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(Marketwire — 12/09/09) As world leaders began talks on climate change at the United Nations Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long - awaited finding declaring carbon dioxide (CO2) a dangerous pollutant that must be regulated.

He makes his money not just from book sales, but by giving talks on climate change at conferences across the country largely for various trade groups, from electricity to oil and gas to plastics.

He makes his money not just from book sales, but by giving talks on climate change at conferences

When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.

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IFOAM — Organics International is attending the COP22 climate talks to speak out on behalf of the organic food and farming community and to raise awareness of the urgent need to make organic agriculture part of a climate change solution.According to Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy Manager at IFOAM — Organics... more

The Opening Bell 3/27/17: Children Learn About Climate Change & the Next Steps for Sears - WGN Radio - March 27, 2017 After a hands on experience at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Steve sat down with Kristen Pratt (Director of Sustainability at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum) to talk about the new exhibit that will be teaching young children and adults about the basics of climate Climate Change & the Next Steps for Sears - WGN Radio - March 27, 2017 After a hands on experience at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Steve sat down with Kristen Pratt (Director of Sustainability at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum) to talk about the new exhibit that will be teaching young children and adults about the basics of climate cChange & the Next Steps for Sears - WGN Radio - March 27, 2017 After a hands on experience at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Steve sat down with Kristen Pratt (Director of Sustainability at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum) to talk about the new exhibit that will be teaching young children and adults about the basics of climate climate changechange.

But «Weather to Climate: Our Changing World,» a new exhibit opening at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Saturday, April 2, is taking on the daunting task and making «the talk,» as it relates to global warming, easier on youngsters and their caregivers alike.

Hawkins was one of 55 people arrested at the April 23 Cuomo Walk the Talk protest at the State Capitol on climate change.

World leaders at the G8 summit are preparing for crucial talks on climate change, but media attention has concentrated on the T - shirt worn by president Obama's daughter this morning.

Howie Hawkins called Governor Cuomo's plastic bag ban proposal yesterday a publicity stunt designed to divert attention from thousands of climate change activists at the Capitol on Monday saying it was time for Cuomo to Walk the Talk.

White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

In Glacier National Park, which has been at the forefront of the climate change response effort, rangers give a weekly «walk - and - talk» program on the past, present, and future of the park's namesake features entitled «Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?»

The talks follow a weekend in which people all over the world took to the streets, calling for strong action on climate change at the summit.

Obama also is planning to speak Tuesday at the United Nations during a special summit on climate change as diplomats look to kick - start talks that U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon said this week are stalled.

BARACK OBAMA is certainly talking the talk on climate change — promising to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his second term.

Director Susan Hassol's talk on «Telling the Climate Change Story» at the University of Arizona is available to watch here.

In December in Copenhagen world leaders were supposed to reach a global deal on climate change at the United Nations climate talks.

In announcing an interest in content that «reroutes its form» at the final Lunch Bytes in London before reading Augustine's «make - up tutorial that is also subliminally a climate change awareness campaign, or a self - defence for women pep talk», excerpted from Danklands, Childs expanded on an interest in physical space mediated by the online, in a Google Maps still of the Melbourne Docklands where it's secret Control Pond Q is hidden from virtual view.

CANCÚN, Mexico — In the early days of climate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agclimate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agClimate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agencies.

I alerted a batch of scholars and scientists focused on climate change and sustainable development to my taped talk on «Paths to a «Good» Anthropocene» at the annual meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences.

As has long been the situation in these talks, the stances of these countries, the two dominant sources of greenhouse gas emissions, largely shape prospects for the world at large to move beyond the weak terms of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and the limited scope of the Kyoto Protocol.

I've been asked to give a talk on climate change to a class at our college.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

Kicking off his Alaska tour, President Obama is scheduled to talk about climate change, oil and the Arctic later tonight at an ambitiously titled Anchorage event — the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

I would like to hear Russell's «elevator talk» on climate change — if trapped briefly in the elevator with our political leaders, one at a time, so they pay attention — what choices, facts, options, decisions would you like to convince our political establishment (s) to trust you about, take your word for it, do as you suggest, in 3 minutes?

