Sentences with phrase «social climate over»

You know Japan has to be spanking it pretty hard these days with the current social climate over there.

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Brian Jean was all over the BC government's refusal to support Trans Mountain calling it a «body blow» to the energy sector and proof that Rachel Notley's climate strategy didn't deliver the social license Alberta needs to move ahead with energy projects because BC «rejected her entire platform.»

The Trade Justice Network joined over 30 labour, environmental, social justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate change.

«In your discussions with the Canadian government, we encourage you to raise concerns over the environmental and social problems associated with tar sands production and make no exemption for the tar sands in any binational agreement addressing climate change» says the open letter.

We both feel that America because of the current political / social climate is on a precipice and likely to topple over at any time.

A controversial piece on climate change by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens sparked a «#ShowYourCancellation» movement on social media over the weekend.

Caution on tax, an emphasis on climate change, social justice and «not banging on about Europe» all have Letwin's fingerprints all over them.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

Training programs that bring together climate and other environmental scientists across the physical, natural, and social sciences «are popping up all over,» Weiler says.

The research team wanted to test whether certain students, who they label «social referents» or social influencers, have an outsized influence over school climate or the social norms and behavioral patterns in their schools.

Restorative Discipline is a relational approach to building school climate and addressing student behavior that fosters belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control and meaningful accountability over punishment.

Restorative Discipline is a whole school relational approach to building school climate and addressing student behavior that fosters belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control, and meaningful accountability over punishment.

[20] This exhibit included over 60 artists addressing social and political issues, including human rights and equality, immigration, foreign relations, the environment, and climate change, and continued Bui's curatorial activation of Peter Lamborn Wilson's concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, «a space wherein the fluctuation of artistic energy establishes the flow of information, and in so doing aligns — however fleetingly — a great collective imagination.

Over the past years Anouk Kruithof has collected images related to issues like government surveillance, privacy, pollution and climate change from the Internet and on social media.

Ever since the shock of the politically charged, identity - oriented 1993 Biennial, there has been the expectation by some that Whitney curators are obligated to make these kind of selections that reflect the social climate of the country over any other topic or aesthetic concern.

In spite of over 37 million Irish Americans living today, the current political and social climate in America and Ireland, leaves it difficult to gain a working visa, leaving America more of a holiday destination for the Irish in stark contrast to its history.

Over the weekend, a pair of very different climate studies — one physical, one social — illustrated two uncomfortable, and related, realities confronting society as it grapples with possible responses to human - driven global warming.

I do agree with you, Joe, that — over all — the main impediment to progress on energy (with climate benefits coming as well) is social and political, not technological.

But this human adaptation time scale may be longer than the time over which climate change affects storms, so that comparatively small changes in the frequency of generational events can have large social consequences.

Such large variations of the climate likely won't occur every year over the next few decades given the limited global warming to date, but it would seem likely such conditions will occur more and more frequently as global warming continues, disrupting both social systems and ecosystems.

By only giving the most catastrophist of possible outcomes, though, and by largely glossing over the complex politics and social arrangements that underpin the problem and are at the heart of effective response, we get a skewed sense of what climate change really is.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

What kind of catastrophe can not be predicted, but numerous candidates have been discussed in this book: ecological collapses of various kinds, large - scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to social problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermonuclear war.»

Social cost of carbon - The value of the climate change impacts from 1 metric ton (~ 2,205 pounds) of carbon emitted today as CO2, aggregated over time and discounted back to the present day; sometimes also expressed as value per metric ton of carbon dioxide.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greeclimate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) and Co-Chair of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and the Our Power Campaign, has been active in the grassroots social justice movement for over 20 years.

The film we produced about this connection and the Pacific Climate Warrior's experience garnered over 500,000 views on social media.

Participation will be complemented by the creation and sharing of thought - leading content preceding the Assembly and on the ground, including webinars, reports and Climate Leader Videos which will be shared with Climate Action's network of over 30,000 contacts and 52 million + social media reach.

«Even if we agreed on a particular computer simulation of the monetary damages accruing from climate change over the next few centuries, the calculation of the «social cost of carbon» would vary widely, depending on our choice of parameters that have nothing to do with climate science,» he said.

