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CAN Side Event Attendees: Scaling - up Climate Finance from 2013 How to ensure sufficient and scalable long - term public climate finance starting in 2013, after the end of FSF.

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It's about how friendly is the environment in terms of how coherent are the developer groups, the public sector and the universities, and how comfortable it is in terms of the political climate.»

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

The current economic climate makes this seem unfeasible, certainly in the short term while the government works to balance the public finances.

«Chief executives often find third terms difficult, and the current economic climate is not making it any easier for Bloomberg,» Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement.

Weathers and Kendall note «here is one starting point for examining, tracking, and critically assessing the story of climate change in public health terms — a project that deserves further attention from communication, environment, and public health scholars.»

The public may assume the U.S. and the rest of the world can delay climate action for a presidential term or two, and catch up later.

««Doubter» and the clunkier «those who reject mainstream climate science» strike me as fair terms to describe both members of the public and the very small number of scientists who are not convinced.»

Cornerstone Evaluation Associates LLC is the external research firm charged with carrying out the evaluation activities necessary to determine the effectiveness and impact of MAVEN's Education and Public Outreach (E / PO) effort and its success in achieving its overall goal to «engage multiple audiences in the quest to understand Mars» long - term atmospheric losses, giving insight into the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.»

Climate researchers have benefited enormously in economic terms by getting the public excited; they (presumably including yourself) have a vested interest in maintaining this level of concern.

By now, biodiversity is a well known term even in the broader public, as it is used in many media reports about species extinction, natural resources or climate change.

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Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

Predicting weather over a year in advance is a daunting challenge, but you're probably right that advancements in long - term weather forecasting will help convince the public that climate science is on the right track, regardless of the strength of the connection.

Any long term energy independence that oil shale production may provide will be at the cost of furthering global climate change and increasing environmental degradation of U.S. public lands.

However, I also feel that the conference and particularly the grand after - conference plans may have a significant impact on public perceptions (reinforcing Americans» uniqueness in terms of climate change beliefs and opinions) and that in turn can provide political cover for politicians reluctant to support tough measures.

Scientists often prefer the term climate change for technical reasons, but should be aware that the two terms generate different interpretations among the general public and specific subgroups.

In a separate nationally representative survey, we found that while Americans are equally familiar with the two terms, they are four times more likely to say they hear the term global warming in public discourse than climate change.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

It's not that CC won't affect these things in the long term, rather when Climate Scientists make bold predictions on 50/50 propositions (or less) and are wrong, the public doesn't distinguish «wrong this year» from «wrong this century.»

We found that the term global warming is associated with greater public understanding, emotional engagement, and support for personal and national action than the term climate change.

In a culture too often dominated by expediency and self - interest, I came to view climate scientists as visionaries and altruists, flawed and flummoxed like all such people who are suddenly called by forces outside themselves to excel themselves, fighting not just their own reluctance to become publicly involved, and their own ill - adaption to public and activist lives, but, ultimately, fighting for the truth in the face of falsehood, not just because truth matters in some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stake.

Climate scientists have to get in the media and attend to communicating the issues in simple, slightly blunt terms to the public or they will not be taken seriously.

Vicky Pope, a meteorologist in England's climate and meteorology office, has a remarkable op - ed in the Guardian warning that scientists, the media and campaigners of all stripes who use short - term trends in weather or sea ice to make points are misleading the public about global warming.

The dominant driving force of «climate change» as the term is being used in public policy is «global warming», an average increase in global temperature.

While a short - term benefit might be an attention - grabbing headline, one result, of course, can be a sense of climate whiplash on the part of the public, and eventual disengagement or distrust as a result, if the finding proves to be an overstatement.

So this is not really the «debate» that the contrarians would like to make it out to be, and most scientists, as well as people who have accepted that climate science points to the need for stronger action, have no more interest in letting the Heartland and NIPCC folks hijack the public discourse and getting the media to frame the narrative in their terms.

Indeed, scope 3 emissions accounted for three - quarters of offset buyers» emissions, according to Ecosystem Marketplace's analysis of public CDP disclosures — the elephant in the room in terms of companies» true climate impact.

May said parliamentarians had not done enough to prepare the public for the effect climate change would have on their lives in terms of efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate changes.

