Sentences with phrase «questions about climate policy»

On questions about climate policy, the protection of biodiversity, the regulation of industrial pollution, and the use of natural resources, scientists and the environmentalists are in harmony: scientists tend to identify problems and environmentalists tend to see government regulation as a ready solution to those problems.

Not exact matches

As you can see, the answer to the question about whether or not climate change is man - made has a direct impact on which policies should be enacted to solve this problem.

- A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto by Ernesto Zedillo, two climate - change books he is writing about for The New York Review of Books

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

NONE of them have questioned the science behind climate change for more than a decade; they may argue about which policies are the best way to address the problem, what mix of government regulations and private sector actions is best, but not one challenges the science.

My blog is a way of focusing on actual arguments about climate change policies as they unfold, teasing out these arguments the often hidden ethical questions, and inviting the world to see these questions not as «value neutral» scientific or economic questions but as ethical issues.

They are fascinated by the science, asking questions about the climate history of the Tibetan plateau and the chances of reaching environmental tipping points, as well as questions about western environmental thought and policy.

Kenneth Caldeira, a climate specialist whom I've interviewed about ocean acidification, geo - engineering, climate tipping points and other questions, says there is substantial peril in «describing policy prescriptions as if they're a scientific conclusion.»

I have to agree with Barton's questioning stance about this post: I haven't noticed anything resembling an actual climate change policy in the US yet.

If policy on climate change waits until things are certain, it will be far too late (after all, there are still lots of arguments about what has happened in the past 100, 1000 or more years — certainty is generally an illusive, unattainable goal on the really interesting problems and questions).

So, questions will be around what interventions and policies are justified by what the current science already says — not just what it doesn't yet specifically know — about risks and implications of climate change.

Dustin should also be contacted about Global Fishing Watch as well as general U.S. marine science and policy questions, including those related to fishing, climate change and pollution.

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

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In this post, I'll have a quick look at why carbon pricing has become so central to climate economics and raise some questions about its primacy in policy and political circles.

So, instead of framing the question of global climate policy in terms of national self - interest, how about we frame it in terms of «doing the right thing»?

«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»

Then, he declared that he did not want to lead a party not serious about climate action, and questioned any policy that claimed to be cost - neutral.

More specifically, when opponents of climate change policies make self - interest based arguments against the adoption of policies such as cost to the United States, there are no follow - up questions asked by the press about whether those who argue against climate change policies on grounds of cost to the United States are denying that the United States has duties or responsibilities to those outside the United States to prevent harm to them.

This has been another simple answer to a simple question Air capture is the Nigerian scam letter of climate policy and about the last thing to invest anything but the buck you buy the odd lottery ticket with.

«It... raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap - and - trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of preventing catastrophic climate change,» Soon told the executives in a 2009 email.

ATTP, I think don't you understand that your kind of talk is similar in style to the hard core climate activists that go after the throats of anyone asking any questions about the science in order to drive policy (or is policy driving the science).

You tried to frame a question about policy - relevance of GCMs as a delegitimisation of «all of climate science» (your words).

More specifically in regard to the question of human causation, opponents of climate change policies that deny human causation should be expected to specifically respond to the numerous «foot - print» and «attribution» studies that the international community has relied on to make conclusions about human causation.

Dr. John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wants to answer any questions that you have about climate change — what it means, how bad it actually is, and what we can do to fight it.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

In the letters, Whitfield asks nine questions about how each agency devotes its time, money, and resources to climate - change policies and requests each official to include answers in his or her written testimony at the hearing.

IPCC can, however, distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive questions that arise in relevant socio - economic literature about climate policy - making, identify important ethical and justice issues that arise in this literature, where there is a consensus on ethics and justice issues in the relevant literature describe the consensus position, where there is no consensus on ethical and justice issues describe the range of reasonable views on these issues, and identify hard and soft law legal principles relevant to how governments should resolve ethical and justice issues that must be faced by policy - makers.

Although there is a growing literature on the ethical dimensions of climate change, most of this literature is focused on theoretical ethical questions rather than on the injustice of positions actually being taken about climate policies.

Because debates about climate change policy formation at the national level have often ignored questions of equity and fairness, there is a need to publicize how debates at the national level about proposed climate change policies acknowledge or ignore questions of equity, ethics, and distributive justice.

The climate science question is easily separated from policy because it only talks about temperature, precipitation, sea level, sea ice, etc., regardless of humans.

There's a question in many minds about where climate change is and what the public - policy implications are with respect to that.

ChinaFAQs is a project facilitated by the World Resources Institute that provides insight into critical questions about Chinese policy and action on energy and climate change.

This is highly embarrassing to Pachauri who was forced to respond to questions, including one from a diplomatic official, about his reported views, causing him to declare unequivocally in his letter: «I did not even by remote implication endorse the policies of the Australian Government on climate change».

This paper shows that it is quite possible, and even numerically plausible, that the answers to the big policy question of what to do about climate change stand or fall to a large extent on the issue of how the high - temperature damages and tail probabilities are conceptualized and modeled.

While the politics and policies of climate change may be complicated, the message to a CEO is simple: there should be no question about where your company stands on climate policy.

In Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy, Lenny Smith and the Blair Government's climate economist, Nicholas Stern attempt to give this form of politics some justification in the face of questions about «uncertainty».

«The evidence in my paper is consistent with the hypothesis that the Sun causes climatic change in the Arctic -LSB-...] It invalidates the hypothesis that CO2 is a major cause of observed climate change — and raises serious questions about the wisdom of imposing cap - and - trade or other policies that would cripple energy production and economic activity, in the name of «preventing catastrophic climate change».»

I promised to return to the question about the extent to which climate change and renewable energy policies have caused bills to rise, and will continue to cause to rise.

But it's really a question about how the climate system responds to what we've been doing to it, rather than what our policies should be.