Yet the NY Times and WaPos of the world would like us to believe that such reporting * is * their forte... yet... they've really done little (if anything) to expose as false claims that there are two legitimate scholarly sides to the «climate debate», and at times add credibility to claims that indeed perhaps
the climate science side is the side playing games (climategate coverage, etc) rather than the McI's, Wegman's, and RP [J / S] rs of the world.
Jim D: I don't think
the climate science side are having any trouble communicating except to a few hold - outs.
I don't think
the climate science side are having any trouble communicating except to a few hold - outs.
Not exact matches
Clearly there is a balance to strike between doom - ridden messages and «bright -
side» opportunities, and uncertainties around the
science and the expected effects of
climate change must be factored in too.
In the amicus brief, the
Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
sides with the university arguing that E&E Legal Institute's efforts «are part of a broader trend of harassment that threatens the core of the scientific endeavor.»
In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision
sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat
climate change do not focus on demand -
side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.
For 5 hours, opposing
sides in a closely watched
climate change lawsuit pitting the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against some of the world's biggest oil companies offered Alsup their accounts of the history and current state of
climate science.
This one -
sided incentive was already criticized in the comprehensive
climate protection report for agriculture and forestry conducted in 2016, to which employees of the Chair of Wood
Science also contributed.
You suggest that activists saw
climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the
science and caused «pushback» from the other
side.
The research in
Science and Nature
Climate Change, although on two different topics, fits into a growing body of knowledge about the
side effects of ice loss.
In that environment, it's been easy for the other
side to pour millions of dollars into a campaign to debunk
climate - change
science.
Thirdly, and most scientifically, it has to be said that the impacts
side of
climate science is its weakest.
For most
climate researchers
science went out the window a long time ago, it is such a biased one
sided aregument these days that people like me are terrified of being branded a heretic for even challenging the accepted so - called evidence.
«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.
If it's presented properly, it should be understandable by people with a technical background other than
climate science — and there are quite a few of those people — and many of them are on the conservative
side of politics.
Your very presence on the other
side of the
climate debate does more to validate the
science than anything else you could do.
Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and obfuscated
science in the
climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come from folks on all
sides of this issue at one point or another).
You are presupposing that
climate science is like a courtroom, each
side is advocating for a course of action and it is the jury's job to see who presents the best case.
We believe this is necessary if
science is to move on, and we hope that all those involved on all
sides of the
climate science debate will adopt this approach.
... but we can't ignore that the
science is being used a weapon by both
sides of the
climate change issue...
John Holt, who was a member of the committee when the primer was written, said in an interview that the document was aimed at clarifying distortions of the
science on all
sides of the
climate debate.
how refreshing to know that there can still be a civil discourse between «advocates on both
sides of the charged debate over
climate science and its implications for society.»
That first paper by Soon and Baliunas was so flawed I was able to figure it out, and I have zero skills WRT the technical
side of
climate science.
They are solid points that hold lessons for advocates on both
sides of the charged debate over
climate science and its implications for society.
Alex Katarsis: «I realize it's a political point, but we can't ignore that the
science is being used a weapon by both
sides of the
climate change issue.»
I realize it's a political point, but we can't ignore that the
science is being used a weapon by both
sides of the
climate change issue.
This dialogue about him being full of pontifical nonsense flows one way, without a response, this silence is a buffer extending his life span as a legitimate skeptic by default, since he can't stand the heat from real
climate scientists left on the way
side, crushing legitimate
science away from any chance to reach a badly mislead audience, simply because he is more popular in the fringe right wing media world dwelling on sound bites and stupidity.
Sometimes it's easy to get the impression that public opinion on
climate change is split down the middle, with concerned advocates for
climate action on one
side and
science - denying conspiracy theorists on the other.
When we take a position that isn't willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100
climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of
Science — Sciences has said about what is causing climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing po
Science — Sciences has said about what is causing
climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong
side of
science, and, therefore, in a losing po
science, and, therefore, in a losing position.
You write: «I am not a scientist [a] I have looked at both
sides of the AGW issue [b] I am of the opinion that the «
science is not settled» and that more verification of the
climate models is necessary [c] I am concerned that, in our rush to reduce CO2, we may pass a
climate bill that devastates our country's economy» [d]
I would rather spend my time on site that are hearing from voices on many spectrums: mainstream papers that have top - notch
science coverage and a
climate focus, or open - minded debates between environmentalists on both
sides of the political arena.
But a one -
sided debate, with all the noise from the denialists, is only going to solidify, in the public mind, the dodgy soft -
science of the
climate skeptics.
Funny thing that, everybody seems to have a favorite data store («Temps Are Us») that conveniently always has exactly the data we need to support OUR hypothesis in stock, and everybody is quite certain that the crappy data store on the poor
side of town is selling garbage data...... Frankly if we turn over the label on most
climate science data we see a «Made in China» sticker...
She has her own interest though in
climate science being thought of as a
science, so she's slightly on the other
side as well.
A National Academies of
Science (NAS) report warned that the potential
side - effects of this type of
climate hacking are not well understood or quantified.
Unless you have had a few years of
climate science from those trained in the field, or spent several thousand hours studying it from all
sides (as I have), I think you ought to consider this possibility:
Moreover, the error was spotted initially by none other than Steve McIntyre, who has been a thorn in the
side of the IPCC and
climate science -LSB-...]
Instead, all
sides must be covered in highly debatable and important topics such as
climate change, because authoritarian
science never will have all the answers to such complex problems.
Moreover, the error was spotted initially by none other than Steve McIntyre, who has been a thorn in the
side of the IPCC and
climate science generally for a long time.
That's an argument than even deeply non-technical non-scientists of the general public (and Congress / Senate) can understand - part of their «figuring out who knows what about
science» mental toolkit that Dan so admires - which is probably why
climate science communicators on the sceptic
side are so keen to communicate it.
Note how he just comes right out and admits what everyone already suspects to be the case: that his slurring of
climate science as «junk
science» is rooted in nothing more scientific than his understanding of which
side his bread — and Cody's — is buttered on.
Third, the major impediment, I'm convinced, to constructive public engagement with
climate science is not how much either
side knows or understands scientific evidence of it.
They may have a vested interest in
side - lining the
climate science away from the interface and using them as a targetted resource for providing the data that they need for their theories.
My view is that the broad statement «AGW is true» and the related related null hypothesis «AGW doesn't exist» are not part of good scientific discussion, because the issue is not an independent scientific theory or hypothesis, but a
side result of
climate science.
Of course, «the truth,» according to Inhofe, is that
climate change is a myth: «The
science is still out on what effect CO2 might have in terms of what they call global warming and the
science is more on our
side than on their
side.»
If you follow the history of Eugenics and make a
side - by -
side comparison to
Climate Science, you will see for yourself the parallel, only taking place in the late 20th and early 21st Century: Fewer people on the planet; better people that are left; and, as an overriding imperative of course, the few who are designated to decide.
Is Plimer the
climate version of Harvey Dent (aka Two Face from Batman), flipping a coin to decide which
side of the
science to present?
This is the kind of
climate science question that you have called a «
side issue», though the answer is integral to answering one of your favorite questions: Granting that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, how much warming can result from and increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration?
«
Climate change has taken on political dimensions... That's odd because I don't see people choosing
sides over E = mc2 or other fundamental facts of
science.»
The curious guys choose to be curious about something else, given the bureaucratic organizations occupying the
climate science field, meaning both
sides.