Sentences with phrase «debate about climate change]»

Bringing together some of the world's foremost economic experts to contribute to the global debate about climate change and economic policy, and to inform government, business and investment decisions.

This week, Chevron lawyer Ted Boutrous told federal Judge William Alsup that «There's no debate about climate science.»

The debate about climate change here often dwells on the direct effects of global warming on our natural and cultural heritage, along with the damage it will cause to agriculture and tourism.

Publication of the document inflamed an already - fraught debate about climate change.

Nor little wonder Quiggin will not meet him in open debate about climate change or the lack of it

Estimating «climate sensitivity» — the magnitude of the change in TS after doubling CO2 concentration from the pre-industrial 278 parts per million to ~ 550 ppm — is the central question in the scientific debate about the climate.

The polarized and politicized nature of the societal debate about climate change can make it challenging for teachers to present the science honestly, accurately, and completely.

We have a unique opportunity to end the rancorous debate about climate change, a debate that is poisoning the air — the political air, that is — and inhibiting progress on two fronts: progress on addressing the possibility that we are on the road to a catastrophic warming of the globe, and progress on reforming our anti-growth tax structure, which is so inequitable that it is straining the public's belief in the fairness of capitalism and what we like to call «the American Dream.»

(d) There is an even larger debate about climate forecasts, both the extent of future CO2 emissions and the net effects of the various natural and anthropogenic drivers.

As perhaps has already become clear, Climate Cover - Up is an important contribution to the ongoing public debate about climate change.

I can speak personally for the lively debate about climate change policy.

To not respond to a request for that information would seem to be hiding behind the letter of FOIA rules (we shall see what the IC says), rather than responding in its spirit; if the information exists at all, it is surely in the public interest for it to be made public, to improve the quality of the debate about climate change policy.

My focus on the economic impacts is based upon the Left's own insistence of making that topic the focus of the debate about climate legislation.

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 - 14).

Gummer is as hostile to democratic debate about climate change as he is hostile to criticism.

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 — 14).

He would have us believe that the modern equivalent of the Inquisition, manipulating the public debate about climate, is the established scientific order, represented in Australia by universities and bodies like the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO.

«The debate about climate change has become increasingly ideological and partisan.

We weren't asked to understand the debate about climate science, only that we should accept a cartoonish account of it.

In other words, consensus messaging has a neutralising effect, which is especially important given the highly polarised nature of the public debate about climate change.

One of the great oddities of the debate about climate science is the contempt for scientists displayed by the lay cheerleaders on both sides.

Back in 2002, a Republican pollster advised conservatives to attack the consensus in order to win the public debate about climate policy.

The pipe would send hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil sands bitumen from Edmonton to the port of Vancouver each day — this at a moment when oil sands production and the pipelines that move it have become the proxy for a debate about climate change and the fossil fuel industries not just across Canada but worldwide.

There is a tidal wave of intolerance in the debate about climate change which is eroding free speech and melting rational debate.

My posts refer to the «public policy debate about climate change».

«So can we declare the long - running debate about climate sensitivity to be over?»

This same schematic of demarcated science and politics operates at all levels of debate about climate policies.

My objections to how the public policy debate about climate change concerns methodology, and are explained here: How we broke the climate change debates.

In other words, if you want to know why Climategate is interesting, don't look for the source of the leak / hack and question the «ethics» of climate «deniers»; take a long, hard look at the «ethics», and the politics of those who have worked to deny a public debate about climate change.

If a public debate about climate change and energy policies were permitted, and if the values that inform the interpretation of climate science were open to democratic contest, the climategate emails would be inconsequential.

It has always been defended on that tired old notion that the debate about climate policy divides on the fact of climate change, between scientists who claim «climate change is real» and deniers who claim the opposite.

second of all, can we agree that the debate about climate is not over?

«Jim Hoggan, a public relations expert and co-founder of DeSmogBlog.com, explained the problem this way: «The public debate about climate change is choked with a smog of misinformation.

Discussions about hockeysticks and feedbacks are all very interesting, but they are not the crux of why there is a such a heated and politicized debate about climate change.

Debate about climate change policy in the United States has almost always assumed that US policy - makers can look to US economic interests alone in establishing US climate change policies.

I don't talk about climate change explicitly, but we'll never have a sensible debate about climate change until oil is demystified.

The climate denial countermovement has also blocked critical reflection on and serious debate about climate change through other strategies which seek to promote the idea that civil society will be better off if climate change policies are not adopted.

«Hardly anyone realises it yet, but the debate about climate change is over.

But why should this premise have more weight in the debate about climate change than the argument that we could do more by abolishing poverty?

«This is a historic moment in the global debate about climate change,» said Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast.

Continue reading «I Can Engage In A Flawed Debate About Climate Change»

That the debate about climate sensitivity has begun to permeate into the wider media is very welcome.

And that is why the whole «Yes, but RC moderation» is so laughable as a serious contribution to the debate about climate change.

McKitrick is considered by many on the «skeptical» side of the debate to be an absolutely key player in the debate about climate change, and the veracity / viability climate scientists and the work they produce.

Unless the skeptics form a theory, they'll remain minor players in the debates — the climate science debate and the public policy debate about climate change (they're distinct, although often conflated).

This is a key point, essential in the deeper debate about climate equity, which is exactly the debate that Chancel / Piketty are here intervening into.

Second, I've increasingly noticed that much of the debate about climate is happening outwith academic circles.

It is quite instructive as to how you approach the debate about climate science.

In the end, the only question that matters [for the public debate about climate change] is, what are we going to do about it?

I find that many of the participants in the debate about our climate have taken very personal positions.