For people that may
be skeptical about global warming, what is the one undeniable scientific fact that you feel backs it up the most effectively?
Surprisingly in this magnificent country many high school teachers I interviewed
are skeptical about global warming, even when presented with fact laden articles from publications such as Science.
I did exactly that, because
I was skeptical about global warming.
I propose a sociological proposition: there are many retired scientists who
are skeptical about global warming theory because they no longer have a vested interest in the outcome of any research.
There's a rhetorical trope popular among environmentalists that
being skeptical about Global Warming / Climate Change theory is like being skeptical about gravity.
The idea is to make it impossible for scientists who are skeptical of global warming to receive any funding or get published in peer - reviewed journals — and then declare that, lo and behold, there are no published scientists who
are skeptical about global warming!
The idea is to make it impossible for scientists who are skeptical of global warming to receive any funding or get published in peer - reviewed journals â $» and then declare that, lo and behold, there are no published scientists who
are skeptical about global warming!
In July 2010, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a British think tank that
is skeptical about global warming policy, [21] hired Montford to lead an inquiry into the three British investigations into the Climatic Research Unit email controversy, commonly known as «Climategate.
Not exact matches
The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe
is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which
is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on
global warming.
G: Nearly all of my colleagues who have
been around 40 or 50 years
are skeptical as hell
about this whole
global - warming thing.
At this point, when I talk to my colleagues working in schools and / or universities, many of them
are skeptical about the relevance of education for
global citizenship in Brazil when the endeavor of educating all Brazilians to act as citizens in their schools, communities, cities
is not completed.
Amid
global financial turmoil, service members have a right to
be skeptical about having a credit card.
There
is nothing «
skeptical»
about rejecting the overwhelming scientific evidence of ongoing, dangerous anthropogenic
global warming while perpetrating and promoting falsehoods, distortions, sophistry and conspiracy theories, which
is what WUWT
is all
about.
In 2004, the Dane made his name as a green contrarian with his bestselling book The
Skeptical Environmentalist, and outraged scientists and green groups around the world by arguing that many claims
about global warming, overpopulation, energy resources, deforestation, species loss and water shortages
are not supported by analysis.
It
's no wonder that a large body of the public remains
skeptical about the
global warming community
's projections of catastrophe 30 years from now.
He
is skeptical about the claim that polar bears «will
be decimated by
global warming as their icy habitat melts.»
Mark Bowen, the author of «Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth
About Global Warming» (Fresh Air interview) said he was initially skeptical about the investigation, but was pleasantly surprised that it captured not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.&r
About Global Warming» (Fresh Air interview) said he
was initially
skeptical about the investigation, but was pleasantly surprised that it captured not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.&r
about the investigation, but
was pleasantly surprised that it captured not only the basic violations of the public trust, but also dealt with «the subtler aspects of censorship — the delaying of information, the sorts of intimidation that cause self censorship.»
For an example of that regarding efforts to prompt the general public to ignore people who
are skeptical about catastrophic man - caused
global warming, we
are blessed with a particular infographic........
One does not have to
be skeptical about the science of
global warming to
be skeptical of excessively «certain» long term predictions that involve weather and climate, the ultimate chaotic system that can not
be accurately predicted.
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
About 18 months ago, as soon as I heard of Dr. Richard Müller's Berkeley Earth Temperature project, I sent an email to several
skeptical scientists drawing their attention to his statement that he considered his team's attempt to verify how much «
global warming» had occurred since 1750 to
be one of the most important pieces of research ever to
be conducted in the history of science.
People who have doubts or
are skeptical about various aspects related to
global warming / climate change / extreme climate
are not a monolithic lot.
Scientists who have
been skeptical about manmade
global warming have
been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil.
If the incoming powers - to -
be are uneducated in climate science, let those concerned
about global warming make their case, show their facts, convince
skeptical people through reason and persuasion.
Brad DeLong expresses qualified Skepticism Toward the
Skeptical Environmentalist I think there
's a much more fundamental problem in Lomborg
's argument
about global warming, as I argue here The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites a range of model estimates of the costs of implementing Kyoto using market mechanisms.
