Sentences with phrase «divisions over climate science»

He could have nodded to the deep divisions over climate science and policies, but noted that much of the sense of controversy has come mainly because the hottest messages — unfolding catastrophe, manufactured hoax — get the most air time.

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In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.

Apart from continuous measurements over years at different daytimes and locations, the scientists also studied vertical distribution of dust pollution in cooperation with colleagues of the Atmospheric Environmental Research Division of KIT's Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research and the Institute of Regional Science of KIT.

This result suggests that public divisions over climate change stem not from the public's incomprehension of science but from a distinctive conflict of interest: between the personal interest individuals have in forming beliefs in line with those held by others with whom they share close ties and the collective one they all share in making use of the best available science to promote common welfare.