Before the research papers of the IPY's scientists are published, for those living on the southern polar cap, climate change is already palpable.
Flight movements above the Committee on Climate Change cap would pose an unacceptable risk.
Critics of the Obama Administration have accused the president of abandoning climate change after the cap and trade bill he supported stalled in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate.
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Skocpol explains convincingly that one of the reasons for the failure of cap and trade legislation was that climate reformers focused their energy on Beltway lobbying rather than mobilizing support in local communities.
At times he has argued powerfully in favour of a cap-and-trade bill to moderate climate change.
Yes, national and global climate action that sets a shrinking cap and a rising price on carbon dioxide are crucial.
We need to tackle global climate change by establishing an economywide cap on carbon emissions and making sure that carbon permits are auctioned, not given away.
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If the climate stabilises soon, the ice cap might resettle at a slightly lower mass than it has now, raising sea levels by only a few centimetres.
He and Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman had worked hard to push a global climate crisis-premised 2010 carbon cap-and-trade bill, only to see its prospects for passage swept away in a Republican House cleaning.
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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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"We want spending maintained at current levels both within the CAP and structural funds to help us through the current economic climate, " added the deputy minister.
Researchers are using a nuclear submarine to take them beneath the Arctic ice cap to study ocean currents that may have an effect on global climate.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global warming alarm-premised carbon cap-and-trade promoting politician this side of the hysterically-hyped rising oceans.
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Media reports indicate that you may frame climate change as a national security issue to prod Congress into passing cap-and-trade legislation, like the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House last June.
"We're challenging Waxman-Markey's cap-and-trade bill, not the need for a legislative response to climate change, " says Karen Harbert, head of the Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy.
Earlier this year, dozens of businesses and environmental groups signed on to the United States Climate Action Partnership, an organization calling for a so-called "cap-and-trade" system to limit carbon emissions.
For its 2012 report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said that U.S. companies purchased more voluntary carbon offsets than any other country, to support American climate change projects in the absence of a U.S. federal cap and trade scheme.
Mr Hunt is quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying the lower cap, recommended by Mr Dilnot, would "not be credible" in the current economic climate.
But Republicans still have the power to block climate legislation in the Senate, especially with some Democrats from coal and industrial states also ambivalent about cap-and-trade.
Careful carbon accounting has been the presumed basis of cap-and-trade programs as envisioned by the Kyoto Protocol and advocated as the best approach for national climate policy.
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