On 7 May, Science published a letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying
attacks on climate research.
A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying
attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.
House science committee chairman touts
attacks on climate research before friendly audience
I was and still am gravely concerned about this defunding of NASA's very important climate work (the budget is still being hammered out between the House and Senate), but even when I first wrote about the NASA budget, I wondered to myself if
this attack on climate research would be limited to just NASA, given that those other federal agencies study climate as well.
Not exact matches
The
research, which was to study the effects of environmental stress due to
climate change
on shrimp and other economically - important species, was
attacked as another example of wasteful government spending.
In an early primary field crammed with 16 candidates, presidential hopefuls could find traction by
attacking Obama's
climate policies, said Jeremy Carl, a
research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution who has advised a number of the candidates
on energy and
climate.
Pielke has been something of a lightning rod in
climate debates, sometimes drawing
attacks from all sides as a result of his views
on research and policy.
Science marchers will rally Saturday to express their concerns about perceived
attacks on evidence and
research, and
climate marchers worried about U.S. policy are set to jam the streets of the nation's capital 7 days later.
Researchers including Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and Gavin Schmidt of NASA, say that Heartland was one of the groups that
attacked scientists based
on the stolen emails, which were purloined from the University of East Anglia's
climate research unit.
From a
climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific
research; 2)
attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable
on Energy and the Environment.
Earlier this year, I criticized his habit of launching largely overheated and unsubstantiated
attacks on climate scientists, but credited him for assembling a talented
research team centered
on the gifted data analyst Robert Rohde (you'll hear from Rohde below), to take a new approach to compiling and analyzing temperature records going back two centuries.
But, in his defense, he clearly did have vast challenges
on his plate then, fending off heaps of unwarranted
attacks and now dealing with a mountain of Freedom of Information requests (not to mention his ongoing
research into
climate change).
During that time he was oblivious to the
attacks on Ben Santer being waged by S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, Patrick Michaels, Global
Climate Coalition (a group of fossil fuel interests) and others because Santer's (and others) research showed that humans were in fact causing climate to change (IPCC 2nd Assessment,
Climate Coalition (a group of fossil fuel interests) and others because Santer's (and others)
research showed that humans were in fact causing
climate to change (IPCC 2nd Assessment,
climate to change (IPCC 2nd Assessment, 1995).
The problem is the
attack on climate science and the overwhelming consensus, not the
research supporting it.
Then wait for all
attacks on hadcrut in general to start coming out of the woodwork: «it's a
Climate Research Unit record!»
Dr. Mörner
attacked the science of
climate change, while claiming that he is mission
on Sea Level Change of INQUA (International nion for Quaternary
Research).
The result is that a panel with vast jurisdiction over all government non-military science,
research and development has become an instrument of
attack on mainstream
climate science.
This has followed an «
attack on science», which Nurse explained in a somewhat one - sided account of the «Climategate» affair, the leaking of thousands of emails from the
Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November 2009.
And it might come as a shock to people who saw how Ioannidis» work has been abused
on this blog in order to
attack mainstream
climate science
research.
«ExxonMobil pioneered
climate - change
research since the 1970s, and now it's
attacking media reporting
on that,» by Steve LeVine, Quartz, October 26, 2015.
The United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying
on secondary sources, comes under
attack again in a new report co-produced by three nonprofit
research organizations.
America Rising Advanced
Research has launched an aggressive social media campaign against leading figures in the US environmental movement, including creating the website Core News which features
attacks on prominent
climate policy advocates including Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer and Leonardo DiCaprio.
This denier pre-emption of social science
research echoes Frank Luntz» infamous 2002 memo advising Republicans to
attack the scientific consensus
on climate change in order to erode public support for
climate policies - long before social scientists began
researching the link between perception of consensus and support for
climate action.
His writings
attack both the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body assigned to review and report on developments in climate research, and the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas pol
Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body assigned to review and report
on developments in
climate research, and the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas pol
climate research, and the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
Call me cynical, but after more than a decade of
research and writing into the role big fossil fuel companies have played in sponsoring coordinated
attacks on climate science with public relations spin, I remain unconvinced we won't see a resurgence in
climate denial.