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Mark Lynas first drew significant attention to himself for his views on climate change in 2001, when he threw a custard - pie into the face of Bjorn Lomborg, during a book launch.

The challenge is to get this site in the media's consciousness as the «go to» site for views on climate change subjects.

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Asked about President Trump's views on climate change, Gates said, «I hope his administration will decide that funding R&D to invent the next generation of energy (clean, cheap, reliable) is a good deal for the US and for the world.

Trump may see some pushback from the other heads of state, however, for his contrarian views on climate change and free trade.

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

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We thank the two presidential candidates for presenting their views on climate change in response to Scientific American's survey this year.

«My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet, and the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try and reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us,» he told an audience in Pittsburgh, then advocated for aggressive oil drilling.

Ken Alex, Brown's senior policy adviser for planning and research, said Brown doesn't view his outreach on climate change to be partisan.

The editorial team should be calmly reviewing and assessing the evidence for all views on the situation, not ridiculing anyone who is a «climate change denyer» - what a telling phrase!

While they struggle to pull together know - how and funding, those with the broader view and resources - state agencies - are absent from the discussions: In a study released earlier this year, the Natural Resources Defense Council ranked Virginia as one of 29 states that were «largely unprepared and lagging behind» on planning for climate change at the state level.

The Clean Power Plan provides an attack point for Republican candidates without making them define their views on climate change.

«He views this as a matter for the church on account of the disproportional impact of climate change on the poor and disadvantaged, which does indeed make it a moral issue.»

I too feel it is important for scientists to study climate, and to express their views on climate change to others.

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In announcing an interest in content that «reroutes its form» at the final Lunch Bytes in London before reading Augustine's «make - up tutorial that is also subliminally a climate change awareness campaign, or a self - defence for women pep talk», excerpted from Danklands, Childs expanded on an interest in physical space mediated by the online, in a Google Maps still of the Melbourne Docklands where it's secret Control Pond Q is hidden from virtual view.

For his part, Mr. Monckton says there is no need to exploit such events because he and others have exposed fatal weaknesses in the mainstream view that a strong warming effect is due to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide — regardless of the peer - reviewed, Nobel Prize - winning work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the conclusions of various national academies of science and 100 years of growing accord on the basics.

Senator John McCain used a visit to Vestas, a manufacturer of wind turbines in Portland, Ore., as a backdrop for a speech describing his views on human - caused climate change and what to do about it.

There is all sorts of evidence for and against natural climate change at various stages of history (and prehistory) that bears discussing, but we rarely ever get to it because everyone is banging on about the hockey stick being inaccurate or accurate (depending on your point of view).

You'll find people who will tell you the flaws in a lot of methods (for example, issues in Mg / Ca temperature proxies) but that doesn't mean they dismiss everything out of hand, or that there views on Mg / Ca somehow means they don't believe in climate change.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

He claims his new analysis, which has been posted * for public review but has not yet been peer reviewed (more on that below), provides an even firmer view of human - driven warming than the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This attitude, in my view, crested for climate scientists in the wake of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate scientists in the wake of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

But a solid majority of Americans think that climate change is a problem, and that the EPA is a necessary tool for keeping our air and water clean — and they might squirm at the thought of electing a leader whose views on both are so extreme and dismissive.

«Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal: extinctions driven by the latter processes of habitat loss pose a far greater threat to global biodiversity.

Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal

On AGW Theory: Here, you're making the mistake I allude to above in discussing Sen. Inhofe — lumping «AGW theory» (which even Michael Crichton did not dispute) with the range of views (some supported, some not) on whether the case has been made for dangerous human - driven climate changOn AGW Theory: Here, you're making the mistake I allude to above in discussing Sen. Inhofe — lumping «AGW theory» (which even Michael Crichton did not dispute) with the range of views (some supported, some not) on whether the case has been made for dangerous human - driven climate changon whether the case has been made for dangerous human - driven climate change.

«This bottom up demand which normally we always want to have and rely on in a representative democracy, is in my view unlikely to work in the case of climate change policy as it has for other environmental problems....

[UPDATE, 5/26: The meeting has ended with what appears to be some agreement on ways for rich countries to help poorer ones limit vulnerability from climate change, but with no shift in views on who needs to cut emissions how much and how fast.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

I am shocked by the reality of where we are and what we are faced with: global warming, climate change, poverty... The articles show us different perspectives, even divergent views, which promote us to come up with our own ideas about the meaning and vision of sustainability... It's time for us to take responsibility on our shoulders... We can make a big difference together.»

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

Imagine for a moment the common - sense neutral observer's view of the histrionics that have been displayed here regarding a single year of new data and its effect on our view of climate change.

What the Survey's Findings Might Mean Since the survey was intended to provide a sort of a roadmap for finding ways to motivate progress and improve attitudes regarding climate change, the findings must be viewed objectively — as is apparently not the case with most Americans and their stances on climate change.

(The series is an initiative of the Rosenkranz Foundation, led by Robert Rosenkranz, who at the first climate debate made his views on human - driven climate change quite clear; see the bottom of this post for his introduction to that evening.)

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

I'm asking about NIc Lewis» political views, and if they are his real motivation for getting into the bear pit, rather than an intrinsic scientific curiosity on the issue of climate change.

«But as I commented at scienceprogress, the way I see the ledger, the religious Right gets a handful of anti-science points for views on evolution (and related rationalizations about the age of the earth, etc.), and for some dismissal of climate change theory, but the Left gets many more anti-science points for exaggerating the health and ecological risks of POPs; DDT; GMOs; plastics and plasticizers; pesticide residues; conventional agriculture; low - dose EM radiation; high - tension powerlines; climate change; population growth; resource depletion; chemical sweeteners; species extinction rates; biodiversity decline; and I'm sure the list could go on.

Bringing together nations with wildly divergent views on responsibility for climate change and vastly different stages of development and levels of poverty to forge a deal is extremely challenging.

With the Republicans now in control of the U.S. Congress, the recent Issues article outlining conservative views on climate change may provide some pragmatic advice for designing and implementing therapeutic actions.

Anthony I am in awe of all the work you have done to present such a wonderful vehicle for differing views on this most contentious subject of climate change.

Now, with my recent focus on nuclear power for ending poverty and mitigating climate change, a few friends have asked whether my views on climate have changed.

For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.

«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon&rclimate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon&rClimate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].

On the green view, this creates a tension between human needs and wants and the need for political leaders to address the urgent problem of a changing climate.