The top priority Tuesday wasn't necessarily jobs, or guns, or climate change, or voting rights.
But not on health care, or climate change, and not on the economy, taxes, or the price of petrol.
There are few people to handle difficult cross-regional topics such as water resources or climate change, and few linguists fluent in tongues helpful beyond Asia.
"Anyone who, for example, belongs to a campaign group which may oppose some aspect of US foreign policy, whether it be the Iraq war or climate change, " he said.
"I think that the American people realize that I'm very different in many ways, whether it be spending, or the conduct of the war in Iraq, or climate change, or treatment of prisoners, or a number of other issues, " he said.
The words climate change or global change or global climate change, whatever - none of them appear in the DOE budget, for that matter, not the Environmental Protection Agency budget, either.
Species and ecosystems will change with or without climate change.
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There is, therefore, no money to spend on the euro, bailing Greece out, reducing poverty in the Third World or battling climate change.
Reducing the EU budget would cripple our ability to invest in areas such as research and development or efforts to tackle climate change or harm our energy security.
"If they thought they had to leave their people in really dire poverty or tackle climate change then it would be very hard to persuade them that they should take action, " she added.
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If you believe in the benefits of energy innovation, support national security or consider climate change to be a non-negligible threat to our planet, you need to stop listening to Al Gore and start reading Adam Smith.
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Regardless of what you believe about the urgency or importance climate change, we can agree that making more clean, American energy, making it more affordable, and making it right here in the USA are all in the national interest.
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The real challenge is figuring out whether a particular storm or flood was due to climate change or natural variables, said Chris Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology.
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It has become no longer politically correct in certain circles in Washington to speak about climate change or carbon pollution or how carbon pollution is causing our climate to change.
Unfortunately, other states are lagging when it comes to consideration of potential climate change impacts or have yet to formally address climate change preparedness at all.
He said that all this couldn't be at the expense of plans for immigration reform, gun laws or legislation on climate change.
At Cornell, for example, researchers have reached opposite conclusions on whether natural gas from fracking would be better or worse for climate change than burning coal.
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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If a rational person believes climate change is a certainty, he or she will also believe that climate policy is a rational response to manage that change.
But it also raises the central question: Which problem takes priority, climate change or energy independence?
Which is, are we going to be better off without climate change or without fossil fuels?
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Euro-types boast that the EU stands for stirring values like leadership on climate change or opposition to the death penalty.
"For multi-decadal variability, over the historical period, the major cause was aerosols as opposed to climate change or ocean acidification, " he explained.
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The truth is that neither side of the issue on climate change or global warming can claim to have science on their side.
Depending upon whom you ask, Revkin is either the keeper of the truth on climate change or the scribe of the global warming inquisition.
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In the long run, too, aid may serve the national interest if it improves outsiders' opinions of Britain and somehow discourages wars, refugee flows, climate change or other nasties.
The IPCC, or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is the U.N. body whose lengthy reports are supposed to be the gold standard for what the world knows about climate change.
Because climate change or global warming can neither be proved or disproved using the scientific method because we are living and taking measurements within the only experiment there is or ever can be.
While this excellent overview was published last December, the numbers are revealing in ways perhaps least understood: we can engender actuarial tables for insurers and re-insurers with respect to human mortalities directly or indirectly correlated to climate change (as in extreme weather events, etc.).
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