Sentences with phrase «claims about climate change»

«I am very proud to report that The Heartland Institute has spent millions of dollars over the past ten years supporting scientific research that contradicts alarmist claims about climate change,» Bast said in his reply, adding that all the requested information could easily be found on The Heartland Institute's websites.

Some of those Esef recruited as «academic members» were people working for US lobby groups later funded by Exxon, who have made false claims about climate change.

Why do we accept certain scientific claims about climate change but are doubtful about others?»

Disingenuous claims about climate change are used to obfuscate, delay and hinder any progress on this subject, be it scientific, commercial, industrial, social or political.

While the media will continue to report unfounded claims about climate change, the facts don't lie.

Request proof of claims about climate change.

Climate scientists had refused to reveal their data or show their workings, and several alarming claims about climate change, such as the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers, were found to be groundless.

Climate scientists had refused to reveal their data and show their workings, and several alarming claims about climate change were found to be groundless.

What needs explaining is not who discovered what — the scientists or the «deniers» — but how alarmist claims about climate change always seem to precede the evidence, such that researchers believe the negative picture before the science has delivered a verdict.

Among the litany of claims about climate change, sea - level rise is one of the most tangible.

It accused three groups, Friends of Science, the International Climate Science Coalition, and the Heartland Institute of making false and misleading claims about climate change, including that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide, and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

As we have documented in numerous articles on the disinformation campaign on this website, although responsible scientific skepticism is necessary for science to advance, the climate change disinformation campaign has been involved not in the pursuit of responsible scientific skepticism but in tactics that are morally reprehensible including: (a) telling lies about mainstream climate scientific evidence or engaging in reckless disregard for the truth, (b) focusing on unknowns about climate science while ignoring settled climate change science, that is cherry - picking the evidence, (c) creating front groups and Astroturf groups that hide the real parties in interest behind claims, (d) making specious claims about «good science», (e) manufacturing science sounding claims about climate change by holding conferences in which claims are made and documents are released that have not been subjected to scientific peer - review, and (d) cyber bullying journalists and scientists.

First among them is false balance, which the book describes as giving false industry - friendly claims about climate change «an equal place on the media stage with actual science.»

The article included claims about climate change effects in the Cooks which can not...

In addition, as I describe in Chapter 4, a recent analysis by my colleague at American University, Lauren Feldman, finds that Fox News, in comparison to MSNBC and CNN, features a heavier proportion of dismissive claims about climate change than their cable counterparts.

In other words, the climate change denial machine has been attacking the views of mainstream science, not just the claims of environmental organizations that perhaps may occasionally make exaggerated claims about climate change impacts.

«Factcheck: Lord Lawson's inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4,» Carbon Brief, August 10, 2017.

In particular, what is it telling us about the social status and perceived authority of scientific claims about climate change?

The revelation comes in the wake of news that the cities made divergent claims about climate change in their lawsuits and their disclosures to potential investors.

The claims about climate change science made by these conservative / industry groups have questionable scientific value.

The claims about climate change science on the Cato and TCS websites have questionable scientific value.

In an op - ed for Fox News, Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House science committee, made a host of false and misleading claims about climate change and related issues.

The Prime Minister seems to believe the recent moves by the US and China to battle pollution are simply a misguided response to fictional claims about climate change.

I will not be posting every sensational or incendiary claim about climate change that pops up in the media, but I think in this initial phase of the CCNF, such an attack needed to be noted in the record.

What all the above have claimed about climate change is, of course, completely untrue.

Not exact matches

They claim that thousands of respectable scientists aren't sure about climate change.

In his book, Clegg accuses Cameron, whom he broadly likes, of hypocrisy, claiming to care about climate change and Europe and the poor, then kowtowing to the right wing of his party.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Ed Miliband calls on the prime minister for «the truth» about climate change as he reminded him of previous claims.

Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri's position is looking increasingly untenable with the revelation that he sat on the discovery that one of the IPCC's claims about melting glaciers was without foundation before the Copenhagen summit.

«I agree with what he said about the importance of climate change» claimed Miliband, clearly disappointed to have got such an unconditional declaration of support from the prime minister.

Ed Miliband called on the prime minister for «the truth» about climate change as he reminded him of previous claims while in opposition.

President - elect Donald Trump's meeting with Al Gore yesterday could soften his image on climate change a week after he claimed to have an open mind about man - made warming, according to some observers.

What's behind his claims about the value of genome research and his plan to combat climate change?

«We often hear people claim that a big snowstorm is evidence that the climate is not warming, but these results make it clear that such storms do not provide much evidence about a changing climate,» says Broccoli, who did not contribute to the study.

«Australian scientists have rejected claims a multi-national climate change body is set to revise down its previous warnings about the rate of global warming.

He has repeatedly claimed that this constitutes a peer - reviewed scientific publication about climate change, but the fact is that society newsletters are not typically «peer - reviewed» in any normal sense, and the newsletter editor appended a notice on Monckton's article saying it was not peer - reviewed.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

It's especially important to fight the efforts of demagogs to claim that uncertainties about climate change and its effects are reason for inaction.

Most of these claims are political attacks that promote a partisan agenda and are not objective information about climate change science.

SPIEGEL / Axel Bojanowski claim that the Science world is upset about a recent Munich Re study, when it comes to extreme weather and growing cost from climate change.

After years of first trying to deny the facts about climate change, then dragging his feet on doing something about it, now President Bush wants to pre-empt any meaningful legislation and claim that as his «legacy».

Clearly, opposition to doing something about climate change has fallen back to a new position: claims that attempting to limit greenhouse gas emissions would be incredibly costly.

Another claim frequently made about peer review is that it keeps out opposing views, not just on climate change but also things like alternative medicine, creationism, all sorts of pseudo stuff.

I don't claim to know anything about social or psychological sciences to elaborate, but this might just be a consequence of the fact that climate change operates on timescales much larger than a political term or the time it takes to schedule your son's soccer practice.

The Administration's claims of sincere wishes to do something about climate change is pure cynical manipulation of public opinion, and means nothing.

I find it funny that the NASA hockey team members claim any scientists outside of climate science can not talk with authority about climate change.

Anyone who claims that «climate change is nothing to worry about» or conversely that «we're in for a major disaster» is overstepping the bounds of what is known.

A surprising finding of Haddock's research was that the social group that talked about climate change the least was young women under 30, even though they claim to be among the most concerned.

Uncertainty about the extent of future global warming is in itself an indicator of serious climate change to come, scientists have claimed.