Sentences with phrase «who focus on climate change»

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN who focuses on climate change and social justice.

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Think of the large NGOs focused on climate change as the beavers who want to keep new holes from forming.

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

Inhofe attacks «environmental agenda» These messages don't sit well with conservatives who say that a focus on climate change detracts from efforts to contain terrorism and siphons away needed resources.

Another White House guest in the crowd was Nicole Hernandez Hammer, a climate activist who has focused her work on climate change's impacts in Florida.

Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litiClimate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigChange Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate change litigchange litigation.

«We've got this huge El Niño out there, we have the warm blob in the northeast Pacific, the cool blob in the Atlantic, and this ridiculously warm Arctic,» says Jennifer Francis, a climate researcher at Rutgers University who focuses on the Arctic and has argued that Arctic changes are changing mid-latitude weather by causing wobbles in the jet stream.

Summerford, who was one of 1,000 people trained by Al Gore and others to give presentations on climate change, focuses first on the local picture.

Many of these teachers - in - training are career - changers like Shapiro, who was working at a policy foundation in San Francisco focused on climate change this time last year.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) is pleased to announce the third season of the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida and the release of Rising Waters, a video documenting the artists and scientists who were invited to participate in the inaugural Rauschenberg Residency focused on climate change.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

For a stark example of the costs attending business as usual, read the following «Your Dot» contribution from Elizabeth Hadly, a Stanford University biologist who's been doing field work in Nepal's Himalayan highlands focused on the impact of climate change on small mammals.

But the planning goes back at least a year or two and the main organizers are Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, a Cambridge University economist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, San Diego, focused on reducing sooty pollution and climate change, and Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France, who is also a professor of history and ethics at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

In a news release from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Brian O'Neill, an author of the study (and someone who has long focused on the interplay of population and climate change), stressed the importance of considering the interplay of societal patterns and climate patterns in gauging evolving risks:

While it's fashionable these days to fight over who's in denial about what facts on climate change, a focus on known uncertainty goes way back.

The piece spends quite a bit of time, appropriately on the fascinating work of Dan Kahan, the Yale law professor who is a leader of the ongoing «Cultural Cognition» research project and was the focus of my piece on how one can choose a Nobel Prize winner in physics to suit just about any view on human - driven climate change.

Formerly known as «Eco-Cell at St. John's,» the group has grown over the past five years to include a core group of 12 along with a wider involved community of 40 members who organize meetings, community events and maintain an email list focused on climate change and other environmental issues.

These issues are likely to be a major focus of the forthcoming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reClimate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reclimate research.

Buckland's work is now solely focused on this objective and is accompanied by the many artists who have shared the quest of finding a cultural response to climate change.

The premise behind the GDRs project is that the climate crisis can only be understood against the backdrop of an ongoing and debilitating development crisis, and that it is both unacceptable and unrealistic to expect those who are still struggling against poverty to focus their resources on averting climate change.

I would have as many disagreements discussing climate change with a «denier» as I would with a firm believer in CAGW or someone who shares my general beliefs but is a firm believer in the precautionary principle which roughly states the even if the science is not settled, we should treat CAGW as a real threat and focus on preventing it rather than living with it.

Focusing on the rights of those who are already vulnerable and marginalized due to poverty and discrimination, a human rights - based approach to climate change can be a useful tool to complement international efforts aimed at tackling the adverse effects of global warming.

Given the magnitude of potential harms from climate change, those who make skeptical arguments against the mainstream scientific view on climate change have a duty to submit skeptical arguments to peer - review, acknowledge what is not in dispute about climate change science and not only focus on what is unknown, refrain from making specious claims about mainstream science of climate change such as the entire scientific basis for climate change has been completely debunked, and assume the burden of proof to show that emissions of greenhouse gases are benign.

In its first week, fivethirtyeight published a piece from Rodger Pielke Jr. (an environmental studies professor who focuses on climate impacts) in which it was argued that climate change is not causing increased economic losses.

Amidst high - profile international climate negotiations that focus largely on emissions mitigation, the message that those who are least responsible for driving climate change will suffer the greatest consequences is often lost.

KNOW TOMORROW is a project of The Climate Reality Project and Cool Globes, Inc., devoted to focusing existing student efforts and synchronizing the millennials» voices who are demanding action on climate Climate Reality Project and Cool Globes, Inc., devoted to focusing existing student efforts and synchronizing the millennials» voices who are demanding action on climate climate change.

Among those who have taken some interest in addressing climate change, there have over the last decade or so been discussions about whether a focus on curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industries or a focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels is the right single or leading method to move society into a transition away from fossil energy.

Meanwhile, even if experts are calling it «luck» that Florida went more than a decade without hurricane landfall, that aberration itself fits the profile of climate change: In general, climate scientists who focus on hurricanes expect slightly fewer storms, but warn that the ones that do form will be more powerful.

