In 1988 when scientists had first begun to call for restrictions on greenhouse gases, the world's governments created a panel to give advice on the issue. (history.aip.org)
The problem, as Randy Olson has emphasized, is that imagery and appearance matter — particularly in an information landscape where passionate Web trollers questioning warming are so seamlessly tied in with professional partisans fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases through the amplifier of conservative talk radio and columnists. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Using e-mail strings we obtained (pdf file) under the Freedom of Information Act, John M. Broder has helped clarify the case of Alan Carlin, a long - serving economist for the Environmental Protection Agency who became a cause célèbre among opponents of restrictions on greenhouse gases for his challenge to the Obama administration's finding that the gases pose a danger to public health and welfare. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)