Sentences with phrase «doubt on climate change science»

Several cities and counties in California have filed lawsuits against Exxon and other oil companies, alleging they conspired to cast doubt on climate change science and delay restrictions on greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

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.

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

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.

Doubting or rejecting the science on climate change no longer makes someone a «skeptic» or «denier» in the views of a leading news organization.

(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.

The full quote:» Three investigations of the alleged scientific misconduct of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — one by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, a second by the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Royal Society, chaired by Lord Oxburgh, and the latest by the Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their collClimate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — one by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, a second by the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Royal Society, chaired by Lord Oxburgh, and the latest by the Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their collClimate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their collclimate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their colleagues.

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.

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.

Smalley's views are utterly at odds with Climate Depot's robotic propagation of any content — valid or not — as long as it casts doubt on science pointing to risks from human - driven climate Climate Depot's robotic propagation of any content — valid or not — as long as it casts doubt on science pointing to risks from human - driven climate climate change.

As has been hinted at here there is resistance to factual debate on climate change that amounts to intrigue — as Sir David King said, he was «being followed around the world by people in the pay of vested - interest groups that want to cast doubt on the science of climate change».

Doubt should not stop us from taking reponsible action on climate change, and doubt should not stop us from calling for changes in how climate science is Doubt should not stop us from taking reponsible action on climate change, and doubt should not stop us from calling for changes in how climate science is doubt should not stop us from calling for changes in how climate science is done.

Despite virtual unanimity among scientists that climate change is real, and that it is caused by human activities, people who cast doubt on climate science continue to dominate the debate.

They can pay off academicians to write articles and make speeches to cast doubt on legitimate climate - change science.

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.

Here's a story we all now know well: A small number of groups backed by the fossil fuel industry have for decades shed doubt on the science of climate change, even as the actual scientific community consensus on the issue — that greenhouse gas pollution posed a significant threat to our climate — remained strong and continued to grow stronger.

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.

The International Conference on Climate Change is a yearly gathering of climate change deniers and disinformers — mostly hardcore libertarians — who attempt to spread doubts about climate sClimate Change is a yearly gathering of climate change deniers and disinformers — mostly hardcore libertarians — who attempt to spread doubts about climate scChange is a yearly gathering of climate change deniers and disinformers — mostly hardcore libertarians — who attempt to spread doubts about climate sclimate change deniers and disinformers — mostly hardcore libertarians — who attempt to spread doubts about climate scchange deniers and disinformers — mostly hardcore libertarians — who attempt to spread doubts about climate sclimate science.

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.

Cherry - picking the statements of one or two particular scientists, or attempting to cast doubt on a few of their e-mails does not and can not undermine the accumulated data and wisdom of Climate Change science.

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.

Starting in the early 1990s, three large American industry groups set to work on strategies to cast doubt on the science of climate change.

For me, being engineering trained in chemistry and physics and quantitative methods and with 40 years working on the science of Climate Change (both cooling and warming), including nearly 30 as a Board Member of the NOAA Program in Climate Change and 14 with IPCC leadership roles, I seriously doubt there is enough CO2 or any other trace gas to really matter significantly.

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.

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.

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.

The consequences of such doubts are important: elimination of the science is settled arguments; less money and talk on drastic climate change mitigation measures; more focus on alleviation of Third World poverty.

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.

Stop booking «merchants of doubt» and all those who deny and distort the established science on climate change — including Marc Morano (Climate Depot), William O'Keefe (George C. Marshall Institute), Tim Phillips (Americans for Prosperity), Fred Singer (The Science and Environmental Policy Project), and James Taylor (Heartland Instscience on climate change — including Marc Morano (Climate Depot), William O'Keefe (George C. Marshall Institute), Tim Phillips (Americans for Prosperity), Fred Singer (The Science and Environmental Policy Project), and James Taylor (Heartland Instclimate change — including Marc Morano (Climate Depot), William O'Keefe (George C. Marshall Institute), Tim Phillips (Americans for Prosperity), Fred Singer (The Science and Environmental Policy Project), and James Taylor (Heartland InstClimate Depot), William O'Keefe (George C. Marshall Institute), Tim Phillips (Americans for Prosperity), Fred Singer (The Science and Environmental Policy Project), and James Taylor (Heartland InstScience and Environmental Policy Project), and James Taylor (Heartland Institute).

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.

He has a very expensive stake in making sure public opinion on the science of climate change is split by doubt.

While the United States continues the ridiculous debate on the science of climate change (see «Climategate» scandal, which is a result of hacked e-mails from a British research institute, but seems to be getting most play in the United States; but see also this excellent response by the U.S. scientific community organized by a colleague), little such doubt lingers in China, a country governed by technocrats with degrees in engineering and science.

E-mails leaked last November cast doubt on the integrity of a few of the 4000 scientists who produce consensus reports for the U.N. body on climate change science (Science, 4 December 2009, p.science (Science, 4 December 2009, p.Science, 4 December 2009, p. 1329).

I can only assume that YOU are paid by the fossil fuel industry to cast doubt on the science of climate change.

A study of coverage of the recent United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate cChange (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate climate changechange.

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.

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.