Sentences with phrase «warming policies said»
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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.
Despite the tensions over policies, the debate ended on a warm note, when Mrs Clinton said the first person she would call would be Mr Sanders, if she won the nomination.
What the country needs is a united policy to deliver a warm home for every household,» Hughes said.
But Taylor of the Heartland Institute said it should not come as a surprise that the subject of human induced global warming would become more contested as it moved out of the realm of pure science into the realm of policy.
To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO2 emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study has said.
Environmentalists said today that they hope the administration's approval of the plan is a signal of more precautionary policy for the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
A lot of scientists and policy makers may have been quietly pushing for actions to combat warming, he said, but not pushing very hard.
Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said, «Science lives and dies with the issue of testability, replication, verification, falsification.»
The administration also has signed executive orders, including one seeking to roll back an Obama administration plan to reduce global warming emissions from power plants and taken steps that threaten the United States» global leadership on climate policy, he said.
«Peabody Coal, Southern Company, Duke Energy, AEP and Massey Energy have created a chicken and egg global warming policy,» Weiss says.
Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.
Policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work was also cited by IPCC, said that the report cherry - picked not only from among the literature to select a paper that delivered the conclusion it hoped to highlight — that a warming globe was worsening economic losses from disasters — but also from within Muir - Wood's paper.
«I've always thought that the phrase «global warming» was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it's all about temperature, and that it's gradual,» Holdren said yesterday at the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. (AAAS publishes ScienceInsider.)
For instance, he said, things could be made better or worse by demographic trends, and how well New York adapts its infrastructure and policies to a warmer world.
«He let the moment go by without making any change in his dogged refusal to put real limits on America's global warming pollution,» says David Doniger, climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York - based environmental group.
Prominent scientists say researchers and policy makers need to focus more on adapting to warming and on controversial geoengineering techniques to limit it
«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.
«We know an awful lot about global warming, and yet there are a lot of personal and emotional, nonscientific barriers to getting better policies out there,» Gehlbach said.
Co-author Dr Eleanor Burke, from the Met Office Hadley Centre, said: «The advantage of our approach is that permafrost loss can be estimated for any policy - relevant global warming scenario.
«The insurance industry has the ability to change behavior, policies and communicate with clients,» says Nancy Skinner, US director of the Climate Group, which lobbies for business and government action to address global warming.
«There is a very distressing disconnect between the research and the policy,» says Kim Knowlton, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who studies the health impacts of global warming.
While warming cities will bring big energy costs, researchers say they may also offer important insight into the role of local policy in climate change mitigation.
«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.
The reason policy makers can get away with saying there isn't global warming is because we don't have enough information or data to map out the complex relationship of carbon dioxide to the flow of heat around the planet.»
«It basically seems like there was a warm - body policy,» said Alexander Russo, an education consultant and author of the blog This Week in Education.
«He is a very warm person and a respecter of persons,» Smith said, adding that Lyons knows the policies of the diocese well, as he has «been doing much of the work» recently.
Mr. Jungbauer gave a talk and slide presentation that he said were aimed at providing ammunition for anyone in the policy arena seeking to counter visions of catastrophic global warming pushed by liberal campaigners.
My reading of this statement is that you are saying that the likelihood that global warming is increasing the destructive potential of hurricanes (and is likely to do so increasingly in the future) is irrelevant to the policy debate about hurricane damage.
But the report, signed by Kevin H. Winters, assistant inspector general for investigations, criticized what it said was a sustained pattern of activities, largely supervised by senior political appointees, that included muting or withholding news releases on global warming and, at least in Dr. Hansen's case, limiting a scientist's interactions with reporters for fear that he might stray into discussing policies at odds with those of the White House.
Gary Yohe, an environmental economist at Wesleyan University, is one of a large group of veteran students of the climate - energy challenge who say the persistent uncertainties surrounding human - driven warming are the reason to act, to act promptly, and to include a rising price on emissions of greenhouse gases in any policy mix.
A commentary in this week's issue of the journal Nature adds to the chorus of economists, climate scientists and experts in energy policy saying that the major approaches to combating global warming are deeply flawed.
You say that this uncertainty is used «to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support», but it seems to us that it is less the case that your objection is based on an argument made as much as the fact that they outlined a difference of opinion.
«It appears to be the policy of the Royal Society to stifle dissent and silence anyone who may have doubts about the connection between global warming and human activity,» said Dr. Moore, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Vancouver, Canada - based Greenspirit Strategies Ltd..
The comprehensive, uniform information provided by this system will give policy makers more confidence in making decisions about influencing global warming that can have worldwide economic impact, he said.
«I know there are some out there, probably a couple hundred people, who actually believe that the world is coming to an end and man - made global warming is going to cause it, so I just want to give them the assurance that if they're right and we are wrong, [proposed climate policies are] not going to reduce but it will increase CO2 emissions,» he said.
Sources cited by The Independent say that George W. Bush is planning «astonishing U-turn» on his global warming policies, which, as Elizabeth Kolbert notes in this week's New Yorker, have been anything but helpful.
What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).
The uneven impact of the warming «could mean a massive restructuring of the global economy,» says Solomon Hsiang, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley, one of the researchers who have painstakingly documented the historical impact of temperature.
In an interview with The Register, Nigel Lawson said that the Global Warming Policy Foundation «will certainly be actively involved in monitoring what is being said, in correcting errors where the are errors.
«Four years of the Trump administration may have only modest consequences, but eight years of bad policy would probably wreck the world's chances of keeping warming below the international target of 2 degrees Celsius,» Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said by email.
In a paper released on December 1 by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Dr. Goklany says WHO's forecast that climate change would bring about 250,000 extra deaths annually between 2030 and 2050 is based on «absurd assumptions,» «willful exaggerations,» and «flawed methodologies.»
Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia wrote an article in 2006 saying that there had been no global warming since 1998 according to the most widely used measure of average global air temperatures... [and] David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London made the same point... Mark Lynas said in the New Statesman that Mr. Whitehouse was «wrong... We know now that it was Mr. Lynas who waswarming since 1998 according to the most widely used measure of average global air temperatures... [and] David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London made the same point... Mark Lynas said in the New Statesman that Mr. Whitehouse was «wrong... We know now that it was Mr. Lynas who wasWarming Policy Foundation in London made the same point... Mark Lynas said in the New Statesman that Mr. Whitehouse was «wrong... We know now that it was Mr. Lynas who was wrong.
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In 2011, Pell delivered a lecture for the UK - based Global Warming Policy Foundation which climate scientists said was ««dreadful», «utter rubbish» and «flawed».
Fine, let's hold them to what they say and ask how their particular theological views inform their opinions and prospective policies on global warming?
I think in the case of GHG driven warming, it makes more sense to have a better definition of the risks (say a credible narrowing of the Charney sensitivity range by 50 % or more) before moving beyond «no regrets» type policies.
Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, «Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,» in which Lomborg says that «the UN should focus on more cost - effective environmental policies,» and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C: [15]
Dr David Whitehouse, author of a new report on the pause published on Friday by Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: «This changes everything.
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