The United States witnessed an equally promising development in
the climate debate just last month, when the conservative American Enterprise Institute, the liberal Brookings Institution, and the centrist Breakthrough Institute teamed up to publish a report that called for revamping America's energy system with the aim of making clean energy cheap.
E&E ClimateWire: Pruitt's
climate debate just got more likely - Excerpt: Marc Morano, a former staffer for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R - Okla.)
Not exact matches
But beyond that, it's also a good time to ask because of a... let's
just call it a spirited
debate that recently broke out between two groups of scientists who work on
climate and energy.
As to education being a requirement: well, you should
just look at the current
debate on
climate research to see how unreliable of a proxy education is.
«And it's not
just the
climate change deniers and petrochemical companies throwing huge amounts of money into the
debate, we've also had a huge economic crash.
A major point of
debate remains whether the Gulf Stream, or Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), will
just decline or could «switch off» entirely with substantial implications for Northwest Europe's
climate.
He added, however, «This is not the end of Heartland's efforts to bring balance to the
climate debate in our schools, but
just the beginning.»
After more than a year the
debate is still in turmoil and we'll
just have to see how the events unfold in the future and whether the production of zombie formalist art will decrease if the art market
climate changes.
There is so much very clear evidence of the devastating effects anthropogenic
climate change will have on the natural environment and on us humans, that subjects of
debate could
just distract from the clear catastrophe we are heading towards.
It
just so happens that most of the posts on this site have tried to counteract arguments from those who would sow fake «uncertainty» in the
climate debate.
The point being that some people are
debating climate change, and whether to stop using oil, when in
just 100 years or maybe less, we will be forced to stop using oil anyway as supplies dwindle, and prices escalate dramatically.
As a matter of common decency and journalistic ethics, we ask everyone in the
climate change
debate to sit back and think about what
just happened.
Partisanship by NOAA administrators on the
climate change - hurricane
debate followed the partisanship by NOAA National Weather Service on
climate change - skeptic
debate by 12 years which started
just after the Gore book on global warming book came out.
Since this post is titled «Averting our eyes», I can't help but comment that having
just watched the GOP Youtube / CNN
debate on TV here in Taiwan, I can not believe that not ONE question was about
climate change or global warming.
Just in time for the second presidential
debate tonight, 350.org is launching a new campaign to send candidates Obama and McCain thousands of invitations to the UN
Climate Meetings in Poland in December 2008.
«The «normal» physicist (or simple «scientist» should be able to understand the
climate debate, and should not be silenced or denied voicing his opinions,
just because he is not the full blown..»
The spill and its aftermath has not
just shaken an Arkansas town, but has also sparked continued
debate over the controversial tar sands oil and how transporting this oil via pipelines puts communities and the
climate at risk.
Also see: Cameron Morphs Into Gore, Quits AGW
Debate: «Chickened out — even after he won Gore - like concessions that there would be no media and no audio or video record kept» — How does Cameron square ducking a climate debate he set up when just a few months ago he seemed so conf
Debate: «Chickened out — even after he won Gore - like concessions that there would be no media and no audio or video record kept» — How does Cameron square ducking a
climate debate he set up when just a few months ago he seemed so conf
debate he set up when
just a few months ago he seemed so confident?
And it wasn't
just weather porn — there was serious
debate about the impact
climate change had on the storm, and about the now - obvious need to prepare cities for worse to come.
But Tom Harris is tweeting up a storm arguing that the
climate debate has
just begun and other nonsense.
They're not reporting developments from
climate science, or from the
climate debate,
just their own misunderstanding of what they see.
On no more than the basis that «
climate change is occurring», moral philosophers tell us what is right, social historians invent lessons from history to make
climate criminals in the present, science historians invent conspiracy theorists, and psychologists tell us how to apply distress to change public opinion, and why
debate is
just too risky to trust to the public.
Anyone who follows the
climate change
debate for a while must soon notice that when the denialistas have one of their argument proven wrong, or one factual misrepresentation corrected, they
just continue as if nothing had happened.
It's not
just climate science that needs
debate but the whole enterprise of modern science is in need of transparent review.
If I were new the
climate debate as of today, and
just scrolled down through this thread it would be enough for me to begin to suspect where my sympathies lay.
