Sentences with phrase «up against climate»

Qatar: Bumping Up Against Climate Change Limitations On Human Activities Makes Ethical and Justice Issues Unavoidable
On the repeated claims that cold weather kills more people than heat will: we need to face the fact that we are up against both a climate crisis and an energy shortage, or at least a shortage of energy in the forms we've become accustomed.
So how did those patterns stack up against the climate models?

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.
Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.
«I want Musk to speak up against Donald Trump's climate change policies,» he said.
It created an overall tax system score allowing states to see how their climates stack up against others.
Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.
With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.
The three - year, # 110 million UK Department for International Development (DFID)- funded Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) 1 programme aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people against climate extremes and disClimate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) 1 programme aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people against climate extremes and disclimate extremes and disasters.
Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.
Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.
«This city is standing up and saying, «We're going to take our own actions to protect our own people,»» de Blasio said, wearing a green necktie and sitting in front of large green sign that said «NYC: Leading the Fight Against Climate Change.»
De Blasio has sought to position New York City as a leader in the fight against climate change, but even as he has committed to quickly come up with an aggressive plan to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the agency that is supposed to lead that effort is in flux.
«Greens have already come out against the referendum, lining up with Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers» Alliance, and other right - wing climate change - denying loons.»
«Today, New York State is picking up the mantle of leadership and raising the bar in the global fight against climate change.»
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague has called on the government to step up its efforts against nuclear proliferation, comparing the issue in importance to climate change.
Here we are at the 2017 Climate Change March, Standing up against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and tabling at the 2016 Gay Pride March in Glens Falls.
«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
To safeguard against that outcome, the report authors recommend that countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide more eco-friendly methods to farmers and workers, and come up with plans to make sure those most vulnerable to climate change — especially the poor — will retain rights and security.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley accused Hillary Clinton of failing to pursue action against climate change adequately, saying in an interview with ClimateWire that the planet would «literally burn up» under her plan.
In 2011, European researchers set up TOSCA, a COST - funded international network aiming to offer a better understanding of the Sun's effect on climate, against the backdrop of global warming.
The European Union (EU), for example, has proposed a multi-stage process, whereby commitments for climate action post-2020 would be registered next year and then subjected to an international assessment to determine how well the commitments measure up against each other and against scientific assessments.
Dinosaurs against climate change, pack up my drones in an old rucksack, wild woman of when, life of my light and more
If one were keeping score in this game, which has lined up skeptics like Soon against most climate scientists, 2009 would be the year when it got rough.
In order to predict future changes in climate, scientists verify and refine their models against paleoclimate data from the ice cores Taylor and others pull up.
BONN, Germany, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Group of Seven leaders agreed on Monday to provide insurance against climate hazards for up to 400 million more vulnerable people and back development of early warning systems, but did not outline a clear path for increasing climate aid up to 2020.
G7 governments will aim to increase by up to 400 million the number of people in the most vulnerable developing countries who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage against climate - related hazards by 2020, and support early warning systems in the most vulnerable countries, the statement said.
And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university - based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.
So when Wade stopped by the mbg office on a blustery winter day, we decided to ask her how she finds the energy to show up at protests and speak out against the current political climate while still finding the space to take care of herself.
However, after Senate Republicans spoke up against her seeming lack of understanding of basic climate science, she was asked to leave the role.
Unfortunately in this current political climate this film was always gonna be up against it, the moment the movie was announced you could literally hear the social justice warriors sharpening their knives.
It's not just throwing spaghetti up against the wall to see what sticks; it's actually setting the timer to see how long it takes to get al dente spaghetti, and then adjusting the recipe for different settings, climates, and equipment.
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But now, against the backdrop of a grim economic climate, some of the movement's biggest stars appear to be concentrating on cheering us all up.
tested against the observed behavior of the ice and the usual assumptions about the future of the climate in the Greenland region over the coming decades, comprise the pieces of the puzzle needed to come up with an estimate of how fast things are really proceeding in Greenland.
Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.
Economic models notwithstanding, private companies will fund their own climate models when the cost of not doing so bumps up against profit margins.
One unusual aspect of climate science is just how closely it rubs up against the powerful energy industry, the economy, foreign policy, etc..
John Birch Society - style paranoia has the T - partiers fired up against planning, environmental protection, and climate change adaptation.
The figure shows the increase in heat content for 5 different simulations in the ensemble (same climate forcings, but with different weather) matched up against the observations.
Sp in this new genre of cli - fi (climate fiction), «Exteme Whether» — not» weather» but» whether» please note — is a fierce expose of politically motivated censorship and a look at the courage it takes to keep up the fight for truth against immensely powerful forces.
Part of this climate impasse relates to the early stages of human recognition that our growth - centered economic norms are butting up against some global limits — a point made in Naomi Klein «s potent new piece on «Capitalism vs. the Climate» in The climate impasse relates to the early stages of human recognition that our growth - centered economic norms are butting up against some global limits — a point made in Naomi Klein «s potent new piece on «Capitalism vs. the Climate» in The Climate» in The Nation.
But of course these reviews of climate science butt up against a similarly robust body of psychological and sociological work showing how hard it is for information, even reliable authoritative information, to break through the barriers within the human mind (not to mention our polarized politics) that can impede rational risk management.
The issue of inter-generational empathy on climate risk butts up against even tougher barriers, the ones that make this a truly «super wicked» problem.
One reality is that current trajectories for human population and resource appetites, when gauged against the current suite of energy choices, do not add up to prosperous societies in a predictable climate later in this century.
The only specific policies that I have advocated are (1) that scientists be required to archive their data and methods; (2) that proxies used in multiproxy studies be brought up to date to permit validation against the warm 1990s; (3) that disclosure and due diligence practices in climate science be improved.
Especially when going up against the overwhelming evidence compiled by a consensus of 97 % of scientists who study climate as their career.
See, what it's really about is various atheists and liberals high up in authority, or who have used climate change as a dramatic part of their bizarre religion of everything against traditional religion, except perhaps Buddhism, since it's atheistic, it's their future Noah's Flood prophecy, part of their evolving mythos.
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