Sentences with phrase «global warming fears as»

For rational public policy to triumph in spite of the powerful obstacles we face will require that the vast majority of the public and opinion leaders from across the political spectrum come to regard man - made global warming fears as unfounded and regularly say that it is unfounded.

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Seeking to cloak their fear of reprisals for naming real root causes, progressives trumpet phony diversions depicted as earth shattering crises (namely, global warming), missile defense, homophobia, protecting our borders, the religious right, abstinence education, prayer in schools, animal rights, biblical creation, etc..

Despite the «science is settled» and «consensus» claims of the global - warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science as by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.

it's gotten China — feared as the next big contributor to global warming — to cut agreement directly with California to continue with the paris agreement:

«I am sure that those global leaders were driven by a primitive fear that the present ambient warm weather is somehow caused by humanity; and that fear — as far as I understand the science — is equally without foundation,» he said.

Still another impediment has been fear that the initiative's «avoided emissions» strategy would lead to similar plans being considered as part of future global warming / climate change treaty negotiations.

But most of what they are doing is not visible, because it is rooted in local concerns, such as urban air pollution, rather than fear of global warming.

Scientists have long feared that as the world gets warmer, thawing permafrost may lead to a significant effect on global warming.

It's a dilemma facing a growing number of teachers as they tackle the subject of global warming in the classroom: How do you make students understand the urgency of the issue without paralyzing them with fear?

In other words, fearing high gasoline prices, tight energy supplies and global warming, a significant number of people have an unsavory opinion of big sport - utilities, such as the Ford Expedition and Chevrolet Suburban.

It is impossible to stay indifferent to such a global problem as global warming, that is why you have to write a persuasive essay global warming, which will be able to present your own fears and worries at the subject, if you have some, of course.

I think the best explanation as to why the «politics of fear» isn't working is simply because nobody has taken the time to map out and publicize the worst case scenario of global warming (perhaps it would be better put as «global heating»?)

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

The authors of the paper did an honest job of trying to raise some interesting questions about a complex subject, but as a reward, their paper got picked up by the Heartland Institute crowd, who trumpeted it under banners like «Global Warming Fears Melt Away.»

The skeptics» press, especially as echoed in Crichton's State of Fear states that the Kilimanjaro retreat can have nothing to do with anthropogenic global warming, because it began in the 1880's, before any appreciable CO2 response is expected.

QUOTE: «I think the best explanation as to why the «politics of fear» isn't working is simply because nobody has taken the time to map out and publicize the worst case scenario of global warming (perhaps it would be better put as «global heating»?)

As to taking words too literally, consider a newspaper article headlined «Global Warming Fears Up Down Under.»

One has to wonder if Politicians as of late would be concerned about Global Warming as they are if there weren't Big Dollars to be made off of Global Warming fears.

What it really shows is that fear by an ever - growing secular, socialist society of global warming is really a mask to hide society's fear of individualism and the Left's determined effort to limit the freedom of others through the control of factors of production such as energy.

What is most disagreeable to many «resistors» of global warming is the fear of climate change being used as a warrant for heavy - handed government intervention.

Your fear campaign is losing as more and more data shows no global warming for the past 17 years, and that the global warming the earth is encountering is a normal cycle that occurs every 100,000 years.

One of the most feared of all model - based projections of CO2 - induced global warming is that temperatures will rise to such a degree as to cause a disastrous melting / destabilization of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), which melting is subsequently projected to raise global sea level by several meters.

«I've seen Al Gore's film twice, but I've also read Michael Crichton's State of Fear, which makes a compelling case on the other side,» says Hug, referring to the controversial 2004 novel in which Crichton — using scientific arguments that were hotly challenged by critics — ridiculed the global - warming consensus as the work of conspiratorial alarmists.

As man - made global warming fears enter the ashbin of history, what will environmentalists, UN activists and politicians do to fill the void of a failed eco-scare?

