Not exact matches
You likely deny evolution and
global warming for no other reason than it
makes you uncomfortable and hold
science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.
John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man -
made global warming, and that public confidence in
science depends on more openness to varied opinions.
You likely deny
global warming for no other reason than it
makes you uncomfortable and hold
science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron rolling around a floor speaking in tongues is enough to convince you he is channeling a spirit.
Jon, I don't believe in the myth of man -
made global warming because the
science behind it is bunk — I'm sure you think I'm weird.
Cooney himself
made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change
Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in
global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.
While they will certainly miss out on the pleasure and intellectual excitement that come from knowing how the world works, how much
science do they actually need to know to
make up their minds about the issues surrounding genetic engineering or
global warming?
The leak of the Heartland memos — including a disputed one purporting to outline a strategy to pay a Department of Energy contractor to prepare school curriculum teaching children that the
science behind man -
made global warming is unsettled — rocked the climate world last week when they were released to bloggers.
The main claims of fact he
makes in support of his contention that
Global Warming science is an «idealogy, underpinned by false assumptions» are:
For years, we at Greenpeace have been working to
make public the secret paper trails that show what everyone already knows: climate
science deniers - #Fakexperts - are few and far between, and most of them are paid by companies most responsible for
global warming to downplay the problem.
To prime the pump, I mentioned a couple of instances that I reported on Dot Earth, including a report estimating 300,000 deaths a year from
global warming and contentious statements
made about the predicted die - back of the Amazon rain forest at a climate -
science summit in Copenhagen early last year.
The authors
make it clear that they don't disagree with the reality of
global warming, but blogs everywhere are using it as a propaganda tool to paint
global warming as a fraud and the climate
science community as a bunch of confused clowns.
Climate change skepticism seeps into
science classrooms Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man -
made global warming.
Re # 8 (and to expand on # 13): I also think that a basic strategy of the
global warming deniers is to focus on one aspect of the
science over which there is some combination of real and manufactured dispute and then try to
make people think that this is the one crucial piece of evidence on which the whole theory of anthropogenic
warming rests... and thus that the dispute over this aspect throws the whole theory into question.
Global warming is not rocket
science but George Will and a few others
make it seem that way.
This opening statement «'' One of the pillars of the case for man -
made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick» states the
science education level and the verificational level in relation to reference material of the journalist, IMO.
Finally, we returned to the
science, and I addressed a theme that's come up on this blog, and that I think contributes substantially to
making the human response to climate change (or
global warming) a particularly vexing problem — the reality that while the basics of the
science are clear, the
science on questions that matter most to society is not.
The main claims of fact he
makes in support of his contention that
Global Warming science is an «idealogy, underpinned by false assumptions» are:
Those who rail against the media for including too many voices of doubt in some stories on
global warming science and policy might want to step back a minute and review the chart below, from last December, showing just how invisible coverage of climate is compared to the stories that
make the cut each day.
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made,
Science,
Science, US
I wish that people who write articles about
global warming and others who affect and
make energy policy like the environmentalists and the teary eyed soccer moms who support them, had some training in
science, technology and economics.
A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academies of
Science provides the clearest evidence yet that human - induced
global warming made that drought more likely.
More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims
made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about
global warming, saying that
science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee's press blog.
Just as missing data in some areas of climate
science does nt prevent us from
making rational statements about
global warming, so to the fact of missing mails does not prevent us from describing clearly what we do know about the mails.
Or is Paul defending against the charge by
making a numbers argument — the scientists in question are on the same side as the consensus, so to challenge any aspect of
global warming science or politics is to
make a statement about «the majority of scientists» (many of whom are in fact social scientists)?
If the Authors «want to examine... loci at which scientific knowledge is
made,» Why not just say what we already know as «virtually certain»: the ipcc's method is almost exclusively «computer - simulated climate
science» = gigo; «Expertly» guided by demonizing CO2 and disasterizing Global Warming and spurred onward always by the ethical maxim that «We «mainstream» Climate Scientists are all gonna die from Green Back Starvation Syndrome if we don't gin up some more demonizing and disasterizing «Climate Science» before it's too late!&
science» = gigo; «Expertly» guided by demonizing CO2 and disasterizing
Global Warming and spurred onward always by the ethical maxim that «We «mainstream» Climate Scientists are all gonna die from Green Back Starvation Syndrome if we don't gin up some more demonizing and disasterizing «Climate
Science» before it's too late!&
Science» before it's too late!»?
He adds that he is not
making any definitive statements on the
science of
global warming.
