Sentences with phrase «confusion about climate science»

Probably too much to hope for, given the recent history of corporate backed voices sowing confusion about climate science.

These companies have known for decades that their products — coal, oil, and natural gas — cause harm, yet even today they continue to fund front groups and trade associations who seek to sow confusion about climate science and block policies designed to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming.

One of Soon's contacts at Southern Co. was Robert Gehri, who helped develop a 1998 plan led by the American Petroleum Institute to create confusion about climate science.

There is also considerable public confusion about climate science and possible remedies.

Not exact matches

It's useful to think of this as an example of Bayesian priors in action — given that 99 % of the criticisms we hear about climate science are bogus or based on deep confusions about what modeling is for, scepticism is an appropriate first response, but because we are actually scientists, not shills, we are happy to correct real errors — sometimes they will matter, and sometimes they won't.

given that 99 % of the criticisms we hear about climate science are bogus or based on deep confusions about what modeling is for

Rather than «rock the debate,» Climate Hustle is just another attempt to spread doubt and confusion about climate change sClimate Hustle is just another attempt to spread doubt and confusion about climate change sclimate change science.

Further, the corporate - funded campaign to play up uncertainties in climate science, carried out through industry associations like the American Petroleum Institute and front groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has done its part to sow public confusion about the level of consensus in climate science.

This is a deliberate tactic to sow confusion in the minds of the public about the climate change science, just as the tobacco industry did about the link between smoking and cancer, Amstrup said in an interview with Motherboard.

Spreading factual untruths and confusion about smoking or climate science is neither research nor education in the public interest.

TCRP blames them for trying «to sow denial and confusion about the science of climate change, ignore its impacts and create apathy among our leaders.»

The current situation for the climate sciences has been described as «a struggle about the truth of the state of climate» (Romm 2010), and a number of books even claim that climate science myths have been introduced to society in a distorted way, causing more confusion than enlightenment (Oreskes and Conway 2008; Gelbspan 1997; Hoggan et al. 2009; Mooney 2006).

The net result of the conflicting media reports and criticism will likely be a greater confusion about the relevant science, and an overshadowing of what is at heart a good contribution to understanding climate history and that is a shame.