Sentences with phrase «consensus on climate change»

In Catholic schools, we teach children about the peer - reviewed scientific consensus on climate change in science classes.

The result of their assessment, which is done every five to six years, establishes what is considered the gold standard of consensus on climate change science.

The key take away is that achieving political consensus on climate change will ultimately depend on advocates joining with experts in pursuing a broader portfolio of policy actions across levels of government.

Claims that there is an international consensus on climate change issues are equally false.

Previous research has identified public perceptions of the scientific consensus on climate change as an important gateway belief.

Prior to 2009, I felt that supporting the IPCC consensus on climate change was the responsible thing to do.

Recent social - science research has shown that the acceptance of the existence of the expert consensus on climate change is a gateway belief.

On investigation, attempts to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change often appear to have ideological roots, vested business interests or political sponsors.

In one sense, the blogosphere has reached a near - universal consensus on climate change.

As a reflection of that work, 31 scientific societies last year released a letter, updated from 2009, to reflect the current scientific consensus on climate change.

Much confusion and spin infects current public discussion of «peer reviewed» research: first we had Maurice Newman, the Chairman of the ABC, who suggested that «distinguished scientists» challenge the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change by «peer reviewed research», although he oddly failed to name such research.

Although virtually all climate scientists agree that human actions are changing the climate and that immediate action must be taken, roughly 60 percent of Americans believe that no scientific consensus on climate change exists.

Pew Research Center has asked Americans about their perception of the scientific consensus on climate change in different ways over the years.

The broad consensus on climate change is inconsequential, thus activists like Grimes need to play fast and loose with it.

Right now the world's consensus on Climate Change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is that it is real, it is happening now, its impacts will be negative to society and could be severe.

Lemonick replies: Those who do not accept the general scientific consensus on climate change span an enormous range, from people who have legitimate scientific disagreements on some of the details all the way to people who distort the facts to people who declare the whole thing a socialist plot (or, alternatively, a money - making scam).

The study's results could be heartening news for those hoping to build cross-party consensus on climate change policy.

Prominent scientists operating outside the scientific consensus on climate change urged Congress on Wednesday to fund «red teams» to investigate «natural» causes of global warming and challenge the findings of the United Nations» climate science panel.

In recent years, Bezdek has been very vocal in his opposition to new U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and argues that excessive amounts of C02 are good for the planet and that the scientfic consensus on climate change is a «manufactured myth.»

«The House of Commons committee self - consciously refused to pose any probing questions, and its main aim seemed to be to ensure that the moral status of the current consensus on climate change remained intact.

The cross party consensus on climate change was renewed for this election in a deal brokered by the Green Alliance.

Morano then said that the oft - touted 97 percent consensus on climate change being real and anthropogenic (meaning human - caused) was illegitimate because less than 100 scientists were polled to arrive at the 97 percent value.»

So, while the existence of a political consensus on climate change means that anyone who does not sign up to it is wrong by definition, the only ones who can possibly challenge that consensus are those who do not sign up to it.

The IPCC reports are the most comprehensive, authoritative consensus on climate change.

When did the scientific consensus on climate change decisively emerge?

Environmentalists who say we should accept the scientific consensus on climate change while telling us to ignore it on other issues are the people who are playing into the hands of those who oppose action on climate change.

With every IPCC report there is a key phrase that encapsulates the latest consensus on climate change, which scientists wrangle over for months.

At the close of the conference last night, Beckett said, «I hope that this conference will be seen as a milestone in building international consensus on climate change.»

Despite a strong consensus on climate change within the climate research community (Anderegg et al. 2010; Oreskes 2004; Cook et al. 2013), the efforts to explain climate change to the society so far can be summed up as having had limited success (Doran and Zimmerman 2011; Theissen 2011; Leviston et al. 2012; Lewandowsky et al. 2013; Rahmstorf 2012; Boykoff 2008; McCuin et al. 2014), and the greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations have continued to rise (IPCC synthesis report A 2014).

The key take away then from Foley's argument for planetary levers, Pielke's strategic reasoning on technology and Kahan's findings is that achieving political consensus on climate change will ultimately depend on advocates joining with experts in pursuing a broader portfolio of policy actions across levels of government.

Whether or not a scientific consensus on climate change exists, and whatever the substance of that consensus is, academics have been slow to realise that «climate change» has an ideological form, no matter how well grounded in science it is.

The cross-party consensus on climate change, renewed for the 2015 General Election, is not about about climate change.

This denier pre-emption of social science research echoes Frank Luntz» infamous 2002 memo advising Republicans to attack the scientific consensus on climate change in order to erode public support for climate policies - long before social scientists began researching the link between perception of consensus and support for climate action.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has called for a «red team - blue team» exercise to challenge scientific consensus on climate change.

We are most concerned about Mr. Pruitt's reluctance to accept and act on the strong scientific consensus on climate change.

On her campaign website, Deacon said scientists have reached a consensus on climate change so she wants to transition away from fossil fuel energy sources, invest in clean energy technology and support federal acts to protect natural resources.

The US libertarian think tank, which argues that global warming is not primarily caused by humans, intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change.

The consensus among scientists on GMO safety is «stronger than the scientific consensus on climate change,» said Giddings.

As society comes to terms with the scientific consensus on climate change, climate scientists are being called on to go beyond a mere understanding of the phenomenon, says climatologist Gregg Garfin, deputy director for science translation and outreach at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, Tucson.