Sentences with phrase «certainty about climate science»

Also, when you speak of a major reduction in the public's certainty about climate science, do you see that as a good thing?

Also, it triggered a lot of inquiry into the details of the I.P.C.C. reports that I think would not have occurred absent climategate, and was associated with a major reduction in the public's certainty about climate science.

I wasn't pointing out Michael's profession as evidence that he was incorrect — I was pointing out the asymmetry between his and Willis» scientific knowledge and their respective certainties about climate science.

Not exact matches

It marks the world's acceptance that climate change, driven by humans» greenhouse gas emissions, is about as close to a certainty as science can ever get — and that conclusion can not be covered up or waved away.

In his talks on the topic, Gelbspan doesn't restrict himself to just the «certainty» about the science of man - caused global warming, or the «certainty» that skeptic climate scientists are industry - paid shills.

To the extant that the climate change disinformation machine has equated lack of high levels of certainty about potentially harsh consequences of climate change with «bad» science, it is ethically problematic because it is deeply misleading.

Yet, participants in the climate change disinformation machine often speak as if it is inappropriate to talk about duties to reduce greenhouse gases until science is capable of proving with high levels of certainty what actual damages will be.

Dr. Lacis has footnotes to other papers but given his certainty about climate skeptics I'm inclined to assume his conclusions about climate science are equally skewed to predetermined ends, though I could be wrong.

But the memo also criticises environmental campaigners for misrepresenting scientific evidence and says that green groups and the British media «have been guilty of expressing unjustified certainty about the science of climate change».

The effect was to let the public be deluded about such things, by those who hoped that the public would rise up and demand politicial action, while the climate scientists could comfortably sit back, let the wild claims appear to be part of their famously «settled» science, knowing that if the «predictions» failed, they could point to their refereed journal papers that made no such explicit claims, or at least none with claimed certainty, thus achieving sensational scare stories but with plausible deniability.

Neither do I think it likely that advances in climate science will give us great certainty about exactly how bad global warming will be over the coming centuries.

To be fair, Wheelan admits that the decision of those who agree that action should be taken against climate change «does not suggest certainty about the science of global warming.»

I am grateful when people take the time to comment and, yes, criticize, but I also think this writer oversells the certainty we should feel about alarmist climate science and its conclusions.