Sentences with phrase «up about climate policy»

Once governments such as the UK's have made their mind up about climate policy, they are then, naturally, able to mobilise many # millions to convince the public about what they are doing...

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When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

So he has come up with a new formula that he says uniquely addresses the most inconvenient truth about climate policy: It will be expensive.

Steven E. Koonin, once the Obama administration's undersecretary of energy for science and chief scientist at BP, stirred up a swirl of turbulence in global warming discourse this week after The Wall Street Journal published «Climate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aClimate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aclimate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aclimate policy are based on values as much as data.

We are not letting up on our efforts to spread the truth about climate change and other important public policy issues.

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.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

The Heartland Institute is not letting up on its efforts to spread the truth about climate change and other important public policy issues.

And Russia, the world's second largest oil producer, is not about to cozy up to anyone on climate policy.

More specifically, when opponents of climate change policies make self - interest based arguments against the adoption of policies such as cost to the United States, there are no follow - up questions asked by the press about whether those who argue against climate change policies on grounds of cost to the United States are denying that the United States has duties or responsibilities to those outside the United States to prevent harm to them.

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

While Washington debates about whether to get serious on our climate and energy policies, Beijing this week released China's five - year energy development plan, laying out an ambitious «all of the above» strategy that where lacking in specifics more than makes up for in vision (the plan, in Chinese; and Google translated).

According to Lomborg, implementing policies to combat climate change right now «end up doing a lot less good than we could do if we were a lot more rational about it.»

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But is it not also irresponsible to allow debate about what looks like a disastrous range of climate and energy policies — policies which have pushed up the price of energy, leaving people poorer, in colder homes, and causing other economic effects, none of which are good?

Given the low level of attention a government would give to what happens to their historical climate data, it is quite possible that the persons holding it simply made up rules about further disclosure in the absence of explicit policy.

Houston, Texas (CCNF) July 11, 2015 — Already a trusted source for citizens and educators wanting to hear what real climate scientists have to say about climate change, CCNF has now opened up its online forum to an ongoing discussion on values and begun hosting a bipartisan debate on climate policy -LSB-...]

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).

But he is clearly frustrated at what he believes has been the wilful misleading of a confused and increasingly fed - up public by politicians and industry groups who, he says, deliberately spread misinformation about climate science and the policies that might reduce Australia's emissions.

Hey, even if you've already made up your mind about the presidential candidates, are you well informed about the local issues that effect climate policy in your community?

Using paleoclimate as a grab bag of random, misunderstood factoids to back up wacky ideas about modern climate change is not a good policy.

Amateur theories about global warming are a dime a dozen and, unfortunately, that can make it hard for the general public and policy makers to figure out what's based on sound science and what has just been made up in 5 minutes by someone who doesn't know anything about climate science.