Betts says:» the authors seem to assume that climate science is entirely
focussed on anthropogenic climate change, and that natural variability is only researched as a supplementary issue in order to support the conclusions regarding anthropogenic influence.»
The myopic
focus on anthropogenic climate change is diverting attention and resources from our critical challenge of developing and transitioning to alternative transport fuels fast enough to prevent massive economic harm especially to oil importing countries.
Not exact matches
It appears that the study
focuses on «deniers of
anthropogenic climate change».
Two full decades of
anthropogenic climate change being established science and Australia's policy
focus is fully
on maximum expansion of coal and gas extraction and export with some ineffectual
climate «policies» to distract and pacify public concerns.
By picking one specific area of only one of the spheres (surface temperatures), while it might be one piece of interesting information and it certainly it is quite true that surface temperatures have been flat at or near record high levels,
focusing on this fact alone and the fact that
climate models failed to have forecast it, does very little overall good if the goal is to educate the public about the bigger picture, i.e.
anthropogenic climate change as an energy imbalance affecting the whole Earth energy system, including all the spheres discussed above.
In 2007, a letter written by Harper in 2002 stated that
anthropogenic climate change is based
on «tentative and contradictory scientific evidence» that
focuses on carbon dioxide, which is «essential to life.»
This study examines coverage of
anthropogenic climate change in United States (U.S.) network television news — ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News — and
focuses on the application of the journalistic norm of «balance» in coverage from 1995 through 2004.
Closely related work
focuses on the attribution of observed
climate change to various forcing agents, both
anthropogenic and natural.
It argues that the IPCC's «heroic days» of «Herculean work» are probably over, more frequent assessments
focused on policy challenges are required, and the wider review of science made possible by the blogosphere can help: New Scientist says because the case for
anthropogenic climate change is firmly established («the Nobel prize is won») the IPCC really needs to revision itself.