EPA career staffers, former agency employees and
environmentalists view the changes as a troubling sign of how the new administration plans to deal with climate change policies and the agency's workforce.
Not exact matches
Visitors will use iPads to overlay visualizations onto a 3D printed coral centerpiece, triggered by real - time hashtags on twitter that represent the
views of
environmentalists and climate -
change deniers alike.
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate
Change has been vigorously attacked by some
environmentalists and global warming alarmists who
view it as a threat to their claim of a «consensus» in favor of their extreme
views.
For instance, the Reason Foundation ($ 7.2 million) is on Brulle's list, despite the fact that its top writer on science issues shares some of
environmentalists»
views on Global Warming / Climate
Change.
After reading «Landscapes and Cycles: an
Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism», I am convinced that Jim Steele's
view of climate
change caused by multiple factors, including naturally occurring cycles between warmth and cold in the world's oceans and
changes in land use on a local scale, are a much more realistic explanation than the prevailing hypothesis.
In the simple - minded, comic book world in which many
environmentalists live there's only one acceptable
view about climate
change — the one they themselves hold.
Climate
change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative
view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with
environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.
First, as discussed previously on this blog, the BBC's decision to sell the seventh episode of the series — David Attenborough's personal
view of climate
change and the crysophere — as an option led to screams and shouts from
environmentalists.
Environmentalists have been able to close down debate, and shut out criticism by sustaining the
view that climate
change scepticism is variously the result of particular agendas.
In flat contradiction of their stated
views that climate
change represents an imminent cata - strophic threat, anti-nuclear
environmentalists from Germany to Illinois to California bless the burning of fossil fuels if it means they can force the closure of a nuclear power plant.
Recalling Sen's maxim, the anti-democratic tendency of
environmentalists — the
view that democracy isn't equal to the problem of climate
change, and so institutions must be constructed above democratic control — would replicate the configuration of power that allowed tyrants and their indifference to their populations» needs to reign.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change lead author, Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, has previously rebuked the arguments of political scientist Bjorn Lomborg, contained in his book, The Skeptical
Environmentalist, for «selective inattention to inconvenient literature and overemphasis of work that supports his lopsided
views».