to me that to provide guidance to the public about climate risks, you would ask questions about things that would affect the public, such as: When will Los Angelenos notice a water shortage?

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Peabody Energy has a responsibility to be honest with investors and the public about the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in announcing the settlement with Peabody Monday.

The initiative encourages Americans to think of climate change as a risk management issue; the panel aims to clarify and contextualize the science so the public and decision - makers can be more adequately informed about those risks and possible ways to manage them.

Top of her list of duties, according to Ward, should be working to reverse public misconceptions about climate change and preparing the nation for its impacts, particularly increased flood risk.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

Marohasy works for the Institute of Public Affairs which, if you want to talk about tentacles, is firmly attached to the body of conservative «free market» groups around the world that deny the risks of human - caused climate change.

It's their shared apprehension that opposing positions on climate change are, in effect, badges of membership in and loyalty to competing cultural groups; that is the cue or signal that motivates members of the public to process information about climate change risks in a manner that is more reliably geared to affirming the position that predominates in their group than to converging on the best available evidence.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has accused ExxonMobil of lying to the public and investors about the risks of climate change according to the NY Times and has launched an investigation and issued a subpoena demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents.

His scholarship, research, and communication about climate science and economics — especially the impact of government policies that needlessly raise energy costs, condemning the elderly and poor to pain and suffering and even risks of death — have made valuable contributions to public knowledge.

The cities say that the oil companies have known about the risks of anthropogenic climate change, but that rather than disclose what they know, the companies engaged in a decades - long campaign to deceive the public that the science is uncertain.

There is also evidence that media coverage surrounding climate change is often misleading and that some media organs disseminate falsehoods routinely, thereby denying the public the right to be accurately informed about risks from climate change.

Beyond coal - related carbon emissions being a primary contributor to climate change, studies have found that coal - fired electricity has significant public health risks; a 2016 analysis found that coal dust is responsible for about 22,900 premature deaths per year throughout the E.U.

What energy companies must do immediately is convey their scientific beliefs and real concerns about climate change risks to Congress and the general public, many of whom do not know what to believe.

Laframboise's trip has been organised by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, which has a long history of promoting doubt about the science of human - caused climate change and the risks of the unmitigated burning of fossil fuels.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and New York's Attorney General's Office are investigating whether Exxon misled investors and the public about climate change risks.

In addition, the results are pragmatically important because they serve the public interest: There is ample evidence that the public is currently not being adequately informed about the risks from climate change, owing largely to flawed media coverage, to which blogs make a contribution.

Organizations around the world to join with IUGG and its member Associations to encourage scientists to communicate freely and widely with public and private decision - makers about the consequences and risks of on - going climate change and actions that can be taken to limit climate change and promote adaptation; and

Prosecutors want to see if the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business.

«There are attempts by some politicians and lobbyists to confuse and mislead the public about the scientific evidence that human activities are driving climate change and creating huge risks,» said Stern.

It is fighting a separate fraud case against allegations it misled the public — and shareholders — about climate change risk.

The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent a subpoena to oil company ExxonMobil about its alleged cover - up of climate change risks to the public and its investors.

In an experiment designed like a game of three - way telephone in which subjects were asked to select and pass on Facebook messages about climate change, the authors found that a conventional framing of climate change in terms of environmental risks was more likely to be shared, compared to less conventional messages emphasizing the public health and economic benefits to action.

In a blockbuster story, The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed oil and gas industry giant ExxonMobil to «determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business.»

In light of the lethal track record of denial, one might expect opprobrium to be reserved for those who deny the public's right to be adequately informed about risks such as AIDS or climate change.

Attorneys general in states like California, Massachusetts, and New York will also move forward with their investigations into ExxonMobil's tobacco - style efforts to mislead investors and the public about the risks of climate change.

Most importantly the growing disconnect between what the scientists are saying about the risks of climate change and public sentiment about the topic.

Both MRC and CFACT have previously accepted grants from oil company ExxonMobil, which is currently under investigation by the New York attorney general for allegedly lying about the risks of climate change to the public and investors.

And the Democratic platform advocates, it hasn't been finally, the current Democratic party platform for this year says that they should be investigated for misleading shareholders and the public about the risks of climate change.

California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. repeatedly lied to the public and its shareholders about the risk to its business from climate change — and whether such actions could amount to securities fraud and violations of environmental laws.