Thursday morning, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt left those who
believe in climate change going through a wide range of emotions after saying he does not believe that carbon dioxide emissions are a primary contributor to global warming.
Not exact matches
Aantiabortionists don't
believe in Climate Change, nor that we are living
in a Mass Extinction and they think God's
going to save us from ourselves.
Without action to stave off
climate change, some scientists
believe that, at that rate, all of the year - round ice
in the Arctic could be
gone by as early as 2030.
Finney
believes that
changes in climate cause the cycles
in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal
climate variations from the early warnings of a system
gone dangerously wrong.
By last April he was questioning the basic science of
climate change itself, offering this mealy - mouthed attempt to placate the anti-science right wing without
going whole hog into the denial camp: «Humans are not responsible for
climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us
believe.»
Clive Hamilton, member of the Board of the
Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government and author of «Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of
Climate Engineering,» (Yale University Press, 2013)
believes «the genie is out of the bottle and is not
going to be put back
in.»
«
In the U.S., we've been blithely
going about our business
believing climate change wasn't
going to impact us,» said Lara Hansen, a senior scientist and
climate expert with the World Wildlife Fund.
So all the climastrologists model our world hundreds of years
in the future with faulty data that comprises less than 10 percent of the factors that they
believe goes into
Climate Change.
Regardless of what you
believe about
Climate Change an enormous investment
in replacement generating capacity is
going to have to be made between now and 2030.
They set about working out how to communicate
climate change to people who don't
believe it, and try to locate the processes that may be
going on
in the heads of those who refuse to
believe it... The deniers.
Two scientists who
believe we are on the wrong track argue
in the current issue of the journal Nature
Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are
going to deal with its consequences..»
I find the internet thing a bit funny, but I
believe that a few of you may be forgetting that
climate change is
in geological time, it's not
going to happen instantly.
The comment
went viral and received tons of flack from those who
believe in climate change's effects.
Stating that nothing major will be detectable within 100 years confirms the bias of those (numerous) persons who
believe that
climate change is nothing major and that nothing should be done, so let us just make some more research and see how things
go in 100 years — whereas producing continuous forecasts from the short - term to long - term should force people to confront the evolution and take decisions now.
The first time you hear that
climate change is this amazingly huge problem, many people, it seems to me,
go through the five stages of grief: It's: «I don't
believe you, that's ridiculous» — you're
in denial.
In a White House Web video released Saturday, Obama said he'll use the speech to «lay out my vision for where I
believe we need to
go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of
climate change and lead global efforts to fight it.»
If you
believe it is possible for CO2 to
change the
climate without there being warming (
in the air,
in the oceans, somewhere), then you have no right to call anyone else anti-science and you should
go review your subject before you continue to embarrass yourself and your allies.
The interest
in addressing
climate change has historically been cyclical, most recently
going back to former U.S. vice president Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
in 2006, but environmental lawyers
believe interest is gearing back up,
in some part due to increasingly extreme weather events as we saw this past summer, causing more momentum at the regulatory level.