Sentences with phrase «talk about climate risks»

We need to talk about climate change, we need to keep talking about climate change until we are blue in the face, because as long as we neglect to talk about climate risks, climate policy to help mitigate those risks will continue elude us.

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As the Paris talks wind down, Exxon is facing government and shareholder scrutiny about its climate change business risks.

I have talked about climate change liability risks for company directors here and here.

Many politicians and climate reports now talk about risk, which works for some audiences — particularly in the business sector — who deal every day with assessing investment, insurance and other types of uncertain outcomes.

«Does it really add up to a trajectory that limits climate risk to the levels that a lot of people are talking about?»

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

I was struck by the White House spokesperson's insistence on talking about «the benefits of climate change» as well as the health risks.

Kahan says this doesn't affect the ability of the climate scientists to evaluate risk — he's talking about just the audience / citizens / voters.

This is because, when we talk about carbon emission scenarios and climate sensitivity, we are ultimately talking about future risk management.

Marohasy works for the Institute of Public Affairs which, if you want to talk about tentacles, is firmly attached to the body of conservative «free market» groups around the world that deny the risks of human - caused climate change.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

we stressed that if we talk about these risks of climate change influencing tornado propagation, all uncertainties should be fully and honestly acknowledged and the honest absence of proof claims must be clear.

Specifically, I'm talking to them about Climate 101, a plan that I, along with a 100 other students and youth, have to risk arrest on October 24th calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to take real climate action and reject the Kinder Morgan piClimate 101, a plan that I, along with a 100 other students and youth, have to risk arrest on October 24th calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to take real climate action and reject the Kinder Morgan piclimate action and reject the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

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Part of that dialogue is talking about effective policies to address the risks of climate change.

I was thrilled to get an email this past summer from Amitav, in which he said that he had enjoyed my book Storm Surge and wanted to talk to me about climate change and the risk to Mumbai.

They would much rather talk about probabilities and weighted risk assessments than explain how climate science has solved a very simple equation (with very complicated science) over a critical period in our history when CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have risen rapidly.

So, how can a deal that stops short of talking about curbing climate change effectively talk about reducing risk?

Ben Kirtman, a climate scientist at the University of Miami and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried talking to politicians in Florida about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio, who is a possible presidential contender iclimate scientist at the University of Miami and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried talking to politicians in Florida about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio, who is a possible presidential contender iClimate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried talking to politicians in Florida about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio, who is a possible presidential contender in 2016.

Neither candidate has made talking about the science of climate change and the risks it presents a priority.

Yet talk about pace and scale of development in Canada's oil sands is considered unspeakable — a blasphemy — in political and industry circles, even though oil sands projects are widely recognized as the highest - risk, highest - cost projects in the industry, and likely the first to be impacted as the noose of climate policy tightens.

We've gone down a different path when talking about climate - change risk than we have with other risk topics like earthquakes and pandemics.

It's not risks from climate the AGU is freaking talking about.

Others have talked about what this might look like — regional impacts, measurement quality, reduced funding to GCM modeling (consistent with their strength in testing subsystems rather than forecasting climate), and more empirical work and modeling of those systems that have a large impact on areas of risk.

Whenever a potential investment project has finances that rely on governments continuing to talk big but do little about climate change, the project risks becoming non-viable after all the costs of development are spent if the government subsequently starts to take climate change seriously.

On and on go the discussions about the potential risks of a spill but not enough people are talking about the much larger risk of unmitigated climate change.