Sentences with phrase «leading skeptics on»

Instead, ExxonMobil diverts corporate resources to support the work of some of the nation's leading skeptics on climate change, who claim that fears of global warming are overblown.

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No less a skeptic than Jamie Dimon has led his firm to spend money on blockchain - related projects.

The Trump administration plans to withdraw its nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change skeptic, to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House official said.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

Doubting or rejecting the science on climate change no longer makes someone a «skeptic» or «denier» in the views of a leading news organization.

For a few minutes it looked like a détente had been reached between John Holdren, the president's science advisor, and Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA), the leading climate skeptic on the House of Representatives science committee.

, a leading climate skeptic who opposes restrictions on carbon pollution, argued that the administration could harm the U.S. economy by enacting new regulations particularly given the skyrocketing emissions of China and India, Kerry was quick with a challenge.

Soon is a leading skeptic of the widely accepted science surrounding climate change, In the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the change.

Based on Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman's Olivier - nominated play (which has caused audiences from London, Sydney, Moscow and more to sleep with the light on), the big - screen frightfest will see Nyman return in the lead as spectral skeptic Professor Goodman.

In reporting on the value - added approach, The Times interviewed a dozen leading experts and reviewed more than two dozen research and policy papers from proponents and skeptics.

The fact that hurricane events are relatively rare leads to a limitation in the amount of data available — fewer events, and that's why the «skeptics» have to rely on statistical rather then mechanical arguments (notice also that the media seems to avoid any mention of the fact that hurricanes operate as «heat engines»).

Some leading lights in environmental science have been pushing their colleagues, and institutions like the National Academies, to come out swinging against the ongoing barrage of assaults from organized opponents of restrictions on greenhouse gases and climate skeptics / contrarians / denialists / realists (pick your label depending on your worldview).

I've seen skeptics both on and off the blogs make some pretty ridiculous statements as well, but that doesn't lead me to believe anyone questioning the IPCC does so out of fear of a One World Government.

However, he completed the transformation from an environmental outlier advocating on behalf of free trade, deregulation, and the privatization of our natural resources, to an outright pariah due to the release of his 2008 book The Deniers, which established him as one of the world's leading climate change skeptics.

Then they tried to tie prominent skeptics with evil «fossil» industry funding, launching PR attacks on the scientific integrity of leading skeptics and closing down access to peer reviewed journals.

In fact, if I could find the time, I would like to follow Pat Frank's lead and write an article for Skeptic on this very topic.

«The language of denial: Text analysis reveals differences in language use between climate change proponents and skeptics» «Comment on «Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster» by J. A. Curry and P. J. Webster» «Guidance note for lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on consistent treatment of uncertainties»

But the accumulation of evidence led to a near - total scientific consensus, [3][4] making the word «skeptic» a misnomer and «a black eye on true skeptics».

Singer, a leading scientific skeptic of anthropocentric global warming (AGW), is an atmospheric physicist, and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), an organization that began challenging the published findings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s.

Military leaders are scientists and scholars: General H.R. McMaster's PhD thesis Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam is a sterling example of historical scholarship, and in the scientific sphere, US Navy researchers publish copiously on climate - change (the US Navy Chief Oceanographer David Titley's lecture I Was Formerly a Climate Skeptic is a particularly accessible presentation).

But her overall situation worsens through an apparent inability to keep her stories straight on what led her to discover skeptic climate scientists were «industry - corrupted.»

On September 1, 2015, Jagadish Shukla, president of the tax - exempt Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), who is also a climate professor at George Mason University, led a group of 20 academics calling for RICO action against all climate skeptics, their organizations and fossil fuel companies.

* The skeptics were handed a propaganda gift when a leading scientist and chairman of the AGU's task force on ethics admitted to lying for political purposes.

What I found in late 2009 almost always led me to myriad praise of Gelbspan as the discoverer of leaked industry memos containing the awkward «strategy» phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which proved skeptic climate scientists were on the payroll of «Big Coal & Oil.»

Was he little more than a theatrical device to give her the appearance of «accidentally connecting the dots» on who Dr Singer was, much the way Ross Gelbspan's invitation to co-author a newspaper article supposedly led him to accidentally discover the «industry corruption» of skeptic climate scientists?

Jim D goes off to fantasy land... @Jim D July 26, 2015 at 6:24 pm The difference is, if Wadhams was on the skeptic side he would have a lead post on WUWT by now and everyone there would be nodding along.

«Similarly, his Climate Change Secretariat would not allow Kyoto science skeptics such as Professor Tim Patterson, a leading paleo - climatoligist, into the Kyoto public consultations sessions held in June... How can we possibly make good decisions on Kyoto when the Minister of the Environment hides the full scope of the climate change debate from Canadians?»

The center's founder - director, Jerry Taylor, was an energy policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where he helped forge Cato's unflinching climate denialism («I used to write skeptic talking points for a living,» he said in an April 2017 interview) until an immersion in climate science led him to a change of heart and a 180 - degree turnaround on climate.

And, of course, an article on a leading skeptic would not be complete without this:

Instead of publicly expressing their views, a group of parliamentarians said skeptics should parrot the imploding official narrative: The notion that global warming, which even leading alarmists admit has been on «pause» for 17 years in defiance of every UN climate model, is caused by human activities and requires planetary carbon taxes and more government control.

Building on the principles of collaboration called for by ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin, CME Group's blockchain lead Sandra Ro acknowledged skeptics of the consortia model, saying that a rotating board was specifically designed to minimize a single member's influence, while a tech - focused sub committee would help drive innovation.