One of my frustrations with the mainstream
discussion around global warming is the refusal or inability to discuss just what type of future clean - energy advocates are working towards.
I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to
trigger around global warming.
New film «Merchants of Doubt features Morano as part of the «network of professional fabricators, obfuscators and pseudo-scientists who have lately attempted to muddle the scientific
debate around global warming.»
In recent weeks, President - elect Donald Trump has nominated a growing list of Cabinet members who have questioned the overwhelming scientific
consensus around global warming.
In regarding the polarized, confused, paralyzed
discourse around global warming for more than two decades (including my own focus on the field for so long), I've sometimes thought that Freud would have had a field day in this realm.
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Cato's ecological climatologist, Patrick Michaels, a critic of mainstream
assertions around global warming, appeared in more than 20 media interviews within two weeks of the «Climategate» e-mail breach at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the report says.
That might have dulled the
partisanship around global warming, he suggests, and made it easier for some conservatives to shift their views «because they're not hearing a constant barrage of «This is a liberal hoax.
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery wishes to create a platform for this visual eco-conversation, utilizing Lux as the impetus from which to engage the City in a public
dialogue around global warming and energy consumption.
Anyone eager to understand, and move past, the deep political
polarization around global warming would do well to explore the findings in «Solution aversion: On the relation between ideology and motivated disbelief,» published in the November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
He laments the
heat around global warming and similar topics, telling her, «These issues are exactly where we need rational discourse, an unbiased exchange of ideas, and the evaluation of facts not colored by us yelling at each other.»
NWF is working to broaden the climate movement by engaging and empowering people and
communities around global warming solutions that reduce pollution and jump - start investments in a clean energy economy.
There's no denying our current
politics around global warming are deeply fucked at a time when we need to be doing more to address carbon emissions at the root of the problem.
I believe that most people really do have strong beliefs, whether it's the environment — with all the
press around global warming and other green stuff these days, I think there are very few people out there who are saying to themselves, «Boy, I really want to consume everything I can and burn all the energy I can,» so I think that if people really listened to their beliefs and acted on them, we'd have a very different world.
Our movement is indeed growing, and people are willing to put their bodies on the line; an April poll by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication found one in eight Americans would engage in civil
disobedience around global warming.
Abraham, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, is part of a national movement among climate scientists and researchers who are stepping out of the ivory tower and into the harsh light of politics and the public
debate around global warming.
They essentially put a human face on the many conservative citizens who recoil from conventional environmental
messaging around global warming but embrace many smart energy and climate steps: Read more...
For example, his Australian flagship, The Australian, has run what is known as «The Australian's War on Science» in an effort to sow confusion about the
science around global warming.
Their efforts cover a range of activities, from lobbying to political contributions to media campaigns that attempt to discredit the scientific
consensus around global warming.
That representation matches the public
discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.
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Kleidon's paper, to be published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society comes at a fresh angle to the familiar
issues around global warming - that of the laws of thermodynamics.
They essentially put a human face on the many conservative citizens who recoil from conventional environmental messaging
around global warming but embrace many smart energy and climate steps:
From cloned cows in China to coal's woes across the world, Financial Times writers explore all the issues in the debate
around global warming and climate change.
The world's climate scientists already knew that, but they expressed renewed confidence in those troubling trends in a major report Friday that has come to represent the global scientific consensus
around global warming.
Exxon's backing of third - party groups is a marked contrast to its more public role in the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group formed in 1989 to challenge the science
around global warming.
Herrick compares the debate
around global warming to that which once took place around seatbelts.