Sentences with phrase «doubts about the consensus»

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.

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It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

Certainly, the consensus about Nicaea has now lasted for more than a thousand years, but I doubt that Collins and Walls would want to argue that it takes more than a thousand years for a doctrine to become binding.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

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.

But a key commission member still has doubts about the Administration's commitment, and commissioners failed to come to an immediate consensus on what the panel's priorities should be.

There is also no doubt that the general population does not realize the level of agreement among specialists who actually know what they're talking about, hence the need to talk about the 97 % consensus.

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.

It documents how a small group of scientists with links to industry were able to sow doubt about the scientific consensus and delay effective policy on DDT, tobacco, acid rain and, now, global warming.

I also explained I don't have any real beefs with ice core data but if you want to state something specific I'm sure I can find something to cast doubt upon it as very little in this debate is writ in granite, confirmation bias is rampant, overconfidence abounds, the race to publish by inexperienced youngsters on the tenure track is heated, and pal review let's just about anything that supports the consensus view get published while simultaneously quashing anything contrary.

-- Climategate and ensuing revelations of IPCC falsifications and exaggerations raised serious doubts about the behavior and credibility of the «mainstream consensus» scientists

I fear that the «spin» is a juggernaut that can't be stopped few know or care about the details of this subject I live in a highly affluent urban area, cheek to jowl with a major science oriented university I know no one who doubts the «consensus» the «man as scourge of nature» religion rules few are a aware of the hiatus, those that are consider it Koch and fossil fuel industry propaganda sigh... the voices here are, for me, a glimpse of light and reason I guess we are about to endure a media barrage thanks Dr. Curry, I'll re-read this post once in awhile during the blitz

There is in fact only a tiny number of climatologists who actually doubt the consensus of the rest about the research.

They refer to the «scientific consensus» of the 2,000 or so scientists connected to the IPCC — even though probably no more than 100 of those are true climate specialists; many are actually social scientists and government functionaries; and the list includes some skeptics of global warming who have expressed doubts about the IPCC's conclusions.

In the past I regularly read Real Climate, but it is more a site for true believers who never have self doubt (which is the opposite attitude of all good scientists who I know), so I only go there occasionally to see what the consensus is upset about.

Thus, consistent with other recent research, this study found that when in doubt about scientific facts, people are likely to use consensus among domain experts as a heuristic to guide their beliefs and behavior [15].

In a statement, Mr. Boehlert, who is retiring at the end of the year, expressed satisfaction with the results, saying, «There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change — which doesn't rest primarily on these temperature issues, in any event — or any doubts about whether any paper on the temperature records was legitimate scientific work.»

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.

In this episode of the DesmogCAST, host Farron Cousins speaks with me, Kyla Mandel and Justin Mikulka to talk about the breakout documentary Merchants of Doubt and how climate science deniers are still manufacturing a fake debate about the clear consensus among bonafide climate experts.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

DEBORAH AMOS: Throughout his administration, the president has been at odds with the scientific consensus on global warming, at times raising doubts about its cause.

But this is just the latest chapter in over two decades of manufactured doubt on the scientific consensus about climate change.

Recent arguments dominating the public discussion on climate change seem to have been about the «scientific consensus» achieving certainty, rather than advising caution in the face of doubt.

I challenge all who, like me, have doubts about one or another aspect of the conventional consensus regarding catastrophic unprecedented anthropogenic global climate change to see our mission as changing Mr Connolley's mind on that topic; not destroying his general opposition.

Via: ScienceNews: Cooling climate «consensus» of 1970s never was More about the global warming skeptic fringe Outsourcing the Climate Skeptics Create Your Own Climate Skeptic Think Tank: Answer Those Nagging Doubts What Makes Global Warming Skeptics Tick?

I see a dance being done here where you are essentially saying that it is isn't so much that the misperception of «consensus» opinion is wrong, but that the methodology of communicating about that misperception has been ineffective - and it comes across as you being in line with those who doubt whether there is a strong consensus of scientific opinion w / r / t climate change.

«So long as popular discussion could be about whether warming was occurring or not, so long as doubt was widespread, consensus for action could be postponed.»

Then there's this juicy bit of «communication»: ``... it suffices to say that the climate scientists have little doubt about the human impact on the climate...» Of course, like so much science non-communication, this is followed up by some vague qualifying about extent etc so you don't really know if the first bit is a sly consensus message or just a truism.