Sentences with phrase «caused global warming issue»

It was an October 2012 public TV program that simply could not expand out of the 3 - point mantra that the man - caused global warming issue always boils down to: «the science is settled» / «skeptics are industry - corrupted» / «reporters may ignore skeptic material because of points 1 & 2».

If there is one particularly crippling fault in the entire man - caused global warming issue, it is the manner in which its promoters feel a compulsion to leave out important details.

Enviro - activists believe they are headed toward the light at the end of the tunnel on the man - caused global warming issue with this growing collection of lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

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Which Gasoline Corporations Usually do not Use Ethanolthe real problem with «global warming» hysteria has caused big issues in other spots over the boards and perhaps performs into why we have been in Iraq!back again during the eighties the global warming lunatics released their own individual doctrine which went similar to this.

The snoopers» charter, threats to freedom of information, dangers of global warming, rising Islamophobia and that Lib Dem cause, European partnership, remain issues desperate for a progressive liberal voice.

The controversy around this issue has led scientists across Europe to dig deeper into the claim that solar activity could be a major cause of global warming.

I feel that it is very unfortunate that we have spent more time worrying about who has caused global warming, and who is to blame then to accept that it is a global issue.

A great deal of the confusion surrounding the issue of temperature trends in the upper troposphere comes from the mistaken belief that the presence or lack of amplification of surface warming in the upper troposphere has some bearing on the attribution of global warming to man - made causes.

Today's young people, as they move into adulthood, will face momentous issues of responding to environmental degradation, climate change and the role of human activity in causing or exacerbating global warming.

Global warming is a politically charged issue, and now disagreements over the cause of climate change are playing out in science classrooms.

On the issue of messaging, storms and warming, see a great post by Dan Kahan of Yale examining George Lakoff's assertion that «global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy.»

Judith Curry and colleagues have an interesting (and possibly provocative) article, «Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming Is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity» in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

The root cause of all the major environmental issues from food shortages, loss of biodiversity to global warming is current overpopulation.

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

-- Doesn't believe that global warming is an issue; OR — Doesn't believe that excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a cause; OR — Doesn't understand that free marketplaces don't generally respond sufficiently to things that don't have costs or prices.

The fact that so many people in the world believe, without understanding even the basic concepts, that global warming is indeed an issue should be a point of concern, not cause for celebration.

In this video, Stott raises the big issue of «cosmic rays» and its contribution to climate change, but then backs off and says he didn't say it was causing global warming and that it's just a «hot topic» of research.

Now he has persuaded Houghton Mifflin, one of the powerhouses in textbook publishing, to review a popular college and advanced - placement high school text, «American Government,» over its characterizations of human - caused global warming and other controversial issues.

On an unrelated subject, at work today, a colleague sent me an email and pronounced that man can not be causing global warming and, that the whole issue is a load of bunk!

It is self - evident that there will be strong disagreements over the «facts» on an issue such as the causes of global warming — where some scientists disagree.

In 1991, it was nothing more than a suggestion to invite science - based rebuttal back into an issue Al Gore and his friends hijacked with assertions that catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science; a suggestion which came out of a leaked non-profit coal association's public relations test market campaign which was so obscure that practically no one ever saw or heard about it.

If the public ever saw scientists who push the idea of man - caused global warming as fringe elements unable to support the merits of their argument against withering criticism, the issue would implode.

At the inception of the Al Gore era of the global warming issue, Stephen Schneider and the Society of Environmental Journalists spotted the very thing that could stop the issue in its tracks — if the public only saw scientists contradicting each other over whether man - caused global warming was a problem, the issue would never advance as a problem in need of a solution.

It is complicated, and the link between global warming and natural disasters often feels uncertain to people, since scientists can't say global warming caused this particular event (sigh...) A sense of issue fatigue can take hold, born of the difficulty of making rapid progress.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

quote: «Despite the 97 % expert consensus on human - caused global warming supported by peer - reviewed research, expert opinion, the IPCC reports, and National Academies of Science and other scientific organizations from around the world, a large segment of the population remains unconvinced on the issue.»

For the most part, Smith hasn't had to address the climate issue back home, even though polls show that a majority of his adult constituents believe human activity is causing global warming and Texas has suffered more severe climate and weather disasters since 1980 than any other state.

It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

No matter how AAAS members are categorized, their views starkly differ from the public's on key scientific issues such as global warming and its causes, human evolution, vaccination strategies and the safety of eating genetically modified foods or foods grown with pesticides.

Gallup found that whereas 47 % of Americans who say they understand the issue of global warming «Very well» think that it's «caused by the effects of pollution from human activities,» 62 % of those who feel they understand it only «Fairly well» do; and 59 % of those who feel they understand it «Not well» do.

Although each of these issues may say something about whether or not global warming is or was occurring, none of them say anything about the causes of global warming.

Nevertheless, Americans remain less certain about the accuracy of global warming news coverage, about humankind's role in causing global warming, and about the scientific consensus on the issue than they were last decade.

It's the global warming issue that is distorting energy issues, and that will, I believe, cause great harm to the United States.

I agree with you, Donn, that the CO2 and global warming issues have been politicized, and I think you win the day on your assertions that present policies will cause great economic harm to the U.S.

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.

The skeptics have drawn a blank on this important issue of oceans internally somehow causing global warming.

On balance the evidence shows that solar and oceanic variations are more likely the cause of recent observations of warming in the air than increasing CO2 in the air but the issue can soon be resolved by observing the global air temperature changes that occur during and after the extended cycle 23 and the probable weak cycle 24.

Thus as Ding et al. (2011) concluded, if a larger percentage of people realized that there is a scientific consensus on the issue amongst the group they trust most on the subject, more people would believe that humans are causing global warming, and more people would demand that we do something about it.

It's conceivable that reporters and administrators at NPR may uniformly be able to summarize the collective global warming issue as «we can ignore climate deniers because the science of man - caused global warming is settled and because Michael Oreskes» sister proved denier scientists are paid industry money to lie about it being not settled.»

In the light of all this, we have at least to consider the possibility that the scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the climate problem... in its effort to promote the cause.

To quash the notion that no valid scientific criticism exists against the idea of man - caused global warming, enviro - activists often say «denier scientists» are paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about the issue, insinuating a parallel to expert «shills» who did the same for «big tobacco».

After all, as anyone who studies the climate issue with an open mind knows, the Arctic example is only one of hundreds of perfectly natural phenomena that consensus climate science blames on human - caused global warming.

There seems to be significant confusion on the issue of human caused global warming because some say that the warming has stopped, or paused.

The issue is not IF global temperature is warming but HOW MUCH is the contribution of anthropogenic causes?

And of course, there is then the whole issue of «global warming» being the cause, which Masters and McKibben then conveniently ignore the actual global temperature record for the last 15 years.

Coleman went on to add that he based most of his views on the findings of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international body that says «because it is not a government agency, and because its members are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent «second opinion» of the evidence reviewed - or not reviewed - by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the issue of global warming.»

It's very clear (thanks to Steve M, Willis etc) that there are issues with both but given the current hyped claim by the «warmers» that the past effects of man - caused global warming have largely been masked by the warming of the oceans and that unless we reduce CO2 emissions now that we won't be able to mitigate future global warming when this «stored heat» eventually comes back out of the oceans and leads to catastrophic effects, I'm very interested in getting to the punchline of this debate on SSTs.

However, supporters of the idea of man - caused global warming across the spectrum praise Gelbspan for his exposé of «corrupt skeptics», including the Associated Press's Seth Borenstein, one of the most prominent climate issue reporters in the country.

I believe Mr. singer «s conclusion is well founded:» I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause.

I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause.