Sentences with phrase «vocal climate change»

funded an array of front organizations to create the appearance of a broad platform for a tight - knit group of vocal climate change contrarians who misrepresent peer - reviewed scientific findings

It was interesting to note, however, that most of the projects described are based in the US, with its high proportion of vocal climate change naysayers.

iuhtezcatl Tonatiuh has been a vocal climate change activist since he was six years old, and now he's taking the fight for reform directly to President Obama.

Not exact matches

DiCaprio is a vocal campaigner for climate change awareness and has donated $ 20 million to combat its impact and causes through his foundation.

«He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override,» Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama's climate change agenda, said in an interview.

Cenovus and Suncor have been vocal supporters of the NDP government's climate change policies which include an annual 100 - megatonne cap on total emissions from the oilsands.

I am also a vocal advocate of Climate Change (yes it is a thing and no it is not an opinion).

The paper has been speaking to GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny - a vocal supporter of Ed Miliband, whose union has also made a contribution to the shadow energy and climate change secretary's leadership campaign.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

In the area of climate change, the leaked documents revealed that the group funds vocal climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso ($ 11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($ 5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($ 1,667 per mchange, the leaked documents revealed that the group funds vocal climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso ($ 11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($ 5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($ 1,667 per mChange founder Craig Idso ($ 11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($ 5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($ 1,667 per month).

Their concerns have been sparked by two simultaneous developments: increasing public criticism by key Republicans of research funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a congressional power shift that has placed many vocal so - called climate change sceptics and opponents of environmental regulations in positions of power.

Francis's first major writing as pope was a highly technical treatise on the environment, and the church has been an increasingly vocal advocate worldwide for policies to reduce climate change.

Leakey campaigned for the protection of the Great Apes and has become increasingly vocal about the threats to biodiversity arising from global climate change.

[Andy Revkin — Above, Mr. McCain appears to be using references to observed changes in ice and climate to fend off potential criticism from a small, but vocal array of climate scientists and conservative or anti-regulatory groups that disparage computer simulations showing the consequences of rising greenhouse - gas concentrations.]

«The skeptics are always going to be out there, and as people have to start spending money on climate change, reducing emissions or seeing impacts on lifestyles, people become more vocal about it,» she said.

««overselling» of climate change attracts strong criticism from a vocal and disproportionately publicized few.»

In my view, unfortunately, people in the younger (college - age) generation may well have to get «peaceably vocal» regarding climate change, and do some walking, and paint some signs, to bring about some healthy movement on the issue of climate change IF more of our leaders don't begin to act responsibly and maturely, soon.

«As the climate - change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad... Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree»

In recent years, Bezdek has been very vocal in his opposition to new U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and argues that excessive amounts of C02 are good for the planet and that the scientfic consensus on climate change is a «manufactured myth.»

This is why climate change is now a prime area, and thanks to the vocal skeptics, especially in the political arena, the perception of uncertainty is promulgated which helps to fund more research.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R - Okla., a vocal climate science denialist, criticized President Obama's participation in a Paris summit to address climate change yesterday, saying that climate science ignores the role of God in determining global temperatures.

ppt presentation on this topic to three colleagues, each of whom is a very respected senior scientist and none of whom have been particularly vocal advocates on the subject of climate change (names are withheld to protect the guilty / innocent).

All, however, have been vocal before Congress, on broadcast news or on the Internet in arguing that human activity is not the primarily driver of climate change.

His unwillingness to debate or force others to debate the science of climate change with the vocal group of «doubters» is a shame for the position of the IPCC and other intergovernmental bodies.

Economic stasis continues in Europe, previously the most vocal advocate of action on climate change.

Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy wrote.

Those most vocal about climate change just do not believe in climate change — except as a politically spun artefact.

And a vocal minority of corporate interests and their ideological allies are spending a lot of money to hijack the public debate about climate change.

Despite vocal commitments to help tackle climate change, six key multilateral banks (MDBs) financed over $ 7 billion in coal, oil, and gas projects in 2015, and funded a total of $ 83 billion in fossil fuels from 2008 - 2015.

ClimateDepot.com is the website of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow employee Marc Morano, a conservative global warming denier who previously served as environmental communications director for a vocal political denier of climate change, Republican Sen. James Inhofe.

After all, Greenpeace has been vocal in our praise of Google for its leadership in building a green internet, powering its data centers with renewable energy, and investing in the solutions to climate change.

It is also quite typical of a visionary scientist who has become one of the clearest and most vocal advocates against climate change.

In my experience vocal opposition to wind power almost always is accompanied by denial of climate change and ocean acidification.

This is where the understanding of climate modeling uncertainty is lost in the scientific communications to the public by the politicians and vocal advocates that drive climate change discussions.

Marine scientists have become increasingly vocal that oceanic biodiversity is imperiled by a combination of overfishing, nutrient pollution, ocean acidification and climate change.

The family foundation — the work of the entrepreneur who created Bankers Life and Trust — is a co-founder of the Energy Foundation, and a vocal supporter of non-profit organizations that focus on combating man - caused climate change, with a focus on establishing a global energy policy that eschews cheap fossil fuels for more - costly «renewable» energy sources.

Faith groups are vocal in their contribution to the fight against climate change.

The US Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a UN meeting on climate change as a «brainwashing» session, putting him at odds with Sen. John McCain who noted «there's great urgency... and the scientific evidence continues to accumulate.»

That may be the policy urged by many scientists, particularly the most vocal ones in the climate - change debate, but it's not a consensus based on climate research.

'' * The Climate Change Emails Review headed by Sir Muir Russell included several vocal supporters of the manmade global warming hypothesis.

In addition, Hillary Clinton will need to continue to be vocal about climate change if she truly wants sweeping change for the environment.

WASHINGTON - The US Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a UN meeting on climate change as a «brainwashing» session.

In fact, when 17 state governors recently announced an agreement to work together on clean energy goals, their document made no explicit mention of climate change, and one of the signatories, embattled Snyder, is a vocal opponent of Obama's climate agenda.

Evolution, of course, isn't alone anymore: climate change now joins it as a settled scientific concept that a very vocal (and generally uninformed) minority insists still requires debate.

But with his core policies in place and, we can hope, his continuing to be vocal about the need to address climate change, the U.S. just might be able to hobble through this, and still set some sort of positive example for the rest of the world.

While the argument rumbles on for some, with Exxon now accepting the existance of man - made climate change, and with the climate skeptic's favorite scientist actually being a vocal climate action proponent, I'm ready to move on until someone shows me convincing evidence of this elaborate hoax I keep hearing about.

A well - organized and vocal group of residents has taken a keen interest in municipal preparations for sea - level rise caused by climate change, often shouting their opposition, sometimes while planners and politicians are talking.

Sure, he could've been more of a vocal proponent for climate change solutions, and he could have spoken up more about the issue.

However this artist has become a very vocal opponent of the Canadian government's stance on climate change and the Alberta tar sands to the point -LSB-...]