Sentences with phrase «recent climate talks»

This presentation focused on why the recent climate talks in Paris represent a marked departure from previous efforts.

President Barack Obama's team — including Kerry — has provided unprecedented leadership in recent climate talks.

Although the world's governments have not come together at the international level, as demonstrated in the most recent climate talks this fall, this is no excuse for inaction.

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Talks will center around the European refugee crisis, Syria's civil war, the recent Iranian nuclear arms agreement, and climate change.

The recent change in the cultural climate, one that everyone from fundamentalists to People for the American Way helped produce and to which each responded, has occasioned fresh talk about civic responsibility.

At a recent meeting for top environmental officials in Italy, everyone wanted to talk about the Paris climate agreement — except the EPA's Scott Pruitt.

But green groups haven't hesitated to take aim at Trump online, with the Natural Resources Defense Council criticizing his recent move to rescind climate standards for federal infrastructure and the League of Conservation Voters praising Miami's Republican mayor, Tomás Regalado, for saying it is time to talk about climate change.

«I gave a well - attended talk on how money in politics is the single biggest obstacle to legislation dealing with the climate crisis,» Craig Dunkerley, a member of the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee, wrote in a recent post on the party's blog.

White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about sessions they attended — including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art, and attitudes about climate change — at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

«The fact is that China has taken an undisputed leadership role,» U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said during a recent talk in Washington, adding, «Who would have been able to tell us that China would have been able to accept or even propose a peaking of coal?»

Hedegaard, who will play a key role in the December climate talks here, appeared to back away from a recent call on Obama to pass legislation designed to reduce U.S. carbon emissions before those talks.

With warming of at least 2 °C now unstoppable, politicians at the recent Doha climate talks spent much time discussing how to adapt.

So I named a spider after him hoping that if he read our study,» says the recent UVM graduate, «he might go out to dinner with me and talk about climate change.»

Contrary to recent headlines — and a talk by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference — eating a vegetarian diet could contribute to climate Climate Change Conference — eating a vegetarian diet could contribute to climate climate change.

Lisa Friedman, climate policy reporter for the NY Times, joins Living Lab host Heather Goldstone to talk about recent EPA actions.

Only in recent years has the salary - talk climate been more conducive to discussions of alternative pay structures, structures that often involve compensating teachers not just for how long they have been teaching, but how well.

I wonder if the reason recent climate change talks in Copenhagen were considered a bit of a non-event is related to the arrival of two new «Carbon Black» Aston Martin special editions?

For her artist's talk, Igarashi will discuss her experience while under custody and the recent climate of censorship and the debate over freedom of expression in Japan.

Updated In recent years, Bill Nye, best known as «The Science Guy,» has become a must - book figure when a talk show, or President Obama for that matter, is looking for someone to challenge climate change denial.

I had talked, in part, about recent studies concluding that programs offering family planning information and services to women seeking smaller families, in essence, had a climate value by avoiding emissions of greenhouse gases that would come with more kids.

I'm just catching up with reactions from two climate and sustainability analysts (Michael Tobis and Curt Stager) to my recent talk charting a «good» path through the age of us, the Anthropocene, and Clive Hamilton's blunt critique.

The Republicans weren't asked any direct questions on climate, which remains a low - priority issue for television news pundits (see my recent post on the Sunday talk shows).

On Nov. 7, news flashed around conservative and climate - skeptic e-mail chains, some Web sites and a couple of talk - radio programs that an important new scientific paper proved that undersea bacteria, not people, were responsible for most of the recent buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon wasn't so thrilled with the outcome of the recent G8 climate change talks, rebuking member nations for not doing more.

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

Based on new research, federal scientists suggest that an apparent recent slowdown in global warming — a common talking point for many people who dispute human - caused climate change — did not occur, but only seemed so based on incorrect data.

But it is even more upsetting for people opposed to climate mitigation, since it refutes their favourite talking point — that global warming has stalled in recent years.

As the United Nations wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the «the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.»

HERE is a detailed description of the most recent climate change talks in Bonn in June 2010, along with an excellent account of the history of the negotiating process, from the reliable IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development).

BMI then looked for the most recent appearances of scientists talking about climate, skeptical or alarmist.

First, our hostess stating «(detecting an anthropogenic signal in recent climate change),» I am not sure when I started talking about this, but it surely must be THE key issue, and I am so pleased to see this in Judith's comments.

In his recent New York Times op ed talking up «Risky Business,» Paulson tries to leverage his previous experience in order to promote the public's interest in climate change.

The NewYork Times: With one week left for the U.N. climate change talks to conclude, developed and developing countries remain at odds on how to solve the crisis being linked to the recent spate of extreme weather events that have claimed lives and destroyed property worth billions of dollar.

The video draws on footage from a talk given by scientist Michael MacCracken at the Sandia National Lab in 1982, combined with a recent interview with MacCracken at a climate conference at the University of Michigan, with additional comments by Jim Hansen, Andrew Dessler, and others.

We've seen this happen before in recent times; when Stephen Harper became Canada's prime minister, his anti-science right - wing administration did much the same thing, gagging scientists, including climate scientists, from talking to the media or public.

As it happens, Schmidt was the first winner of the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union, and various recent studies in the growing field of climate communications find that frank talk about the grim realities turns people off — it's simply too much to tClimate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union, and various recent studies in the growing field of climate communications find that frank talk about the grim realities turns people off — it's simply too much to tclimate communications find that frank talk about the grim realities turns people off — it's simply too much to take in.

I'd just like to make sure I understood your post correctly: the common answer to the «contrarian talking point» that much of the observed recent climate change could just be caused by natural variability in the climate system is that this would imply, broadly speaking, heat being moved from the oceans to the atmosphere — whereas we observe the opposite, oceans storing heat.

The university says it has «no evidence of a recent breach in our systems», and suggests that the cache — posted on a Russian server — has «the appearance of having been held back after the theft of data and emails in 2009 to be released at a time designed to cause maximum disruption to the imminent international climate talks».

Here's another recent example — Pielke and his fellow conservative contrarian colleague Dan Sarewitz had an article in the Financial Times recently («Climate policy robs the world's poor of their hopes») that I think misses the mark so badly, in a let's - be-provocative-and-act-like-we're - the - real - progressives way, that it would be tempting to ignore it, except that it's in a high - profile publication and feeds misleading talking points to a right - wing corporate political and economic culture.

I am not sure yet if recent actions by the Trump Administration is a directive for NPS rangers to stop talking about climate change.

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Attendees at the most recent round of U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany may have left the meetings with a pessimistic sense that we're a long way off from a global agreement.

WRT AGW and climate science, the basic requirements for a robust «core» knowledge area have not been met, and to describe ANYONE as an expert in climate science is, as Dr. Carter noted in a recent talk, simply foolish; there are, he notes, about 100 significant specialties involved in it, and no one man can be conversant with more than one or two.

The plan is a crucial part of President Barack Obama's overall strategy for combating climate change, and its stalling could undermine promises America made during recent international climate talks held in Paris — although, of course, the White House says things will be fine.

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Despite all the recent talk about how the clean energy and climate bill is moribund in the Senate, there are still some serious signs that it may be worth holding out hope yet.

But as the recent spate of climate conspiracy paranoia (and again, I am not talking about legitimate concerns over certain scientists behavior) shows, bad ideas have a habit of spreading — whether we talk about them or not.