Sentences with phrase «doubt about climate change science»

Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced an amendment to the energy bill expressing Congress's disapproval of the use of industry - funded think tanks and misinformation tactics aimed at sowing doubt about climate change science.

These are organizations, many representing fossil fuel interests, that work to sow doubt about climate change science and to delay or prevent policy solutions.

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Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to human - caused climate change, she said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

Heading into the 2015 True / False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, the last two documentaries I reviewed were Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, about rape on college campuses, and Robert Kenner's Merchants Of Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smoking.

It comes at a time when President Donald Trump and other members of the administration have expressed doubt about the accepted science of climate change, and are considering drastic cuts to federal funding for scientific research.

In addition to raising doubts about climate science and about the need to slow climate change by reducing emissions, the company site omits any discussion of the costly consequences of climate change, choosing instead to focus exclusively on high - end estimates of the costs of reducing emissions.

There may not be many scientists who doubt the human cause of recent climate change but, because of politics, their influence is exaggerated and the public has been quite deliberately misled about the level of consensus in climate science.

Tillerson was in favor of the Paris accord, while his successor, Mike Pompeo, has expressed doubts about the science of climate change.

Naomi Oreskes once held doubts about modeling climate science, the main source of alarmism about climate change.

They accuse the company of spreading doubt and «junk science» about climate change to protect its own commercial interests.

Laframboise's trip has been organised by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, which has a long history of promoting doubt about the science of human - caused climate change and the risks of the unmitigated burning of fossil fuels.

Hassol and Somerville said one obstacle to their work on communicating the science of climate change is an active disinformation campaign — comparable to one run in the past by tobacco companies — that seeks to sow doubts about scientific findings.

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«Climate change is a serious problem, and yet some in the coal industry deny that the problem of global warming even exists and have contributed to organizations that spread doubt about science and policy,» Markey said.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

ICN's eight - month investigation assembled details of Exxon's early understanding of the emerging science of climate change, casting a new light on the company's subsequent campaign to postpone aggressive climate policies by sowing public doubt about the science.

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There is an interesting book called Merchants of Doubt (by Oreskes and Conway) that talks not about the science behind climate change but about how some scientists on corporate payrolls went about creating an attitude of denial about climate change and varying other topics.

Politically conservative meteorologists, like Spann and Spencer, have made great contributions to the science and are brilliant minds — but their doubts about the causes of climate change are magnified because of their large platforms.

If we're conferring the benefit of the doubt onto these teachers, he says, it's worth noting that many of them learned about climate change when the science was still relatively new and subject to frequent updating — in other words, before consensus had been reached.

At a time when The Guardian just reported another poll showing a drop in concern about climate change, and a New York Times front page this week described Britons» growing doubts about the science, its worth taking a look at that anti-science campaign, which was waged by Einstein's critics because like today's climate denial movement, the anti-relativity movement had some success too.

In addition to concealing the known risks, Exxon and Suncor... directed, participated in, and benefited from efforts to misleadingly cast doubt about the causes and consequences of climate change, including: (1) making affirmative and misleading statements suggesting that continued and unabated fossil fuel use was safe (in spite of internal knowledge to the contrary); and (2) attacking climate science and scientists that tried to report truthfully about the dangers of climate change.

Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $ 120m (# 77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change.

Inglis's reflection on the GOP's tendency to reject the findings of climate scientists isn't just about the party's image, it's also indicative a trend that's likely to find its way into the highest levels of legislative leadership, as the top chairman picks for House committees on Energy and Commerce, as well as Science, all have expressed doubts about the validity of climate change.