Sentences with phrase «warming policy based»

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The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

Even people who don't want to use the phrase «global warming» or «climate crisis» are finding new ways to express what they feel with their own senses, and they're responding to political leaders who are using facts as a basis for new policies.

«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.

Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate change.

A turn - based strategy game which simulates the effects of global warming, you use cards to enact policies to try and...

If and when warming (as measured by some comprehensible benchmark) resumes, there will be more broad - based uptake for policy action.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

In other words, if you had used the 1988 paper to predict the next 20 years, you would not have been far out on the temperature trend, though you would not have done so well if e.g. you had based long - term agriculture policy or anything else where you needed to know the exact location of the warming on the paper.

A comprehensive policy will be needed — one with multiple reduction triggers (Downstream Cap and Trade as well as CO2 based CAFE standards for example), an expansive energy R&D policy (much like the one called for by Nordhaus and Shellenberg), and an adaptation plan for areas that will be critically effected by the warming predicted without any current reduction policy.

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 as data.

The problem with that statement in this textbook is that these authors misuse it to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support.

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..

I've been waiting for some philoopher of science to point out that, if there are no predictions for warming, there is absolutely no basis for the policies based on predictions.

However, claiming an overwhelming scientific justification for the Plan based upon anthropogenic global warming does a disservice both to climate science and to the policy process.

National Academy of Sciences (1992): Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base.

15 years later, those advocating major governmental policy based on global climate model predictions.wish the models had not exaggerated the future warming so greatly.

«Policies to «stop climate change» are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades.

The Global Warming Policy Forum» and is a «London - based think tank which conducts campaigns and activities which do not fall squarely within the Global Warming Policy Foundation's remit as an educational charity.»

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.»

Dr. Benny Peiser, director of the London - based Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that the EU's climate policies are especially harming Europe's poor.

In 2011, Pell delivered a lecture for the UK - based Global Warming Policy Foundation which climate scientists said was ««dreadful», «utter rubbish» and «flawed».

and b) the urban heat effect (see recent paper by McKitrick), the consensus on a warming trend would appear differently; add to that the fact that some analysis show that the 75 - 95 higher temperatures may be partly due to effectiveness of anti-pollution policies, and you may realise that a consensus on higher temperatures may be based on sand rather than anything else.

Proof that this was politically - driven and not based on demonstrated anthropogenic warming is that a year or so later the IPCC's then Chief Scientist, Sir John Houghton, told me that AGW was as yet an unproven theory (when briefing a small group of central agency policy - makers in Canberra).

Pro-growth policies will both address existing problems and provide a stronger basis for dealing with future problems, whether or not warming proves to be one of them.

Of course, logic and ethics had no chance when you were faced with defending it, since the Hockey Stick graph (the only one reproduced multiple times in color in any IPCC summary) was the primary basis for convincing the Media and Policy Makers that immediate action was needed to offset unprecedented warming, obviously caused by unprecedented increase in CO2.

-- Based on the scientific review, the agencies may, by rule, modify the definition of «renewable biomass» from Federal lands in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act and section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as appropriate to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

Since then, the IPA has hosted a string of climate science «sceptics», including Australia's own Professor Bob Carter and Professor Ian Plimer, UK columnist James Delingpole, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, the US - based Cato Institute's Pat Michaels and former UK chancellor Lord Nigel Lawson, who is the chairman of the London - based Global Warming Policy Foundation.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), Lord Lawson's UK - based climate skeptic lobby group, has announced it is launching an inquiry into the integrity of global surface temperature records.

She minces no words in describing that their communities have come to see these climate policies as «nothing but a bunch of false solutions to global warming issues» «based on lies» and «on selling illusions to the less privileged.»

Some of the arguments against climate change policies based upon scientific uncertainty should and can be responded to on scientific grounds especially in light of the fact that many claims about scientific uncertainty about human - induced warming are great distortions of mainstream climate change science.

A «Johnny Appleseed» of antiregulation groups, it is closely affiliated with the U.K. - based Institute of Economic Affairs, the University of Buckingham (which has ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation) and an international analogue, the International Policy Network (formerly known as Atlas Economic Research Foundation (UK)-RRB-.

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

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But, based on Europe's experience, such policies are precisely the wrong way to address global warming.

Now, based on those same models, «policy makers» should be deciding on «policies» to avert a potential disaster from human - induced global warming by curtailing human GHG emissions.

Conversely, politicians using catastrophic global warming as the basis for legislation have «camouflaged controversial policy decisions as science,» a trend that George Washington University's Susan Dudley calls the «scientization» of politics.

That calculation is based on «sleight of hand and faulty logic», said Bob Ward, policy director at the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and it ignores the possibility of warming at the higher end of estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Second, the «warming» from CO2 — and yes, CO2 is a «greenhouse gas» — has been much less than predicted by the climate models Obama bases his policies on.

As an alternative, the researchers propose that countries base their policies on a new kind of index: How much current global warming is attributable to human activity.

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Rive, N., A. Torvanger and J.S. Fuglestvedt, 2006: Climate agreements based on responsibility for global warming: periodic updating, policy choices, and regional costs.

The day before the Paris Agreement enters into force, the United Nations Environment Program has released its annual Emissions Gap Report, which measures the discrepancies between likely emissions (based on climate policies and plans) versus the emissions levels necessary to limit warming.

At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

There are no good reasons to make public policy based on predicted anthropogenic warming, I look at the past, as recorded, to find a warming off some 1 °C since 1910.

NOAA / GISS and CRU would have us believe that its OK to base climate change policy and advocate spending trillions of dollars in combating climate change, when in fact the majority of data that underpins their claims of «unprecendented» and accelerating global warming in the latter part of the 20th century is based on such a sparse set of data.

As Nic Lewis (and others) have shown, the best empirical estimate of sensitivity, based on all observed warming, is low enough that it is impossible to currently justify expensive mitigation policy.

The assembled panel issued the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report entitled «The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policy Makers» that concludes that global average temperature will rise between 1.1 °C to 6.4 °C by 2100, and that it is «very likely» (90 % certainty) that human activities and emissions are causing global warming.

A new report: The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank's Regressive Energy Policies by the London - based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) finds that the World Bank has abdicated its primary mission of tackling poverty in the developing world.