Sentences with phrase «attacks on climate science»

An excellent analog of Galileo's science to climate science is that right - wing attacks on climate science are acting quite similarly to the inquisition attacks on Galileo.

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.

The time was approaching for ratcheting up the politically motivated attacks on climate science, in the form of an abusive investigation instigated by Republican congressmen Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield.

Strangely, the fresh attacks on climate science have come even as some skeptics» projections on warming, including those of Dr. Michaels, have started to overlap with those of the dominant group of researchers.

«It's very telling to confirm that E&E Legal has received Arch Coal funding since their attacks on climate science and harassment of scientists are just what the coal industry is counting on to survive,» Brendan DeMelle of DeSmogBlog told CMD.

Beneath the public attacks on climate science, scientists are also subject to a more insidious campaign of intimidation, otherwise known as the subterranean war on science.

McCright (2) defines climate contrarians to be those who vocally challenge what they see as a false consensus of mainstream climate science through critical attacks on climate science and eminent climate scientists, often with substantial financial support from fossil fuels industry organizations and conservative think tanks.

In your attacks on climate science try not to commit the same overstatements that your opponents make.

'' and fan of enlightenment might have frowned upon seeing his name usurped to perpetuate attacks on climate science.

The «Father of the University of Virginia» and fan of enlightenment might have frowned upon seeing his name usurped to perpetuate attacks on climate science.

In my opinion, the viciousness of the attacks on climate science have already done damage to the practice of science as a whole, and in particular, the prospects for increased access.

After all the attacks on climate science and the well - funded, systematic campaign to discredit climate scientists, people of good will have an absolute obligation not to play around with the science.

But the New York Times has published a number of series of pieces repeating dubious attacks on climate science and climate scientists — including a couple of dreadful ones the front page — for which they have been roundly criticized:

https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAct..."> Tell Nucor to stop obstructing solutions to climate change and stop funding attacks on climate science.

Because of their outrageous attacks on climate science, 15 corporations have dropped the Heartland Institute.

The Canberra Times said the Brulle study «finds that organisations promoting attacks on climate science have a combined yearly access to $ US900 million... from increasingly untraceable sources.»

This relationship between a lobbyist for one of the nation's largest utilities and an aggressive purveyor of attacks on climate science and policies warrants much deeper scrutiny than it has so far received.

That oil companies don't have to fund attacks on climate science very much because there is a ideologically motivated base of people willing to do it for free.

Cuccinelli is seeking years» worth of documents related to Mann's work at UVA, but his political attacks on climate science and efforts to waste Virginia taxpayers» money will have to return to the drawing board.

«Climategate», and the wider attacks on climate science, had nothing to do with the science itself, and neither did the entire earlier history of global - warming denial we have studied.

Yet in the background, more attacks on the climate science are underway

Unsurprisingly, the ads are full - on, unsophisticated attacks on climate science, complete with hardline contrarian nonsense about current global «cooling» and the pre-eminient role of the sun.

Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great Beyond Over 250 members of the US National Academy of Sciences have hit back at global warming deniers, warning that attacks on climate science are being mainly driven not by intellectual inquiry but by special interest and dogma.

I have observed most of the attacks on climate science come from outside the field.

«In 2011, Phillips announced, his organization plans to drive a wedge between Congress and the EPA, to increase attacks on climate science, and to attempt to discredit clean energy jobs, creating the impression that the American people support a pollution agenda (even though polls show the opposite).»

Gell - Mann repeatedly wondered why the media and others communicating science had failed to counter attacks on climate science based on the recent lack of warming by laying out the basic reality of the building greenhouse effect.

There seems to be an overemphasis on the uncertainty of climate modeling, attacks on climate science, and op - ed pieces that distort science and use sensationalist rhetoric and wild conspiracy theories.

The attacks on climate science have nothing to do with any actual political ideology, and everything to do with the ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY PROFIT that the fossil fuel corporations want to keep raking in for as long as they can get away with it.

One of the major attacks on climate science has been the denigration of models, now in less than two weeks two very public model predictions based upon science have proven spectacularly true.

Yet in the background, more attacks on the climate science are underway

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

Monday's key US legal decision on emissions regulation was influenced by the unjustified attacks on climate science, says Douglas Kysar.

Morano's entire job is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and send it all out periodically in email blasts that get echoed throughout the right - wing blog world and eventually find their way into places like Fox News and the Weekly Standard.

First, the campaign in the 1920s against Einstein's general theory of relativity provides an uncannily complete template for the conservative attack on climate science eight decades later.

The problem is the attack on climate science and the overwhelming consensus, not the research supporting it.

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Barton has been one of the Congressional ringleaders of the attack on climate science.

The original controversy, though, largely centered on Trenberth's withering attack on the climate science contrarians and his characterization of them as «deniers» and «charlatans», which, needless to say, has caused howls of outrage throughout the contrarian blogosphere.

«Now, President Donald Trump's administration has quietly killed the CMS,» the report said, describing the move as the latest in a «broad attack on climate science» mounted by the White House.

Once again, columnist Lorne Gunter, Canada's answer to George Will, has launched an outrageous, libelous attack on climate science and climate scientists.

BREAKING NEWS An insider's story of the global attack on climate science An epic saga of secretly funded climate denial and harassment of scientists

More recently, Dr. Sagdeev was one of the members of the American Academy of Sciences who denounced the attack on climate science.

While it is no longer surprising, it remains disheartening to see a blistering attack on climate science in the business press where thoughtful reviews of climate policy ought to be appearing.

Last week, Nature published another strong statement addressing the political / economic attack on climate science in an editorial titled «Into Ignorance ``.

Emanuel castigates the right - wing attack on climate science that uses the pretext of the hacked emails and the minor IPCC report errors.

Interestingly, he says»... the campaign in the 1920s against Einstein's general theory of relativity provides an uncannily complete template for the conservative attack on climate science eight decades later.»

Not exact matches

The history of climate change denialism since the 1980s has really been the culmination of the attack on environmental science.

Read «Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Regarding Personal Attacks on Climate Scientists.»

Hundreds of global warming skeptics are in Washington to hear attacks on mainstream climate science and responses to it, like renewable energy programs and federal initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Inhofe's attacks on climate change science have been so engrossing that until recently I was unaware of his influence in Uganda.