Sentences with phrase «exaggerated climate»

Simply put, the exaggerated climate change claims of major disruption to rainfall / snow patterns are just that, exaggerations sans any empirical evidence.

This, along with wildly exaggerated climate damage scenarios, is needed to justify aggressive short - term interventions such as the Al Gore or Stern proposals.14 Since calculated net benefit results for a two - hundred - year horizon are extremely sensitive to the choice of a discount rate, the debate over the discount rate is far more than technical.

A few climate scientists do speak out about exaggerated climate change rhetoric.

Mann is uncomfortable in the role of poster boy for exaggerated climate science.

They can either admit that their previous reports were wrong in that their assessment exaggerated climate sensitivity; or they need to igore the solid science that now shows that the numbers were, in fact, exaggerated.

They can not afford the now agree that these previous reports were wrong in the way they exaggerated climate sensitivity.

My view is that the energy debate as presented is too weak to be proven without recourse to what I guess are exaggerated climate cost scenarios.

You may remember «Climategate,» the 2009 leak of climate scientists» e-mails, which, according to critics, revealed a conspiracy to exaggerate the climate crisis.

The latest Gallup survey from a week ago reveals that 41 % of the U.S. public (including increasing number of independents) believe that the media is exaggerating the climate change story, and the number of folks who believe this is a serious issue has been declining in the past few years.

Ingraffea and co-workers systematically abuse the concept of «global warming potential» in an effort to exaggerate the climate importance of methane leakage.

Research that ignores contributions to GMST from ocean heat storage, ventilation and vertical mixing, they must greatly exaggerate climate sensitivity to CO2.

In our series about the «Real» Global Temperature Trend we've learned not to exaggerate the climate cooling potential of volcanoes.

Mr Gore has been accused of exaggerating climate - change risks for his own political gain and conservative critics have claimed scientific research is skewed to play on the fears of the public.

Yet again, the models» predictions are shown to be unskilful, and — if the Professor is right — yet again they have erred greatly on the side of exaggerating climate sensitivity.

Almost without exception they are in one direction: exaggerating climate sensitivity and anthropogenic attribution certainty.

The results imply that the models are exaggerating climate sensitivity.

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I think we largely agree on most of the facts and even on some of the politics, there is a tendency to exaggerate climate science by deniers (to have a convenient straw man), by journalists and greens (because they think hyperbole will get them more attention).

Not exact matches

Supposed calamities like the accelerated rise of sea level, ocean acidification, more extreme climate, tropical diseases near the poles, and so on are greatly exaggerated.

Zwally's results spread like wildfire across many conservative news outlets — including Fox News, Breitbart News and The Daily Express — which hailed it as another sign that the dangers of climate change have been exaggerated.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.»

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

The organizer of the Copenhagen Climate Congress, held earlier this month, debates with Stanford University ecologist Chris Field whether the event exaggerated the scientific consensus.

Ebell has fought against climate policies for years, and he often suggests that climate scientists are working to advance their careers by promoting alarmist research that exaggerates the pace of climbing temperatures.

I still find that much, if not most, of what is attributed to climate change is speculative, exaggerated or just plain wrong.

feedback (in climate science) A process or combination of processes that propel or exaggerate a change in some direction.

Lessee... for example, we have this article archived at the Fraser Institue from 1999 on the exaggerated predictions of climate models in Arctic regions, by Baliunas & Soon:

«One demanding test of the validity of the computer simulations of the climate of the earth is based on temperature records from the Arctic... When tested against the Arctic temperature record, therefore, the computer forecasts are seen to exaggerate the projected warming by a large amount.»

Last month, the New York Times reported that Phil Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist working for the White House, edited scientific climate change reports to significantly exaggerate uncertainty about the science behind global warming.

In this piece, Broad attempts to discredit Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» by exaggerating the legitimate, but minor, criticisms of his treatment of the science by experts on climate science, and presenting specious or unsubstantiated criticisms by a small number of the usual, well - known contrarians who wouldn't agree even if Gore read aloud from the latest IPCC report.

-- Marginal statistical shortcomings of couple's home situated on floodplain or shoreline are revealed by weather event significantly exaggerated by climate effects;

They think this article means Sally Brown thinks climate scientists are exaggerating the threat, and they are shocked that RC is allowing her to chastise them.

Whilst this is the basic cause of the cyclical nature of the ice age and the warmer inter ice age climate of the earth in the last few million years at least, there are natural «feedbacks» in the earth which then exaggerate this climatic change.

Andy, there'll be whiplash aplenty once the media catches on to the fact that the reason the modelers are all wrong is that climate sensitivity to CO2 has been exaggerated.

If CO2's effect on climate has been exaggerated, and the globe is cooling for the short term, then for however long it is cooling, coal can sustain us until alternative energy is widespread.

His comment that climate scientists are exaggerating anthropogenic climate change to get more funding is worse.

It is obvious to all but morons that the role of CO2 in climate has been exaggerated.

Somebody over there must have known that climate sensitivity to CO2 has been exaggerated.

There are two things I dislike intensely: people who understate the climate problem, and people who hugely exaggerate the problem.

By exaggerating the influence of climate change on today's weather and climate - related extreme events, a part of our community is painting itself into a rhetorical corner.

Therefore the climate noise in the projections is exaggerated.

These organizations and their industry allies are also advantaged by virtually unanimous opposition to cap and trade among Republican members of Congress, with many Republican leaders echoing the communication strategy of conservative groups by casting doubt on climate science and exaggerating the costs of action.

Carbon capping isn't even going to save the earth if climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide has been exaggerated.

But I think partisans on both sides of the climate wars tend to exaggerate what's happening.

Every day of a cooling globe just demonstrates more persuasively that the climate's sensitivity to CO2 has been exaggerated.

«Many who are unwilling to accept the full brunt of greenhouse warming have embraced a more comforting compromise reminiscent of the Tychonic system *: that CO2 has some role in climate but its importance is being exaggerated.

«In the past five years, the dynamic of the global warming debate has shifted away from exaggerated acceptance of the worst possible implications of what a majority of climate scientists tell us, towards a more balanced and questioning approach.»

It's difficult to exaggerate the impact of Dessler's findings, because these are three of the most crucial arguments for climate «skeptics.»

Thanks for posting Hansen's own graph — which actually shows only normal warming due to natural climate variability [but the red line on the exaggerated x-axis does make it scary, huh?]