Sentences with phrase «global warming fears in»

MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen mocked man - made global warming fears in a July 2, 2009 radio interview on WRKO's Howie Carr program.

«Climate fear promoters switched effortlessly from global cooling fears in the 1970s to global warming fears in the 1980s.

Not exact matches

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..

A cryptic chemical weather log kept by Tarawa Atoll's stony coral in the tropical Pacific archipelago has been cracked, helping scientists explain a century of peaks and troughs in global warming — and inflaming fears that a speedup will follow the recent slowdown.

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.

The implicit assumption here is that the problem will turn out to be less serious than the models predict; thus, any carbon we have chosen to leave in the ground out of fear for the consequences of global warming will have gone uncombusted for nothing.

In a world where we all feel more threatened than we ever have by myriad forces beyond our control, from global warming to spying governments, it is comforting perhaps to see the personification of these fears in creatures that also can not be stoppeIn a world where we all feel more threatened than we ever have by myriad forces beyond our control, from global warming to spying governments, it is comforting perhaps to see the personification of these fears in creatures that also can not be stoppein creatures that also can not be stopped.

In episode 113, the first season finale, Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a close look at Greenpeace's activities.

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?

Many parents have long objected to what is being taught in schools — from belief in an anthropogenic global warming catastrophe to banning acknowledgment of American exceptionalism — but fearing the power of teachers to hurt their children's futures, parents keep their mouths shut.

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.

The fear that civilization could collapse in some kind of armageddon has increased in the last 15 years, be it with September 2001, global warming, avian flu scares, and more recently Ebola.

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 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.

Anyone interested in the present and recent RealClimate postings will likely want to visit the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com today, where there's a link to an op - ed by MIT's Richard Lindzen that's headlined this way: «FREE INQUIRY: Climate of Fear: Global - warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.»

The visuals are great, but I fear that it's just more hype for business purposes (PR) rather than doing any serious damage in the fight against global warming.

Here in part one, I offer an update on events related to a news release * issued last week by the Research Council of Norway with this provocative title: «Global warming less extreme than feared?»

Having lived «close to nature» most of my life I have come to understand that at any given time nature can kill me in an instant, I do not need environmental Ice Age / Global Warming fears to instill such knowledge.

In today's fear about global warming, it is criminal for the NY Times to use this graph to suggest the years 2007 and 2008 indicate a definite and prolonged warming trend.

There is just no incentive in the scientific community to kill the remarkably fertile global warming goose, a beast that feeds on public fears.»

Michael Crichton did not convince me of the premise that man - made Global Warming is a myth perpetuated by environmental Gods determined to control our «vision of the world», it was hysterical environmentalists themselves who convinced me to question their motivations and facts when I discovered after twenty years of fear - mongering that our world was not going to perish in an Ice Age.

Umm... there is, in fact, a vast preponderance of evidence indicating CO2 contributes substantially to global warming, and there is almost universal consensus on ths among those with relevant education (and those willingness to reconsider personal dogmas based on fear when confronted with undeniable evidence).

Crichton stirred the climate debate with a 2004 novel, State of Fear, in which the bad guys were radical environmentalists trying to scare the world about global warming in order to line their pockets.

The fear is that this could lead to a vicious spiral - fewer trees to soak up CO2 means more global warming gases in the air, which means higher temperatures and therefore fewer trees.

But the report, signed by Kevin H. Winters, assistant inspector general for investigations, criticized what it said was a sustained pattern of activities, largely supervised by senior political appointees, that included muting or withholding news releases on global warming and, at least in Dr. Hansen's case, limiting a scientist's interactions with reporters for fear that he might stray into discussing policies at odds with those of the White House.

Its time for the media to stop using the fear factor to engage the public in taking on global warming and start writing about the positive, exciting, financially beneficial future we can create.

For most recent sampling see: New Peer - Reviewed Study finds «Solar changes significantly alter climate» (11-3-07)(LINK) & «New Peer - Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 — 2002» (LINK) & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period «0.3 C Warmer than 20th Century» (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer - reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see «New Peer - Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears» LINK]

People hear from the people who are fully vested in the position of making a bundle off of this fear based Global Warming Situation and they take it at face value that what has been presented is paramount to anything else heard from anyone else closing themselves off to any other logical point of view.

I believe that any effort to refute global warming based on observations, will fail, in light of fear of the potential.

Ironically, during the 1970s while some (including NASA's James Hansen) were hysterically promoting the schizoid fears of a new ice age hitting the world in a few decades, a new frenzy over Global Warming and Climate Change was just beginning at Scripps Ocenaographic Institute in San Diego, CA.

The implicit assumption here is that the problem will turn out to be less serious than the models predict; thus, any carbon we have chosen to leave in the ground out of fear for the consequences of global warming will have gone uncombusted for nothing.

So we should welcome gradual warming and fear large decreases in global temperatures.

Climate change skeptics, most of whom are not scientists, are touting the study, saying it blasts gaping holes in global warming theory and shows that future warming will be less than feared.

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These fears recall the resignation of Christopher Landsea from the IPCC after its panel chair reported in a 2005 news conference that global warming was a factor in the severe 2004 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean.

You thought you are the only one in the league of those who fear global warming and hate the heat... well it's the poor cows now who are by your side!

Climate change, global warming and the justifiable jitters that come with a fear of an environmental apocalypse are scoffed at by many in the current administration in Washington.

And we also have an essay from Kenneth Haapala, «A Short History of Global Warming Fears,» that explains how present worries over warming stem from an educated guess in the 1970s, leading to projections of climate change that have failed to be borne out by the evWarming Fears,» that explains how present worries over warming stem from an educated guess in the 1970s, leading to projections of climate change that have failed to be borne out by the evwarming stem from an educated guess in the 1970s, leading to projections of climate change that have failed to be borne out by the evidence.

In May, global warming, species extinction, and growing fears of peaking global oil production all combined to make the Arctic a focus of world attention.

The word itself - global warming - has the ability to strike fear in many.

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It will be a compelling battle to try and replace the mother of all eco-scares — man - made global warming — but Climate Depot is confident that one of these test - marketed new eco-issues will catch on and you may soon see massive denials from environmentalists and UN officials that claims of a man - made global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc global warming — but Climate Depot is confident that one of these test - marketed new eco-issues will catch on and you may soon see massive denials from environmentalists and UN officials that claims of a man - made global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marcwarming — but Climate Depot is confident that one of these test - marketed new eco-issues will catch on and you may soon see massive denials from environmentalists and UN officials that claims of a man - made global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marcwarming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By MarcWarming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By MarcWarming Consensus — By Marc Morano

«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.

Oct 2009: Losing Their Religion: 2009 officially declared year the media lost their faith in man - made global warming fears

«Could turn the climate change world upside down» The rise in skeptical scientists are responding not only to an increase in dire «predictions» of climate change, but also a steady stream of peer - reviewed studies, analyses, real world data, and inconvenient developments have further cast doubts on the claims of man - made global warming fear activists.

It is a convenient truth that promoting the idea that Americans caused global warming has been very lucrative for many over the years who have been involved in the fear business.

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.

According to the group's founding statement, «Global warming has occurred naturally many times in the past and is not to be feared — it is not controlled by carbon dioxide or humans.»

Climate alarmists will frequently default to the «extreme weather» narrative in order to deceptively promote the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) narrative by instilling fear, doom and gloom directly into the human psyche.