Sentences with phrase «wider climate debate»

Although it looks mainly at Arctic sea ice the points it raises go to the heart of the wider climate debate.

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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

The only thing that is clear is that there continues to be great debate and uncertainty among these experts regarding the extent of natural climate variability versus human impacts, and what, if anything, enactment of economy - wide greenhouse gas regulations might do to alter our changing climate.

Background information World Wide Views on Climate and Energy is co-initiated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT), Missions Publiques (MP), and the French National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP), with the support of the French Government host of COP21.

In doing so, the artists behind this exhibit are hoping to stimulate a wider engagement with the climate debate.

Curated by David Buckland, Founder and Director of Cape Farewell, Carbon 13 features eight international artists who have ventured alongside scientists to some of the world's geographic tipping points, places profoundly stressed by our warming planet, and whose work aims to stimulate a wider engagement with the climate debate.

Our 2012 fall visual arts exhibition, Carbon 13, presents newly commissioned works by artists that propose a creative response to climate change aimed at stimulating discourse and a wider engagement with the climate debate.

This could then lead to a wider debate about how best to respond to climate change risks in a complex world with an uncertain future.

Second, there is a wider debate over what to do, or not do, about climate change, with peoples» preferences (a carbon tax, a technology push, building dikes or parasols in space) not so much a function of science as values.

But the COP is also a moment in time — a chance for the wider climate community to reflect on progress towards a clean energy transition, to challenge the terms of the debate, and to put forward ideas, money and commitments to action.

Our stance on the climate debate is often assumed — with approval or derision, depending on who's doing the assuming — to reflect a wider Conservative outlook.

President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide - ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.

CBS NEWS Oct 20 2016 - Where Trump and Clinton stand on climate change The third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Wednesday night in Las Vegas covered a wide range of issues from abortion to foreign policy to the national debt, but there was one glaring omission - climate change.

Co-curated by Kathleen Soriano, Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy, David Buckland, Director of Cape Farewell, and, Edith Devaney, Royal Academy, the exhibition reflected the impact of the climate change debate on the practice of a broad range of contemporary artists across a wide variety of media.

I see no difference between what is happening in the climate change debate courtesy of nutters like Lew and Oreskes and what is happening in the wider community, where the unwitting use of politically incorrect words and phrases is increasingly becoming the subject of ludicrous and lengthy official investigations which amount to little more than officially sanctioned witch hunts.

Though scientific consensus must always be open to responsible skepticism given: (a) the strength of the consensus on this topic, (b) the enormity of the harms predicted by the consensus view, (c) an approximately 30 year delay in taking action that has transpired since a serious climate change debate began in the United States in the early 1980s, (d) a delay that has made the problem worse while making it more difficult to achieve ghg emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change because of the steepness of reductions now needed, no politician can ethically justify his or her refusal to support action on climate change based upon a personal opinion that is not supported by strong scientific evidence that has been reviewed by scientific organizations with a wide breadth of interdisciplinary scientific expertise.

That the debate about climate sensitivity has begun to permeate into the wider media is very welcome.

It will be interesting to see how these issues — particularly those relating to federal climate legislation — are debated among states, a grouping that displays a wide range of resources, interests and capabilities.

With regard to the wider public «debate» about AGW, though, I don't see how it is a «bad idea» to name names of politicians who deliberately and aggressively LIE to the American people about the reality of anthropogenic global warming and climate change, and who engage in vicious and dishonest attacks on climate scientists.

Fortunately, this lonely set of voices «demanding» non-sensical debate over the realities of climate change are being more than drowned out by a very wide and diverse group of people standing up to make a difference in a positive way.