Sentences with phrase «fear of climate change by»

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«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science against ideology,» he said in a statement.

Dismayed by the disconnect between reality and the cartoonish animals populating his young daughter's pajamas, books and view of the natural world, journalist Mooallem sets off to explore often circuitous human - animal relationships: The once - feared polar bear has become the cherished mascot of climate change, and whales, once hunted without restraint, now attract near - fanatical rescue efforts.

Climatologists reporting for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say we are seeing global warming caused by human activities and there are growing fears of feedbacks that will accelerate this warming.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

At the other extreme, understandable economic insecurity and fear of radical change have been exploited by ideologues and vested interests to whip up ill - informed, populist rage, and climate scientists have become the punching bag of shock jocks and tabloid scribes.

One of the texts that we use is With Speed & Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce.

A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that while residents of 13 countries ranked climate change as the greatest threat to national security, US residents tended to fear cyber-attacks and ISIS much more so than climate change.

It would be an interesting exercise to discover what percentage of opinions regarding the topic of climate change are driven by fear of, or desire for, actions that will impact society in a certain way.

Climate change, global warming and the justifiable jitters that come with a fear of an environmental apocalypse are scoffed at by many in the current administration in Washington.

And we also have an essay from Kenneth Haapala, «A Short History of Global Warming Fears,» that explains how present worries over warming stem from an educated guess in the 1970s, leading to projections of climate change that have failed to be borne out by the evidence.

«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

Scientists fear that continued clearing, together with increased incidence and severity of drought and fire due to climate change, could result in a large scale die - off of Earth's largest rainforest by the end of the century.

In response, the Russian government carried out a concerted campaign to disrupt U.S. energy markets by fomenting fears of fossil fuels causing catastrophic climate change.

But by ignoring natural change, climate fear mongers delude the public into believing La Nina - caused droughts of the past few years were due to CO2 warming.

«We all have very nasty fears that the flows of the Indus could be severely, severely affected by glacier melt as a consequence of climate change.

AGW fears were based on the RATE of climate change and the rate of change is much slower that feared by Hansen, Mann, etc..

The climate change fear - mongering generated by government - related persons and agencies has recently reached peak levels, with claims that are a mixture of absurd and just plain silly when compared to the empirical scientific evidence.

Environmentalists fear the proposal, crafted by a troika of Democratic, Republican, and Independent senators, would weaken a climate change bill passed by the house last June.

HRH Prince Charles and HM Queen Elizabeth II are supporters of these organizations, their publications regarding climate change, and their activities regarding the need to combat climate change: ``... my great fear — a long - held one, for which I have been roundly abused and ridiculed — is that by the time these problems are understood and addressed it will be too late... (HRH Prince Charles).

FOLLOW THE MONEY: In speaking to politically fuelled climate change and the so called anthropogenic questions surrounding it, it might be prudent to first ask WHY people have such a need to suicidally abandon themselves to fundamentalist type Armageddon laden fear mongering by offering to pay up front before depopulating themselves, — all for the sake of the planet.

All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.

But it is happening slower than forecast -LSB-...] the effects of climate change are not showing up as bad as we had feared by now,» Ridley said in an address to the Wageningen University.

So, the idea that climate change will be worse for the poor is now being used, by the UK government and others, to exploit our fears of political instability and threats to the security of the West.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works on July 28, 2003, entitled «The Science of Climate Change», [14] Senator James Inhofe (Republican, for Oklahoma) concluded by asking the following question: «With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man - made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?»

DEBORAH AMOS: These corporate leaders, motivated by the reality of climate change, the fear of state - by - state regulation and the hope of new business opportunities, wanted the federal government to impose mandatory limits on carbon.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

Rather, it was made as part of a speech delivered this week at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, by Dr. Richard Jackson, a pediatrician and a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (of note, Jackson has also held prominent posts at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which has just abruptly canceled a conference addressing the public health implications of climate change out of fear that the event would be problematic for the new administration).

We can reasonably surmise that Lomborg is simply expressing his fear in the only way he knows how, by attempting to fight off the harsh realities of climate change and all that it portends for human populations with another version of reality painted by his own imagination to protect him from facing the difficult and highly inconvenient truths our planet is communicating to us.

If climate scientists are angling for more money by hyping fears of climate change, they are not doing so very effectively.

The hopes and fears promoted basic research on climate change by raising large sums of government money and a few provocative ideas.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

The report studied the national adaption programmes of 50 countries affected by climate change, and which fear that populations will have to move because of climate change.

Indeed, in the community of scientists and scholars and wonks that thinks about geoengineering, there is a persistent worry that some changes in mindset might come terribly quickly: Specifically, they fear that a significant part of the political class, especially in America, might move with Necker - cube instaneity from «climate change does not exist / is not man made and thus is not a problem to address» to «climate change can be easily sorted out by geoengineering and is not a problem to address any further.»

Couple these statements with other ones made by Greenpeace regarding the state of the oceans and the United Nations trying to create a worldwide government through their Peacekeeping efforts in order to handle the unrest that climate change will supposedly bring about, and you get a fear - based society that will believe what they're told out of panic.