In "Ready Player One," the novelist Ernest Cline extrapolates from the ripples that rising energy prices and climate change send through the economy, and gives us a future where the suburbs die off and many people are packed into in high-rise urban trailer parks, spending their days on an increasingly addictive Internet instead of facing the quotidian squalor.
Organizations such as the Heartland Institute, which questions whether humans cause climate change, send out free educational materials to teachers and school boards.
Avaaz members spearheaded both events, and in between, have turned up at every major meeting on climate change, sent tens of thousands of messages to leaders and met with Presidents and Prime Ministers.
As a spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Mr. Morano was for years a ceaseless purveyor of the dissenting view on climate change, sending out a blizzard of e-mail to journalists covering the issue.
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein asked Kerry in an interview Thursday whether green-lighting Shell's plans as both Kerry and Obama highlighted the urgency of action on climate change sent a "mixed message". .
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Equally, Mr Rudd is intending his first overseas trip to Bali in early December, for a United Nations conference on climate change, to send signals about his foreign-policy agenda.
Downing Street said it hoped the Paris talks would represent a turning point in the fight against climate change and send out a strong signal for low-carbon industries across the world.
I don't actually hate them, but as you might imagine, they're going to have to cure cancer, end climate change, and send me a cheque for a couple of million quid to impress me enough to make up for missing Springsteen.
While the Swedes, Danes and others argued that Europe had to take the lead on climate change and send a strong signal for Copenhagen, the Germans are more skeptical, noting that there are limits to leadership and calling for the other rich countries to step up to the plate.
Climate change could send the global economy into a serious recession, according to a report released today by United Kingdom chief economist Nicholas Stern.