Given that it was the IPCC that helped to make such a lot of noise about it as «proof» of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming and he is a such a prime mover in that body, I fear he doth protest too much.....

B] my comment above is THE most important comment in the climate changing confused as GLOBAL warmings GLOBAL coolings lunacy — You not being able to understand / appreciate it === asking question, but not reading the answer = is exposing your low intelligence and fear from real proofs.

As a scientist and life - long liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear mongering clap - trap about human - caused global warming (the Levi, Borgerson article of 9/24/08) to be a disservice to science, to your readers, and to the quality of the political dialogue leading up to the election.

«My fear is that red team will have this tinge of «Oh, there is no such thing as global warming; there is no such thing as carbon dioxide greenhouse gas effect.»

So true... Fear of global warming has been great for academia and the Left from the beginning because it, «makes industry and capitalism look bad while affording endless visuals of animals and third - world humans suffering at the hands of wealthy Westerners,» as Van Dyke noticed, plus: «Best of all, being driven by junk - science that easily metamorphoses as required, it appeared to be endlessly self - sustaining.»

I firmly believe that when the history of our era is written, future generations will look back with puzzlement and wonder why we spent so much time and effort on global warming fears and pointless solutions, such as the Kyoto Protocol.»

As NRDC's Noah Long and Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Angus Duncan describe, what happened next isn't what Oregon's PUC fears.

As an example of an objective engineer's presentation of global warming data, and a typical engineer's reaction to it without panic or fear mongering, I recommend Burt Rutan's global temperature presentation, what we should be doing now in the face of this evidence, and critique of biased data presenters at: http://rps3.com/Files/AGW/EngrCritique.AGW-Science.v4.pdf

The White House and their eco-allies fear that expanding use of natural gas, in particular, will exacerbate global warming as methane is more than 80 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

He preferred «State of Fear» by sci - fi author Michael Crichton («Jurassic Park»), which portrays global warming as a hoax.

It is claimed that problems such as global warming are so important that a campaign of fear is justified.

So, how could it be possibly surprise anyone that superstitious fears about global warming would not be used as a political weapon against America by secular - socialists and the UN?

As we reported here in August of last year («Desperate Dash of Global Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, oGlobal Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, oglobal controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, oglobal warming, warming, or AGW.

As an op - ed piece in the Wall Street journal put it: «For decades — going back to Jimmy Carter — politicians have been peddling an America free of fossil fuels...» President Obama has raised the anti-petroleum ghost to a new level of fear linked to the misguided theory of global warming.

The governor's office has asked Virginia's climatologist to refrain from using his title when conducting non-state business because of fears his views on global warming will be perceived as an official state position.

You can fear global warming and be opposed to Kyoto - style cap - and - trade systems because you think they're too expensive and too ineffective, as Kenneth Green argued yesterday at the skeptics» conference yesterday in explaining why he favored a carbon tax instead.

Today, scientists fear not so much global warming as changes in atmospheric circulation.

But as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical global and regional trends of a climatic shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears of more frequent / larger weather disasters as a result of CO2 or global / regional «warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.

It is quite demonstrable math but mention this on any global warming blog and the inhabitants will exhibit severe agitation and fear and loathing as cognitive dissonance kicks in.

The report includes many other interesting results, including measures of public feelings of anger, fear and hope about global warming and the frames by which Americans conceptualize the issue (e.g., as an environmental, scientific, political, moral, or religious issue).

Children as young as five are now taught to fear global warming in the way their mean uncles once terrified them with tales of ghosts and bogeymen, in days gone past.

It is the temperature downslide I fear as a unconvinced scientist of this «Global Warming» scare.

As a general observation, a 10 % error in some of the figures would more than produce the feared global warming of more than 2 degC per century.

Unhappily, as I discovered during more than two years of research for my book False Alarm: Global Warming — Facts Versus Fears, the 69 per cent have got it right.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

Then, replace «salt» with global warming and fears of too much CO2 as appropriate and you end up with a revealing new and quite readable article about the current climate change debate.