«The best
climate science points to an urgent need to transition to clean energy, but public finance from G20 governments drags us in the opposite direction.
So this is not really the «debate» that the contrarians would like to make it out to be, and most scientists, as well as people who have accepted that
climate science points to the need for stronger action, have no more interest in letting the Heartland and NIPCC folks hijack the public discourse and getting the media to frame the narrative in their terms.
A comment contributor who goes by the name of Totalwellness made an interesting observation linking the view that economies can perpetually grow with the views of those denying
that climate science points to big dangers from rising greenhouse - gas concentrations:
As has been the case for years,
climate science points to measurably rising impacts from human - driven global warming later this century.
Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two - hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of
climate science pointing to dangers from the unabated release of greenhouse gases.
Two of the giants of
climate science pointed out within a month of the historic decision that current greenhouse gas emissions would take the world to the 2 °C target very swiftly.
Even Troy Masters, another not a climate scientist with published papers in
climate science pointed out that cloud feedbacks were grossly over estimated and more likely negative than positive.
Not exact matches
In today's intellectual
climate, where so many who invoke
science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that
science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern
science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.
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.
Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the
science pointing to human - caused
climate change, she said.
Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.
Climate change is yet another
science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a
point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris
climate agreement as «an important step forward.
climate agreement as «an important step forward.»
reported in the journal «
Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and
Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT,
point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.
Caldeira:
Climate science has reached the
point that plate tectonics reached 30 years ago.
«It's remarkable to think that that long ago the
science was already pointing in a direction that we had to pay attention to atmospheric changes because they'd be so powerful that they would affect the climate,» said Carnegie Science President Matthew Scott in a video address to the sym
science was already
pointing in a direction that we had to pay attention to atmospheric changes because they'd be so powerful that they would affect the
climate,» said Carnegie
Science President Matthew Scott in a video address to the sym
Science President Matthew Scott in a video address to the symposium.
Many letters take issue with individual
points of
climate science, but I am particularly intrigued by the ones that aim wider, targeting the very concept of scientific certainty.
There are six themes: The first one is the natural
science part of it — What do we understand about this
climate system, tipping
points, how bad could this go?
Due to
climate change, she said, the world faces «one of the most daunting crossroads in the evolution of human history, we are at the
point where we must decide: are we going to ignore
science or are we going to rise to the call of history and forge a new life on Earth paradigm... where nature and humanity support each other.»
Trump has questioned the
science underlying
climate change — at one
point suggesting that it was a Chinese hoax — and pledged to pull the United States out of the Paris
climate agreement.
Climate change sceptics love to
point out that
science is «always realising that it got it wrong» or that «theories that all scientists used to believe in are always being overturned».
The authors claim that most of the conservation
science is missing the
point when it comes to
climate change.
We've reached a
point now in the interdisciplinary growth of our
science where we've got
climate scientists, who understand the physics of
climate and how that translates to uncertainties, working hand in hand with economists who will run the projected impacts through a cost - benefit analysis.
Climate contrarians seem to have scored no points with the panel, leaving climate science still squarely behind curbing greenhouse gas emissions if the most serious consequences of global warming are to be a
Climate contrarians seem to have scored no
points with the panel, leaving
climate science still squarely behind curbing greenhouse gas emissions if the most serious consequences of global warming are to be a
climate science still squarely behind curbing greenhouse gas emissions if the most serious consequences of global warming are to be avoided.
In explaining the increasingly important role that the
science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and
climate stability, Lovász
pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in
science at that time.»
But given the uncertainties involved in
climate change, the widespread and heartfelt mistrust of the research backing it, and the IPCC's delicate role at the crossing
point of
science and politics, many reckon that the communications chief will face a difficult task.
