Sentences with phrase «public are concerned about climate change»

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There was a time about six years ago when public concern with climate change was at an all - time high.

NILU is concerned with increasing public awareness about climate change and environmental pollution.

Scientists have made the science section of the National Climate Assessment public before it is officially due to be released, citing concerns that the administration may attempt to change some of the facts it presents about climate Climate Assessment public before it is officially due to be released, citing concerns that the administration may attempt to change some of the facts it presents about climate climate change.

Members of the public with the highest degrees of science literacy and technical reasoning capacity were not the most concerned about climate change.

However, that his statement can be quoted in a major US newspaper says much about the level of public knowledge concerning climate change and the models used to try and understand it.

Over all, he wrote, «My reading of the vast scientific literature on climate change is that our understanding is undiminished by this incident; but it has raised concern about the standards of science and has damaged public trust in what scientists do.»

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.

As we get closer and closer to the next election, it's becoming increasingly clear that the majority of the voting public is extremely concerned about energy security and climate change.

Later today, I'm going to write an e-mail to the Times's «Public Editor», Mr. Clark Hoyt, to express my concerns about the Times's coverage of the climate change problem.

That's not surprising given that these animals have become the latest icon in efforts to boost public concern about climate change.

I know that you generally like to cite Ted and Michael — but I'm still puzzled by your tweeting of their article with the quote «Efforts to raise public concern about climate change by linking it to natural disasters will backfire.»

Dressed in a veneer of concern about climate change, in fact BP's outlook is a public relations exercise, designed to boost fossil fuels and undermine public faith in clean alternatives.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

The survey found that telling the public that scientists were in disagreement about the causes of climate change helped to erode their concern.

«Climate change legislation is a central concern across government at all levels, and is not solely about the changing climate, but is embedded in public health policies,» the editors cClimate change legislation is a central concern across government at all levels, and is not solely about the changing climate, but is embedded in public health policies,» the editors cclimate, but is embedded in public health policies,» the editors contend.

They're particularly frustrated at the prospect of having to reframe the basic carbon - cutting goal precisely at a moment when they sense rising public concern about climate change, and in the lead - up to a big international climate conference next year in Paris, at which they're crossing their fingers that global diplomats will agree on a newly stringent carbon crackdown.

Despite the president's focus on climate policy, three recent polls show the public isn't especially concerned about climate change and that any concern they do have is waning.

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.

The concern here is that, trust in the wrong source prevents the feckless public from responding to the correct messages about climate change, sending us all to our doom.

It could be due to a range of factors, the scientists say, from «a well - financed opposition» to the Cape Wind project on Cape Cod, to increasing public awareness and concern about changing climate and «global warming,» to health impacts and the recent electricity rate hikes in Delaware.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.

Serious droughts and other unusual weather since 1972 increase scientific and public concern about climate change, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of ice age.

Roughly nine - in - ten (88 %) in Uganda and about three - quarters of the public in Burkina Faso (77 %) and Ghana (73 %) are very concerned about the personal threat posed by climate change.

My objections to how the public policy debate about climate change concerns methodology, and are explained here: How we broke the climate change debates.

Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, President of NAS, explained on the Royal Society's website that the NAS and RS are two of the world's leading scientific bodies, and, therefore, had «a responsibility to evaluate and explain what is known about climate change, at least the physical side of it, to concerned citizens, educators, decision makers and leaders, and to advance public dialogue about how to respond to the threats of climate change.»

«So, you freely admit that you don't get people turning up at your surgery to talk about climate change so you've come up with an ingenious wheeze to give the impression to other MPs that there is such a groundswell of public concern.

As global concerns about climate change grow and implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement ramps up, the portfolio of decisions that could be made by nations and cities to avert the most deleterious effects of climate change are so consequential and so long - lasting that public deliberation stands as both an ethical and practical requirement.

While out in public spruiking the Government's concern about global warming, alternately aggressive and oleaginous, in private he is happy to say that he is a climate change sceptic.

Even just acknowledging more openly the incredible magnitude of the deep structural uncertainties that are involved in climate - change analysis — and explaining better to policymakers that the artificial crispness conveyed by conventional IAM - based CBAs [Integrated Assessment Model — Cost Benefit Analyses] here is especially and unusually misleading compared with more ordinary non-climate-change CBA situations — might go a long way toward elevating the level of public discourse concerning what to do about global warming.

Nisbet: Starting in about 2005 and peaking in 2007, there were historic levels of concern and belief of climate change in the public, but that time was also unique because it had the lowest levels of unemployment since before 2000.

For example, we're looking at, to what degree, you can communicate about climate change as a public health concern.

For any overpaid advertizing creative types on here try this as an idea for a focus group Being preached to and lectured at dosent make people concerned or thoughtfull and it dosent help sell your product Ordinary people trust me just find it irratating and condesending The great British public are more concerned about keeping their jobs and the recession than Climate Change real or not

«Americans are getting the wrong signal from year - round weather about whether they should be concerned about climate change,» said study lead author Patrick Egan, a public policy professor at New York University.

But he said he is concerned that those wanting action to address climate change «won't win, but rather will lose over a glacial timeframe» unless scientists» findings about the seriousness of climate change are communicated effectively to the public.

Unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events are of great public concern and interest, yet there are often conflicting messages from scientists about whether such events can be linked to climate change.

At a time of mounting public concern about climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels, the world fossil fuel industry is still being subsidized by taxpayers at more than $ 210 billion per year.

She said it was «striking» that the public were even more concerned about climate change than in the run - up to the landmark Copenhagen summit on climate change in late 2009.

And of course with any major public event on climate change, the same small and very vocal group of climate change science deniers and conspiracy theorists are trying to distort the message, and (of all things) discredit Pope Francis and his concern about climate change.