"There is a climate of mistrust and it's focused on one of the 19 allies, " said a diplomat, referring to France.
Doctors have complained that there is a "climate of fear", which has made some wary about reporting concerns.
Are you indicating here that there is scientific evidence that there is indeed a human-caused climate crisis?
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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.
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate -- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans -- that would achieve the same goal.
And for Italian and Spanish banks, in today's febrile climate there is a strong temptation to put any spare cash on deposit with central banks, even for a guaranteed loss on that money, because they don't want to double up on lending to households and businesses struggling to repay what they owe, and they don't want to be short of cash if capital flight intensifies.
Especially in the current economic climate where there is a prevailing atmosphere of cautionary spending towards sports sponsorships?
In this climate there is now a whole raft of ideas and schemes about how to get Europe working again.
Unfortunately for the people who live and work there, south Louisiana is a living laboratory for climate change.
But there is a general perception amongst the elderly that they are being targeted and this is creating a climate of fear.
Most of the people in the world climate community think there is about a degree of warming left if we turned everything off now.
But the administration opposes mandatory emissions targets, and there is probably not enough time to get a meaningful climate change bill to the president's desk by the end of the year.
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.
But there are also worries that a newly protectionist climate is making those processing visas more cautious.
Similarly, one camp maintains that temperatures are rising dramatically with unspeakable portents, while the other thinks what has happened is entirely a result of undefined internal oscillations in the earth-sun climate system, and that there is virtually no human component to climate change.
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Now more than ever, there is a need to increase our knowledge of the feedbacks between climate, ocean and changes induced by human activities.
"Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer as there are tandem health and climate benefits, " said Professor Piers Forster from the University of Leeds.
Britons do seem to regard climate change as a problem, but there is little appetite for big lifestyle changes.
Moreover, there is a simple way more or less to abolish the effect of climate change on yield to date.
"There is a thriving undercurrent economy here, which in the present economic climate will get worse, " said Ann Jackson, senior officer with Norfolk Trading Standards.
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It presupposes that there is such a thing in a chaotic system as a "global climate" from which a global mean temperature can be calculated and that it can in any way measurable with any accuracy.
While speculation still reigns in some quarters over the reality of a connection between carbon emissions and climate change, there is no doubt that running short of energy would be the most immediately catastrophic event for civilization.
With a poor economy, there is not much willingness to make sacrifices to slow climate change.
He recognised the financial limitations in the current climate but cited the example of the United States where there is a separate department dealing with veterans.
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While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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But there are other signs that what seemed a climate of virtual paralysis at the agency is abating.
"There's a big surplus of beef calves in northern areas where the climate is good and pastures are rich, " he said.
In this new climate, there is much greater variability of performance, according to Ross Davies, a specialist in retailing at Oxford University's Templeton College.
But just as India is realizing these challenges, it also already is responding, including appointing a climate change coordinator to each village council (and there are hundreds of thousands of villages in India).
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Success with shale gas will reduce dependence on imports and increase tax revenues, they say, but there is a downside: if it takes off, shale gas will shatter the UK's statutory climate change targets unless the government moves much faster with carbon capture and storage technology.
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