Sentences with phrase «warming policy solutions»
If you read anything related to global warming policy solutions, I suggest you read this book.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
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 solution to gridlock on global warming solutions is not grand policies such as the Kyoto Protocol, but smaller initiatives aligned with what each individual nation can honor.
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).
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.
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.
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.
And, I'd like to point out (once again) that months ago another Dot Earthling suggested that the Times should do a brief survey of all U.S. Congresspersons to determine their views on global warming and policy solutions.
They were then asked to evaluate a proposed policy solution to address the warming.
The partnership is a step in the right direction regarding emission reduction policies because no one solution will solve anthropogenic Global Warming.
Global Green USA and Green Cross International are combating three of the greatest challenges facing humanity: weapons of mass destruction, lack of clean water, and global warming — with targeted community projects, smart policy solutions, and public education.
To address global warming, policy makers must find bipartisan solutions that substantially reduce heat - trapping emissions.
EESI advances policy solutions that will result in decreased global warming and air pollution; improvements in public health, energy security and rural economic development opportunities; increased use of renewable energy sources and improved energy efficiency; and the protection of areas such as the Arctic and coastal regions.»
However, in his new book Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Lomborg argues that it would be too expensive to implement any major carbon reduction policy, and that «drastic carbon cuts would be the poorest way to respond to global warming.»
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.»
Fifth, implementing emission reduction mandates and targets under each New England state's global warming solutions laws will likely cause economy - wide natural gas use to decrease by 20 percent by 2030, despite recent policies and trends that incentivize fuel - switching to natural gas.
Are there any warmists prepared to engage in seriously discussing the economic consequences of the carbon pricing and mandatory renewable energy policies they promote as the solution to «greenhouse driven global warming»?
The Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of House legislators, recognizes the existence of global warming and «explores policy options» to research it, slow it, and prepare for it.
In brief, the CPP is a plan to cartelize state energy policies along the product lines of California's Global Warming Solutions Act and the Northeast States» Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
The different policies being introduced specifically to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions vary from international treaties, e.g., the Kyoto Protocol (2005), to national laws, e.g., the UK's Climate Change Act, 2008, and even regional legislation e.g., California (USA)'s Global Warming Solutions Act, 2006.
For much of the 2000's, left - leaning think tanks sprang up around the nation with a common mission — to dream up strategies for countering the Bush administration with progressive policy solutions, and answer the loud horde of rightwing think tanks (just as this site has so powerfully done on global warming).
Even if you play devils advocate and accept that humans do cause catastrophic warming and there are too many of us, and if you can skip past the Nazi eugenics connotations of population control and depopulation policies, those methods are fundamentally still not a valid solution to the perceived climate change threat.
The Pavley Bill of 2003, AB 1493, limiting cars» greenhouse gas emissions, and AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, charge the state's Air Resources Board with developing policies and regulations.
Experience has shown that government policies are critical to spurring and enabling global warming solutions and that individual actions alone will not solve the problem.
Yet, unless the ethical and justice issues raised by climate change are seriously considered by nations when they formulate their international emissions reductions commitments under the UNFCCC, the international community is not likely to find a global solution to prevent potential enormous damages from human - induced warming (See, On The Practical Need To Examine Climate Change Policy Issues Through An Ethical Lens)
All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor, where Terry was the architect of many groundbreaking sustainability policies, including California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the Hydrogen Highway Network, and the Million Solar Roofs initiative.
In HELL AND HIGH WATER: Global Warming - the Solution and the Politics - and What We Should Do, Romm presents a searing indictment of the policies and politics that are hastening the planet's destruction and issues a clarion call for Americans to wake up and demand action from our government before it's too late.
Darwall draws on history and science in order to expose the exaggerations of climate change and what he calls the «Global Warming Policy Paradox»; the assessment of whether proposed solutions are even effective.
Through these meetings, ALEC has helped disseminate state laws that disenfranchise voters and policies that deny climate science and solutions to global warming.
He also frequently focuses on the companies and their front groups that obstruct policy solutions to global warming.
In an exclusive Backpacker Magazine interview, the presidential candidates discussed their prospective policies regarding a slew of environmental topics: global warming solutions, cap and trade policies, oil drilling, gun
UCS combines technical analysis and effective organizing and advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for addressing global warming, sustainable food policy and agriculture, energy and transportation, fighting misinformation and reducing the threat of catastrophic nuclear war.
Lomborg is also right to note that even if we're worried about worsening hurricanes due to global warming, it doesn't necessarily follow that our most immediate policy solution should simply be to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
«Respondents exposed to the campaign were more likely to believe that global warming is happening, to accept the scientific consensus, to be more concerned about impacts and more supportive of policy solutions.»
Founded in 1990, the group describes itself on its website as «a partnership of major environmental groups and private - sector clean energy companies» that «fight for policies that promote global warming solutions and increased reliance on clean, renewable energy sources for California and the West.»
California has a confusing welter of climate policies, but the place to start is with AB 32, the «Global Warming Solutions Act,» passed by the legislature in 2006 and signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger.