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The leaders of the U.S. and China committed their nations to the fight against global warming on Saturday when they handed arcane but momentous documents to the United Nation's top official.

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Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.

Through the following op - ed in Thursdayâ $ ™ s Toronto Star, the United Steelworkersâ $ ™ Canadian Director makes the case for a carbon tariff. It is now widely accepted that the struggle against global warming will involve placing a price on carbon emissions.

The entire enterprise is very American, calling to mind other «scientific» revolts against elitist views — on global warming, say, or the dangers of tobacco.

For some Tory MPs, the world recession has tipped the scales against expensive measures to combat global warming which could put a brake on future growth.

He features a video on his official Assembly website, in which he argues against a bill to curb global warming pollution, saying it would create a «burden» on businesses, and is better left to the federal government to regulate.

Former Vice President Al Gore today lauded what he called «the best, most hopeful step» in years to contain global warming: 16 state prosecutors joining New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's crusade against energy giants that they assert have fraudulently fought caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.

All Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted against an amendment that states that global warming exists, regardless of cause.

Pro-nuclear activists want lawmakers to treat the Clinton plant and other fission reactors as some of the most powerful weapons in the fight against global warming, a rationale that would give them a new lease on life.

In 2011, European researchers set up TOSCA, a COST - funded international network aiming to offer a better understanding of the Sun's effect on climate, against the backdrop of global warming.

«Acknowledging the reality of global warming or climate change may lead to new government regulations on businesses, which goes against core conservative values,» Schuldt said.

BARACK OBAMA is certainly talking the talk on climate change — promising to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his second term.

President - elect Trump on Tuesday rounded out a potential dream team of anti-environment cabinet members with the chief executive officer of ExxonMobil, among the world's 10 largest companies and one that has profited from global warming and worked to slow the fight against climate change.

Faced with a possible U.S. retreat on climate efforts, European officials fear a leadership vacuum will embolden those seeking to slow the fight against global warming

The ads on global warming in particular set out the history of the companies» campaign against both climate action and the science.

These lagging emissions have an important impact on the battle against global warming, a study released today in the journal Current Biology finds.

Alexandre Marques from Brazil's Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais collaborates with M. G. Finn at Georgia Tech on the development of vaccines against potentially deadly tropical diseases that are spreading northward due to global warming.

Carbonfund.org: Uses education and public outreach to fight against global warming while supporting projects focused on renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation around the world.

If recent headlines are a reliable barometer of the state of the world — «43 Missing Students, a Mass Grave and a Suspect: Mexico's Police»; «Egyptian Judges Drop All Charges against Mubarak»; «Boehner Says Obama's Immigration Action Damages Presidency»; «U.N. Panel Issues Its Starkest Warning Yet on Global Warming» — then it seems that we are living in an age of intense violence, unbridled corruption, purposeful gridlock, and such persistent environmental degradation that frequent drought, flooding, and hurricanes have become the new normal.

Just wanted to let you know that I have filed a class action lawsuit on global warming in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, against all current leaders on all nations on Earth, in behalf of all future generations not born yet, forever and ever, as long as this human species shall last...... and for US$ 1 billion in damages, to be donated if case is accepted and won to groups fighting global warming now!

agencies were redacted and changed, and stopped from being published by the Bush administration, and the head of the EPA.They cost us much lost time (20 years or so) in the fight against global warming because they skewed public opinion away from the severity of the issue, and cast doubt on the facts supporting global warming.

The two most vivid examples on my mind at the moment are «It's Global Warming, Stupid,» a much - shared essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, and an effort by Anthony Watts, inspired by a ridiculous U.S. News Sandy - warming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm's Global Warming, Stupid,» a much - shared essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, and an effort by Anthony Watts, inspired by a ridiculous U.S. News Sandy - warming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm'sWarming, Stupid,» a much - shared essay in Bloomberg Businessweek, and an effort by Anthony Watts, inspired by a ridiculous U.S. News Sandy - warming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm'swarming poll, to list scientists and commentators for and against global warming as the storm's global warming as the storm'swarming as the storm's cause.

Through the 20 - plus years of international meetings on global warming, there has been a long tradition of inventive messages among groups pushing for — and sometimes groups fighting against — restrictions on heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

Arguing against the alleged human activity's impact on global warming is politically incorrect.

[10:46 p.m. Update An article by Muller describing the work, titled «The Case Against Global - Warming Skepticism,» has been posted on The Wall Street Journal Web site.

Seeing that Theda Skocpol has also invoked this term «denier» in her recent and much - discussed white paper [link] from Harvard's symposium on «The Politics of America's Fight against Global Warming,» it seems this label won't be fading anytime soon.

Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scaling smokestacks at coal - fired power plants.

This amounts to a real betrayal of all those who counted on the EU to do the right thing, and amounts to a capital crime against the environment, because millions will die as the result of unchecked global warming.

An essay by Sarah Johnstone and Jeffrey Mazo entitled, Global Warming and Arab Spring, draws a convincing line that the pressure on food prices was a contributor to the start of the revolutions of the Arab Spring — the tumultuous uprising against many Arab governments.

So if they are an advocate against global warming science, and a paper comes out that suits that agenda but may be tentative, they'll hype the hell out of it — and the same on the other side...

A valuable short paper that has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters (subscription required) makes a strong case against presenting any argument about human - driven global warming that's based on short - term trends (a decade or so).

Probably everyone has heard this argument, presented as objection against the findings of climate scientists on global warming: «The climate has always changed!»

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

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.

The fact that the increase in damage cost is about as large as the increase in GDP (as recently argued at FiveThirtyEight) is certainly no strong evidence against an effect of global warming on damage cost.

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisGlobal Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisglobal warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

Unsurprisingly, the survey confirmed climate change to be a largely politicized issue, viewed too often along party lines instead of according to factual analysis (and both parties are guilty of this, in different ways — there are plenty of liberals who proclaim their allegiance to the fight against global warming without a basic education on the issue).

I have no idea what you are referring to, except perhaps that the rote regurgitation of long - since and many - times - over debunked denialist nonsense is mercifully (and no doubt laboriously) deleted by the RC moderators — unlike every other open blog on the Internet where any attempt to discuss the science of anthropogenic global warming is quickly drowned out by a torrent of pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, blatant falsehoods, and hate speech against climate scientists.

James Hansen, who put the entire issue of global warming on the world stage with his 1988 Senate Hearing, was calling for public trials of CEOs for crimes against humanity.

Considering recent news about the Exxon corporation sending out document retention request letters against those who accuse it of hoodwinking its shareholders about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, there is perhaps some chance that my work may be used as a guide on «who» needs to preserve «what» in such efforts.

However, the environmentalist case against engineering fixes for global warming does not rest on the underlying science.

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)?

Whatever your feelings about the reality or not of global warming, should we be investing this sort of money anyway in order to develop alternative sources of energy needed to keep the lights on and ensure security of supply against disruption?

The U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing on Thursday to examine the recent string of politically - motivated attacks against climate scientists.

The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for deGlobal Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for deglobal temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.

«This email indicates a secret initiative by the administration to invite and orchestrate a lawsuit against itself seeking to discredit an official US government report on global warming dangers,» said Richard Blumenthal, attorney general of Connecticut, who has written to the White House asking for an inquiry.

Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit heresy against the Holy Church of Global Warming.

UK Guardian: NASA scientist calls for putting oil firm chiefs on trial for «high crimes against humanity» for spreading doubt about man - made global warming — June 23, 2008

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.