Just staying with the
climate debate I have no issue with the integrity of Ed Hawkins or Neven or Issac Held while probably disagreeing with some of their assumptions.
Dr. Brulle and Dr. Dunalp have
just edited a new book, which synthesizes some of main sociological analysis on the
climate change policy
debate which is well worth reading by anyone interested in
climate change.
Unfortunately Brian H, we are now at the point in the «
climate science
debate» (among others) where straight forward reporting, parody, satire, and
just plain bald faced lying are indistinguishable without doing a good deal of research to determine
just which case obtains.
Note also that,
just like in the
climate debate, Monckton's role is to clown for the camera while someone else pulls the strings.
This is
just one of several major instances in the
climate debate.
Ever wondered how the
debate over
climate change became
just that — a
debate?
Lets
just say that I sense that both sides of the
debate on
climate change have biased POV's on any evidence that is placed before them and that a lot more work needs to be done before anyone can claim that the science is settled.
In my opinion it would be better if the hockey stick was laid to rest as
just another piece of controversial evidence in the
climate change
debate.
There's been a lengthy
debate in the comments threads of recent posts about whether the dry weather in much of Australia in recent years can be attributed to
climate change, or is
just another round in the natural cycle.
Perhaps this is
just more evidence that «
Climate Scientists» live in their own universe and never even try to engage their critics in an ordinary scientific
debate (which they always lose), but prefer simply making baseless smears.
And again,
just as I reject using analogies to Eugenicists in the
climate debate, I reject using analogies to holocaust deniers in the
climate debate.
Do note, however, that most of the global warming
debate is not amongst
climate scientists, but between
climate scientists and
just about everybody else.
It would make it harder to hide environmentalism's political and ethical claims, perhaps, but it would be no guarantee, either of that or a bit more reflection on certain claims and why they exist, not
just in the
climate debate, but more widely also.
I can't promise that the hockey stick will be as dead as Section 13 by the time this stupid trial is over, but I will do my best to ensure it - not
just because the appalling and incurious prostration before pseudo-authority embodied by everyone from «Ellen» to The Columbia Journalism Review ought to be embarrassing to a functioning media, but because
climate science itself, like Brandeis and the State of Ohio, needs, in Steve Huntley's phrase, more «free speech, free
debate, free minds».
Thus, the Nobel committee's decision had something of a paradoxical effect: Instead of assuaging the
climate debate in the US, it
just stirred it up further — and even louder than before.
Rather than «rock the
debate,»
Climate Hustle is just another attempt to spread doubt and confusion about climate change s
Climate Hustle is
just another attempt to spread doubt and confusion about
climate change s
climate change science.
The only sure way to keep losing public support for the consensus
climate science position is to keep refusing to
debate as Ms. Oreskes did with Fred Singer
just this past week.
This enters the nuclear
debate,
just as with the
climate debate, via the precautionary principle.
Instead, the goals should be to promote relevant areas of knowledge beyond
just technical understanding of
climate science that include understanding of the social, institutional, ethical, and economic dimensions of the
debate along with familiarity with the costs and benefits of a range of policy proposals.
So I come to the
climate debate now
just a little chastened by that and saying well, okay, you say this is scary, show me the evidence.
Sow doubt, make up statistics, call for an «open
debate,» claim that you are being «silenced and ignored by the media and politicians,» claim that your opponents are
just a «few bureaucrats and environmental activists,» not real scientists — those are the tactics that will be brought to bear in the coming months by the CCDs in their attempt to derail meaningful efforts to respond to global
climate change.
# 2 Different Time Periods is often the cause of seemingly contradictory factoids issued from differing viewpoints in the
climate debate — this is
just a special case of «they are talking about different things».
Well, this
just in:
Climate scientists aren't economists or politicians and shouldn't try and flaunt their credentials to sway a
debate they aren't qualified to be an authority on.
The sudden concern with heat content, where the focus has been all along, is
just something new to you warmists in the public
climate debate.
Debates over
climate change are
just the beginning, yet it is exemplary in that preconceived ideologies and political rhetoric are elevated to the point where they can confront peer - reviewed scientific findings.