«Denial»
is a venomous term applied to those
skeptical about the role of humans in
global climate change, meant to equate climate change skeptics with Holocaust deniers.
I
was formerly somewhat
skeptical about the notion that the ocean «conveyor belt» circulation pattern could weaken abruptly in response to
global warming.
I think that arguments
about magnitude of sensitivity and estimates of certainly
are the rightful domain of a skeptic (and even, IMO, arguments
about the physics of AGW)-- but the «
skeptical» illogic of claiming to accept the basic physic of AGW and at the same time claiming that
global warming has «stopped» or «paused» remains.
«In the scientific field of climate studies — which
is informed by many different disciplines — the consensus
is demonstrated by the number of scientists who have stopped arguing
about what
is causing climate change — and that
's nearly all of them,» according to
Skeptical Science, a website dedicated to explaining the science of
global warming.
Although many people have accepted with half - believing and half - doubting the view that the emission of greenhouse gases
is the primary factors in
global climate change, many scientists
are skeptical about this view, they have refuted this view with plenty of evidence.»
I
was very
skeptical of Catastrophic Anthropogenic
Global Warming (though not the possibility of some AGW) from the moment I heard
about it as a major political movement, because it «smelled» to much like the Alarmist «Population Bomb» and «Peek Oil» movements, and
was being pushed by many of the same kind of people.
«I
am skeptical about the science that suggests
global warming
is man - caused or can
be corrected by man - made efforts.
If we take the Politicians, Oil, Coal & Chemical companies out of the picture for a moment and just look at the people that they designed their
Skeptical Anti-man induced
Global Warming spins for... you clearly see a huge group of hateful and stupid people who don't care what the issue
is about, as long as it deviates from what they consider a Liberal view... they
're happy.
UNDER TRUMP, FEWER REPUBLICANS THINK
GLOBAL WARMING
IS CAUSED BY HUMANS BY TIM MARCIN ON 3/28/18 AT 2:06 PM More than a full year into the Donald Trump experience, Republicans have grown more
skeptical about climate change compared with the...
«The only accurate way to report that one out of four Americans
are skeptical of
global warming
is to say, «A poll finds that one in four Americans
are wrong
about something,»» Oliver said.
Spencer
is one of those bogeymen you may have heard
about: a bona fide climate scientist who
is skeptical of
global warming theory.
There
are many people in the world today who
are some what
skeptical about anything pertaining to
global warming.
Actually it doesn't do much to
global GDP, but that
is a common problem with
skeptical thinking that seems to have ingrained itself and disables their ability to think clearly
about possible paths forward.
Were Rose and Curry
Skeptical Science readers, they would have known several days prior to the publication of this article that the claim
about global warming «pausing» in 1997
was pre-bunked by Nuccitelli et al., as Figure 3 clearly shows.
Consistent with the previous analyses at
Skeptical Science, RFC12 finds that the climate models used in the IPCC 2001 Third Assessment Report (TAR) and 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) predicted the ensuing
global surface warming to a high degree of accuracy, while their central sea level rise predictions
were too low by
about 60 %.
That discussion
was interesting because science played no role, it
was all
about the number of people that support
global warming and those that
are skeptical of
global warming.
«Nearly all of my colleagues who have
been around 40 or 50 years
are skeptical as hell
about this whole
global - warming thing.
The goal of
Skeptical Science
is to explain what peer reviewed science has to say
about global warming.
I will admit that I
was more than a little
skeptical of watching a scientific movie
about global warming that
was made by Al Gore.
We now have a seemingly dangerous, appalling and desperate move
being made by the Natural Resources Canada Minister Christian Paradis, to silence all things
skeptical about global warming.
We now we have a new potential for the EU to make
being skeptical about climate change (
global warming, bullshit, or whatever term you prefer to use) a criminal offense.
How can many, many respected, competitive, independent science folks
be so wrong
about [
global warming](if your [
skeptical] premise
is correct).
Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, has some good reasons to
be skeptical about all the ambitious plans and ideas floating around the Clinton
Global Initiative.
A recent poll by Yale University showed that American's attitudes
about global warming
are turning more
skeptical and less urgent.
A
skeptical public repeatedly has
been told that questions
about purported
global warming
are closed.