My friend was sharing his frustrations and concerns regarding the views of many Western organisations and media outlets with regards to the upcoming preCOP in Caracas, a big climate gathering organised by the Venezuelan government to bring social movements, NGOs, and government from all over the world to come together free from corporate lobbyists to make progress on the issue internationally.

Over at Real Climate Economics, ACEEE's Director of Economic and Social Analysis, Skip Laitner shares some thoughts about energy intensity and Rio +20:

In this month's Yale Climate Connections «This Is Not Cool» video, by regular contributor and independent videographer Peter Sinclair, Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe points out that the «greatest advances» in understanding of climate change over the past decade have come not from the physical sciences, but from the social scClimate Connections «This Is Not Cool» video, by regular contributor and independent videographer Peter Sinclair, Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe points out that the «greatest advances» in understanding of climate change over the past decade have come not from the physical sciences, but from the social scclimate scientist Katharine Hayhoe points out that the «greatest advances» in understanding of climate change over the past decade have come not from the physical sciences, but from the social scclimate change over the past decade have come not from the physical sciences, but from the social sciences.

The story really starts with my first piece on the Wegman report just over a year ago, which noted unmistakable copying of unattributed antecedent sources in background sections on tree ring proxies (taken from Bradley's text book Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary) and on social networks (identifying Wikipedia, as well as and Wasserman and Faust as obvious sources).

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

The idea that public conflict over climate change persists because, even after years and years of «consensus messaging» (including a $ 300 million social - marketing campaign by Al Gore's «Alliance for Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is patently climate change persists because, even after years and years of «consensus messaging» (including a $ 300 million social - marketing campaign by Al Gore's «Alliance for Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is patently Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is patently climate scientists believe in AGW is patently absurd.

The Peoples» Summit on Climate Change (Cumbre de los Pueblos)-- running parallel to the UN talks - gathered together social movements from Peru, Latin America and all over the world to exchange experiences and build momentum to bring about the societal transformations needed to address the roots of the climate crisis and create a more justClimate Change (Cumbre de los Pueblos)-- running parallel to the UN talks - gathered together social movements from Peru, Latin America and all over the world to exchange experiences and build momentum to bring about the societal transformations needed to address the roots of the climate crisis and create a more justclimate crisis and create a more just world.

You can see that's happening, not only with the breakthrough agreement in Paris, but also on social media, with one recent (and remarkable) report noting, «the growth of positive social media commentary on climate action and economic growth has skyrocketed 700 % over the last three years.»

AS long as Left - wing / socialist governments can borrow and use other peoples» money for ideological «green» symbolism, the economic rot of unreliables — wind and solar power — fed by a collective climate change madness, will continue unchallenged, despite what the majority of people want over the eco-elites and the > 25 year - old social justice warriors.

Over the years, says Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia, UK, the IPCC has had to expand its remit to include an ever - widening subset of the social, technological, environmental and ethical dimensions of climate change.

Sophy has over 10 years experience in climate change, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Over the past few years, carbon farming has grown in importance both as a climate solution and because farmers are finding numerous economic, social, and non-climate environmental co-benefits from implementing carbon farming techniques.

The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.

Again, all of your social considerations go right out the window when we are talking about culpability for taking us over the threshold of dangerous climate change.

The idea that public conflict over climate change persists because, even after years and years of «messaging» (including a $ 300 million social - marketing campaign by Al Gore's «Alliance for Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is climate change persists because, even after years and years of «messaging» (including a $ 300 million social - marketing campaign by Al Gore's «Alliance for Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is climate scientists believe in AGW is absurd.

Go ahead and quibble over what constitutes «social science research» or qualifications to employ social science methods but if you read work he's coauthored it's obvious that Schneider has a good working knowledge of social science research as it applies to thinking about climate change.

This is one of the many conundrums of the climate change debate — a debate that has been taken over by social media and propaganda, while scientists struggle to get back into the game and engage the public.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

The plateau of global temperatures over the past two decades — «the pause» — is disproportionate to the increase in climate alarmism which coincides with the rise of mobile / video phones and CCTV, with extreme weather content captured and uploaded to social media, and lovingly aired by CAGW - sympathetic mainstream media, leading to the mass climate hysteria we bear witness to daily.

If dealing with the world's climate over the last few thousand years is this easy for the physical sciences, why not go and sort out a few of those intractable problems in the social sciences to show what «hard data men» can really do.