Against this,
global warming deniers such as yourselves have, predictably, seized upon the recent cold snap in Europe, which is said to be the coldest in 10 or 20 years (or in the case of the Czech Republic, since 1940), to convince the rest of us that all is well, after all.
Not exact matches
The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by
such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change -
denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that
global warming science is «not settled.»
Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not believing in
global warming, but when faced by
such an overwhelming majority of scientist who believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to
deny it.
So I take it that the consensus view is that according to our best current scientific understanding, there is no possibility whatsoever of any catastrophic consequences of anthropogenic
global warming; therefore to use the word «catastrophic» is irresponsible alarmism;, and therefore the
deniers are actually quite right to accuse anyone who suggests that
such outcomes are possible of being an irresponsible alarmist.
My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks,
such as those by
global warming deniers.
And if Skolnick is accurate in his claim that «Pete Ridley is a
global warming denier who argues that the «
global warming hoax» is being perpetrated by the International Jewish Banking conspiracy led by the Rothschilds», then you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself... however politically charged this issue,
such anti-Semite views are disgusting.
Organisations who
deny or reject current science on human - caused climate change,
such as the
Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK and the Heartland Institute in the US, have published critical reports, and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the consensus research on Capitol Hill.
CLIMATE change alarmists conveniently «
deny» the existence of the 1970's «
global cooling» scare because
such panic, a mere 40 years ago, threatens the legitimacy of the current «
global warming» scare.
«It looks like it is «open season» on anyone who deviates even slightly from the consensus,» Curry says of the
global warming jihad, noting that an explicit call to wage
such a war against «
deniers» can be found, not coincidentally, at barackobama.com.
Even before Indiana's top enforcer of federal and state environmental regulations was advising coal companies on how to continuing polluting our air and water, it appears that denial of basic climate science is the state's official position on
global warming — Indiana's 2011 «State of the Environment» report rehashes tired climate
denier arguments
such as
global temperature records having «no appreciable change since about 1998.»
The 94 year - old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self - regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of
global warming in his past book, that «it's just as silly to be a [climate]
denier as it is to be a believer» and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources
such as windfarms.
In my mind, there are pervasive forms of denial common amongst
such groups that almost approach the level of dangerous attitude as in those who
deny global warming;
The #ExxonKnew campaign has gained enormous traction in the public mind and many want to know why the corporation started out as
such an honest broker in the 1970s, conducting its own climate science research, and then doing an about - face in the 1980s, blatantly
denying the reality of
global warming and working with other groups to manipulate public opinion so as to thwart a rational public response.
Cohen tries to explain this away by arguing that Exxon only funded
such groups because they were against the Kyoto Protocol (which it still firmly rejects) and not because they vehemently
denied the existence of
global warming.
Such is the message of Climate Cover - Up: The Crusade To
Deny Global Warming, just published by Greystone Books.
After
denying there was any
such thing for its first decade or so, the Big Climate enforcers now concede that there has, indeed, been a 17 year «pause» in
global warming.