Federal climate science research is at the forefront of assessing fundamental causes of global warming and the future dangers it could pose to our nation and the world.
That means requiring full transparency of data and methods used
in climate science research, and third party review of the data, analysis, and models.
While the U.S. should be moving ahead
with climate science research and monitoring capabilities that will support mitigation and adaptation efforts, we're dealing with a concerted effort to put the entire climate science and policy enterprise on the defense.
Schneiderman has demanded that Exxon turn over documents
on climate science research and communications covering a span of almost four decades.
A just released peer
reviewed Climate Science Research Report has once again proven that it is all but certain that EPA's basic claim that CO2 is a pollutant is totally false.
President Obama's budget request for Fiscal Year 2013 includes $ 2.6 billion for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the multiagency federal program that
supports climate science research and observing systems.
It includes many co-authors of the intergovernmental climate change panel reports, directors of major American and European
climate science research institutions, a Nobel winner for atmospheric chemistry and a winner of a MacArthur «genius» award.
Doran and Zimmerman (2009) surveyed Earth scientists, and found that of the 77 scientists responding to their survey who are actively
publishing climate science research, 75 (97.4 %) agreed that «human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.»
Many studies simply defer to the expert summary of
climate science research put together by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which says that most of the global warming since the mid-20th century has been caused by humans.
Those were the conclusions in 2007 from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body that summarizes the most
recent climate science research from around the world.
Like big tobacco companies who paid pretend scientists to make up pretend research to fight back against the scientific body of evidence linking tobacco smoke to cancer, there is now a well - documented history of coal and oil companies paying unqualified experts to
attack climate science research with the goal of stalling climate change policies that would impact their bottom lines.
The IPCC does not conduct any original research, but instead works to review, analyze, and summarize existing
climate science research from around the world.
It is also necessary because in achieving its goal the IPCC, aided and abetted by national weather agencies, has
blocked climate science research for almost 30 years.
Unfortunately, one of the two main political parties in the USA only seems interested in propagating climate myths rather than educating themselves about what the body of
climate science research tells us.
OMB and OSTP coordination with USGCRP participating agencies and with Congress will be essential to secure, sustain, and properly allocate funding needed to maintain existing USGCRP
physical climate science research while ramping up the needed impacts and human dimensions research.
The Wallace et al. 2016 study represents a new and interesting approach to
climate science research which should yield very interesting and much more valid results since the weight given to each likely variable is determined by available evidence rather than the guesses of carefully selected «experts» and incorporated into their largely arbitrary computer models.
The accusation is blatantly false, and when I confronted ICN's Neela Banerjee about this on a recent radio program she retracted the statement and claimed InsideClimate News never meant to suggest that ExxonMobil
stopped climate science research in the late 1980s.
Exxon has been a prime target of these investigations and lawsuits since Inside Climate News» investigative journalism revealed that the company's
internal climate science research warned of the dangers posed by human - caused global warming since the late 1970s.
In fact they are very spot on how this report was presented, and they clearly laid out the high level of uncertainties and the need for much new
detailed climate science research.
The 2DS describes an energy system consistent with an emissions trajectory that recent
climate science research indicates would give an 80 % chance of limiting average global temperature increase to 2 °C.
So long as the industries» opposition to climate disruption legislation via advertising, lobbying, media outreach, litigation, and FUD - focused think tanks cost less than $ 70 billion, the opposition resulted in the industries» making more profit than the total amount spent by all governments
on climate science research.
If there were a quibble I would take
with climate science research is the continuing blurring of lines between objective scientist and political advocate.
The most obvious being that the climate is not like the human body; climate change is not like cancer; climate scientists are not like oncologists; and
climate science research institutions are not like hospitals.
Many studies simply defer to the expert summary of
climate science research put together by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which states that most of the global warming since the mid-20th century has been caused by humans.
Re # 12: I think most of us would be quite surprised if the scientists reviewing US grant applications
for climate science research (those who decide which proposals are funded) were really ``... the most antagonistic to evidence of AGW...».
I credit the Guardian's indefatigable reporting on climate change over the years for getting me involved
in climate science research in the first place.
Whitehouse has made the revelations about Exxon's
climate science research the subject of several of his recent weekly speeches.