Sentences with phrase «by climate science denial»

Two of Prime Minister Theresa May's special advisers met with a libertarian US think tank founded by climate science denial funder Charles Koch last winter, but Number 10 Downing Street will not say why.

Now, the decades of material produced by that climate science denial machineryis finding a new audience.

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«They didn't sign up for budget deficits... They didn't sign up for science being pushed out of the way by ideology... They didn't sign up for the denial of climate change... They didn't sign up for North Korea getting nuclear weapons...»

«By identifying climate change as the most critical issue for coming generations, the President is calling out not just science denial, but Republican attempts to undermine his specific domestic and international climate policies,» Bledsoe said in an email after the speech.

Science is resilient — even when seemingly threatened today by fake news, climate change denial and the celebration of a post-factual era.

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.»

Recently leaked documents show Heartland is drafting a national science curriculum created by a non-climate scientist database technician, designed to undermine traditional science education and promote climate change denial by teaching school children that there is a scientific controversy when in fact there is not — the controversy is political.

Yet another comment totally devoid of any empirical data supporting your climate alarmism groupthink, totally failing to refute anything that I posted, and in total denial of the fact that your CatastrophicAGW - by - CO2 groupthink is not science, but religion, cult religion, peddling propaganda, because empirical data (science) doesn't support it.

Such is the concern about ExxonMobil that earlier this year the Royal Society, considered Britain's leading scientific academy, wrote to it asking that it stop funding groups that have «misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence».

She was directly referred to by a top level IPCC climate scientist for proof that «organized climate denial» exists, and currently receives praise from prominent politicians on the notion that «merchants of climate science doubt» exist.

When will the cowardly denial of global geoengineering by «elected officials» (which is parroted by the entire climate science community) come to an end?

Albert Camus» 1947 novel The Plague describes the strategies deployed by those trapped in a plague - ridden town to avoid facing up to the truth, and the courage of the few who do.The phenomenon of climate denial suggests that three centuries ago the forces of Enlightenment science had entered into a contingent alliance only with the commitment to a rational social order, and that the «subjectivity» that allowed us to extract Nature's secrets also gave us the self - certainty to ignore the knowledge if it proved too discomforting.

But this climate - science denial letter was different in one key respect — it was written by David Shuford, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Dominion Resources Inc., Virginia's largest energy company and the commonwealth's biggest emitter of climate - disrupting carbon dioxide.

Predictably, the manifesto has been greeted with enthusiasm by various purveyors of climate science denial, like the National Review, the Fraser Institute and, in Australia, the Murdoch media's chief promoter of climate denial and denigrator of renewables (the Australian's Graham Lloyd.)

Many others can be found by Googling «climate science denial» or similar phrases.

Much of the Anti-Global Warming rhetoric published by The Independent Institute is the work of a few persons, and one stands out, both in quantity of releases, as well as notoriety, S. Fred Singer who ran the climate - denial tobacco - funded organisation Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).

However the notable point is climate science denial by conservatives seems unique to America and Australia, and is much less evident elsewhere, and they explain why.

From Curry's place: Mapleleaf «Dr. Curry, I'm sure that you agree (correct me if you don't) that the science behind the theory of anthropogenic induced climate change is a long one, and very well established (I can hear the cries of indignance from those in denial about AGW / ACC already), and borne out by multiple, independent data sets and consilience.

Those forces include a desire to look backwards, exemplified by the Trump administration's climate science denial and pro-fossil fuel policies, versus a growing array of stakeholders looking toward a future economy that runs on clean energy.

Bethell's source is the «Galilean electrodynamics of rightwing crank physicist Petr Beckman, commemorated in the Petr Beckman award, which has been accepted by a string of the scientific luminaries of the climate science denial movement such as Fred Singer, Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon.

Moreover, by applying the term «denial» (with all its loaded undertones) to sceptical scientists; by referring to them inaccurately as «well funded» by the oil industry; and by likening those who stress the uncertainties of climate science to unprincipled lobbyists for tobacco companies, Lord May enters on the field of personal vilification — not a suitable place for a distinguished former President of the Royal Society.

In addition, there is no doubt that it is a very bad career decision (or worse) for any academician to openly admit to the ongoing geoengineering assault (which is a matter of historical record), but do these factors excuse the criminal denial of existing climate engineering programs by the climate science community?

Here are three great videos debunking contrarians with excellent historical overviews of the science by Dr. Naomi Oreskes: «The American Denial of Global Warming», «Merchants Of Doubt», and «Answering Climate Change Skeptics».

And sharing the same shelf space, is Taxing Air written by Dr Bob Carter, an Australian geologist and advisor to about a dozen climate science denial organisations around the world, and John Spooner, a cartoonist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia.

The Journal published by far the most opinion pieces misrepresenting climate science, while all three instances of climate science denial in the Post came from columns written by George Will.

