Sentences with phrase «climate contrarians»

From 2011 - 2012, two - thirds of stories from eight top news organizations did not identify the fossil fuel industry funding of eight prominent climate contrarian groups.

Right now the media also tends to operate under the principle that «controversy sells,» and climate contrarian positions inevitably create the controversy that generates viewer traffic.

A vocal and prolific British climate contrarian is less charitable.

A favourite climate contrarian talking point is that there was a pause or «hiatus» in warming from 1998 until the early part of the current decade.

Global temperatures are rising, and the top 10 climate contrarian explanations are not good.

This assertion was then repeated by James Delingpole at The Telegraph (with some added colorful language), and probably on many other climate contrarian blogs.

It does not include individuals who are thus far unconvinced by the science (due, in part, to the voracious media coverage garnered by climate contrarians as identified above) or individuals who are unconvinced by proposed solutions.

That enthusiasm may provide sufficient reason for many climate contrarians to embrace the technology, even if they dismiss or downplay the clear climate - science diagnosis delivered by Myles Allen and the overwhelming majority of his climate scientist colleagues.

Perhaps you would be wise to consider that fact the next time a group of climate contrarians with little to no expertise publish another of these letters.

Unsurprisingly, on climate contrarian sites, such models are described in all sorts of unflattering terms and dismissed out of hand as fundamentally useless.

This site is for indexed debunking of various popular media occurrences of climate contrarian nonsense.

At the time, I posted that the hacker uploaded the personal details of every SkS user account, but I've since discovered that he omitted the personal details of any known climate contrarians in our user database.

While climate contrarians like Richard Lindzen tend to treat the uncertainties associated with clouds and aerosols incorrectly, as we noted in that post, they are correct that these uncertainties preclude a precise estimate of climate sensitivity based solely on recent temperature changes and model simulations of those changes.

There is a silver lining in this cloud of obfuscation - climate contrarians appear to be retreating more and more away from the «it's not happening» and «it's not us» myths, toward the «it's not bad» fallback position.

Not only has the IPCC done remarkably well in projecting future global surface temperature changes thus far, but it has also performed far better than the few climate contrarians who have put their money where their mouth is with their own predictions.

And those questions lead straight back to the Calgary Foundation's oil - patch funded Science Education Fund, and longtime climate contrarian PR specialist (and Conservative activist) Morten Paulsen.

This new study confirms that according to the scientists themselves, fringe climate contrarians who hold views well outside the mainstream are receiving disproportionate media coverage.

ExxonMobil continues to provide annual contributions to the Heritage Foundation, despite making a public pledge in 2007 to stop funding climate contrarian groups.

Then again, John Cook thought that Skeptical Science would be obsolete by now due to global warming denial becoming an untenable belief, so we suspect The Escalator will continue to be a useful myth debunking tool for some time to come, particularly since climate contrarians seem to prefer nitpicking the graphic to learning from it.

The authors also point to research by Dr. Myanna Lahsen that shows many of the most vocal climate contrarians came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and perceive anything (particularly computer modeling) that developed after their hay day as inaccurate and unreliable.

Once again, the charge is being led by leading climate contrarian Patrick Michaels, ably assisted by Paul «Chip» Knappenberger.

Once again, the charge is being led by leading climate contrarian Patrick Michaels, ably assisted by Paul «Chip» Knappenberger.

One of the most common misunderstandings amongst climate contrarians is the difference between short - term noise and long - term signal.

This strategy is why climate contrarians are sometimes referred to as «delayers», because they argue that we should delay action until we can be more certain of the human - caused global warming outcome.

Over the past year, the myth of the global warming «pause» has become a favorite among climate contrarians.

In October 2010 the Christian Science Monitor published an op - ed by Watts likening climate contrarian Hal Lewis's resignation from the American Physical Society to Martin Luther.

As climate contrarians often do when asked about the Arctic sea ice death spiral, Spencer then tried to shift the focus to the Antarctic.

Singer was revealed by DeSmog to have funded the think tank of Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg.

As we suggested to William Happer, if climate contrarians want their opinions to be taken seriously, they should engage in real science within the peer - review system that works for every scientific field.

However, I don't recall climate contrarians coming to the defense of Michael Mann when he was subject to ideologically - based legal harrassment from then - Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as well as from Republicans in Congress.

Thus it's perhaps not surprising that Cook et al. (2013) and its 97 % consensus result have been the subject of extensive denial among the usual climate contrarian suspects.

This particular category doesn't state how much global warming humans are causing, and hence climate contrarians claim that because they admit humans are causing some global warming, they should be included in the 97 percent.

Denial of this fact may have been the favorite climate contrarian myth of 2012, first invented by David Rose at The Mail on Sunday with an assist from Georgia Tech's Judith Curry, both of whom later doubled - down on the myth after we debunked it.

Climate contrarians frequently claim that the IPCC produces politically motivated reports that show only one side of the issues.

And it turns out that the originator of the «no significant warming since 1995» variation is none other than climate contrarian Richard Lindzen, ably assisted by blogger Anthony Watts (of WattsUpWithThat fame) and physicist Lubos Motl.

► «Once the darling of Australia's conservative government, controversial climate contrarian Bjørn Lomborg has lost his Down Under caché — and cash.