«Years of Living Dangerously» justifies yelling fire and promoting
climate fear based on Westerling paper that reports all the models show rising CO2 will cause warmer and drier weather in some places (but wetter elsewhere).
Not exact matches
Before I can fully move forth with my assertion that Gary Ezzo's word choice and word pictures in Babywise cater to and perpetuate a
climate and culture of
fear -
based parenting, I'm going to need to back up a bit.
But
based on the projections of
climate scientists, resort owners are already
fearing the worst, if much of the snow disappears.
In today's culture, with the social
climate at an all - time high with all the
fear -
based news and conflicts happening, shared information is needed for a conscious global reform.
Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a
base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see
climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who
fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny
climate change, the party will become irrelevant.
So far the most popular stories about
climate are very conservative;
based in the common
fear of change, which is a fair way of describing both all of Crichton's work I have read, and disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow.
Alexander, certainly you are right, but the question that troubles you, does not solve our problem which is to know who is responsible of the present day
climate changes; I
fear that changing our Hydrocarbon
based economy to a Hydrogene
based economy, would send a much bigger green house gas in the atmosphere, I mean water vapor
I have a dream that someday science will be judged on the evidence and not on its policy considerations; a dream that someday scientists can meet together and discuss
climate openly and without
fear of censure, loss of employment or lost opportunities for advancement; a dream that scientists will be judged on the
basis of the quality of their observations and logic and not on their politics.
In chapter 20, «
Climate of
Fear,» Moore has a very up to date, science -
based, 43 page summary of the skeptic position on AGW, with around 130 footnotes, often to internet -
based sources.
I've watched the conversations on
Climate, Etc and other places — and what I've seen is that the
basis for belief in CAGW is not generally data or fact, but a blind belief in a science that few understand, a misplaced faith in models and studies
based on models and —
fear.
Their findings showed that
fear -
based appeals on
climate change, when not coupled with a clear solution, can backfire to cause people to be even less motivated to take action on
climate change.
More than a decade's worth of research suggests that
fear -
based appeals about
climate change inspire denial, fatalism and polarization.
From the article:... With the Trump presidency looming, many scientists who studied Bush's policies are starting a mad dash to preserve
climate science that has been made available under President Obama
based on
fears that it might no longer be publicly accessible.
He also discusses influence of sun, NAO, PDO, folly of «hockeystick» and IPCC fixation on CO2, historic cold and warm periods tied to solar activity, other solar influences on
climate beside TSI, solar / cosmic ray work at CERN, futility of European
fear -
based renewable energy planning, etc., concluding:
Undamaged so far are world leaders who secretly decided thirty - eight (38) years ago, in
fear of mutual nuclear annihilation, to Unite Nations against an imaginary «common enemy» — «Global
Climate Change» — and
base future government policies on
Climate Depot prescribed as remedy for climate fears: «Turn off your TV; stop reading the «terrified - twins», NYT's Krugman & Friedman; and start reading Climate Depot on a daily basis» — Climate Cycles Change website — July 2
Climate Depot prescribed as remedy for
climate fears: «Turn off your TV; stop reading the «terrified - twins», NYT's Krugman & Friedman; and start reading Climate Depot on a daily basis» — Climate Cycles Change website — July 2
climate fears: «Turn off your TV; stop reading the «terrified - twins», NYT's Krugman & Friedman; and start reading
Climate Depot on a daily basis» — Climate Cycles Change website — July 2
Climate Depot on a daily
basis» —
Climate Cycles Change website — July 2
Climate Cycles Change website — July 29, 2009
AGW
fears were
based on the RATE of
climate change and the rate of change is much slower that
feared by Hansen, Mann, etc..
Both
climate fears and claims coffee is full of carcinogens are illusions
based on narrow claims about supposed facts that actually make zero sense if they are considered holistically.
Doiron said he looked at the
climate models that such
fears are
based on and felt they couldn't be believed.
Based on imagined
fears and «persuasive» lobbying, the political hacks chose the worst course for nature and the
climate.
Zhou and Tung found what they were looking for — i.e., humanity's contribution; but, it was small: so small it had to be less than half of, previously deduced anthropogenic warming rates, that government scientists have been using to
base their
fears of an impending
climate doomsday.
Many people (including me) have argued that the conventional environmental narrative of
fear and guilt will never build a popular
base of support for the fight against
climate change.
The whole of the CAGW
fear machine is
based on the results of
climate models.
So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is
based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating
fear of
climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.
As another data point opposing that notion of
fear based funding, I would note that during the time of James Hansen's most vocal and dire warnings about
climate catastophies in our future over the last 5 or 6 years he has experienced gov» t intimidation and suppression, NASA has seen its earth sciences budget shrink significantly and NASA has changed its mission statement to no longer include «protect our home planet».
The
climate - change message has gotten mixed up with lots of
fear -
based environmental messages from recent decades, and people who are only marginally interested in these issues don't engage because they think we're all crying wolf.
Couple these statements with other ones made by Greenpeace regarding the state of the oceans and the United Nations trying to create a worldwide government through their Peacekeeping efforts in order to handle the unrest that
climate change will supposedly bring about, and you get a
fear -
based society that will believe what they're told out of panic.