In his great talk on why climate change is simple, David Roberts explained what scientists predict the world will look like at various levels of warming.

I gave the opening talk (and song) this morning at ScienceOnline Climate, a two - day meeting exploring the role of Web communication in fostering engagement on climate change research and its implications for sClimate, a two - day meeting exploring the role of Web communication in fostering engagement on climate change research and its implications for sclimate change research and its implications for society.

Usually when we talk about transportation emissions causing climate change here at TreeHugger, we focus on CO2 emissions or methane emissions — the usual suspects in the global warming discussion.

You can learn more from «Climate Change in the Public Mind,» a presentation Leiserowitz gave during an all - day conference on communication and climate change at the climate talks in Climate Change in the Public Mind,» a presentation Leiserowitz gave during an all - day conference on communication and climate change at the climate talks in MChange in the Public Mind,» a presentation Leiserowitz gave during an all - day conference on communication and climate change at the climate talks in climate change at the climate talks in Mchange at the climate talks in climate talks in Mexico.

Question: before talking about simulating climate CHANGE, how long does the climate science community expect it to take before GCM's can reproduce the real world climate PRIOR to human induced CO2 perturbation in terms of: — «equilibrium point», i.e. without artificial flux adjustment to avoid climatic drift, — «natural variability», in terms of, for instance, the Hurst coefficient at different locations on the planet?

After many years of working at Greenpeace and other environmental and indigenous - rights groups, he founded Britain's Climate Outreach and Information Network and has also helped develop Talking Climate, an online «gateway to research on climate change communication.Climate Outreach and Information Network and has also helped develop Talking Climate, an online «gateway to research on climate change communication.Climate, an online «gateway to research on climate change communication.climate change communication.»

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

Sutter's visit to Oklahoma is part of his yearlong «2 Degrees» series looking at climate change science and choices ahead of the Paris talks, starting on Nov. 30, aimed at creating a new international climate change agreement.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

But when I read «Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report ``, not over my guess Mr Bush still want to escape mandatory cap of green house gas, whether he will change his mild at the end of this meeting, I still have a hoping.

The head US envoy on climate change has said to the UN that «talks aimed at negotiating a binding treaty to curb global warming are based on unrealistic expectations and are not doable.»

Thanks to excellent guidance from Audubon experts who briefed me on the impacts of climate change on birds and their habitats — I felt confident I could talk about these things, at least in brief.

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

What will prove to be more pressing at the Cancun climate change talks, therefore, will not be agreeing on an end goal, but on coming to a consensus on how to move forward at all, with ensuring nations make some sort of deal on cutting emissions from airplanes and shipping among the top priorities in the days ahead.

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As the blogs of skeptics and deniers were lighting up over the e-mails — «catnip to these guys,» as comedian Jon Stewart put it — Trenberth depicted the leak as a political move to influence discussions on climate change at the Copenhagen talks.

India on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to «protecting the interests of the poor» at the Lima Climate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out of a list of priorities for developing countries in a new climate pact to be signed next year inClimate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out of a list of priorities for developing countries in a new climate pact to be signed next year inclimate pact to be signed next year in Paris.

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How to deal with the impact of climate change is front and centre at international climate talks in Warsaw, with a fund for «losses and damages» caused by climate change to developing nations on the table.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

They were speaking at a pre-congress interactive talk titled «climate change, adaptability and food security», organised by the Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) at a local hotel on Thursday.

At the Northeast Public Power Association's annual conference in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month, what was billed as a «common sense» discussion on climate change was actually a talk by Steve Goreham, an author of books that deny that burning fossil fuels causes global warming.

... if you look at the implications of climate change, of runaway climate change, we are literally talking about millions and millions of people dying, we are literally talking about famines, and flooding, and migration and disease on an unprecedented scale.

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