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And wouldn't those talking points pack a fatal punch with reporters if you could say a Pulitzer winning investigative reporter discovered a leaked coal industry memo which was proof for skeptic climate scientists being paid to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»
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The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.
For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.
Contrary to David Hart's suggestion, many of us are climate science skeptics not because we're carrying water for Exxon stockholders, but because we don't trust an intellectual culture of scientists - as - activists.
Trump's likely pick to fill the role of a top scientist at the USDA — Sam Clovis, best known for hosting a conservative talk show in Iowa — is a climate change skeptic with no background in science.
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Former VP - turned - climate - change - activist Al Gore said he had an «extremely interesting» meeting with the president - elect, a climate change skeptic, at Trump tower that was a «sincere search for areas of common ground.»
How to be a target If one were to write a how - to guide for scientists on how to avoid being a target of climate skeptics, step one would be: Stay quiet.
In the area of climate change, the leaked documents revealed that the group funds vocal climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso ($ 11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($ 5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($ 1,667 per month).
In a thorough post for InsideClimate News, Katherine Bagley examines the influence that both climate change campaigners and skeptics are having online (link).
«In France, we are struggling with our own climate skeptics who enjoy the attention they get for a contrarian position,» she says.
(As we discovered at a convention of climate change skeptics, polar bears are a flash point for those who oppose the regulation of carbon emissions, as well.)
«Blogging on controversial issues, going on television to talk about climate, or taking on skeptics is not for everybody,» Oppenheimer said.
Marc Morano, who runs the contrarian site Climate Depot, told National Journal that he preferred the term «skeptic,» but that «doubter» still suggests there's room for debate.
For a few minutes it looked like a détente had been reached between John Holdren, the president's science advisor, and Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA), the leading climate skeptic on the House of Representatives science committee.
They're longstanding warmists, implacable foes of climate skeptics, and they're also actually the people responsible for producing the IPCC's carbon budget.
Climate skeptics have been saying for years that the IPCC climate models have been running «too hot.Climate skeptics have been saying for years that the IPCC climate models have been running «too hot.climate models have been running «too hot.»
Perhaps this is all obvious and is in fact a description of the approach that many parties, particularly climate skeptics, have been using for the past few decades.
Wallace's perspectives are particularly interesting because he is both a highly respected climate researcher (and National Academy of Sciences member) and, like a number of other long - time researchers in the field, was once a «skeptic» (in the best sense of the word) regarding the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.
As a classic indicator of the modern climate skeptic, he cited the IPCC's conclusions as authority for the points that he believed supported his arguments, but dismissed the IPCC's conclusions for points that did not support his arguments.
This is one of the classic climate skeptic arguments, that climate scientists are claiming that CO2 is 100 % to blame for temperature fluctuations.
In the context of climate change I am skeptical of the use of the term «skeptic»; it is used often to dismiss people for criticising.
(Which National Institute do climate skeptics apply for a job at?
Anthony Lupo's work for the Heartland Institute even flipped a long - time climate skeptic columnist at the Daily Tribune, who publicly explained why the scandal convinced him that global warming is indeed occurring.
ASU's longtime climate skeptic Robert C. Balling continues to reject conclusive scientific evidence that humans are the primary cause of global warming and was listed as a recipient of prospective payments in Heartland's leaked budget for work on their «Climate Change Reconsidered» rclimate skeptic Robert C. Balling continues to reject conclusive scientific evidence that humans are the primary cause of global warming and was listed as a recipient of prospective payments in Heartland's leaked budget for work on their «Climate Change Reconsidered» rClimate Change Reconsidered» reports.
(Gore has also not addressed this: Another Moonwalker Defies Gore: NASA Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin rejects global warming fears: «Climate has been changing for billions of years» — Moonwalkers Defy Gore's Claim That Climate Skeptics Are Akin To Those Who Believe Moon Landing was «Staged»)
A British academic wants an international court to declare climate skeptics wrong, once and for all.
1) I have no comment on the general extent of pal review, but for sure, the Climate Research / de Freitas case covered by SkS was pal review (I wrote the report that's based on, i.e., Skeptics Prefer Pal Review Over Peer Review: Chris de Freitas, Pat Michaels And Their Pals, 1997 - 2003.
In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.
In an article entitled, Democrats Condemn Climate Change Skeptics for Targeting Teachers, the media website, Frontline explained;
Richard Betts, the head of the climate impacts section of Britain's Met Office, recently left a comment on the «skeptic» * blog Bishop Hill stating that thresholds for climate danger, such as the much ballyhooed 2 - degree limit enshrined in recent climate pledges, were not determined by science:
This was used by some bloggers to claim that «wind was responsible», but if climate skeptics are known for anything, it's for oversimplifying complex issues.
«john, don't you have some climate skeptic in your university's physics department to go harass and otherwise not do your job of making photocopies for him?»
Well, before he went to the CEI and refashioned himself into a climate change skeptic, he was doing private property rights stuff for a number of different outfits.
As for the «denial industry,» please see this Senate report on how promoters of climate fear enjoy monumental funding advantages over skeptics.
He is a climate policy analyst and modeler in the IMAGE - project at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and has been involved in the discussion with climate skeptics for many years.
A warning to the skeptics — there are very obvious trends for most of the parameters, which accord with climate model predictions for a hotter drier future.
Tom Fuller says «I find it truly bizarre that you (or one of the skeptic blogs) has not yet realized that weblogs are the absolutely perfect mechanism for conducting a proper debate on an issue like climate change
As a classic indicator of the modern climate skeptic, he cited the IPCC's conclusions as authority for the points that he believed supported his arguments, but dismissed the IPCC's conclusions for points that did not support his arguments.
To illustrate the shenanigans of self - styled «climate skeptics», take for example the following graph, which has been circulating for a while on climate denier websites.
Eric, thanks for the even - handed treatment of this «new» climate data, but I remain an anthropogenically - caused climate change skeptic because of the extraordinarily high number of unproved variables that must be shown to be true, in order for man's puny efforts at controlling the climate to have any long term effect.
On a Hypothesis for Self - Destructive Behavior or A Possible Explanation for Climate Skeptics and other Nature Haters.
It said «the site has quickly become a must - read for interested amateurs, and a perfect foil to both the climate skeptic misinformation that saturates sections of the web and the overexcitement of the claims of some environmentalists.»
After following the global warming saga — science and policy — for nearly a quarter century, I've seen the biases at the journals and N.S.F. (including their press releases sometimes), in the I.P.C.C. summary process (the deep reports are mainly sloppy in some cases; the summary writing — read the climate - extinction section of this post — is where the spin lies), and sometimes in the statements and work of individual researchers (both skeptics and «believers»).
I am a skeptic precisely because a lot of what passes for climate science is in fact «climate model science», and the models are nowhere near well - enough understood yet to equate the two.
As for the equivalence that some are trying to draw between climate activists and skeptics, there really aren't two equal sides here.
7:22 p.m. Updates below Quite a few professional climate skeptics have been crowing in the last few days about a 20 - percent downward shift in the short - term forecast for global temperature (through 2017) from Britain's weather and climate agency, best know as the Met Office.
But the skeptic community seems determined to rely on this rather than describe, in an intellectually honest way, what this means for the hypothesized influence of anthropogenic CO2 on climate.
Now, as Leslie Kaufman reports in The Times, there appears to be some overlap emerging between those pressing for equal time for non-evolutionary explanations for life's diversity and those demanding equal time for skeptics» arguments about the causes and significance of climate change.
Also, the brief period I spent scanning abstracts [no time this week to read papers] indicates a difference of opinion suggesting whether there is a correlation between clouds and CRF (including a no by Balling and Cerveny Theoretical and Applied Climatology 75:3 - 4 pp. 225 - 231 — which may be a good indicator as there was a skeptic flurry last year over connecting CRF to climate as another try at natural causes being responsible for recent climate change).