In his book «Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,» author and freelance journalist McKenzie Funk moves the conversation on climate change beyond whether or not it is happening to focus on people around the world who are finding ways to profit from it.

Here at the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU - UNO), we are focusing on advocacy work on earth justice and climate change issues with respect to the fact that, without awareness and actions, we steal from the next generation who will suffer the terrible consequences of climate change.

Given the magnitude of potential harms from climate change, those who make skeptical arguments against the mainstream scientific view on climate change have a duty to submit skeptical arguments to peer - review, acknowledge what is not in dispute about climate change science and not only focus on what is unknown, refrain from making specious claims about the mainstream science of climate change such as the entire scientific basis for climate change that has been completely debunked, and assume the burden of proof to show that emissions of greenhouse gases are benign.

Two scientists who believe we are on the wrong track argue in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are going to deal with its consequences..»

Foley contrasted the long - standing ambitions of those arguing for action on climate change who have focused on the «wholesale transformation of the world's economy and energy systems» with the prevailing dysfunction in Washington and the endless debate that has derailed international climate negotiations.

2) why should we focus on the climate over problems such as disease and malnutrition 3) there are many reports of scientists fudging # s in order to get more funding — how trustworthy are many of the scientists who seem to benefit from climate change hysteria 4) what reasonable actions are these scientists advocating?

Real Climate «has clearly aligned itself squarely with one political position on climate change» — January 14, 2005 — Excerpt: The site's focus has been exclusively on attacking those who invoke science as the basis for their opposition to action on climate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and MyronClimate «has clearly aligned itself squarely with one political position on climate change» — January 14, 2005 — Excerpt: The site's focus has been exclusively on attacking those who invoke science as the basis for their opposition to action on climate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and Myronclimate change» — January 14, 2005 — Excerpt: The site's focus has been exclusively on attacking those who invoke science as the basis for their opposition to action on climate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and Myronclimate change, folks such as George Will, Senator James Inhofe, Michael Crichton, McIntyre and McKitrick, Fox News, and Myron Ebell.

Endorsed by more than 100 independent scientists, engineers and economists who work in the field of climate change, the open letter calls on world leaders to abandon the goal of «stopping climate change» and focus instead on helping nations become resilient to natural changes by promoting environmentally - responsible economic growth.

The Greens, who could hold the balance of power in the next parliament, have so far focused their attention on climate change policies, with a seven - point plan aimed at transitioning Australia away from fossil fuels.

The POLITICO report focuses on 20 Trump appointees with positions as agency heads or advisors in the administration who have made public statements dismissing the threat of climate change or the science behind it.

As I recall he falls in the Tol / Curry / Lomborg school of focusing on the lower end of estimates of climate change sensitivity and related effects, the «sure, some warming may be happening and maybe humans are responsible for some of it but who's to say it will be bad?»

The family foundation — the work of the entrepreneur who created Bankers Life and Trust — is a co-founder of the Energy Foundation, and a vocal supporter of non-profit organizations that focus on combating man - caused climate change, with a focus on establishing a global energy policy that eschews cheap fossil fuels for more - costly «renewable» energy sources.

Curry, who has been invited several times by Republicans to testify at climate change hearings regarding alleged uncertainties on manmade climate change, focused on how the climate debate has been politicised and that science has been «caught in the crossfire» leading to «oversimplification» of the problem of and solutions to climate change.

This week in Geneva at the Conference on Health and Climate, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on national and local policymakers to take action with a focus on preventative measures to lessen future impacts of climate change on Climate, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on national and local policymakers to take action with a focus on preventative measures to lessen future impacts of climate change on climate change on health.

Why isn't the possibility of abolishing malaria at the forefront of the WHO's reports, and why do its press releases instead focus on the far less significant, and ultimately less safe attribution of deaths to climate change?

SPPI was founded in mid-2007 with a strong focus on global warming skepticism, and draws heavily on papers published by climate change science denier Christopher Monckton who was the editor of the SPPI's «Monthly CO2 Report,» (last published in January of 2011) has had many of his papers published with SPPI, and is also listed as the group's «Chief Policy Advisor.»

If you want to figure out how to create a discourse with those who are not dyed - in - the - wool true believers, who are sceptical of of environmentalists, aren't particularly interested in sacrificing their lifestyles and aspirations in the name of the planet, then we have to create a discourse that speaks to people's optimism, that we can innovate and invent our way through this problem and also get them focused on the reality that whatever the cause, be it man or nature, the climate is in fact changing, and that we have to do something about this.

The Keystone XL fight was constructed around picking one proposed project to focus on with a clear elected decider, who had campaigned on addressing climate change.