Sentences with phrase «discourse than climate change»

Further, Americans are four times more likely to say they hear the term global warming in public discourse than climate change.

In a separate nationally representative survey, we found that while Americans are equally familiar with the two terms, they are four times more likely to say they hear the term global warming in public discourse than climate change.

Not exact matches

Yaun sees a kind of division in the discourse over issues like climate change that is far more profound than party affiliation, yet perhaps is more bridgeable once identified:

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

Although global climate change entails more than rising temperatures, the terms «global warming» and «climate change» are used interchangeably in public discourse and opinion polls on this issue (e.g., PIPA / Knowledge Networks 2005; see Whitmarsh 2009 for a discussion).

It could have led to a different approach to evolving the discourse between scientists and users of information — a freer relationship and one less constrained than is the current process by political gatekeepers concerned with controlling the flow of communications about climate change and its implications for the United States.

Here, we focus on a small sample of papers that have made a discernable mark on the public discourse about climate change; they were selectively picked for close - up study rather than randomly sampled for a statistical representation.

Employing a political ecology framework, I endeavor to articulate the multiple levels at which this issue unfolds, describing the correlation between the circulation of climate change discourse and the resurgence of hydroelectric power at the global level; how this situation has been engaged at the national level within contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades.

Meanwhile, another scientific fog arises as a result of a new paper just out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggesting that storms like Superstorm Sandy — which has been widely linked to climate change in popular discourse — might be less likely, rather than more likely, in the future.

The speculative nature of the Hansen discourse lends no more validity to the current brouhaha over climate change than any other antics he has performed before or after he retired.