Sentences with phrase «have an opinion on climate»

I have no opinion on climate change, formerly global warming, because I don't have time, much less the ability, to master the subject.

He has opinions on climate change, but it is a long time since he has put forth any valid scientific argument on the subject.

I have an opinion on climate change, and yes it is a black and white opinion, because I am human and because that is our nature.

Now, you have to be qualified to have an opinion on climate change.

Not exact matches

Schmidt went on to discuss fields that show promise for innovation, from lab - grown beef to replace climate - unfriendly cow's meat to self - driving cars, which, in Schmidt's opinion, have been in development for far too long.

In other words, the authorities are already aware that the principled grounds of their restrictions have been compromised by the changes in the climate of opinion that have swept away the moral inhibitions on couples living together outside of marriage.

As regards the dominant climate of philosophical opinion, however, despite all the disclaimers that have been made concerning classical empiricism and positivism, the old dichotomy between a domain of sensible fact on the one hand, and sets of logical forms on the other, seems to persist and behind it the old dogma that where we have necessity we have merely tautology, and where we have fact or «experience» there is no necessity.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

Having a certain opinion on climate change signals solidarity with political compatriots, regardless of someone's familiarity with the scientific method, he said.

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

His work has shown that people's cultural identity, not their knowledge of science, drives their opinion on climate change.

«Until now, most people just assumed climate change deniers were having an influence on public opinion.

The questionnaire asks about how IPCC has gone about its business since its inception in 1988, how it has handled the range of scientific opinions on climate change, how it responds to criticism and errors, and how it deals with governments and the media.

'' [Weber and Curry] may have different views on climate change, but I think that's a strength of our department that we can have academic freedom and host faculty members with different opinions about subjects,» Huey said.

Similarly, by opening such data, scientists and journalists could report on original climate change figures, unfiltered by pundits who have preconceived opinions.

We propose to use our poster presentation to survey the attendees of the Fourth Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change and to determine how expert opinion has changed in the last 40 years.

I would be interested in your opinion on the relative contribution to climate change made by: a) carbon emissions from aviation and b) methane emissions from livestock.

(as a disclaimer, although I work on the cp.net project and am named on the Stainforth et al paper; I was not employed nor around at the time of the press release in question (not that they would have cared for my opinion anyway, as I'm a computer geek and not a climate scientist; --RRB-

I Always find dressing easy on a holiday, you just put it on and «tadaa» you outfit is finished (topped of with some sandals and accesoiries of course) The best part about this dress in my opinion is that it's a) made out of cotton (eazy breezy for the humid Asian climate), b) has longer sleeves (so the shoulders are covered from the sun) and c) the loose fit was so comfortable while traveling:) What do you think of this dress?

She had never been that interested or engaged in the issues surrounding sustainability and climate change - mainly, she says, due to a lack of knowledge: «I didn't really know what was going on so you can't have an opinion on it.»

Now that each of the big three labels have their own motion - sensing control schemes to get behind, opinions have been pouring in from all parts of the industry and all points of view on the current controller climate.

Depending on the political climate and nature of the conflict that caused displacement, the American public has varied opinions on whether or not the U.S. should accept refugees.

I have read a tremendous amount of opinions on all of these type of sites, and I have yet to have one person explain the changes in the earths climate (not Weather) when there was no humans much less industrialized nations as we have now.

Not one single, solitary scientific professional or honorific science organization has dissented from the consensus opinion on climate change.

As you don't include the economics of climate change on your site, I think we can leave it at that difference of opinion without having to sling insults suggesting lower motives.

«This is not a technical book on climate change, as others have said, however if you want your opinion on the AGW debate to be an informed one or are interested in the political forces even now shaping the future global climate, this is essential reading.»

For Authoritarian individuals, the «Socratic Method» is pointless; we have lots of recent studies that show stated opinions on climate change are correlated primarily with political (tribal) identification.

