Sentences with phrase «change skeptics like»

Climate - change skeptics like to portray themselves as a feisty rebel alliance speaking truth to power, up against a colossal green propaganda machine....

The film includes other prominent climate change skeptics like Tim Ball, Nir Shaviv, Nigel Lawson, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Moore, Roy Spencer, and numerous others.

Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one side of the global warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis.»

In a press release dated July 18, 2002, Bob Mills defended climate change skeptics like the Friends of Science and Richard Lindzen: «The fact that Dr. Lindzen and thousands of other scientists disagree with the Canadian government's one - sided view of climate change in no way invalidates their valuable contributions to understanding this complex science.»

Not exact matches

I mean, we skeptics already recognize that the supposedly - universal moralities of the various religions have changed tremendously over time, but people like Christians love to say their morality is universal and unchanging.

If your argument has been disproved you don't get to keep on repeating it endlessly (like climate change skeptics constantly do).

The meeting coincides with a gathering of climate change skeptics in New York City, who are debating topics like «Global warming: Was it ever a crisis?»

Wallace's perspectives are particularly interesting because he is both a highly respected climate researcher (and National Academy of Sciences member) and, like a number of other long - time researchers in the field, was once a «skeptic» (in the best sense of the word) regarding the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.

It's being cited by climate change skeptics quite often and I would like to know how much merit it has.

Tom Fuller says «I find it truly bizarre that you (or one of the skeptic blogs) has not yet realized that weblogs are the absolutely perfect mechanism for conducting a proper debate on an issue like climate change

Ironically, the best thing climate change scientists could advise climate change believers to do is to act like climate change skeptics.

Wallace's perspectives are particularly interesting because he is both a highly respected climate researcher (and National Academy of Sciences member) and, like a number of other long - time researchers in the field, was once a «skeptic» (in the best sense of the word) regarding the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.

If the messages had shown prominent climate change skeptics plotting media strategy, obscuring data, and acting more like lobbyists than scientists, the New York Times would certainly have treated it like the scandal it is.

There's no significant change in the understanding of climate change or global warming which continue to be valid expressions (while CAGW is just a concept invented by skeptics to use as they like and in a way that does not reflect main stream views).

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

The «story arc» where they realize that their positions are off - base and change them in response to the present state of the evidence (in other words, when they start behaving like skeptics) is sadly all too rare an occurrence.

These external ones can affect long - term climate, and things like the MWP and LIA could be responses to those rather than ocean circulation changes (most skeptics would not deny this).

Gore calls on his climate faithful to treat global warming skeptics like racists and homophobes By Ben Geman Former vice president Al Gore on Monday called for making climate change «denial» a taboo in society.

Yet the pre - amble / background to the survey, that includes the statement that skeptics «are doubtful that climate change is occurring», suggests prominent sceptics like myself and Nicola Scafetta deny such a reality.

The above «Climate of Doubt» program qualifies as such with its blatant insinuation about skeptics corrupted by illicit money, as does its prior 2008 program «Heat», in which only unidentified skeptic scientists were shown while the narrator said «Not only have big oil companies not invested much in renewables, but for years they were among the largest contributors to so - called climate change denier groups, groups like the Heartland Institute, the organizer of this 2008 convention.»

I'm not going to hand - wring and pearl - clutch and moan from my fainting couch (I just got a new one, btw) about McKtrick — but I will point out that until folks like Judith and other «skeptics» (and «realists) are less selective in their «outrage,» nothing will change.

The scientists are defending the UNFCCC and IPCC as part and parcel of the same thing, and a climate scientist that is concerned about climate change but not supporting the UNFCCC policies (like myself) gets lumped into various categories like skeptic, etc (see the doubt post).

And, if you think it's bad here, you might take a day and pose as an advocate for action on climate change on sites like WUWT, JoNova, Curry, or any of the many other lightly or unmoderated «skeptic» sites.

It seems like the former method is the mainstay of climate change skeptics (almost always with a single or very few, rather than all known) effects taken into consideration and usually with the intent of showing some expected change hasn't taken place — ie to «prove» science has it wrong.

When put in 2012 prices, the loss is calculated as $ 3.5 trillion, and the spreadsheet is available on the Web for those who would like to check the calculations themselves.f If, indeed, the climate skeptics think this is an insignificant number, they should not object to spending much smaller sums for slowing climate change starting now.

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, attributes this decline to five factors: The economic collapse, a severe decrease in media coverage, weather events like «Snowmaggedon,» the efforts of the «denial industry» (the network of industry - funded think tanks and political advocacy groups that push skeptic views), and the «ClimateGate» debacle.

Do you have evidence to disprove that expressions like «the supposed 20th century warming» appear only in comments from self - described climate - change skeptics, which are in fact contrarians?

It's truer to say that assertions like yours («the supposed 20th century warming») appear only in comments from self - described climate - change skeptics.

I don't understand how fossil fuel interests funding «skeptics» like WIlie Soon is going to get us any closer to understanding the science of climate change.

Hank (216), No, I'm simply saying that the argument that the supporters of AGW are just like the good guys from the tobacco studies, or that the skeptics are just like the folks that didn't buy off on the tobacco studies is not a compelling argument for or against, though for some reason it is viewed by some as a absolute proof of the validity of climate change studies.