Sentences with phrase «stood up for climate»

Hundreds of thousands stood up for climate justice and a clean energy future.

Standing before University of California at Irvine's graduating class this June, Barack Obama did something no U.S. president has done before: He stood up for climate science.

«Chris Huhne must make it clear that the credibility of both the coalition and his party are at stake - if the government won't stand up for climate action he should stand down.»

It is a shame that so much of his time is being taken away from his research but I must commend him for standing up for climate science on his own dime.

These actions are a part of the global TRUST campaign to empower youth and adults to stand up for climate action that is consistent with scientific prescriptions for a sustainable and livable future.

We worked with over 100 partner organizations to plan the 2017 People's Climate March, a massive mobilization to stand up for climate, jobs, and justice and push back against the Trump Administration's retrograde agenda in cities across the US.

If it means criticizing people that are, in theory, our friends — like Barack Obama — then we do that, because we're standing up for our climate and our generation.

At Earth Ministry / Washington Interfaith Power and Light, we are so grateful for our members who are speaking out against the burning of fossil fuels and standing up for climate action, and happy to support their efforts to care for God's creation.

This year the President needs to stand up for climate science and stand up to Congress on climate change.

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But at the same time, Canadians expect us to stand up for our own values, to make our own choices, whether it's around climate or multilateral institutions, and that's exactly what we're going to keep doing.

Most (sadly though not all) chaplains will stand up for the first amendment rights of all soldiers and will advise their commander if the command climate is otherwise.

In March 2006 Norman stood down from his portfolio to pursue other research interest and was joint runner - up for the 2006 Epolitix Environmental Charity Champion Award with Oliver Letwin for their work trying to establish a Cross Party Consensus on Climate Change.

And we were right when we showed this nation true leadership and passed marriage equality; and we were right when we stood up for the women of this state and we passed the Women's Equality Act; and we were right when we passed the most aggressive law stopping sexual violence on college campuses in the nation; and we were right when we stopped fingerprinting for food; and we were right when we led the way on climate change; and we were right when we stopped discrimination based on sexual identity; and we were right when we passed commonsense gun safety laws.

The humor at Stand - Up Comedy for Science often took a cerebral turn — Robert Mac deadpanned that a simple solution to instantly decrease the rising temperatures due to climate change would be converting to the metric system.

«In naming these spiders, the students and I wanted to honor people who stood up for both human rights and warned about climate change — leaders and artists who promoted sensible approaches for a better world.»

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

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The reception to my comments was especially cold... not one supporter, though a couple of scientists did say I had a «lot of guts» to stand up and say what I said before 140 L.A.s. I was (and still am) calling for the AR5 to be a more open scientific assessment in which those of us who are well - credentialed and have evidence for low climate sensitivity (observational and theoretical) be given room to explain this.

Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to predict a global warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).

About climate science, he said,»... just because you have a group of scientists that have stood up and said here is the fact, Galileo got outvoted for a spell.»

The Pacific Climate Warriors — a network of Islanders coming together under the banner «we are not drowning, we're fighting» — will be in Bonn to stand up for the Pacific and call for action to keep their islands above water.

Judith Kudos and great thanks for standing up for the scientific method and for restoring integrity to «climate science».

My response was that I was doing this because I thought it was the right thing to do, and that I thought that someone needed to stand up as an advocate for professional responsibility and integrity in climate research.

With the same broad coalition that stood up against this pipeline and took to the streets during the People's Climate March, we're better positioned than ever before to make real climate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climateClimate March, we're better positioned than ever before to make real climate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climateclimate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climateclimate talks.

YOU, your essays and your stand in this fight against the Harper Government will help all of us stand up and fight for our children's future and for a future less ravaged by Climate Change then the future we are currently headed for!

The fossil free divestment movement has been successful because it knows that fighting for climate justice is about changing the power dynamics of our political system and standing up to the fossil fuel industry.

We're heading home now, but the Pacific Climate Warriors are more energised than ever to help build resilience to the coming climate impacts in our island communities and keep standing up for a Fossil FreeClimate Warriors are more energised than ever to help build resilience to the coming climate impacts in our island communities and keep standing up for a Fossil Freeclimate impacts in our island communities and keep standing up for a Fossil Free world.