3) «Climate Destruction Sponsors» — There are some extremely wealthy people, most of which have or have had substantial investments in fossil fuel extraction and sales who have funded climate science denial efforts by institutions such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute as a means of delaying action on climate Climate Destruction Sponsors» — There are some extremely wealthy people, most of which have or have had substantial investments in fossil fuel extraction and sales who have funded climate science denial efforts by institutions such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute as a means of delaying action on climate climate science denial efforts by institutions such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute as a means of delaying action on climate climate change.

An industry of denial, abetted by news media and «info - tainment» broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science — an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human - caused, carbon - based emissions are linked to warming the Earth.

The reason the public switch off is that it is by now completely obvious that there is more to the climate debate than science vs denial, and anyone claiming otherwise is pulling your leg.

«The language of denial: Text analysis reveals differences in language use between climate change proponents and skeptics» «Comment on «Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster» by J. A. Curry and P. J. Webster» «Guidance note for lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on consistent treatment of uncertaintiesclimate change proponents and skeptics» «Comment on «Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster» by J. A. Curry and P. J. Webster» «Guidance note for lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on consistent treatment of uncertaintiesClimate Science and the Uncertainty Monster» by J. A. Curry and P. J. Webster» «Guidance note for lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on consistent treatment of uncertainties»

Judith said in her interview: «The dominant paradigm seems to be that a science knowledge deficit of the public and policy makers exists, which is exacerbated by the Koch - funded climate denial machine.»

«ExxonMobil, the world's largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.»

It also says the companies «orchestrated a campaign of deception and denial regarding climate change» by funding efforts to discredit the science on climate change even though their scientists had warned them of the risks and the role of fossil fuels in causing it.

There is an interesting book called Merchants of Doubt (by Oreskes and Conway) that talks not about the science behind climate change but about how some scientists on corporate payrolls went about creating an attitude of denial about climate change and varying other topics.

It found that in 2005, Exxon distributed nearly $ 3 million to 39 groups which «misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence that greenhouse gases are driving climate change».

The Heartland Institute conferences have been a mainstay of climate science denial for years, where presenters, most of which have no genuine expertise in climate science, will claim that either global warming is not happening, that its not caused by fossil fuel emissions, or that impacts will be minor or beneficial.

Driven by factors like the Bush administration's censorship of climate science communication, Al Gore's prominent role in promoting awareness of the science of global warming, and frequent Republican deployment of climate change denial and «skepticism» to oppose greenhouse gas regulation, a destructive dichotomy has been created suggesting that valuing the role of science in public policy is a matter of political partisanship.

While the Paris Agreement and the neo-liberal global consensus certainly falls far short of meaningfully addressing the current climate crisis, the rising authoritarianism and denial of climate science exhibited by the Trump administration embodies an even more dangerous direction.

Robert Balling, Idso's mentor, was one of the leading scientists paid by the Greening Earth Society, the climate science - denying front group created by the Western Fuels Association, one of the first and earliest coal industry groups funding the denial of climate change.

«Chart Shows Why «CO2 is Good» For Climate Science Denial Groups Funded By Exxon and Kochs,» DeSmog, January 11, 2016.

Comprehensive climate change legislation was under consideration in the Senate after having passed the House, the Copenhagen Accords had been signed the previous month, the Environmental Protection Agency had announced its Endangerment Finding on greenhouse gases, and the climate science community was under vitriolic attack by the denial machine.

Muller had been funded by the notorious Koch Brothers, the largest current funders of climate change denial and disinformation, to independently «audit» the ostensibly dubious science of climate change.

Basically, you seem to have been taken in by one of the characterstics of (climate) science denial which is «impossible expectations».

She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the first U.S. National Climate Assessment, which was completed in 2000 then essentially suppressed at the federal level by the Bush - Cheney administration — part of their science denial and another failure of national preparedness.

At a time when The Guardian just reported another poll showing a drop in concern about climate change, and a New York Times front page this week described Britons» growing doubts about the science, its worth taking a look at that anti-science campaign, which was waged by Einstein's critics because like today's climate denial movement, the anti-relativity movement had some success too.

The Mercer Family Foundation, led by Rebekah, has given heavily to climate science denial groups like Heartland.

Most of would choose rational, science - based limits on climate pollution, but we can't have them; instead, the chair of the relevant committee in the United States Senate is chaired by a guy who actually brings snowballs to the Senate floor in defense of climate denial.

Climate change is real and denial is not about the science (by Andrew E. Dressler and Gerald R. North,)

«The similarities between the mischief of the tobacco industry pretending that the science of tobacco's dangers was unsettled and the fossil fuel industry pretending that the science of carbon emissions» dangers is unsettled has been remarked on widely, particularly by those who study the climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has erected.»

Around 2 years ago, I was honoured to be invited by geologist and long - time educator Tom Farmer to collaborate on a textbook that expounded on the principles of climate science as well as put climate change denial in perspective.

These days Morano runs the climate science denial blog Climate Depot, for which he is paid by the fossil fuel industry - funded Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (climate science denial blog Climate Depot, for which he is paid by the fossil fuel industry - funded Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (Climate Depot, for which he is paid by the fossil fuel industry - funded Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).