Sentences with phrase «climate change talking points»

Two, bureaucrats (both transnational and national), politicians and journalists demand global warming / climate change talking points - thus the creation of higher (i.e. warmer) current temps than any temperatures exhibited earlier in the 20th century.

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The New York Times notes that the new plan could make climate change a major talking point in the upcoming presidential election.

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

The EPA last night sent employees a list of eight approved talking points on climate change from its Office of Public Affairs — guidelines that promote a message of uncertainty about climate science and gloss over proposed cuts to key adaptation programs.

Otherwise, much of his speech rehashed his usual talking points: the undue influence of the «billionaire class,» the crisis of climate change, the need to defeat Donald Trump and — of course — the nefarious machinations of the «establishment.»

He called Tillerson's climate change comments «adjusted talking points» to acknowledge that climate change is real but said they encourage little action.

«Within the ranks of elites, climate change denialists are overwhelmingly conservative white males,» reads the report, pointing to figures like talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Marshall Institute CEO, William O'Keefe.

«Climate change deniers continue to dredge up long - discredited talking points,» he said.

Environment Minister Afridi says his government plans to drive that point home to other nations at climate change talks scheduled for Mexico at the end of this year.

Obama offers Republicans some talking points The timing of the debate lands squarely among high - profile events on climate change.

And Perdue's not the only leading recipient of Southern's political support to help spread the questionable scientific talking points the utility has paid for: Rep. Gary Palmer, an Alabama Republican who received $ 18,000 from the company's PAC and employees in the 2014 cycle, last year told WATE that science «says global climate change is more a function of nature and solar activity than it is anything man does.»

Talking Points Memo confirmed that «The Interior Department is «reviewing» whether a government climate change expert held over from the Bush administration received improper payments from an institution known for its opposition to environmental regulation, a spokesman tells TPM.»

In the last few months there has been a lot more talk about climate change, all of it escalating in intensity as well as number of articles (non-scientific of course) and harping on a few points such as Ian Plimer's book in Australia, the globe - is - cooling mantra etc..

Not only does the Ryan budget spread misinformation by reiterating the GOP talking points, it also fails to address the most pressing environmental issue facing us today: the multifaceted impacts of climate change.

Question: before talking about simulating climate CHANGE, how long does the climate science community expect it to take before GCM's can reproduce the real world climate PRIOR to human induced CO2 perturbation in terms of: — «equilibrium point», i.e. without artificial flux adjustment to avoid climatic drift, — «natural variability», in terms of, for instance, the Hurst coefficient at different locations on the planet?

I'm not sure there's anything particularly new here, except a focus on Hansen's point that the «long term» timescale people talk about with climate may be a lot shorter than the several thousand years or so that was observed for the ice age changes.

My concerns only pop up when there is talk of attempting artificial changes to the climate (force cooling) or simply moving the problem from point A to point B (carbon trading).

Frank Luntz is arguably one of the biggest reasons the United States has been able to dodge taking action to address climate change for so long — in an infamous memo (which was leaked and obtained by a green group), he revealed the rhetorical tricks and talking points conservative politicians should employ to confuse the public about the state of climate science.

With high - level talks over a new international climate agreement beginning in Lima, Peru, it's worth reviewing some basic points about climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases.

Greenpeace unleashed a press release that began with two words: «Greenpeace demands...» It talked about «climate chaos,» tipping points, and stoking «the fires of climate change by burning fossil fuels.»

The letter portends to offer facts about «climate change deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about skeptic climate scientists saying global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and caused by humans, but it's not so bad.»

Though there has been much talk about the climate change «debate,» in point of fact there isn't much diversity evident in the group.

It's only six pages long and KT hits most of the talking points and conceits of the climate change movement: the hacked emails, «deniers», the complicit media, the importance of avoiding scientific debate plus amusing self - serving cartoons at the end and a loving dedication to friend and colleague, Stephen Schneider.

Based on new research, federal scientists suggest that an apparent recent slowdown in global warming — a common talking point for many people who dispute human - caused climate change — did not occur, but only seemed so based on incorrect data.

Gohmert then brought up a talking point he» sused before, falsely claiming that somewhat higher temperatures in Greenland during the Viking age mean that climate change is a myth.

As this blog as pointed out in the last Green Hops post (under «High Level Climate Change Talks»), technology transfer is a hot topic.

