Sentences with phrase «warming policy for»

Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy for the conservative think - tank Competitive Enterprise Institute issued a statement warning that Waxman's approach to climate policy» would send us back to the Stone Age.»

The Post «s editorial board today praises a move by Alice Madden, a cabinet - level adviser (think «czar») on global warming policy for Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, to give up a $ 3,000 monthly stipend she receives from the liberal Center for American Progress.

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«These policies are important first steps, but much bigger emission reductions will be needed for Alberta to do its part to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius.»

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.

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.

The reasons for this are many: less cold water from Sierra snowpack, less cold freshwater being released from the Delta due to farming needs and other water policies, warm waters caused by El Nino flowing into the Bay, and other variables.

The Fever, Mercury and Liberty were three of four teams fined in July for wearing black T - shirts against league uniform policy in warm - ups.

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.

The justice secretary wins warm cheers for his «lights - out» policy, but experts warn it will increase self - harm

Don Thanks for these interesting comments I think you were a bit warmer Perhaps one major lesson of these debates is that there seems to have been a significant under - supply on the blogosphere (i) detailed tax policy and distributional arguments.

Mr Lidington was also warm about the relationship that the Coalition wants with Baroness Ashton, the «High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy»:

He and his foreign secretary, William Hague, had warm words for their Lib Dem coalition partners, and ploughed a fresh furrow: that it is the Tories, as much as the Lib Dems, who have pushed for «cuddly» policies, in the language of the prime minister.

Over the course of a 45 - minute interview recently at his Town of Ulster headquarters, Gibson offered warm words for half a dozen local Democrats, including Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo and County Executive Mike Hein, in between detail - rich discourses on agricultural policy and the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Irene.

What the country needs is a united policy to deliver a warm home for every household,» Hughes said.

Is the right policy for global warming to seek an 80 % emissions reduction by 2050, or to transition completely out of fossil fuels?

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However, neither laid out any kind of policy plan for how to deal with global warming.

As a result, 10 prominent scientists have written a letter to President Bush and other government leaders urging them to «shape policies to assure that government incentives for biofuels do not increase global warming.»

David Pearce of University College London, another contributor to the IPCC report, stressed that the purpose of the economic studies was purely academic, and not to provide a prescription for what policies governments should adopt in response to global warming.

For heavy carbon - emitting companies, global warming policies are typically a threat to their operations, while greener rivals often view such policies as a way to further insulate themselves from the competition.

IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988 by the United Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.

This policy implication reinforces the need to develop carbon capture techniques to limit the warming for the next generations.»

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.

For decades, American climate scientist James Hansen published important papers on global warming and shared his data at influential congressional hearings — and his policy prescriptions.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

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.

«We are specifically debarred from making policy recommendations, but I am on record many times personally calling for action to address global warming.»

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.

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.

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and has promised to quit the Paris Agreement, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four - year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy.

«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.

- A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto by Ernesto Zedillo, two climate - change books he is writing about for The New York Review of Books

As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.

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.

All of the committee members and the three co-chairs emphasized the need for businesses to start examining these issues and pressing for public policy solutions now, due to the fact that greenhouse gases emitted today can last in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, effectively «baking in» a certain amount of warming.

«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.

All of the proposed solutions for global warming involve lots of central control, failed economic policies and enforced poverty for everyone but the elite who are advocating the policies.

Many climate scientists, policy experts and environmentalists are concerned about the potential for the incoming administration to limit funding for climate science and roll back both national and international progress toward limiting the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate - policy - averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of a warming climate.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

In the same E&E ClimateWire interview, Bast criticized the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as climate science capitulators who committed what he called «pre-emptive surrender» for admitting there is serious man made warming and engaging the policy arena.

«The eventual long - term warming after stabilization remains rather uncertain, but for most policy decisions, the transient response over the next 50 - 100 years is what matters.»

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

Honesty is the best policy; I'm just looking for someone who may like me for being me; I enjoy the outdoors when it's warm, Nature in all it's glory.

Before his current role, Edgar was a senior policy strategist with Reinvent Communications, pushing state global warming reform efforts and rolling out the «My Brothers Keeper - Whole Village Initiative» for Long Beach Council Member, Rex Richardson.

You're not about to get out of your comfy, warm bed just to spend the evening looking for the right policy.

Updated On Wednesday, Nature published «Climate policy: Ditch the 2 °C warming goal,» a commentary criticizing the widely adopted threshold for climate safety and offering a new approach to characterizing risks.

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