Its first task was to
erode confidence in the science on which environmental concerns were based by arguing that the scientists had become politicised and were using their research, or allowing it to be used, to advance an anti-corporate political agenda.
Not exact matches
The modern age, born of assurance
in the transcendental reach of
science and reason, has now crumbled into a heap of blasted hopes,
eroded confidences and not - so - self - evident truths.
The more sophisticated reader also finds the impact of
science (
in virtually all disciplines) to be
eroding confidence in the Bible.
Scientists argue a new approach is needed to reverse an
eroding confidence in climate
science among the general public
We are concerned that the incorporation of unsubstantiated theories into what the public understands to be the «scientific consensus» on global warming is
eroding public
confidence in climate
science.
«
Confidence in the authority of the
science of climatology is currently
eroding in the public consciousness,» says Roger Pielke Jr., an American social economist and expert on natural disasters.
Eroding confidence in climate
science punctuated by a pair of blizzards has global warming skeptics across the United States calling for a sharp rollback to years of political and industrial efforts to curb greenhouse emissions thought to contribute to global warming.