Sentences with phrase «challenge climate change denial»

Updated In recent years, Bill Nye, best known as «The Science Guy,» has become a must - book figure when a talk show, or President Obama for that matter, is looking for someone to challenge climate change denial.

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The inquiry aims to find out whether the oil company was aware of the dangers of human - made climate change but chose to keep quiet and to promote denial groups challenging the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

Then comes another big lie - «those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory ``.

Given that climate change challenges not only vested interests, but also a deeply entrenched world view — as once did the notion that the earth goes around the sun, widespread denial of the human role in it should not come as a great surprise.

Climate change is the ultimate challenge but as a matter of fact most governments and the media are still sleepwalking and are in denial for the most part.

... If you believe that solving the climate change problem «is fundamentally a technological challenge,» then we are in this mess not because of the power of the fossil fuel lobby, not because of the influence of the campaign of denial, not because of money politics, not because persuading consumers to accept a price on carbon seems too hard, and not because getting international cooperation has been fraught.

Plimer challenged Monbiot to a face - to - face debate: Monbiot responded in «Why can't the champion of climate change denial face the music?»

, an outgoing lawmaker with nothing left to lose after having his fate sealed through a primary challenge from the right earlier this year, expressed his frustrations with the GOP's trajectory toward climate change denial Wednesday in a harsh rebuke that blasted his party's hard - headed refusal to listen to scientific experts.