Sentences with phrase «doubt global warming science»

Over two dozen lawmakers who favored efforts to clamp down on heat - trapping emissions were swept away on Tuesday's anti-incumbent wave, ushering in a new class of Republicans who doubt global warming science and want to upend President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies.

Over two dozen lawmakers who favored efforts to clamp down on heat - trapping emissions were swept away on Tuesday's anti-incumbent wave, ushering in a new class of Republicans who doubt global warming science and want to upend President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies.

Not exact matches

Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

Senior Curator Gilbert Vicario, and featuring essays by Vicario, along with Michelle White, associate curator, The Menil Collection, Houston; and Naomi Oreskes, science historian and author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming» (2010).

Those who rail against the media for including too many voices of doubt in some stories on global warming science and policy might want to step back a minute and review the chart below, from last December, showing just how invisible coverage of climate is compared to the stories that make the cut each day.

For years, skeptics have filled comments with dismissive views of climate science to sow doubts about the consensus that fossil fuels are responsible for global warming — dominating that space, according to the group.

At the root of all of those reasons is the fact that global warming was effectively massaged into an issue that could be ignored, by some very determined people funded by some very rich corporations — all of whom have worked for years to manufacture doubt about climate science.

I have no idea what you are referring to, except perhaps that the rote regurgitation of long - since and many - times - over debunked denialist nonsense is mercifully (and no doubt laboriously) deleted by the RC moderators — unlike every other open blog on the Internet where any attempt to discuss the science of anthropogenic global warming is quickly drowned out by a torrent of pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, blatant falsehoods, and hate speech against climate scientists.

Just two weeks ago in Nature, a science journal I never would have associated with comedy, I saw an article no doubt published by the top scientists in the world who say global warming will continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios.

[3] Two excellent examples: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Bloomsbury Press, 2011, Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science, Basic Books, 2006.

The scientists also put paid to claims that global warming has «stopped» because global temperatures in the past 15 years have not continued the strong upward march of the preceding years, which is a key argument put forward by sceptics to cast doubt on climate science.

They employed their skills instead to casting doubt on the mainstream science of global warming, says Oreskes.

Haven't we been told that the science of global warming is settled beyond doubt and that all that's left to the so - called sceptics is the odd errant glacier that refuses to melt?

The documentary, released nationwide last week, exposes the small network of hired pundits and scientists helping to sow doubt about climate science and delay legislative action on global warming in the United States.

Global warming is a particular difficult science because of the vast sums being spent by vested interests in fossil fuels to encourage doubt in the results.

To quote Malcom; Global warming is a particular difficult science because of the vast sums being spent by vested interests in fossil fuels to encourage doubt in the results.

Is it not fundamentalist science to ignore any evidence that casts doubt on global warming?

ExxonMobil, API and the Charles Koch Foundation for years were among the largest funders of research and lobbying intended to cast doubt on the science documenting global warming.

It has pumped millions of dollars into research projects to cast doubt on mainstream climate science showing that the primary driver of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels.

«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.

While I doubt that he'd claim that the weather control aspects are more than science fiction, he wants to be taken seriously on the topic of global warming.

Here are three great videos debunking contrarians with excellent historical overviews of the science by Dr. Naomi Oreskes: «The American Denial of Global Warming», «Merchants Of Doubt», and «Answering Climate Change Skeptics».

You don't need to think long to find a reason for the tobacco industry and big oil wanting to spread doubt about the science behind the link between tobacco and cancer, and behind greenhouse gases and global warming, respectively.

Using scant data and ignoring most findings that suggest warming, these «merchants of doubt» have attempted to suggest that political motivations and / or sloppy science has led to the what would amount to a massive «conspiracy» of climate scientists to assert that humans are causing global warming.

«Climate Cover - up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a remarkable deconstruction of what he argues is a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign whose goal is to set the agenda in climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidence... I have no doubt that Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.»

Davies, who now runs the Climate Investigations Center and continues to expose climate denial and attacks on solutions to global warming, worked with many researchers over the years (including DeSmog's Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia) to assemble a clear record of Exxon's extensive funding of organizations and think tanks responsible for spreading doubt and denial about climate science.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

The letter was reportedly supported by Leighton Steward from the Heartland Institute, an organization known for its stance of trying to cast doubt on global warming science.

U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today defended the science underpinning pending climate regulations despite Senate Republicans» claims that global warming data has been thrown into doubt.

Scientists Craig Idso, Fred Singer, and Robert Carter critique the sources of this myth and present a summary of the physical science that makes it plain beyond any doubt that there is no global warming crisis.»

The reason half of Americans doubt the science on climate change isn't because they are stupid or misled by the fossil fuels lobby, but because the global warming issue has now become as much as part of America's culture wars as abortion or creationism.

Stern: Confused climate skeptics A leading British climate change economist warned Tuesday that those who doubt the science of global warming are confused — and said their skepticism should not derail efforts to strike a climate deal in Denmark.

In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is «settled,» significant new peer - reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human - caused global warming.

Fred Singer is the president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, which has received funding from Exxon Mobil and casts doubt on global warming.

By questioning the science on global warming, these environmentalists say, groups like the Global Climate Coalition were able to sow enough doubt to blunt public concern about a consequential issue and delay government aglobal warming, these environmentalists say, groups like the Global Climate Coalition were able to sow enough doubt to blunt public concern about a consequential issue and delay government aGlobal Climate Coalition were able to sow enough doubt to blunt public concern about a consequential issue and delay government action.

Now, on a matter of vital importance (global warming), I think we are seeing problems that occur when a person without a rigorous completed scientific background writes about science in such a way that he casts considerable doubt on the findings of a huge number of scientists and major scientific bodies.

The data correction makes no perceptible impact on measured increase in global warming and do nothing to cast doubt on the science of climate change.

The textbook's authors repeatedly attempt to cast doubt on the accepted science of global warming.

This includes my long doubts about some of the science that is on display concerning global warming.

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists titled «Smoke, Mirrors and Hot Air: how ExxonMobil uses big tobacco to manufacture uncertainty on climate science,» found that in the preceding years, Patrick Michaels had been connected to at least 11 think - tanks and groups that had received money from ExxonMobil, many of which had gone on to sow doubt about human - induced global warming.

Building on its recent update of the physical science of global warming, 1 the IPCC's new report should leave the world in no doubt about the scale and immediacy of the threat to human survival, health, and wellbeing.

Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, the most outspoken climate change skeptic in Congress, was scheduled to be the kickoff speaker at the nation's most prominent gathering of those who doubt or deny the science of global warming, which began on Thursday morning in Washington.

(Walker, who was the Republican chair of the House science committee from 1995 to 1997, claimed that «half» the world's climatologists doubt the human role in global warming — that's just not true.)

This article is supposed to explain how global warming works http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/03/alsup-asks-for-answers/ I am not convinced it's very useful for the average person especially those who have serious doubts about the credibility of the science thus far.