Sentences with phrase «talking about climate policy»

When you're fighting to keep your house, grieving over the loss of a loved one or putting your life on the line to protect others lives and property, people talking about climate policy or how these kinds of events will become more common and more severe is very uncomfortable.

They did not seem to be in much of a mood to talk about climate policy or anything else.

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Prime Minister Abbott's speech «Daring to Doubt» described climate science with a skeptical viewpoint then went on to talk about climate policy with an emphasis on Australia.

Not exact matches

As the Spuds continue to splash their cash and find yet another # 15m to sign a striker today, we at Arsenal are left to make do with both manager and club chairman talking about the affects of the current economic climate and how it influences our transfer policy.

As someone working somewhere in the midst of that nexus of «science, values, ethics and politics» you describe (economics, international relations, technology... the climate policy list goes on), I do recognise what you're talking about, but I really don't see that we should very much care.

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

«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.

«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.

Lisa Friedman, climate policy reporter for the NY Times, joins Living Lab host Heather Goldstone to talk about recent EPA actions.

If you're looking for a policy solution you're talking about a different mix of individual behaviors of lots of citizens in very different climates all over the country.

Two days after the talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado.

Some Indians are appalled talking about the inequity of, for example, electricity consumers in the U.S. not wanting to pay $ 100 - $ 200 a year in higher energy bills under a climate policy.

Following President Obama's announcement of his climate change policy, talk about a «War on Coal» has increased.

They all are talking about an end to the rhetoric of catastrophe that permeates the fight over energy and climate policy.

Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz talked with KPFK - FM in Los Angeles about a letter to President Obama from nine Senate Democrats setting out conditions for supporting a US climate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate confClimate Science Watch director Rick Piltz talked with KPFK - FM in Los Angeles about a letter to President Obama from nine Senate Democrats setting out conditions for supporting a US climate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate confclimate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate confclimate conference.

Now lets talk about the «deniers» that Michael Mann refers to, the ones that have blown up energy / climate policy and make it necessary to hire a lawyer.

The IMO has been talking about climate change for twenty years but the strategy agreed this week marks the beginning of a focused debate about the policies and measures that will help it to modernise and regain the status of a clean and efficient mode of transport.

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.

It appears the strategy of the groups who have endorsed the CPRS is to pretend that we don't face a climate crisis that requires emergency action, so they endorse incremental policies and never talk about the elephant in the room.

There's been a sense this year of developed countries hiding behind negotiations on other issues, such as agricultural policy, to avoid reaching the point where money has to be talked about, but developing countries want to see that richer nations are doing more than just expressing sympathy and empathy and instead are putting their money where their mouth is on climate action.»

David Kreutzer, a Heritage Foundation economist and Trump EPA landing team member, is up to talk about the economic impact of climate policies.

Without the politicization then climate science just becomes scientists in a lecture theatre talking about climate science with no relavance to policy.

ATTP, I think don't you understand that your kind of talk is similar in style to the hard core climate activists that go after the throats of anyone asking any questions about the science in order to drive policy (or is policy driving the science).

By not talking about the elements of a «comprehensive» climate policy, he did nothing to buttress support for anything other than an energy - only bill.

When I suggest we have a polar opposite situation here, enviro - activists appearing to be doing all the racketeering to keep their cause alive in the face of withering science - based criticism, this sort of thing is what I'm talking about — Newsweek «s Sharon Begley practically yelling about the need to stop skeptic climate scientists in their tracks, and less than three years later, Dr Schneider telling policy analysts and media experts at a major symposium exactly how such critics can be marginalized.

Uncertainties in climate from many sources suggest the need to refocus on effective and pragmatic, resilience and no - regrets policy options — e.g climate pragmatism and technical innovation — rather than endlessly quibbling about climate talking points.

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

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This was really an instance of domestic politics trumping policy, and because domestic politics said, «Your base doesn't like Kyoto, doesn't think global climate change is a real issue, and hates regulation,» we never talked about the things that we were doing that were addressing the issue.

Atmosphere of Hope does a decent job of talking about geoengineering in a broader climate policy context, but at times seems poorly researched.

United States president Donald Trump's assault on federal climate policy only got more people thinking and talking about climate change.

[43] The event, which reportedly «brought climatologists to talk about the state of climate science and economists to talk about the importance of free market energy policy» was met with protestors.

climate scientists stop talking about cap and trade and UNFCCC policies because the science demands that we do this

However, when talking about its climate change policy, we tend to talk about US policy as a whole and ignore the variety of sentiment on key issues throughout the States.

The climate science question is easily separated from policy because it only talks about temperature, precipitation, sea level, sea ice, etc., regardless of humans.

Julia King of the Climate Change Committee was quite frank about the role of behaviour change after Roger Pielke Jr's talk on the looming failure of UK policy a few years ago.

Hansen said a credible candidate on climate change would be talking about policy that would allow the price of fossil fuels to rise gradually.

Whether candidates choose to talk about it or not, whoever gets elected president next year will have enormous influence over US climate and energy policy.

In 1996 I defined the turning point of the discussion about climate science (the point where we could actually start talking about policy) as the date when the Wall Street Journal would acknowledge the indisputable and apparent fact of anthropogenic climate change; the year in which it would simply be ridiculous to deny it.

I ask Pielke if his analysis of the Climate Change Act might take for granted the imperatives that it is a response to, without considering these wider factors that might give rise to ill - considered policies: «My focus is to talk about [the Climate Change Act] from a fairly technical perspective; from a policy evaluation standpoint.

Climate scientist Mike Hulme argued that instead of discussing consensus, we should be talking about policy options (Hulme 2014).

In this statement Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka Under - Secretary - General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, talks about the cooperation between UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments) and UNHABITAT on decentralization policies and the linkages between climate change and urbanization.

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.

«G20 leaders may like to talk about climate, but it's clear their talk is cheap,» said Kate DeAngelis, international policy analyst at Friends of the Earth U.S. «While praising each other for investing in renewable energy at home, they bankroll billions of dollars for dirty fossil fuel projects in developing countries.

This is actually the perfect time to talk about climate change and about climate policy — it couldn't really be better.

Denialists will want to focus on the anomalously cool region of northern Russia — not record - breaking, but taking about anomalous cooling can help to introduce doubt into the decision - making process, which is helpful when it comes to blocking climate and energy legislation, preventing federal and state shifts in energy policy, providing talking points for Inhofe & Barton, etc..

TreeHugger talks with the Green Party candidate for president, Dr Jill Stein about her Green New Deal, energy, climate, agriculture, and health policy, and more.

«As we talk about policies that would make cool roofs an important climate mitigation measure all across the world, we want to know how things change in a country like India, which has more pollution,» said Surabi Menon, a climate scientist at Berkeley Lab who is one of the lead researchers on the project.

if you went to a cardiologist and there were no engineers, the cardiologist would tell you of an irregular heartbeat and say sorry there is nothing we can do.really an absurd arguement... keep talking about the money and remember: «The US Government has spent more than $ 79 billion of taxpayers» money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, blah blah blah and you know where this came from so i leave out the note peace, rich