Sentences with phrase «climate public eye»

Recently Keigwin's Sargasso Sea dO18 temperature reconstructions have been mentioned in the climate public eye.

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For some, public funding in today's economic climate is an eye - roller, but Peter offers a variety of relatively painless strategies, ranging from a $ 2 add - on to pet license fees, to a $.01 tax on bags of pet food, to special - purchase car license plates.

The New York Times Magazine is running a long profile of Freeman Dyson, the independent - minded physicist and polymath from Princeton, N.J., who has come into the public eye of late because of his anti-consensual views of global warming — which are also different from the views of many people in the variegated assemblage of climate skeptic / denier / realists (depending on who is describing them) fighting efforts to curb greenhouse gases.

Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle has weighed in with an excellent post on the letter, noting that none of the complainants are climate scientists; that NASA's position as an agency reflects the brunt of science pointing to a human - heated planet; and that the personal stances of high - profile NASA scientists, Hansen, for instance, are indeed likely to damage the agency's credibility in the eyes of a public divided on global warming.

As a youth I participated in many of my father's experiments, observing first - hand the benefits of atmospheric CO2 on plant life and the manifold problems with the model - based theory of climate change, all of which events occurred long, long before James Hansen stood in front of the U.S. Senate and brought the CO2 debate to the eyes of the public in 1988.

In a climate discourse dominated by targets and carbon caps, Gates has provided a refreshing and clear - eyed look at the first - order importance of direct public investment to develop clean, affordable technologies to replace fossil fuels on a global scale.

Unlike some other environmental controversies that have been brought to and kept in the public eye due primarily to the efforts of environmental organizations, mainstream scientific organizations have been the institutions articulating the nature of the climate change threat.

But the denial machine has been aggressively pushing its war on climate science and weakening public support for action, and the Obama administration and environmental groups «took their eye off the ball and have fallen down on the job in terms of really working public opinion on this.»

Some recent history: in 2011, the environmental advocacy groups Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen partnered with climate deniers at the Heartland Institute (which received funding from the Koch Brothers) under the watchful eye of the Taxpayers for Common Sense to produce the non-partisan Green Scissors report.

And they took their eye off the ball in terms of public opinion, in talking about climate science and looking at what the denial machine was doing.

In the eyes of the public Pielke or Curry are also climate scientists.

So, it HAS to be 100 % airtight or it will get shot down, and given the overall situation (including the nature of the public discussion of climate change), whoever reviews it SHOULD / BETTER do so with a definite critical eye.

Answer: Climate Science has thus far proved unable to pull the woolies over the eyes of the public.

If the president wants to build a legacy on either tax reform or climate, then he needs to put a public bull's - eye on these special giveaways.

Though opinion polls indicate the general public is little interested in climate change, there is something at work in society at large that is seen, in the eyes of politicians, to justify their extravagant expenditure of our money and their time on the subject.

He provides an eye - opening account of the lengths the opponents of climate science will go to in their campaign to slander climate scientists and distract the public from the realities of human caused global warming.

The latter situation certainly takes on the appearance of a media strategy effort to marginalize skeptic climate scientists in the eyes of the public.

Frankly, I've never seen things this bad, or climate research so vulnerable in the public eye.

Today our McCarthyites in Climate Science are in the public eye as well as working behind the scenes to impose what can be popularly characterized as the «black hand» of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island fame.

We are so quick as scientists, non experts, the lay public, some ill informed undergrads, ad infinitum, to argue in this blog, however, you as a first hand expert modeling paleoclimate and modern climate trends and obviously with a handle on chemistry and physics, also have a vested interest in our planet and though you do the modeling for a living, I do not doubt it has helped you gain inisghts and opened up your eyes to the complexity and current to future detriments and potentialities we all face as humanity.

These few (along with IPCC itself) have given all of climate science and all climate scientists a black eye in the opinion of the general public.

We have to help them gain visibility and media access, so that they will weaken the mainstream science of climate change in the eyes of the public and of policy - makers.