Sentences with phrase «consensus around climate change»

«Two weeks of negotiations have not altered that path and that politicians need to reflect the consensus around climate change through funds, targets and effective action.»

An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change

It is surprising to me that it is often the activists who speak up in support of the scientific consensus around climate change (i.e. that there is overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is induced by humans and is happening), who are the same activists who don't accept the scientific consensus and evidence that shows that GM crops can be safe.

Not exact matches

«Scientists learned more and more, and then a few years ago, this growing consensus about climate change turned around — I would contend because of a deliberation campaign of misinformation.

It's a given that an organized and well - funded campaign has led efforts to confuse the public regarding the consensus around anthropogenic climate change.

Grijalva is targeting academics who have testified before Congress at the invitation of Republicans and have generally contested the scientific consensus around the reality of human - induced climate change or downplayed the risks.

If Dr Curry's scientific position is «there is a considerable amount of uncertainty, therefore we should at least be able to draw some boundaries around them before pushing for a consensus on certainty» (I hope my paraphrase is close to the mark), then advocating for a change in the process of conducting climate science follows logically.

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But merely enumerating the strength of consensus around the fact that humans cause climate change is largely irrelevant to the more important business of deciding what to do about it.

Hulme also suggested that, in reference to a paper by John Cook, «merely enumerating the strength of consensus around the fact that humans cause climate change is largely irrelevant to the more important business of deciding what to do about it.»

The scientific consensus regarding human - caused climate change is based on decades of work by thousands of scientists around the world.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

Given the enormity and harshness of impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world from climate change coupled with the fact that United States has a special responsibility for the civilization challenging problem because of the comparatively large levels of the emissions coming from America, the failure of the US media to describe strength the scientific consensus on change is a grave and tragic error.

So while there appears to be a robust political consensus around the importance of climate change, it is a silent consensus — which from the point of view of public engagement, may as well not be a consensus at all.

Tax records show that the Mercers have given a little over $ 19 million to a variety of conservative groups, including at least three that reject the scientific consensus around fossil fuel - driven climate change: the Heartland Institute in Illinois, as well as the CO2 Alliance and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Cchange: the Heartland Institute in Illinois, as well as the CO2 Alliance and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global ChangeChange.

A global consensus is emerging that the increase in atmospheric temperature should be limited to around 2Â °C above pre - industrial levels in order to prevent the worst impacts of climate changes.

To turn the thing around I have suggested the climate change consensus does three things.

Despite the most recent report's shortcomings, «when the IPCC says something declarative, such as that humans are responsible for most of the changes to the climate we are seeing, that means there is tremendous consensus around that,» says Victor.

I am developing a documentary series based around the concept of tipping points in relation to climate change but am finding much of the information confusing / contradictory (no doubt some of this can be put down to lazy journalism but even amongst the climatologists I have been talking to there doesn't seem to be much consensus).

Compare that with the dozens of statements on climate change from various scientific organisations around the world representing tens of thousands of scientists, the consensus position represented by the IPCC reports and the 11,000 signatories to a petition condemning the Bush administration's stance on climate science.