Disrespectful not only to the three scientists including calling Judith Curry a denier but to the American people for their professing to address the science of climate change, then mouthing incomplete talking points of CAGW.

Indeed, they attack me specifically, resurrecting untruthful climate change denier talking points about the the discredited «climategate» affair, and the widely debunked attacks on the famous «hockey stick» curve my co-authors and I published in the late 1990s (if you want to learn the truth behind all of this, consider reading my previous book The Hockey Stick and the Climateclimate change denier talking points about the the discredited «climategate» affair, and the widely debunked attacks on the famous «hockey stick» curve my co-authors and I published in the late 1990s (if you want to learn the truth behind all of this, consider reading my previous book The Hockey Stick and the ClimateClimate Wars).

So far, here in the United States, public debate over climate change has been little more than an endless series of arcane scientific and political talking points tossed back and forth on the Internet between those who believe AGW will destroy the planet and those who believe the whole thing is a massive hoax.

In support of Reclamation's new Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implemenClimate Change Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementChange Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implemenclimate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementchange, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implemenclimate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementchange relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementation.

To be perfectly clear: Talk of a «hiatus» or a «pause» in global warming has been a contrarian talking point for about a decade, and there is clear evidence that this framing was picked up by the media (see Max Boykoff's article in Nature Climate Change last year) and has now been picked up by some climate scieClimate Change last year) and has now been picked up by some climate scieclimate scientists.

Climate change talks are poised at a critical stage before the Conference of Parties meets in Paris in 2015 to finalise a new treaty, and India's alliances with developing countries assume significance at this point.

The IPCC has backed off talk of tipping points and irreversible climate change, though I get the impression that may be a political calculation — in line with Lacis's peeve that «likely» and «most likely» are weasel constructions for appearance's sake.

Lomborg claims the often - repeated talking point that «Policies aimed at addressing climate change can easily end up punishing the poor,» pointing a finger at Germany and citing a study by the fossil - fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), claiming that renewable energy targets and emissions caps have resulted in «energy poverty.»

The aforementioned jerk Michael Mann applauded Curry's retirement, saying she played a «pernicious role in the climate change denial campaign, laundering standard denier talking points... and boilerplate climate change denial drivel.»

So, my point — which should have been obvious given what I actually wrote — is that when people talk about the climate always changing when discussing AGW, it appears as if they are suggesting that man made climate change is simply part of some kind of cycle.

of course not because that is a very vague term «climate change» especially since A. Global Warming has been mostly abandoned as a talking point and your not mentioning the «amount» of climate change.

And Sir John also talked about how our hope must be to limit climate change — preventing us passing a potentially catastrophic tipping point — a great threat to life.

«We need to wake up to the idea that business as usual, even clever taxation schemes, will not act fast enough to reduce global emissions,» added Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, a contributing author to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which will be a talking point at COP21.

It's an argument made by Berkeley linguist George Lakoff, among others, and a key point in climate communicators» lessons on how to — and how not to — talk about that dreaded «climate change» term.

The Madhouse Effect also pinpoints where these denialist talking points often originate, detailing many of the fossil fuel front groups whose representatives frequently mislead about climate change in major print and TV media without disclosing their glaring conflicts of interest.

here's an example concerning your «ocean heat» official «climate change» talking point...

I'd just like to make sure I understood your post correctly: the common answer to the «contrarian talking point» that much of the observed recent climate change could just be caused by natural variability in the climate system is that this would imply, broadly speaking, heat being moved from the oceans to the atmosphere — whereas we observe the opposite, oceans storing heat.

As explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectly.

Nov. 3, 2017 7:08 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP)-- A massive U.S. report concludes the evidence of global warming is stronger than ever, contradicting a favorite talking point of top Trump administration officials, who downplay humans» role in climate change.

By using estimates, government officials are able to claim bogus climate warming statistics in order to advance the scary talking points of catastrophic global warming and extreme climate change.

MJ.com: In Boiling Point you spend a lot of time talking about possible solutions to climate change.

A common Republican talking point is that climate change is occurring but, contra scientists, there isn't evidence that humans are causing it.

In the interview, Happer repeated a number of often - debunked talking points on climate change.

Michael Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University, called those talking points a» «kinder, gentler» form of climate change denialism» in an email.