They seem to think that «I'm a climate scientist, trust me» is a slam dunk argument winner, whereas increasing numbers of the public see it as a contradiction in terms.

That is why links to your favorite exemplars of reasoned - yet - short - term climate - change analysis would be a welcome contribution to the public discourse, Willis!

No, smart money is betting on the insurance industry's new paradigm shift: For too long Big Oil and other climate - science deniers have been shifting the burden of their short - term profit strategies to the public.

President Obama is channeling his inner Al Gore in his new climate push with a public relations strategy that breaks with his first term.

The Chiefio's term for the vicious public denigrators of skeptic climate scientists and skeptic commenters.

I believe the kinds of accusations you (and most climate change advocates make) make about people who disagree with your judgment and priorities ensure that reasoned public policy on long term energy supply will not happen any time soon....

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

While the errors are small in absolute terms and do not affect the big picture, they are enough to distort the noisy short term trends which have dominated the public discourse on climate change.

Although global climate change entails more than rising temperatures, the terms «global warming» and «climate change» are used interchangeably in public discourse and opinion polls on this issue (e.g., PIPA / Knowledge Networks 2005; see Whitmarsh 2009 for a discussion).

There are immense direct and indirect public benefits in transitioning to an efficient renewable energy system in terms of reduced incidence of diseases such as asthma, freeing up of most of the supplies of water that are now used for thermal electricity generation (and hence reduced conflict over water), reduced air, water, and soil pollution that accompanies fossil fuel production, processing and use, and greatly improved prospects of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.

But the denial machine has been aggressively pushing its war on climate science and weakening public support for action, and the Obama administration and environmental groups «took their eye off the ball and have fallen down on the job in terms of really working public opinion on this.»

«If climate deniers think our public schools are the right place for their propaganda, they need to be exposed in no uncertain terms,» said Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D - Ariz.)

As a question put to leading climate scientist Phil Jones it demonstrates that whoever composed that particular question knew that «statistically - significant «is a technical term requiring a technically correct answer, knew that the period was too short to allow an unequivocal answer, knew that the general public would equate «no statistically significant global warming» with no real warming.

White House and Climate Change Science Program officials have never offered an honest public explanation of why the terms of that dismissal would have legally required (as distinct from an unofficial, secret political agreement) that the White House and the federal agencies suppress a taxpayer - funded, scientifically based assessment sponsored by the federal global change research program, even for purposes of using it as a scientific document or in program planning for research and future assessments.

And they took their eye off the ball in terms of public opinion, in talking about climate science and looking at what the denial machine was doing.

Much of this skepticism stems from an event that has been termed Climategate, when emails and files from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were copied and later exposed for public scrutiny and interpretation.

The report also says that most of the benefits of climate mitigation policies in the short term will come in the form of public health co-benefits from reduced air pollution, suggesting that climate advocacy will be well served to move away from debates over climate science and apocalyptic doomsaying, instead focusing on the multiple benefits in the near term of moving toward cleaner energy sources.

Aside from the significant climate benefits and long - term cost savings shown by this study, landfills which capture methane are safer and less of a public health hazard than those which do not.

From the administration that brought you «man - caused disaster» and «overseas contingency operation,» another terminology change is in the pipeline.The White House wants the public to start using the term «global climate disruption» in place of «global warming» — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

In its statement, the Global Climate Coalition said its reorganization was «part of a long - term initiative to refocus the public debate on climate policy to the issues at hand - namely, a policy contest between the unworkable Kyoto Protocol versus a more pragmatic and viable solution to the climate issue that relies on technology, innovation and American ingenuity.Climate Coalition said its reorganization was «part of a long - term initiative to refocus the public debate on climate policy to the issues at hand - namely, a policy contest between the unworkable Kyoto Protocol versus a more pragmatic and viable solution to the climate issue that relies on technology, innovation and American ingenuity.climate policy to the issues at hand - namely, a policy contest between the unworkable Kyoto Protocol versus a more pragmatic and viable solution to the climate issue that relies on technology, innovation and American ingenuity.climate issue that relies on technology, innovation and American ingenuity.»

The significance of attributing the role of climate change in an extreme event comes from situating that hazard in the context of long term climate change for a country or region, and thus creating a robust narrative for decision - makers and the public around the degree to which a disaster of this type will represent the «new normal».