Sentences with phrase «which climate change advocates»

Second, as the prices of oil and natural gas continue their downward plunge in search of a bottom, renewables on which climate change advocates are relying to replace fossil fuels become increasingly uncompetitive and in need of subsidies.

Not exact matches

Indeed there is no doubt that the future direction of the European Union will have a major impact on the political landscape of the UK: Completion of the single market, enlargement, climate change and security are some of the salient challenges which Member States will confront over the coming years and we as British Conservatives should be at the forefront of those advocating sensible and workable solutions.

This announcement comes in response to a petition signed by over 150,000 people calling for Heartland's corporate funders to drop support of the organization, which recently ran a billboard campaign in Chicago comparing those that advocate for solutions to climate change to «murderers, tyrants, and madmen.»

When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

Climate change advocates are not attacking the facts of his study, which seem to agree with satellite data showing no warming for over 18 years.

The crux of Bates» claim is that NOAA, the federal government's top agency in charge of climate science, published a poorly - researched but widely praised study with the political goal of disproving the controversial global warming hiatus theory, which suggests that global warming slowed down from 1998 until 2012 with little change in globally - averaged surface temperatures — a direct contrast to global warming advocates» claim that the earth's temperature has been constantly increasing.

The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.

The only reason Trenberth is advocating a change is political and the only cause of climate change for which he wants to change the rules is man.

Steve McIntyre talks about «the team» of scientists advocating for action on climate change — which is how they play, and why they're winning inside the institutional structures of the West.

• $ 365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is «inevitable» and expensive to address.

However, he completed the transformation from an environmental outlier advocating on behalf of free trade, deregulation, and the privatization of our natural resources, to an outright pariah due to the release of his 2008 book The Deniers, which established him as one of the world's leading climate change skeptics.

At one point Mr Bevis stated that Labor was following the «science» on climate change, at which point I surmised that you'd be hard - pressed to find a credible climate scientist advocating a five per cent cut.

Professor Ürge - Vorsatz was also one of two co-ordinating lead authors of the chapter on mitigating emissions from buildings in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report, which was published in 2013, and also explicitly advocated for the passive house standard.

It does not directly address which federal ministry should administer climate - change policy, but delegates to the Katoomba meeting clearly advocate a change from the current practice of leaving it up to the Ministry of External Relations (MRE, Ministério das Relações Exteriores) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia), which critics say are overly concerned with issues of sovereignty and energy.

, paid advocates (Tim the plant Biologist), University Law Deparments specialising in Climate Change, departments of Climate Change Ethics, AGW propaganda in schools which is damaging our scientific future, the Tax Sucking UN and its hangers on and so on.

Should those anomalies turn negative... well, Perhaps that is why we have a new phrase to replace «global warming» followed by «climate change» now apparently we have «climate disruption» which of course can be USED to «prove» whatever those advocates of CAGW want..

There is NOT yet shown a VALID reason to even think there IS unnatural climate change, so why SHOULD the «public» be at all interested, which is what is DRIVING the growing disinterest AND scrutiny of «greenhouse politic opinion», in turn which has produced AGAIN the «hockey stick debate» response form the «greenhouse advocates».

At the darkest end of the spectrum are groups like Deep Green Resistance, which openly advocates sabotage to «industrial infrastructure,» and the thousands who visit the Web site and attend the speeches of Guy McPherson, a biology professor at the University of Arizona who concluded that renewables would do no good, left his job, and moved to an off - grid homestead to prepare for abrupt climate change.

«greenhouse» gases in the atmosphere, since, as anybody but a climate change advocate nut knows, heat rises, most will then waft back harmlessly up into space, as the earth, as all functions seek equilibrium and homeostasis (those scientists believing that is a function of physiology and biology or entropy in a closed rather than open and single ended variant and changing input system don't know what they are talking about) then shifts back into balance, which is really what it is doing all along, since

Clean energy advocates who oppose the sunsetting of nuclear power maintain that nuclear power, which generates the most electricity without harmful carbon emissions, is our best weapon against climate change.

As Chapter 1 discusses in detail, environmental groups as mostly 501C3 organizations were allowed to spend unlimited sums on public education which includes advertising and communication efforts advocating generally for a need for action on climate change or a general cap on emissions.

In other words, it is not implausible that the demands of «sustainability» could have caused the very problem which its advocates now attribute to climate change.

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 Council).

«If it's too positive, which is what the industry is advocating for, then we're avoiding the problem and not addressing the issue of climate change,» he said.

Indeed many groups which once derided the idea of anthropogenic climate change now appear to question the cost of tackling it, or advocate for delay tactics while we «science it out».

I can see the energy independence pull on tapping into these fuel sources, but frankly any government which advocates developing oil shale or tar sands seriously loses its credibility in terms of its commitment to tackling climate change and on the environment more broadly.

This Perspective reviews the literature on climate change and mental health, and advocates for a systems approach, which considers the complex set of interacting distal, intermediate and proximate factors that influence mental health risk, in future research.

I don't know — but it seems that the advocates of consensus climate change define things to make humans look as bad as possible and fail to take into consideration the positive results of increased warmth, the enhanced crop growth, the lower cost to heat a home during winter, the increased CO2 sinks which are absorbing 1/2 of our emissions and so on.

Blocking any meaningful agreement, ignoring their mitigation obligations, advocating for market based approaches - which are all false solutions, just as having the private sector lead the charge against climate change -, and blackmailing other less vocal delegations are just some of the actions that clearly indicate their priorities and whose interests these governments represent.