Kahan
pointed to the success of local political leaders in southeast Florida in depoliticizing discussions of
climate science, an example that is discussed at length in the study
Climate science still faces the dilemma articulated by the late Steve Schneider and misrepresented by his adversaries — how do we best ensure that the public arrives at an accurate understanding of climate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the points we believe important but without acknowledging uncerta
Climate science still faces the dilemma articulated by the late Steve Schneider and misrepresented by his adversaries — how do we best ensure that the public arrives at an accurate understanding of
climate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the points we believe important but without acknowledging uncerta
climate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few
points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the
points we believe important but without acknowledging uncertainties?
Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks
Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the
climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping
points») to force any sort of threshold change.
Now, if by impacts, he means the impacts to ecosystems, etc., it seems unlikely that
climate scientists jockeying for funding would be trying to change the topic of interest from
climate science to these other fields (which I guess gets back to your
point that funding self - interest would dictate continuing to emphasize uncertainty).
Now if this was the 1980s they might have had a
point, but the fact that aerosols are an important
climate forcing, have a net cooling effect on
climate and, in part, arise from the same industrial activities that produce greenhouse gases, has been part of mainstream
science for 30 years.
CO2 growth rates (CEI, p. 11): arguments about what growth rates for CO2 emissions that some models use are besides the
point of what the
science says about the
climate sensitivity of the earth system (emissions growth rates are if anything an economic question).
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.»
I'd like to be even - handed here and
point out that the comment in # 6 does not help any discussion of
climate science.
It is worth considering that at this
point our salvation lies in putting pressure on the politics rather than in increasingly nuanced
climate science discussions.
My
point is that women's studies consists of humans and therefore the danger is this bias reflects over to
climate science because scientists are human.
«
Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping
points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental
Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
As
climate negotiators near the midway
point of the talks in Paris, Bernadette Woods Placky looks ahead to the role that
science might play in reducing global warming.
Hank Campbell, writing on
Science20.com, has written a post highlighting some key
points from Susan Hassol and Richard Somerville's 2011 article in Physics Today, «Communicating the
Science of
Climate Change.»
«I am reminded of debates in economics, investing, politics, religion and
climate science where a good heuristic is if the person you are reading only
points to evidence of one side and never raises or represents the better aspects of the opponents side.
«For one thing, every
point of view has its own
science and economics to support its contentions, whether it be pro- or anti- pesticide use, free - roaming cats, bird collisions with glass or towers, conflicts with fisheries, land conversion, wind energy, mining, timbering,
climate change, or any other issue we consider in addressing bird conservation...» [2]
Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks
Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the
climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping
points») to force any sort of threshold change.
RC press rebuttals should be syndicated in every news outlet out there, correct interpretations of
climate science is regularly mangled, to the
point where I get Arctic visitors, some journalists, who regularly quote bad
science from misleading news sources, newspaper stories are considered like
science journals, peer reviewed quoted news stories especially, namely that 10 year cooling German model forecast.
Let me make a few
points of this kind that do not rely on my expertise in
climate science but are very relevant.
dbostrom, thanks for
pointing out The
Climate Science Defense Fund.
There are many discussions on «tipping
points» in
climate science.
Just one example from # 232: «I will quote a more substanial amount inoder for your quesry to be framed more accurately here:: being mindful of the early introductory statements and analogies upon which the PRINCIPLE is couched within, and which the essential
point being made here:: «Bringing this back to «
climate science» this principle equally applies to different blog / discussion boards online.»
Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic
science pointing to a rising human influence on
climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (
climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).
A group of Australian scientists has begun a new online effort to communicate the body of
science pointing to a rising human influence on the
climate system.
@ 230 Steve — I will quote a more substanial amount inoder for your quesry to be framed more accurately here:: being mindful of the early introductory statements and analogies upon which the PRINCIPLE is couched within, and which the essential
point being made here:: «Bringing this back to «
climate science» this principle equally applies to different blog / discussion boards online.
But I have to, particularly because a Nigerian journalist, posting an online request for information on African participants in the panel's next
climate science review, has helped make my
point.
Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of
science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on
climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.