Sentences with phrase «writes about climate issues»

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The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

PS If you Google» site: zacgoldsmith.com climate change» then you'll see that he writes about the issue frequently.

Whilst these blogs are popular - in terms of unique visitor numbers (and before Unity has a go at me, I know there are weaknesses in those numbers)- they tend to be written by people who write about a large number of issues and climate change is not their principle topic (or even one that they discuss very often).

Today's lead editorial in the Times Union lambasted Cuomo & Astorino for failing to run serious campaigns and praised Howie Hawkins, writing «The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.»

Between being run out of [the popular statistics blog FiveThirtyEight.com] for writing on my research last year and what's happening this week [in] Congress, a lot of folks want to make the issues surrounding climate about me, instead of the issues.

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

I've addressed this question before in various ways, but was prompted to dig into my ideas and feelings about the building greenhouse effect with new rigor when two very different magazines, Issues in Science and Technology (the magazine of the National Academies) and Creative Nonfiction, invited me to write an essay on my 30 years of climate inquiry.

In a 1998 book, edited by Bill Nordhaus (Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change), Dick Schmalensee wrote about «Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions,» and lamented that the Kyoto Protocol exhibited narrow scope (covering only the Annex I countries) but aggressive ambition for that small set of nations.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

11:31 a.m. Updated below as marked I've written here before about what I call «single - study syndrome,» the habit of the more aggressive camps of advocates surrounding hot issues (e.g., climate, chemical exposure, fracking) to latch onto and push studies supporting an agenda, no matter how tenuous — or dubious — the research might be.

What inspired you to start writing about climate change issues through music?

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

When a batch of climate scientists on all sides of the hurricane - climate question issued a letter warning that the main issue related to hurricanes is coastal vulnerability, not climate change, I wrote about it, but hardly anyone else did.

This year I wrote an article about how North America's amazingly variegated climate, where it's tinder dry in some places and soggy and cool elsewhere, may be one reason the country has not focused on the global warming issue as much as more compact places with more uniform climate conditions (western Europe, for instance).

He is not a climate scientist but he writes about the issues of the day (a hundred years of days, from Arrhenius to IPCC) as though he was there.

Carter, from Washington, D.C., wrote about the utter certainty of a growing human climate impact (which is a separate issue from certainty over a signal of such influence, the focus of Tuesday's post):

Second, I was asked to write about the science and issues at the climate science - policy interface, which I regard as of the utmost importance.

As one of the grandfathers of the environmental movement, Lester Brown is an original «face of climate change,» writing about population, food, and land issues in the early 1960s when he was at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Climate change isn't just about the planet, writes environmental activist Leehi Yona, but is connected to an array of issues spanning from transgender justice to racism to immigration reform.

We have written an article about the Clear Climate Code project for the IEEE Software special issue on climate sClimate Code project for the IEEE Software special issue on climate sclimate science.

If journalists wrote more stories about where uncertainty exists in the science, and if they were more aggressive about challenging scientists on transparency issues, we wouldn't have these pseudo-scandals erupt every time a climate scientist missteps.

Yet, as we have written about before, there is one extraordinary important issue about the link between natural gas production and climate change that is rarely being reported on in the US press nor is it usually part of the US debate about natural gas fracking and its impact on climate change.

Judith writes: «Relative to the broader issue of attribution, which are at the heart of skeptical concern, details of the surface temperature record don't play a terribly large role in most people's skepticism about climate change.»

John Carter wrote: > For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change...

She also writes for Climate Nexus, a nonprofit that aims to tell the climate story in innovative ways that raise awareness of, dispel misinformation about and showcase solutions to climate change and energy issues in the United Climate Nexus, a nonprofit that aims to tell the climate story in innovative ways that raise awareness of, dispel misinformation about and showcase solutions to climate change and energy issues in the United climate story in innovative ways that raise awareness of, dispel misinformation about and showcase solutions to climate change and energy issues in the United climate change and energy issues in the United States.

For Green Prophet, I often write about (let's face it) depressing issues such as climate refugees and environmental conflicts in which everyone pays the price but I do sometimes get to write about some fun stuff too.

In November, 2015, the three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — wrote a small book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus revealing how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Back to the broader issue of whether climate models have been disproved, though: the questions I've just written about are all about how climate change affects hurricanes, and not about the basic fact of human - induced climate change itself.

Today, Steve Outing of Editor & Publisher wrote a commentary about false objectivity in journalism and how it relates to the issue of global heating (Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers).

I think it is a bit premature to hope that GRACE will help solve this issue; I have written about this here: http://fergusbrown.wordpress.com/ and am taking the opportunity to shamelessly promote my own new blog on climate and similar matters.

«I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues.

The list includes former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who spoke about climate change on the 2012 presidential campaign trail; Senator John McCain, who proposed a series of climate change legislation in the mid-2000s; former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed an emissions - reduction law for his state in 2006; and former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, who writes about climate and other issues as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

In his comments he adds a good deal of intensity to the issue, writing about «blacklists» and «possible loss of grants» This is just as over-the-top as the PNAS paper, and just as unhelpful — if Pielke's concern is to improve the role of climate science in policy and politics

In a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Science, Geerat Vermeij of UC Davis and Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences write that climate change is creating conditions in the Arctic similar to those found during the warm mid-Pliocene epoch, about 3.5 million years ago, when a number of favorable factors helped many North Pacific mollusk species invade the warming Arctic Ocean and, eventually, the North Atlantic.

On the issue of to what extent attribution «evidence» derived from GCMs / AOGCMs (the validity of which is dependent on their climate sensitivities being realistic) can be relied on, three academics who have published extensively on climate sensitivity, Chris Forest, Peter Stone and Andrei Sokolov, wrote about GCMs in «Constraining Climate Model Parameters from Observed 20th century Changes» (Tellus A, 2008) as fclimate sensitivities being realistic) can be relied on, three academics who have published extensively on climate sensitivity, Chris Forest, Peter Stone and Andrei Sokolov, wrote about GCMs in «Constraining Climate Model Parameters from Observed 20th century Changes» (Tellus A, 2008) as fclimate sensitivity, Chris Forest, Peter Stone and Andrei Sokolov, wrote about GCMs in «Constraining Climate Model Parameters from Observed 20th century Changes» (Tellus A, 2008) as fClimate Model Parameters from Observed 20th century Changes» (Tellus A, 2008) as follows:

Here is the noted physicist Freeman Dyson writing on a related issue in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: subscription required: (The article is mostly about the dangers of nuclear and biological warfare technology, but the BAS issue «Approaching Midnight» also addresses climate.