I have to wonder — and I would like to solicit opinions on this from the RC scientists who initiate the posts — why Michael Mann's «Hockey Stick» and he himself are always such scapegoats when these people launch yet another propoganda crusade against actions to counter destructive climate change.

However, I also feel that the conference and particularly the grand after - conference plans may have a significant impact on public perceptions (reinforcing Americans» uniqueness in terms of climate change beliefs and opinions) and that in turn can provide political cover for politicians reluctant to support tough measures.

When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.

I have not fully expounded my personal skeptic's opinions on the unaddressed problems with climate / earth system computer models.

[Update: The Times polling unit does not have confidence in the automated polling methods used by Rasmussen Reports; A couple of independent experts tracking public opinion on climate said other indicators mesh with the finding above.]

You may be of the opinion that all climate science is merely being done to further our own personal interests and therefore nothing that is said by any of us can be trusted --(though if that were the case, I'd be writing studies on how short, balding, rotund scientists are really the best lovers).

Non-scientists have a right to an opinion on climate change, and policymakers have a right to listen to them.

If I were the Times, on this particular issue (global climate change), I would not be waiting to receive letters, opinion pieces, and articles from those folks.

In the PEN / TWUC release, Charlie Foran, President of PEN Canada said, «The government of Canada has no right to determine what is an acceptable opinion for an individual citizen, on climate change or any matter of public interest.

I certainly have an opinion that climate is chaotic and unpredictable on sufficiently long time scales.

I had also submitted an abstract with Stephen Lewandowsky and James Risbey called «Bets reveal people's opinions on climate change and illustrate the statistics of climate change,» and a companion poster entitled «Forty years of expert opinion on global warming: 1977 - 2017» in which we proposed to survey the conference attendees:

In this case, the committee might have discovered more than a few papers by one of them on the subject, such as Risbey and Kandlikar (2002) «Expert Assessment of Uncertainties in Detection and Attribution of Climate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the confeClimate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the confeclimate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conference).

It is my view that if the Climate Scientists as a whole do not start cutting through to the general public now and have an immediate impact upon Public Opinion across the board, you may as well all go find a job cleaning Shopping Malls for the good your science work will have on anything or anyone.

We propose to use our poster presentation to survey the attendees of the Fourth Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change and to determine how expert opinion has changed in the last 40 years.

Because I write the «Science and the Media» column for Physics Today Online (though I'm speaking only for myself in these RC comments), and because I've always thought that the Wall Street Journal's climate editorials and commentaries merit particular attention precisely because of that paper's influential audience, I've actually done at least four PTOL media reports so far this year on the recent WSJ opinion skirmishes that you mention.

I had attempted a similar project at the 3rd conference with my poster «Comparison of Climate Forecasts: Expert Opinions vs. Prediction Markets» in which my abstract proposed the following: «As an experiment, we will ask participants to go on the record with estimates of probability that the global temperature anomaly for calendar year 2012 will be equal to or greater than x, where x ranges in increments of 0.05 °C from 0.30 to 1.10 °C (relative to the 1951 - 1980 base period, and published by NASA GISS).»

Many indigenous territories have tremendous wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources, and there are varying opinions as to whether energy - related climate change mitigation activities are having a positive or negative impact on local and indigenous communities.

It is possible, therefore, that the effects of recent accelerations in climate change have not yet started to have a significant contribution to or impact on current sea levels; but based on international scientific opinion, it is more a case of when, rather than if.

The only scientist found to have written an opinion piece on global warming for the Wall Street Journal is climate - change skeptic Fred Singer.

People who disagree with my work have told me so in forums (you can consider this also as peer review) and I have evolved my opinion eg on climate sensitivity.

The Wall Street Journal's most intense scrutiny can be found on the op - ed page, where dozens of editorials and opinion pieces have pilloried the scientists and the science of climate change.

Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.

You are entitled to your opinion of whether this fact is significant, but I intend to express it any chance I get, so why don't you refrain from comment unless you can explain why this amount of heat has no effect on climate.