Sentences with phrase «climate wars»

Great fodder for science fiction novels about climate wars, but I'd prefer not to have to think about it happening for real.

Supplementing the published research is original reporting by Dyer: he is known for his connections with military and government officials all around the world, and he uses these connections to great effect in Climate Wars.

And this makes Cox's use of the Great Global Warming Swindle and BBC's Climate Wars series all the more odd.

Nov. 3, 1:50 p.m. Updated Prepare for a new round of politicized skirmishes in the never - ending climate wars, with the battleground shifting once again to Capitol Hill hearing rooms.

Members of the extended Idso and Lawson families, and others given to parroting Climate Wars playbook mantras like:

The online climate wars — which seem so momentous to those deeply dug in on various fronts — are taking place on the sharp end of a needle buried in a haystack of other societal concerns.

Amid a prolonged exchange of e-mail messages Thursday with a heap of authors from past and future reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, along with some stray experts, the climate historian Spencer Weart chimed in with a «history» of the recent flare - up in the two - decades - and - counting climate wars.

One noted skeptic is Princeton University physics professor William Happer, whose climate war credentials include being fired — over climate issues — from the Clinton administration Department of Energy (he reports being proud of being fired by Al Gore) and sitting on the board of the climate - skeptical George C. Marshall Institute.

«Something extraordinary is happening in the great Climate Wars.

Given that the Navy has been making plans for «ice - free» operations in the Arctic since at least 2001, their June «Northern Edge» exercises may well prove to be just the opening salvo in the future northern climate wars, with whales, seals, and salmon being the first in the line of fire.

The most compelling assessment of the human and security implications of our failure to deal with global warming is set out by in a new book, published this month, called Climate Wars written by the highly respected international affairs and military analyst Gwynne Dyer.

Long before the politics of climate wars emerged, Mark Twain quipped, «There is something fascinating about science.

If I win, it would be a big defeat for the climate mullahs and a rare victory for sanity in the ongoing climate wars.

Returning plankton populations to 1980 levels would neutralize about 50 % of industrial society's greenhouse gas emissions, and we feel that is about all you can or should ask a single ecosystem to contribute to our self - inflicted climate wars.

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Of course, these topics are touched upon in Climate Wars; but the focus remains firmly upon probable human responses — meaning, in large part, political and military responses.

The only «surprising» thing revealed — as the punchline — by the second of three episodes of Climate Wars is that Stewart was ignorant of the debate he was reporting on.

To people who follow the climate debate, the interesting things would seem to be Brian's treatment of Martin Durkin's film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which was «bollocks», in Cox's view; and Iain Stewart's Climate Wars series, which was held up as a model of good science documentary making.

Notably, treating independent fact - checking as an illegitimate means of participation may have contributed to what have been termed «the climate wars.»

Climate scientist James Hansen has fired a new salvo in the climate wars.

His book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia University Press, 2012) is in paperback, with a foreword by Bill Nye the Science Guy.

The climate war just got personal — or at least, that's how President Barack Obama is selling the idea of taking action on climate change to the American people.

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, by Michael Mann.

On the eve of today's rollout of the Kerry - Lieberman climate bill (that was leaked yesterday) in the U.S. Senate, The Economist has delved into a potentially influential new paper on reforming the climate wars.

Ever since his «hockey stick» graph of rising temperatures figured prominently in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Mann has been at the center of the climate wars.

They fail to recognize that the climate wars are over, while the race for sustainable prosperity is on.

In Climate Wars he eloquently explores the «grim detail» of how governments will grapple with a challenge unprecedented since before there were governments.

The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars.

Our «hockey stick» graph became a vivid centerpiece of the climate wars, and to this day, it continues to win me the enmity of those who have conflated a problem of science and society with partisan politics.

Climate Communication Science Advisor Michael E. Mann has been traveling the U.S. on tour for his new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.

The climate wars have long played out in the media and on blogs, but education experts say that climate controversy is creeping into schools.

Priority # 2: Stop her father from starting a climate war.

Already, the forces of climate change inaction were sharpening their rhetorical weapons in preparation for retrenchment in the war against the science of climate change — the «climate wars».

Prof. Iain Stewart demonstrated a modern version — more accurate and very convincing — in his BBC documentary «The Climate Wars», by passing the IR rays from a candle through a one - metre tube of CO2 to an IR - sensitive camera.