Sentences with phrase «when national climate change»

The bulk of global carbon capture funding, though, came several years ago, when national climate change legislation was in play in both the United States and Canada.

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Gibson's resolution gained national attention when he introduced it in September on the eve of a U.S. visit by Pope Francis, who has warned that climate change will have a greater impact on the poor and vulnerable.

In a year when climate change is low on the national political radar, two states are bucking the trend.

When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives — and even neuroscience — to get the public in on national efforts to combat climate change

The only Trump administration engagement on climate change came at the start of the week, when White House National Economic Council chief Gary Cohn hosted counterparts for a Monday morning breakfast to reiterate that the United States would exit Paris and to squash reports that it might be searching for a way back in.

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Part of this is a result of ongoing frustration with broader policy measures, particularly at the national level, when it comes to confronting climate change.

Using the National Computational Infrastructure supercomputer at ANU to run climate models, the researchers explored when new normal states would appear under the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's four emissions paclimate models, the researchers explored when new normal states would appear under the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's four emissions paClimate Change's four emissions pathways.

This latest study, conducted by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the City University of New York (CUNY), highlights the importance of considering societal changes when trying to determine future climate impacts.

When you visit their website you'll find lessons that address issues like criminal justice, climate change, and national security.

Why not work to boost innovation, the economy, disaster preparedness and national security, and be pleasantly surprised when greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate change go down, too?

I got a preview of the kind of arguments U.S. negotiators will face when I bumped into Zou Ji, the deputy director general for the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation and a key member of the Chinese negotiating team, in the lobby of the Maritim Hotel.

It's fine for Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to say he feels «it is irresponsible not to mention climate change» when discussing tornado outbreaks.

When we take a position that isn't willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science — Sciences has said about what is causing climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing positWhen we take a position that isn't willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science — Sciences has said about what is causing climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing positwhen we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science — Sciences has said about what is causing climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing position.

Recently leaked documents show Heartland is drafting a national science curriculum created by a non-climate scientist database technician, designed to undermine traditional science education and promote climate change denial by teaching school children that there is a scientific controversy when in fact there is not — the controversy is political.

Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change scientist at NASA, first began studying global warming's impact on Arctic sea ice in 1978, when she was a promising new researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

When President Joko Widodo took office in 2014, he dissolved the REDD + Agency and National Climate Change Council, combining their mandates under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

«What's the News: Climate change may have sparked the demise of early Viking settlements in Greenland, according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, when temperatures cooled rapidly over several decades.

«Climate cranks — many of them the same people perpetually hectoring us about the perils of national security — are choosing to ignore the seriousness of climate change even when the national - security experts they champion are telling us to do jusClimate cranks — many of them the same people perpetually hectoring us about the perils of national security — are choosing to ignore the seriousness of climate change even when the national - security experts they champion are telling us to do jusclimate change even when the national - security experts they champion are telling us to do just that.

The military plans to defend against any and all percieved national threats, so naturally «climate change» when viewed as a threat would need to be evaluated in all its permutations to national security.

When Mike Pompeo was director of the CIA, there were concerns that his climate change waffling would prevent him from taking it seriously as a national security threat.

When Passive House Plus told Prof Ürge - Vorsatz about a comment Passive House Institute director Prof Wolfgang Feist made in these pages a few years ago — that the most ambitious action on climate change was coming from city governments and the European Union, rather than from national governments — she agreed.

The latest example of this strategy began unfolding earlier this month when David Rose, an opinion writer for the British tabloid The Daily Mail — known for misrepresentations of climate change and serial attacks on climate scientists — published a commentary attacking Tom Karl, the recently retired director of the National Centers for Environmental Information at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a scientist for whom I have deep respect.

That changed today during the 2016 China - US Climate - Smart / Low Carbon Cities Summit in Beijing, when Chengdu formally announced its commitment to control carbon dioxide emissions so that they reach a peak around 2025 and decline after that — a target five years ahead of China's national aim to peak carbon emissions by 2030.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

He was assigned the climate change duties when he was the National Marine Fisheries Service Division Chief for Fisheries Development in the 1970s.

Hansen rose to national prominence in 1988, when he testified to Congress about the looming threat of manmade climate change.

Slate: You've been a leader when it comes to talking about climate change as a national security issue.

The research agenda outlined below seeks to develop information and analyses that could be helpful in ensuring that nations take equity and justice seriously when making national commitments on climate change.

Bob Henson, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, said: «To claim that global temperatures have cooled since 1998 and therefore that man - made climate change isn't happening is a bit like saying spring has gone away when you have a mild week after a scorching Easter.»

The Paris Agreement created a framework for solving the climate problem, yet the post-Paris media has poorly covered the implications for nations of what sufficient ambition and fairness should be required of nations when they formulate national climate policies if very dangerous climate change is to be avoided.

When you go to national parks, you expect to hear the truth on slavery, Jim Crowe, women's rights, gay rights, the importance of wildfires, Japanese internment during WWII, treatment of Native Americans, the re-introduction of wolves, and climate change.

when economic analyses of climate change policy options can prescribe or limit national duties or obligations to respond to the threat of climate change,

A joint research project of the University of Auckland and Widener University Commonwealth Law School has concluded that when most nations have formulated national climate change policies not only the nations, but also the NGOs and media in these nations, have failed to seriously consider equity, ethical, and justice considerations that should guide national climate change policy.

Like any attempt to determine what a ghg national target should be, the above chart makes a few assumptions, including but not limited to, about what equity requires not only of the United States but of individual states, when global emissions will peak, and what the carbon emissions budget should be to avoid dangerous climate change.

This is the power of reflexive law, something I wrote extensively about when I was in law school with respect to corporate environmental disclosure, and would be equally applicable in the national climate change context.

The EO also wants to put an end to the practice of considering climate change impacts when weighing the pros and cons of granting environmental permits, under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

For instance, when some nations including the United States and New Zealand have debated climate change policies at the national level there has been a complete failure to acknowledge that proposed policies must respond to the nation's equity and ethical obligations.

The need to turn up the visibility on the ethical and equitable unacceptability of national ghg commitments is not only important to get nations to increase their emissions reductions commitments in international negotiations, it is also important to change the way climate change policies are debated at the national level when climate change policies are formed.

Defined by the National Academy of Sciences as climate change that «occurs when the climate system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

she identifies some of the principals in the spreading of what she calls this «alarmist rhetoric» to be various United Nations agencies, NGOs, national governments, security pundits, the popular media and — quite specifically — the Norwegian Nobel Committee of 2007, which, as she describes it, «warned that climate - induced migration and resource scarcity could cause violent conflict and war within and between states when it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore, Jr. and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.climate - induced migration and resource scarcity could cause violent conflict and war within and between states when it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore, Jr. and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.Climate Change.»

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.

I was assigned the climate change duties when I was the National Marine Fisheries Service Division Chief for Fisheries Development in the 1970s.

Yes, and when a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) linked climate change to the civil war now tearing apart Syria, many in mainstream media (and in climate messaging circles) jumped all over it.

On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand - up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my pile of conference literature, a mess of pamphlets and reports with titles likeGetting Climate Smart: A Water Preparedness Guide for State Action, and Successful Adaptation: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World.

Ebell, who rocketed to national prominence when he was tapped to run Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, faced laughter and some quiet jeering as he conveyed his ideas about climate change and the economy to investors gathered at the BNEF Future of Energy Summit.

Q: The Chinese chief negotiator on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, has literally thrown the baby and the bath water and the IPCC out, when he said after the BASIC meeting to please look at natural cyclic events as one of the aspects which could be causing climate change.