«Ben Santer [federal climatologist] just published a pal - reviewed paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science loudly proclaiming that the dreaded man -
made global warming signal has emerged from our naturally chaotic climate... pretty much what he wrote in Naturefor the UN's 1996 edition of this conference, 16 years ago.
What is astonishing about Tol's campaign is that he does not himself deny the physical
science of
global warming and also admits that the percentage consensus on man -
made climate change is in the high nineties.
Dana, I think you are pushing in the right direction with this; heat content is a much more direct measure of the underlying changes to the climate system than average air temperatures and climate
science communicators should
make heat content their first response to the suggestion that
global warming is something that waxes and (allegedly, recently) wanes.
And yes, nowadays, expert scientist John Holdren (Obama's former
science Czar), just like his comrade Professor Stephen Schneider, fears not man -
made Global Cooling but
Global Warming:
They also need to take an aggressive role in calling out other scientists who
make dire predictions but don't really understand the
science of
global warming or the uncertainties.
And to the point that Dr Curry is
making, if we want to get politics out of the
science of
global warming then would it be so bad if we were to politely ask the UN to butt out?
The fact that we can't control China, India, and other countries
makes all this discussion, the expensive satellites, expensive super-computer models, and money dumped on climate
science an exercise in futility as far as mitigation of
global warming is concerned.
Peter Foster: Crazy over climate The Royal Society, the U.K.'s once - venerable academy of
science, has arguably lost its collective mind over the theory of projected catastrophic man -
made global warming.
Heartland's spokesperson frequently say there is no scientific consensus that most of the
global warming of the twentieth century was man -
made, or that scientists are able to predict future climate conditions, or, finally, that there is a basis in
science or economics for passing laws that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
That
makes both of them authors of the less than 3 % of peer - reviewed climate
science papers rejecting the consensus on human - caused
global warming.
For reasons of political necessity, some rightwing politicians occasionally
make statements endorsing mainstream
science on
global warming.
«Climate
science does not support the theory of catastrophic human -
made global warming — the alleged
warming crisis does not exist.»
Dr. S. Fred Singer, one of the world's earliest and most credible critics of the theory that
global warming is man -
made and dangerous, will be recognized with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Climate
Science at an international conference on
global warming taking place July 7 — 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Science makes mistakes, as did NASA when it published data on
global warming trends in an effort to gauge the
warmest years in U.S. history.
If the incoming powers - to - be are uneducated in climate
science, let those concerned about
global warming make their case, show their facts, convince skeptical people through reason and persuasion.
Also See: Watch Now: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking «Climate Astrology»: «This is now akin to the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar» — Morano: «There is no way anyone can falsify the
global warming theory now because any weather event that happens «proves» their case... Man -
made global warming has ceased to be a
science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope» — Gore [in 2006 film] did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold winters coming»
We're not offering a «counter-claim» about the
science, because our position is that even the concrete, incontrovertible, unassailable fact of human influence on
global warming and climate change does not, by itself,
make a case for action.
Two of three scientists at a session on climate change and society at the Indian
Science Congress on Tuesday felt fears of man -
made global warming were greatly exaggerated.
• Gore used opinions of government scientists whose work can not verified • The practice of rainmaking is more art than a
science • The practice of stopping
global warming is more politics than
science •
Making rain is local • Stopping
warming is
global • Rainmakers are positive blaming neither man nor nature for a lack of rain •
Warm stoppers are negative blaming humanity for causing
warming • Rainmakers do not get paid if they do not produce •
Warm stoppers are paid to create alarm about
warming
Since
science is the pursuit of truth and AGW advocacy is anything but; it stands to reason that all efforts to keep the debate out of the scientific arena must be
made by the
global warming orthodoxy to keep the fraud alive.
The
science of climate change «attribution» — linking specific extreme weather events to the effects of
global warming — is
making substantial progress, so it is becoming increasingly possible for scientists to tie particular weather patterns to climate change.
This recent post via Real Climate
Science on NASA tampering of Sea - level rise highlights the blatant malfeasance that these government funded institutions will undertake in order to push the man -
made global warming climate change agenda, and keep the «Greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud in history» rolling and the billions upon billions of taxpayer funds flowing...
When asked about
global warming at a primary debate in April, he said there was a lot of «fluff and theory that has been perpetrated as
science to create the perception that somehow this
global warming has been entirely man -
made.»
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, MoS in Prime Ministerâ $ ™ s Office (PMO), Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Space & Atomic Energy Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that
global warming and climate change are man -
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