That last year was the warmest yet, in some data sets, but only by a smidgen more than 2005, is precisely in line with such lukewarm thinking,» Ridley wrote in «My life as a climate
change lukewarmer» at The Times.
«My life as a climate
change lukewarmer,» The Times, January 19, 2015.
This still does not
change the lukewarmer's position.
Not exact matches
Many skeptics — in particular, a group called «
lukewarmers,» for instance Matt Ridley — claim that it is on the lower end of that range and therefore climate
change is less of a worry.
Most
Lukewarmers who write about climate
change have offered individual assessments, but none of us have said «this is a lukearmer position on adaptation or mitigation.»
So are you also saying that co2 has a limited effect on
changing The equilibrium from one climate state to another or do you argue for something stronger, which would mean that you aren't a
lukewarmer a all but a rather warmer version?
Matt Ridley published an article in the London Times where he outlines the reasons that he considers himself to be a «
lukewarmer» on climate
change.
More clear framing — e.g. «as a
lukewarmer, I have what I believe is a nuanced view on the strength of the findings of mainstream climate science regarding anthropogenic greenhouse - driven warming and associated claims of climate
change.
Lukewarmers believe the evidence of some human - caused climate
change is compelling, but it is hardly the alarming amount being predicted by the models.
Now it's from Ross Douthat, who declares for lukewarmerism: LIKE a lot of conservatives who write about public policy, my views on climate
change place me in the ranks of what the British writer Matt Ridley once dubbed the «
lukewarmers.»
[
Lukewarmers] tend to attribute the warming seen to date to a variety of sources: GHGs, land use
changes, Urban Heat Island, and natural variability.
Lukewarmers do not think dangerous climate
change is impossible; but they think it is unlikely.
On 3 May Tamsin Edwards wrote an article for The Observer entitled «The
lukewarmers don't deny climate
change.