Sentences with phrase «said about climate policy»

The repeated use of the term «undeniable» by bloggers and activists commenting on the report is merely the latest attempt by the warmists to claim that there's nothing more to be said about climate policy — that the debate is over.

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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did not agree to the new climate framework, and said the likely direction of U.S. climate and energy policy under president - elect Donald Trump means we need to be very cautious about adopting climate policies in Canada.

He admitted that green taxes would be a shock to many voters, but said: «If we are serious about the environment and climate change there have to be policies that hurt.»

7.23 pm: Asked about climate change policy, Huhne says David Cameron «is committed to this agenda».

When asked about key climate policy decisions, the largest shares of Americans say they oppose the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

«We're talking about preparing for centuries ahead,» he said of climate policies, using a timeline that advocates for action dispute.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

They're more about adapting to climate change,» says Laura Diaz Anadon, a science - policy researcher at Harvard University.

Joel Clement, the former top climate policy expert at the Interior Department before he resigned last summer, said he's also concerned about why employees aren't filling out the survey.

«When you're starting to talk about policy, you're not playing on a level playing field,» said Hill, herself a former Los Angeles - area judge who came to the Obama administration with little experience on climate.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Previously, Pompeo has said that scientists think «lots of different things» about climate change and called President Barack Obama's climate policies «radical.»

«You always hear a lot of hype about the timetable of EPA regulations, and we think that the timetable is already generous in that compliance is, with the first target in 2020, still more than five years away,» said David Doniger, policy director for NRDC's climate and clean air program.

«In the past, many scientists were understandably afraid of talking about their use of animals, but the climate has very much changed,» says Frances Rawle, head of policy at the Medical Research Council.

With no insight into how climate projections are judged, the public could take away from situations such as the IPCC's uncertain conclusion about Antarctica in 2007 that the problems of climate change are inconsequential or that scientists do not know enough to justify the effort (and possible expense) of a public - policy response, he said.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

OECD Secretary - General Angel Gurría said: «Countries need to demonstrate with concrete actions and policies that they are serious about combating climate change.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

I'd love some help from you in dissecting what President Bush said Wednesday about climate change, United States policy, and international actions.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

«There will be a big battle over just about everything with this,» said Dan Weiss, climate strategy director at the Center for American Progress, a policy group in Washington that advises Democrats.

Instead, Goldston is saying that we should recognize that debate about energy policy, climate change, etc. is inherently political.

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.»

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prClimate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.

So he has come up with a new formula that he says uniquely addresses the most inconvenient truth about climate policy: It will be expensive.

As people say «follow the money» or in this case, «follow the money and the social policy and who wants the power» and one can see, if they wipe away the veil of fear the alarmists are stoking, that this is more about power and politics than about climate.

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.

Government climate models that had predicted climatic changes haven't at all fit the facts of how the climate has changed, but the government still wants to use what they say about future climate to make today's policy.

The next steps for Chiapas are to continue to work on better alignment of its policies and incentives, draft a climate change plan that includes REDD and improve its communications on REDD to dispel any negative perceptions about the program and distinguish it from the failed and now cancelled program, says Josefina Braña - Varela.

«It's absurd to watch governments sit and point fingers and fight like little kids while the scientists explain about the terrifying impacts of climate change and the fact that we have all the technology we need to solve the problem while creating new green jobs,» Tove Maria Ryding, coordinator for climate policy at Greenpeace International, said in a statement.

When I asked Charles Sydnor, the owner of Braeburn Farm, about the urgency of climate policy for his industry — he had this to say: «As a farmer, when we look at climate change there are two sides to the story — but we only really talk about one — namely the production of greenhouse gases.

What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).

«I learned so much about the electric sector and climate policy,» says Heather.

And while about half of liberal Democrats (53 %) say climate change policies help the economy, only 8 % of conservative Republicans say the same.

Most Republicans are skeptical about whether, in general, policies aimed at reducing climate change benefit the environment (72 % of Republicans and Republican leaners say these policies either make no difference or do more harm than good), and 57 % think such policies harm the economy.

«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.

On balance, most Americans believe it is possible to reduce the effects of climate change, and about half say that policy efforts to diminish those effects have a net benefit for the environment.

In a paper released on December 1 by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Dr. Goklany says WHO's forecast that climate change would bring about 250,000 extra deaths annually between 2030 and 2050 is based on «absurd assumptions,» «willful exaggerations,» and «flawed methodologies.»

«We're more explicit this time around about the intersection between our energy choices and our climate challenges and the fact that we have such ambitious climate goals that are really driving a lot of our energy policy,» Klee said.

These days, Abbott is more careful with his language but his appointments to cabinet and his policy positions say much about the extent of his concern for the risks of human caused climate change.

She said this five - year period could be valuable if offering the world time to secure a global agreement by 2022 — the current climate change negotiations about to resume in Doha call for an agreement by 2015, with policies to be put into place by 2020.

e360: Some critics have said that you're being too optimistic about what sort of indicators the public — and even climate negotiators — can really apprehend and turn into policy.

«We've already locked in a certain amount of climate policy,» Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Norway, who was not involved with the research, said in a New Scientist article about the ficlimate policy,» Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Norway, who was not involved with the research, said in a New Scientist article about the fiClimate Research in Norway, who was not involved with the research, said in a New Scientist article about the findings.

Unfortunately the same can't be said for DBS and OCBC, whose substandard policies and commitments mean they still have no qualms about polluting Vietnamese lungs and worsening climate change,» said Market Forces executive director Julien Vincent.

«Climate change is a serious problem, and yet some in the coal industry deny that the problem of global warming even exists and have contributed to organizations that spread doubt about science and policy,» Markey said.

On Tuesday, Norway's $ 872 billion sovereign wealth fund said it would vote in favor of shareholder proposals at Exxon and Chevron Corp. that would require the companies to report more fully about the risks their businesses could face from tougher carbon policies and extreme climate impacts.

Holtz - Eakin said he's not trying to evangelize about climate science, but is presenting the case for policies that could address the problem in a way that benefits the economy.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»