Similarly, the website summary of the Conservative environmental platform, found in the section on «Stand up for our communities», refers to «action to ensure clean air, land, and water», but does not mention climate change.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement is made up Catholics around the world committed to living Laudato Si» and standing up for our common home.

Well, I'm no fan of the Sunday Mail, but Bob Ward has a bigger problem than the UK tabloids: As a «Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment», he stands to lose half of his job title if the environment doesn't turn - up - trumps for him fairly soon.

They wished for somebody tough to stand up to the bad guys on climate change.

He knows that he is not just standing up for himself, he has become a symbol of climate scientists and science everywhere.

In September, China and the United States announced they had formulated a «common vision» to secure an ambitious global climate agreement at the highly anticipated United Nations» climate meeting in Paris later this year; and that the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitting nations will stand together at the Paris meeting to push for emissions targets that «ramp up over time in the direction of greater ambition.»

Climate scientists — particularly Jim Hansen — and pro-nuclear environmentalists will deserve credit for standing up for the science against the anti-nuclear lobby not just in Albany but also Springfield, Sacramento and Washington, D.C.

I'm confident that through the Fossil Free movement, millions more across the country will also be able to find that drive and inspiration to stand up for our communities and climate.

Instead of implementing laws on the books and standing up to corporate power, the wealthy countries historically responsible for causing the climate crisis are ignoring their moral and legal responsibility to act by dismantling the rules that have the highest chance of delivering a safe climate future.

«I've been working in climate science for 25 years now, and every few months someone (often they are engineers) comes up with a supposed bombshell refutation of human - caused global warming - none of this has ever stood up to scientific scrutiny.

I'm excited to see North Carolinians standing up for clean energy, even in a legislative climate that has not been friendly to the issue in the past year.

And at agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department, Trump transition teams have brimmed with conservative think tank personas who have a history of questioning the science of climate change and standing up for fossil fuels.

The science group, of course, includes more than just Nye — choosing a «science guy» to stand up for the report instead of, say, one of the hundreds of scientists and experts who contributed to the National Climate Assessment, was a bad move on CNN's part.

Instead, «he stands up there in front of this group of people for eight and a half hours and 164 climate slides,» Mr. Kramer says.

Standing down whole industries is incompatible with the fundamental growth - oriented logic of capitalism, and so setting up these industries is better suited to state intervention (for which the climate is not good, after several decades of neoliberal government - trimming).

In the meantime, we will continue to stand up for the credibility of climate science, the freedom of scientists to conduct and communicate their science... U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology issued a misleading press release.

After attending a Climate Reality Leadership Corps training led by former Vice President Al Gore, he's taken a 21st - century approach to activism, using his sizeable and active social media following to spread the word about climate solutions and inspire thousands and thousands of his followers to stand up and speak up for their Climate Reality Leadership Corps training led by former Vice President Al Gore, he's taken a 21st - century approach to activism, using his sizeable and active social media following to spread the word about climate solutions and inspire thousands and thousands of his followers to stand up and speak up for their climate solutions and inspire thousands and thousands of his followers to stand up and speak up for their future.

In the meantime, we will continue to stand up for the credibility of climate science, the freedom of scientists to conduct and communicate their science.»

I have recently unintentionally noticed that the UV radiation is killing the leafs of trees and plants the most exposed leaves to the sun are dying on many types of vegetation plus we have fires hazing the sky up which means more CO2 thanks to grindall61 (A YouTube channel) I hope I am spelling it correctly he goes to meetings in Southern California and records them we know that the state of California is because increasingly aggressive in reducing greenhouse gases even to the extremes of renting bikes and of course climate change is going to be used as an excuse to take away our rights don't fall for there wickedness but how can a serious state like California at least that's what I'm calling it here claim to want to fight climate change yet being ignorant on climate engineering this is a joke citizens stand up for your country.

Easily the proudest moment of that campaign and my entire year with Green Corps was the Saturday before the New Hampshire primary when John McCain, in a school gymnasium, stood up and said, «I've heard from young people all across this state and around the country, for the last couple of months about «What are you gonna do about climate change, what are you gonna do about global warming?»

But these communities and many, many more across North America — including those affected by tar sands refining, pipelines, and rail transportation, and people living at the source of tar sands extraction in Canada — are standing up and calling for an end to the pipelines, the rail terminals, and the tar sands mining that harms our health, our water, our land, and our climate.