Sentences with phrase «focusing on the climate skeptics»

In light of these many complex factors, for scientists to angrily and emotionally focus on climate skeptics as the primary source of societal inaction is a major distraction and it reflects their own perceptual biases.

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«The language style used by climate change skeptics suggests that the arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

Too bad these climate blogs (both skeptics and believers) focus on ad hominem attacks like this.

My focus is on the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid fossil fuel industry money to lie about the issue to the public.

This is actually pretty common in all of the blogosphere, and moreso in those science blogs which aren't focused (nor do they care too much) on climate science, but whenever some controversy hits the cables they have to put their uninformed hands into it, preferably to state for the nth time why the skeptics and deniers are such fools and shills for the oils and the rethuglicans.

Climate skeptics focused on scientific illiterates like Al Gore and a recent graduate named Michael Mann, allowing real leaders of the climate movement, like NAS President — Climatologist Ralph Cicerone — to continue directing federal research funds to support an unannounced 1945 social geo - engineering experiment to save themselves and the world from possible nuclear annihiClimate skeptics focused on scientific illiterates like Al Gore and a recent graduate named Michael Mann, allowing real leaders of the climate movement, like NAS President — Climatologist Ralph Cicerone — to continue directing federal research funds to support an unannounced 1945 social geo - engineering experiment to save themselves and the world from possible nuclear annihiclimate movement, like NAS President — Climatologist Ralph Cicerone — to continue directing federal research funds to support an unannounced 1945 social geo - engineering experiment to save themselves and the world from possible nuclear annihilation.

Leaving aside the PC issues associated with labeling people, I don't think their main premise that motivating skeptics by framing the issue in terms of the welfare of their society, instead of focussing on risks of climate change, works.

But Muller's study made waves in the media because he had been a prominent climate - change skeptic, partly funded by a foundation linked to global - warming deniers, and his research focused on skeptics» objections to previous studies of warming.

With few exceptions, such as the part of McI's response that discusses PCA (as contrasted with the part of his commentary that repeats plagiarism charges against Wahl and Ammann), the focus of discussion among the skeptics at Climate Audit, the Air Vent, and elsewhere is almost entirely on the plagiarism allegations against Wegman, rather than the substantive deficiencies in the statistical analysis in Wegman's report.

However, this GelbspanFiles blog focuses on the origins of the overall smear of skeptic climate scientists.

The hour - long expose of the oil giant focuses primarily on ExxonMobil's support of climate change «skeptics», and its influence on the Bush administration.

Perhaps Gelbspan has no direct current involvement in global warming political efforts, but regarding the question of where he is these days, the answer seems to indicate that his collective past efforts are worthy of deep professional level investigation in relation to all the current focus on using racketeering laws to persecute skeptic climate scientists and the organizations having any association with them.

Details of how the cuts will be achieved remain a little sketchy, but assuming that there will be a significant focus on saving energy and improving efficiency, this is one of those environmental measures that should please even the most fiscally conservative climate skeptics.

There seem to be several mutually contradictory statements made by climate research skeptics who focus on hurricane activity.

The topic accounted for 2.5 % of the newshole, with attention focused on the UN Climate Summit and emails from the research center that some contended pointed to possible manipulation of climate data and generated an outcry from global warming skClimate Summit and emails from the research center that some contended pointed to possible manipulation of climate data and generated an outcry from global warming skclimate data and generated an outcry from global warming skeptics.

Working Group II, the section that focuses on the impacts of climate change and how to adapt to it, was a particular target for climate skeptics in assailing the fourth assessment report.