Tag Archives: Paris Agreement
Evaluating Sources of Climate Change Information
Evaluating sources of information before using them helps ensure that the researcher finds trustworthy conclusions. My evaluation criteria help the climate change researcher determine how useful sources of information will be for their project relative to the existing body of … Continue reading
Posted in Risk and resilience
Tagged climate change, climate scorecard, credibility, credible, earthaction, Paris Agreement, report, research, sources, tgci, trustworthy
Leave a comment
Trump’s Statement on Paris Agreement is “Mostly False”
President Donald Trump stated, in a letter received by Professor Neil Leary, that “little would change for our climate under the Paris Agreement”. Under the rankings used to gauge the accuracy of statements by Politifact this on can be considered … Continue reading
Posted in Risk and resilience, Trump & Paris Agreement
Tagged Donald Trump, fact check, Paris Agreement
1 Comment
Checking Donald Trump
Truth-O-Meter: Half-True: Partially accurate, but excludes important context. In June of 2017, Donald Trump made the drastic decision to pull the United States out of the long negotiated Paris Agreement. While this may have not been a major surprise, as … Continue reading
Fact-Checking Trump
Donald Trump has made some pretty bold claims in his short time serving as our president, but what are charismatic statements without truth- propaganda perhaps? The Politifact website shows, the majority of Trump’s statements are False, a recorded 33% of … Continue reading
Posted in Risk and resilience, Trump & Paris Agreement
Tagged China, climate change, Donald Trump, Paris Agreement, politics, UNFCCC
Leave a comment
President Trump’s New Promise: The Erosion of America’s Global Leadership in Climate Change Action
“Continued participation in the Paris Agreement would be fundamentally unfair to American taxpayers. It would require the transfer of billions of their hard-earned dollars to other countries through the ‘Green Climate Fund.’” Truth-O-Meter rating: mostly false (contains an element of … Continue reading
The Importance of Mitigation in a World Combating Climate Change
During the 2nd half of the 20th century, scientists from different parts of the world began to conduct research on the effects that a developing world was having on the environment. They noticed that the temperature, the level of the … Continue reading
Posted in Risk and resilience
Tagged climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Mitigation, Paris Agreement, Sinks
Leave a comment