Sentence examples for testimony on climate from inspiring English sources

After his ruling, the judge directed the jury to disregard the expert testimony on climate change, public health, and the dangers of transporting crude oil by train.

His 1988 congressional testimony on climate change helped introduce the problem of rising greenhouse gas emissions to the American public, and he has led study after study examining exactly how our world will change as a result of global warming.

On Monday, members of the Senate energy panel will hear testimony on climate change and economics.

A former EPA administrative staffer claims the Vice President's office ordered the deletion of every mention of the health impacts of global warming from draft testimony on climate change by the director of the Centers for Disease Control.

My interest in forestry at that point was entirely commercial and then it began to morph into a decent investment, plus, "look how important these forests are to maintain fresh water, carbon sequestration, etc"… I picked up none of that [James Hansen's 1988 testimony before Congress on climate change and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit].

These words, from WB Yeats's poem The Second Coming, came to mind as I read the testimony from Wednesday's Senate hearings on climate change.

Both journalist and activist Bill McKibben and James Hansen — the former director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA who famously sounded the alarm on climate change in Congressional testimony back in 1988 — were set to testify for the defense.

This campaign of obfuscation and intimidation included doctoring Congressional testimony on the health effects of climate change; ordering the E.P.A. to recompute its numbers to minimize the economic benefits of curbing carbon dioxide; and promoting the fiction that the modest fuel-economy improvements in last year's energy bill would solve the problem of carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

The support for policies to address climate change by representatives from the NFL and the USOC made the day's testimony by all panelists about the need to act on climate change unanimous.

But after allowing two days of expert testimony on topics ranging from the Paris climate talks to railway safety standards and the health impacts of particulate matter, Judge Anthony E Howard ruled that the defense had failed to present sufficient evidence to show that the defendants had "no reasonable legal alternative" to trespassing on a private rail yard and blocking trains.

Tomorrow a Senate subcommittee will hear Department of Energy testimony on nine bills involving energy and climate policy, including an engineering education bill and measures to boost wind and solar energy.