Sentences with phrase «warming policy today»
President Bush plans to use a Rose Garden speech on global warming policy today to propose several ways to improve the situation, government officials say, including an increase in money for basic climate research and an effort to coordinate American climate - modeling efforts with those abroad.
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The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has today insisted policy makers must adequately resource initiatives that make homes warmer and healthier and in turn reduce carbon emissions.
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.
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.
Today that projection has changed to 2012, thereby proving emphatically that this Global Warming process is happening Exponentially, which has been further advance by our current Administration's policies such as the «Clear Skies Initiative», which as most of us know is nothing but a «wolf in sheep's clothing».
Today and Wednesday a group of authors from across the different working groups — examining the basics of climate science, the impacts of warming and options for policy responses — are meeting at Jasper Ridge in northern California to come up with an approach for «consistent evaluation of uncertainties and risks.»
[28] I fear the irrational policies of extreme environmentalists far more that a warmer climate on this relatively cold planet (14.5 C global average temperature today compared with 25C during the Greenhouse Ages.
«The global warming religion runs so deep today that most politicians figure it's best enact some sort of green policy, regardless of whether or not that policy actually reduces global warming.
Today another inquiry is being considered in the UK, following pressure from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
«Focusing on what we could achieve in the future through global - warming policies takes our attention away from what we could accomplish today,» Lomborg wrote, using the spread of malaria - carrying mosquitoes as an example.
Lord Lawson's skeptic lobby group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), released a report today criticising scientists» estimate of how sensitive earth's climate is to carbon dioxide.
He said that from an economic point of view, it would be more rational to spend lots of money on today's other big problems, and only make small and limited changes in policies relating to global warming, such as a slight increase in gasoline or carbon taxes.
Joseph Romm and Peter Fox - Penner, Plugging into the Grid: How Plug - in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Can Help Break America's Oil Addiction and Slow Global Warming (Washington, DC: Progressive Policy Institute, 2007); Roger Duncan, «Plug - In Hybrids: Pollution - Free Transport on the Horizon,» Solar Today, May / June 2007, p. 47.
These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.
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.
However, there is no known suite of technologies that can affect this rate significantly, so the proper policy is to invest in the future rather than to waste money today in a futile attempt to significantly reduce warming.»
The campaign released it just as Mr. McCain was planning to give a major speech on energy policy today, and a day after Al Gore, the public face of efforts to slow the warming trend, formally endorsed Senator Barack Obama.
The report «Oversensitive — how the IPCC hid the good news on global warming,» was released today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)-- a U.K. think - tank which is «concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated» regarding climate change (disclosure: our Dick Lindzen is a member of the GWPF Academic Advisory Cowarming,» was released today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)-- a U.K. think - tank which is «concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated» regarding climate change (disclosure: our Dick Lindzen is a member of the GWPF Academic Advisory CoWarming Policy Foundation (GWPF)-- a U.K. think - tank which is «concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated» regarding climate change (disclosure: our Dick Lindzen is a member of the GWPF Academic Advisory Council).
The states represented here today have long been working hard to sound the alarm, to put smart policies in place, to speed our transition to a clean energy future, and to stop power plants from emitting millions of tons of dangerous global - warming pollution into our air.»
Today, most Western governments are reining in their global warming policies, slashing their ruinously expensive subsidies to renewables and aggressively developing fossil fuels.
That is the conclusion of a new briefing paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).