As a result, the integrity or lack of integrity of climate-change science has taken center stage in the popular debate over climate policy.
The degree of the decline will depend on the actions the government takes in its fiscal policy and the investment climate in general.
Engineering the Climate is the 14th policy brief in the series.
Population and ConsumptionToo little consumption is the biggest challenge climate-change policy will face in the future, eclipsing the signifiance of over-consumption.
If the past presages the future, the Vatican may play a critical role in shaping the ongoing debate over climate science and climate policy.
More than half of the energy and climate change policy costs in household bills are spent on measures to target the fuel poor and energy efficiency.
While this is not an event anyone is hoping to repeat, consideration of the state of our economy is directly relevant in the context of discussing whether or not potential climate change policy should be pursued at the present time.
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You need growth to revive confidence, and the only tool capable of producing growth in this climate, the critics would argue, is fiscal policy - a lot more government spending.
Both sides see a historic crossroads, like an energy version of D-Day or Waterloo, in which the winner will determine energy and climate policy for decades to come.
The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change, one of the few issues that he thinks could fundamentally improve the world decades from now.
Because of the importance of economic valuation in motivating policy change with regard to climate change issues, there is a clear need to enhance the dialogue between science and economics in this rapidly emerging area of social concern.
Sandy, in slamming into the geographical and symbolic hearts of finance and policy in this country has brought climate risks and costs into popular discussion, but even before that, there were indications of a cultural tipping point.
The news comes as world leaders struggle to negotiate climate-change policy at the United Nations talks in Durban, South Africa.
"While we welcome the areas where progress to meet targets has been made, we share the concerns that the UK CCC latest report flags up of 'considerable uncertainty' in the Scottish government's draft climate plan and the need to increase the rate of policy implementation if we are to deliver our climate targets, " Mr Ballantine said.
This paradigm was never well founded , but , in recent years, the entire basis for the Climate and Temperature trends and predictions of dangerous warming in the 2007 IPCC Ar4 Summary for Policy Makers has been destroyed.
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At Via Meadia, we think there really is such a thing as climate change, but we also believe that there are plenty of emotionally unbalanced greens whose unrealistic climate alarmism gets in the way of thoughtful policy debate.
With climate policy in disarray here in the United States as well, leading environmental organizations and progressives would do well to look to our friends in Australia for a new model to move away from compromised and politically unsustainable emissions trading and toward major public investments in clean energy innovation and infrastructure to create a prosperous clean energy economy.
The fact of the matter is that climate change skeptics start from a position not of working in the science and finding problems but they start from a position of opposing the policy implications of climate change science and work backwards to the science.
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"However, in practice, the extreme economic climate of recent years has meant that BoE has not been conducting policy strictly in accordance with its 2% policy, " she said, adding that it had paid "greater heed to the performance of the real economy" in recent times.
It is within that policy option that changes in the effects climate change move me around.
It regreted that the cross-party support for the long-term targets in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 had "not been followed by consensus on the urgent and radical policy changes needed to bring about a low-carbon economy".
They were not lobbying the government, and their positions in the government had little or nothing to do with influencing climate policy.
Yet whatever Mr Cameron's personal views, his party sees environmentalism as an indulgent luxury: in a poll, Tory MPs ranked climate change as the lowest policy priority for a Tory government.
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In Doha, governments are expected to usher in a renewed commitment under the Kyoto Protocol, move the broad infrastructure of support they have been building for action in the developing world into firm implementation, and decide how to resolve policy issues that remain outstanding under the UN Climate Change Convention.
The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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Even in the feverish climate stoked by North Korea's threats, some policy experts are urging the Obama administration to show more flexibility in its dealings with the Kim regime.
Nor is it easy to disentangle the effects of climate change from those of avoidable failures in policy.
For all three proposals, the idea is the same: climate policy is all about public investments in clean energy.
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In particular, advocates less inclined to pitch another battle similar to the cap-and-trade debate are most interested in implementing climate policy through regulatory actions.
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The Welsh Lib Dems say Mr Cable's comments were not party policy but indicated the levels of cuts needed in the current economic climate.
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