But I also agree with Gavin A. Schmidt, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who noted in an email that it's unlikely those focused on
sowing doubt about global warming will magically cheer if the agencies get every dot and dash right:
Last week, many of the online commentators continued to
voice doubts about global warming fueled by Washington Post op - eds by prominent conservatives and global warming skeptics, George Will and Sarah Palin.
Because there is considerable misunderstanding about global warming and the ability to forecast it, and because
casting doubt about global warming was central to the arguments of Armstrong and his coauthors, we provide a tutorial on global warming and how it is incorporated into climate models.
Instead of moving heavily into renewable energies, fossil companies choose to
spread doubt about global warming, as tobacco companies discredited the smoking - cancer link.
The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to
sow doubt about global warming.
That short chapter is important because Oreskes totally misinterprets the «memos» as Big Coal's plan for a vast national campaign with paid climate scientists that created the lasting
public doubt about global warming.
Often the tenor was that the alleged «pause» raises
some doubts about global warming and the warnings of the IPCC.
Just over a week ago, I wrote a quick post on a new sociological analysis of organized efforts to sow
doubt about global warming.
RAGA, which did not respond to requests for comment, isn't the only Republican fundraising group whose elected officials have
doubts about global warming or the necessity of combating it through federal action.
K et al, 2008 tells an easy to understand story that will be popular with people that have
doubts about global warming.