Sentences with phrase «global warming skeptic argues»

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Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Some global warming «skeptics» argue that the Earth's climate sensitivity is so low that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 will result in a surface temperature change on the order of 1 °C or less, and that therefore global warming is nothing to worry about.

If you want to label me a skeptic or claim that I «argue against global warming,» then so be it, but I don't consider my position as such.

«The era of «equal time» for skeptics who argue that global warming is just a result of natural variation and not human intervention seems to be largely over — except on talk radio, cable, and local television,» she tells us.

A pause would, at least in part, discredit arguments for global warming and lend credence to skeptics who argue the climate goes through a natural cycle of changes.

A few weeks ago Kevin Drum argued that global warming added 3 inches to Sandy's 14 - foot storm surge, which he said was an argument that totally refuted skeptics and justified massive government restrictions on energy consumption (or whatever).

However, some global warming skeptics had argued that weather balloon temperatures were accurate — and models that predicted global warming were wrong.

The March 23, 2008, interview with Singer, on March 23, «World News» dubbed «The Skeptic,» began with Harris asking «Why, despite all the evidence, does this scientist still argue that global warming is a hoax?»

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/space/12jastrow.html?referer= Dr. Jastrow also became a prominent skeptic on climate change issues, arguing that scientists who warned of a global warming crisis were misattributing nature's effects on climate to the effects of mankind.

Some climate «skeptics» have suggested explanations as to why their interpretation of global warming shown in Figure 1 is actually the correct one, arguing that global warming is really just a «step function» caused by natural cycles and «climate shifts.»

Also, those that argue the certainty of anthropogenic global warming are clearly capable of being «skeptics,» if not outright «deniers,» of the evidence that suggests that CO2 levels trail temperature changes.

Climate change skeptics claimed the IPCC 2007 report — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are causing climate change — was based on an alleged bias for positive results by editors and peer reviewers of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused of suppressing research that did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced global warming.

Many climate skeptics argue that the most likely scenario for global warming is that human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases will cause mild warming, a geographic mixture of winners and losers, and what problems arise can be met by adaptation.

Many climate «skeptics» are trying to capitalize on this dampening, trying to argue that this time global warming has stopped, even though it didn't stop after the global warming «pauses» in 1973 to 1980, 1980 to 1988, 1988 to 1995, 1995 to 2001, or 1998 to 2005 (Figure 1).

As Figure 1 shows, over the last 37 years one can identify overlapping short windows of time when climate «skeptics» could have argued (and often did, i.e. here and here and here) that global warming had stopped.

Ironically, the analysis the «skeptics» are using to argue that global warming has stopped ends in a record hot year for global surface temperatures.

You can fear global warming and be opposed to Kyoto - style cap - and - trade systems because you think they're too expensive and too ineffective, as Kenneth Green argued yesterday at the skeptics» conference yesterday in explaining why he favored a carbon tax instead.

To make it even more interesting, many «skeptics» also argue that none of the temperature records showing climate change are valid, even as they argue that those same temperature records show a «pause in global warming.»

Today, prominent climate skeptics Pat Michaels and Dan Gainor appeared on Fox News» Your World with Neil Cavuto to argue that the recent snowstorms in Denver prove there is a «Northeast bias» on global warming.