Sentences with phrase «by an activist scientist»

«But the relentless focus by activist scientists on the Arctic decline does suggest a political imperative rather than a scientific one — and when put together with the story of the US temperature records, it's hard to avoid the impression that what the public is being told is less than the unvarnished truth»

These papers will appear in a special edition of a journal guest - edited by an activist scientist.

The IPCC was founded by activist scientists and environmentalists to provide governments with information that would encourage them to limit emissions of GHG's.

«IPCC is not about science, it is about politics, the politics of global governance... IPCC is run by activist scientists obsessed with the supposed threat of climate change.»

And then BP, spurred on by activist scientists, NASA imaging, and angry citizens, would «revise» its estimates... until they more closely resembled the figure they first came up with just hours after the spill began.

Not exact matches

If scientists and activists want you to drive and fly less, I think they'll do better by showing that you can enjoy life more driving and flying less.

Check out TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet for talks by teen activists, prodigy scientists, and wise advisors (Brookline)

Last Saturday, scores of pro-European activist groups joined the latest day of action across Britain organised jointly by Open Britain, the European Movement and its partners Britain for Europe, Scientists for EU and Healthier in the EU.

Sadly, these discussions were prompted by another tragedy: Recently we lost a friend and alumnus who was a phenomenal scientist, mentor, activist, writer, and drag performance artist who touched hundreds of lives.

But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Last month, however, after two years of campaigning by scientists and free speech activists, the UK government published a draft defamation bill, the first step on the road to reforming English libel law.

Last month, the calls of activists and researchers who have lobbied the Clinton administration to support needle exchanges were repeated by a panel of eminent scientists brought together by the US National Academy of Sciences.

Last month activists opposed to genetically modified food rattled academic scientists working in that field by submitting requests for their correspondence under state open records laws.

UNESCO's Executive Board adopted the plan in 2008, but put it on hold last month after protests by human rights activists, scientists and public health experts.

A chemist by training and an environmental activist by avocation, Subra is a true original: «the people's scientist,» says Michele Roberts, a scientist who is a national co-coordinator at the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform in Washington, D.C.

That reflects a push starting in the late 1990s by some scientists and activists to make the results of taxpayer - funded research freely available to the public.

In October at the WHO in Geneva, scientists and activists from developing and industrialised countries agreed that, despite the American decision, trials of the two vaccines could be justified in countries hit hard by HIV, provided that their governments approved (This Week, 22 October 1994).

Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute cited Doran's study, and claimed that «The American people are being hoodwinked not just by the green activists, but by the scientists who get billions of dollars for creating global climate models that can't even forecast backward, let alone forward.»

The settlement capped a decade - long effort by the Center's scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America's most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river - dependent species, 42 Great Basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.

UPDATE... read here: populartechnology.net/skeptics-smeared-as-holocaust-deniers.html ----------------------------------- Many of us were shocked at hearing the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had sharply criticized University of Alabama climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer because he finally decided to defend himself against the constant stream of Holocaust - laced slurs and abuse that had been thrown his way by rabid global warming activists over years.

Pioneering scientist, social activist, humanitarian — Mary - Claire King is also foremost a free spirit who for over four decades has marched to the beat of her own drummer, animated by the impulse to solve iconic scientific puzzles, a passion for victims of disease and social injustice, and a warm humility that belies her profound impacts on science, on medicine, and on society.

Hosted by Caryn Hartglass, a vegan since 1988, the program includes in - depth interviews with medical doctors; nutritionists; dieticians; cook book authors; athletes; environmental, animals and health activists; farmers; food manufacturers; lawyers; food scientists and more.

Of all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tackle.

Along the way is a stunning chase sequence involving the barrelling bulk of Okja through a crowded Seoul shopping centre, goofy support from a ragtag of Animal Liberation Front activists (led by the softly spoken Paul Dano), and a terrific cameo from Jake Gyllenhaal as a safari - suited TV animal scientist who's sold out to Mirando.

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

In 2009 Sarah was invited to participate by The Farm Foundation in a new program where a group of artists, activists and scientists traveled to the Arctic Circle for 21 days and made work about the experience.

Jean Nagai: I'm influenced by people who are confronting white supremacy and environmental issues, whether it's artists, scientists or activists.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

Obama recognized the importance of taking such concerns into account in hist great «South By South Lawn» climate conversation with the scientist Katharine Hayhoe and the actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio:

In a culture too often dominated by expediency and self - interest, I came to view climate scientists as visionaries and altruists, flawed and flummoxed like all such people who are suddenly called by forces outside themselves to excel themselves, fighting not just their own reluctance to become publicly involved, and their own ill - adaption to public and activist lives, but, ultimately, fighting for the truth in the face of falsehood, not just because truth matters in some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stake.

Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute cited Doran's study, and claimed that «The American people are being hoodwinked not just by the green activists, but by the scientists who get billions of dollars for creating global climate models that can't even forecast backward, let alone forward.»

In some idealized world, the activists would build the public will so that the rational plan of the economists would be carried out sufficiently to meet the needs delineated by the scientists.

The New Scientist article is just another political rant by an activist in a journal sporting Science in its title.

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And Hansen had already declared himself to be an activist, not a scientist, by 1988.

Neither Gelbspan nor anyone repeating his accusation ever proved the money trail led to an industry directive to lie about global warming science; none of them have proved skeptic climate scientists were instructed to mimic tobacco industry tactics; journalists have demonstrably not offered overall fair balance in to skeptic climate scientists; the «wedge» being driven is one arguably pounded by enviro - activists who push the «skeptics don't deserve fair media balance» talking point; and Gelbspan was not the first one to bring up this talking point.

But with Trump's inauguration it will be the beginning of the end for the Green Blob — that sinister cabal of corrupt politicians, UN - and EU - technocrats, bent scientists, shrill activists, rent - seeking corporatists, blood - sucking lawyers and gullible journalists which has held the world to ransom these last four decades by promoting the man - made climate change scare story and other, related environmental scams.

catastrophic climate change is a scaremongering campaign pushed by activist climate scientists and their disciples.

Pt 7, «Cancerous Greenpeace / Desmogblog / Gelbspan Stuff»: What's detailed in this post is how Dave Rado's Ofcom complaint is first and foremost pushing absolutely nothing more than guilt - by - association «evidence» to indict skeptic climate scientists of industry - funded corruption, and secondly, how Rado, much like any other prominent accuser, is enslaved to an accusation narrative which ultimately relies on sources who repeat material which inevitably traces back to Ross Gelbspan and the clique of enviro - activists surrounding him when he and they got the first real media traction for the accusation.

The attacks on nuclear power by activists (and some scientists) were (it seemed to me) hysterical.

The moment the debate is deprived of its ambiguity, and supplied with actual data, it turns out that many activists, and indeed, scientists - cum - activists, are far further away from consensus position represented by the IPCC than are the putative «deniers».

Some influential «insider» scientists turned activists may also need to be removed from their largely taxpayer - funded positions, to be replaced by more objective scientists.

By the time I read Storms of my Grandchildren by NASA climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Science as a Contact Sport by Stephen Schneider in 2009, I was well aware that there was lots of other voices of journalists, writers, activists, and scientists calling for action on climate change besides Al GorBy the time I read Storms of my Grandchildren by NASA climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Science as a Contact Sport by Stephen Schneider in 2009, I was well aware that there was lots of other voices of journalists, writers, activists, and scientists calling for action on climate change besides Al Gorby NASA climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Science as a Contact Sport by Stephen Schneider in 2009, I was well aware that there was lots of other voices of journalists, writers, activists, and scientists calling for action on climate change besides Al Gorby Stephen Schneider in 2009, I was well aware that there was lots of other voices of journalists, writers, activists, and scientists calling for action on climate change besides Al Gore.

The Villach conference's activist scientists worked for several years persuading key U.S. officials to back the IPCC concept, but once the Panel was created in 1988, it was clear that by its «First Assessment,» scheduled for 1990, the IPCC would require an outside «coordinating committee.»

Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project started by Paul Hawken in 2013, with the input of more than 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists.

One of the pieces Pratt quoted was about the Conversations 13 articles written by the Australian activists CAGW extremist climate scientists for «The Conversation» and coordinated by Professor Lewandowski https://theconversation.edu.au/the-false-the-confused-and-the-mendacious-how-the-media-gets-it-wrong-on-climate-change-1558.

When a scientist declares, as Brulle did in that Newsday op - ed, that we «must do what is necessary to save the planet» and that activists need to present «dramatic, global threats» to persuade people to make great sacrifices and move toward that «alternative social order,» his work is properly subject to the scrutiny applied to commentary by political activists.

In the CE governance debate, scientists and activists have begun to pick up on this and are rightly though quietly concerned that transparency initiatives will be used by some to discredit or silence others.

Beachapedia captures decades of experience and knowledge gained by Surfrider Foundation activists, scientists and staff through hundreds of environmental and educational campaigns on our coasts.

That list includes two of the most infamous, discredited scientist - activists of the 20th Century — Carson, whose fake analysis led to the global ban on DDT that has caused millions of deaths from malaria, and Ehrlich, whose absurd visions of a «population bomb» laid the foundation for China's horrific One Child policy.34 The third icon listed by Brulle, Barry Commoner, was far better known as a political activist and «eco-socialist» presidential candidate than as a scientist.