Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research,
though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.
Not exact matches
For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school
climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even
though that wasn't required by
federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.
Now,
though, a new study by Matthew Menne and other scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, the
federal office charged with tracking
climate trends, directly challenges the underpinnings of arguments that Bad Weather Stations = Faulty Climate Concl
climate trends, directly challenges the underpinnings of arguments that Bad Weather Stations = Faulty
Climate Concl
Climate Conclusions.
The timing of this e-mail, basically announcing the formation of this group (even
though its Web site URL has been registered since 2000), comes suspiciously at a time when Stephen Harper's
federal conservative government is facing intense criticism for lacking a
climate change plan and for being soft on greenhouse gas emitters.
Both voluntary activities and a variety of policies and measures that lower emissions are currently in place at
federal, state, and local levels in the U.S., even
though there is no comprehensive national
climate legislation.
The only hope of
federal support for
climate change is its economic and national security implications, both niches that agency scientists could carve out under Trump (
though the administration just dropped it as a national security threat so...).
But concrete action to address
climate threats has been relatively slow, critics say, and a convoluted process of devolution of power to Pakistan's provinces and then the reorganisation of federal ministries hasn't helped speed up the process — though a new federal Ministry of Climate Change may help chang
climate threats has been relatively slow, critics say, and a convoluted process of devolution of power to Pakistan's provinces and then the reorganisation of
federal ministries hasn't helped speed up the process —
though a new
federal Ministry of
Climate Change may help chang
Climate Change may help change that.
Even Chevron conceded recently in a
federal court that oil is causing
climate change and if we hope to survive we have to get off of it right away (don't be too surprised
though — they didn't take any responsibility.
Exports do not count against meeting
federal or state carbon reduction targets even
though they certainly have just as much impact on
climate as if they did.
Furthermore, a report on a National Preparedness Goal [PDF] issued in September by the Administration (in response to the Presidential Policy Directive on National Preparedness of March 30, 2011) entirely omits any mention of
climate change — even
though the adaptation task force highlights the actions
Federal agencies are taking to «to incorporate
climate adaptation into planning, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery to protect communities and reduce losses.»
So I argue that
climate alarmists are not being rational unless they think that they can continue to smother the opposition using their lock hold on the mainstream media even
though they no longer have control of the
Federal environmental bureaucracy.
Though the U.S. has no
federal cap - and - trade carbon system, no carbon tax scheme, and no international agreement to limit carbon dioxide emissions, it seems that state governments are cobbling together their own response to
climate change — and it is working.