Sentences with phrase «so global climate policies»

Through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) they controlled national weather offices so global climate policies and research funding were similarly directed.

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While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as global climate continues to change.

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

And I want to know what is the maximum climate sensitivity so I can bring in global policies to prevent that happening.

In the journal Nature Climate Change, lead author Dr. Tom Bridge from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University and colleagues point out that global conservation policies have so far failed to prevent the widespread destruction of coral reefs and their fish life, which now threatens the food security of millions of people.

And I want to know what is the maximum climate sensitivity so I can bring in global policies to prevent that happening.

Obama knew that he could never justify his policies on their own merits so he supported global warming for fear of catastrophic climate change was just the cudgel he needed to institute his warped environmental policies.

We would argue that global climatic disruption will make these relationships even more crucial as the ever - escalating climate change impacts permeate issues of economic security, national and international security, national energy policy, environmental and natural resource management and protection, and so on.

«I know there are some out there, probably a couple hundred people, who actually believe that the world is coming to an end and man - made global warming is going to cause it, so I just want to give them the assurance that if they're right and we are wrong, [proposed climate policies are] not going to reduce but it will increase CO2 emissions,» he said.

15 years later, those advocating major governmental policy based on global climate model predictions.wish the models had not exaggerated the future warming so greatly.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

In this area, the key objectives of the UN System are: to promote active climate change collaboration of local governments and their associations in global, regional and national networks; to enhance policy dialogue so that the urban dimension of climate change is firmly established on the agenda; and to foster the implementation of awareness, education, and capacity building strategies.

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»?

Undamaged so far are world leaders who secretly decided thirty - eight (38) years ago, in fear of mutual nuclear annihilation, to Unite Nations against an imaginary «common enemy» — «Global Climate Change» — and base future government policies on

To do so, they should ensure a uniform and predictable cost of carbon, allow market prices to drive solutions, maximize transparency to stakeholders, reduce administrative complexity, promote global participation and easily adjust to future developments in climate science and policy consequences.

The NDC Partnership builds in - country capacity and increases knowledge sharing so that climate policies have meaningful and enduring impacts, and drive increasing global ambition over time.

Some are focused on climate trutherism specifically: The Global Climate Coalition, Heartland Institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Friends of Science, andclimate trutherism specifically: The Global Climate Coalition, Heartland Institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Friends of Science, andClimate Coalition, Heartland Institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Friends of Science, and so on.

Many — perhaps most — won't know that the Daily Mail gives so very much more space to the Global Warming Policy Foundation than to any other source on climate / clean energy cost stories.

And so, one can not escape the conclusion that the basis for the US commitments on climate change include alleged unacceptable costs of more aggressive climate change policies to the US economy, matters of economic self - interest rather than global responsibility.

Given the lack of success in creating lasting changes in global climate policy so far, this summit is an incredible opportunity.

Moreover, as I've argued here previously, the emphasis, or hope that science can conclusively answer the debate about global warming almost concedes to the alarmist / precautionary perspective that, if «climate change is happening», then so the policies are justified.

It should be obvious that this discussion has important policy consequences since so many politicians are wedded to the idea that CO2 needs to be controlled in order to avoid «dangerous changes of the global climate.»

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

«The GWPF [Global Warming Policy Foundation] often draws attention to the many studies ignored by greens that suggest climate change is not so dangerous, and to the economic and environmental harm done by climate policies.

Moreover, the Rose Garden speech President Bush delivered that day removed any doubt that the new Bush - Cheney White House had already begun to spin the big lie about climate change, the lie we know so well we can recite it in our sleep: scientific uncertainties regarding global climate change are too great to make any policy decisions, especially those that might affect the US economy (read: the US fossil fuel - based energy economy).

It is part of their 10 - year program, The CIGAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and it will be the role of the commission to devise new policies on global agriculture so that the world is better prepared for climate Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and it will be the role of the commission to devise new policies on global agriculture so that the world is better prepared for climate climate change.

Bates says that Karl did so «in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming pause, rushed so that he could time publication to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy.»

We must continue to improve our scientific understanding, particularly of the impacts of climate change; we must implement policies such as raising the market price of carbon to provide incentives to households to alter their consumption so that they will have a low - carbon diet; we must also raise carbon prices to send a signal to firms like ExxonMobil that their future lies in research, development, and production of low - carbon fuels; and we must devise mechanisms so that countries will join in a global effort rather than one limited to northwest Europe.

So what we have now as the result of this expertariat that has been driving global warming policy since the early 1990s is a climate industrial complex that is sucking our economy dry for no benefit.»

In the fifth paragraph, a «few years» became «the next decade or so,» according to Mojib Latif, a German «prize - winning climate and ocean scientist» who campaigns constantly to promote policies combating global warming.

«Sustainable biofuel production systems could play a highly positive role in mitigating climate change, enhancing environmental quality, and strengthening the global economy, but it will take sound, science - based policy and additional research effort to make this so,» they conclude.