NB: This mongraph is 224 pages and is
not about climate science.
This book is
not about climate science.
It's
not about climate science, nor Saving the Earth from «carbon emissions» of fossil fuels.
I note that this paper is
NOT about climate science.
As you might of noticed, unless you just made the classic mistake of not reading the article, Ben's blog is about the politics of those who talk of climate science (sometimes they are «climate scientists»),
not about climate science.
And Climategate was
not about climate science per se, but about the corruption of it in the service of a politics agenda.
There is a lesson here about media hyping a pseudo-issue but
not about climate science suddenly needing to be rewritten.
It is
not about climate science as such, it is about physics.
if you think it isn't all about climate science.
The content of WGI's SPM is mostly «scientific» insofar as it purports to examine the «physical science basis», and this blog isn't about climate science as such.
It wasn't about climate science.»
Gyptis, this blog isn't about climate science — there are plenty of other blogs for that.
The issue isn't about Climate Science from the general publics perspective in the US, the issue is about waste and inadequate thinking.
Not exact matches
As someone working somewhere in the midst of that nexus of «
science, values, ethics and politics» you describe (economics, international relations, technology... the
climate policy list goes on), I do recognise what you're talking
about, but I really don't see that we should very much care.
The format of the initiatives meant that they
not only learnt
about the
science of environmental problems such as
climate change, but were also engaged in considering solutions and how to bring them
about, both in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.
The letter, which included a statement on
climate science by the leaders of 18 scientific societies, stated, «Although debate
about policy options exists,
climate change is
not a scientifically - controversial topic.»
«People have thought
about how forest loss matters for an ecosystem, and maybe for local temperatures, but they haven't thought
about how that interacts with the global
climate,» said co-author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric
sciences and of biology.
She became almost evangelical
about climate change — something she had previously described as «
not an exact
science» — and implored her counterparts in the other river states to plan for the threat it posed to Southwestern cities.
Concerns
about peat fires worsening
climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire
Science who was
not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.
Schultz, a professor of synoptic meteorology, and co-author Dr Vladimir Janković, a
science historian specialising in weather and
climate, say the short - term, large variability from year to year in high - impact weather makes it difficult, if
not impossible, to draw conclusions
about the correlation to longer - term
climate change.
«We're
not spending money on that anymore,» Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney recently told reporters
about climate science.
«Environmental
science,
climate change, feeding the poor, global health — those are all issues that diplomats didn't worry
about 20 years ago.
Although the amendments may elicit politically tantalizing information
about lawmakers» views on
climate science, they don't address the underlying questions
about the pipeline: Will the project contribute greatly to the warming problem?
«We can't run away from this issue,» argued Senator Bernard Sanders (D - VT), who also tried to systematically challenge Inhofe's doubts
about climate science.
And there was this great, it was my favorite moment of the weekend and it was this very dramatic moment, when basically Emanuel was complaining a little bit, very politely, and smiling
about the fact that journalists still are doing stories
about, you know, the debate around
climate science, but there's
not really, of course, there's
not a debate, there's consensus that anthropogenic global warming is happening and that, why are you still doing these stories, asking questions?
Obviously, people like Michael Mann are offended by what I'm saying [
about the shortcomings of
climate science], and I have received an e-mail from one of the people involved in the East Anglia e-mails who's
not happy with what I'm doing.
Solutions: Smart talking and media mastery Surveys show that most people want more information
about climate science, Schmidt said, so scientists should engage in public forums such as blogs, question - and - answer sessions and public talks, provided they are
not simply stacked with angry debaters.
The reason that Keystone got so much attention is
not because that particular pipeline is a make - or - break issue for
climate change, but because those who have looked at the
science of
climate change are scared and concerned
about a general lack of sufficient movement to deal with the problem.
«If you haven't had proximity to these glaciers, if you haven't thought
about where water comes from, it would be easy to understate or underestimate the implications of glacial ice loss in a state that has predominantly a semi-desert
climate and certainly by contemporary
climate models is going to be pretty significantly impacted by
climate change,» said Jacki Klancher, a professor of environmental
science at Central Wyoming College.
(The full Statement of Task appears in Appendix A.) Normally, a technical issue such as surface temperature reconstructions might
not generate widespread attention, but this case brings interesting lessons
about how
science works and how
science, especially
climate science, is communicated to policy makers and the public.
«If you know carbon dioxide is a «greenhouse gas» but think it kills the things that live in greenhouses,» Kahan said, «then it's safe to say you don't know much
about climate science.»
It marks the world's acceptance that
climate change, driven by humans» greenhouse gas emissions, is
about as close to a certainty as
science can ever get — and that conclusion can
not be covered up or waved away.
In fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up
about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles
about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of
climate science) rather than the most prominent
climate websites.
«Misconceptions
about climate science are rife with those who confuse weather with
climate... the presence of large El Nià ± o events before 1850 AD does
not mean that
climate change has no effect.»
The Copenhagen Diagnosis is
about climate change
science,
not policy.
Students watched An Inconvenient Truth — former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's documentary
about global warming — and studied the
science behind
climate change (including arguments that it is
not a crisis humans caused).
This article and the paper says a lot but
not a word
about climate science or how to improve the world and focus on sustaining life.
Climate Scientists are
not in fact responsible for what is done
about their
Science.
The public can't be expected to turn to the scientific literature for an educated referee
about such a technically complex issue as
climate science.
It's probably conservatives trying to seize the attack ground in view of a possible pending debate
about climate change in Washington, but the chorus of denialist opinion is so coordinated and their «logic» so simple it is convincing many, even among educated people (
science PhDs) who can
not be bothered to look deep into things but try to form an opinion based on a few journalistic pieces.
Having taken us to task for somehow
not properly handling the uncertainties in
climate science — an error we did
not commit, as I document above — he then proceeds to offer a horrifically misleading summary of what the IPCC actually found
about the achievability and cost of meeting the 2 degree goal.
As I've reminded Mr. Roger, this discussion is
not about me, but
about the actual
science of
climate change.
I suppose in the abstract this would be dull as doornails if
not unhelpful, and so probably it's best to explain it with examples and in the context of
climate modeling, but I wanted to describe it in the abstract, just because I think what keeps a lot of people from appreciating
climate science (or even why it's hard to appreciate) has to do with very basic ideas
about not just «the scientific process» but with the narrower or perhaps more easily describable process of modeling.
In light of the hard - won scientific consensus developed by the IPCC, has the time
not yet come to «center» our discussion on what we know of
climate change, based upon good
science, and talk
about what we are going to do in order to address the human - driven predicament in which humanity finds itself in these early years of Century XXI?
And we don't see a dishonest, intentional effort to hoodwink the populace
about the danger of earthquakes, etc, as we do with
climate science.
How
about this observation: PhDs in
science, and working
climate scientist here on RC either do
not know about it either and / or if they do know they DO NOT report / comment ACCURATELY nor FULLY on what Hansen (and the dozens of his co-author climate scientists) have been saying for YEARS NOW in his published peer - reviewed pape
not know
about it either and / or if they do know they DO
NOT report / comment ACCURATELY nor FULLY on what Hansen (and the dozens of his co-author climate scientists) have been saying for YEARS NOW in his published peer - reviewed pape
NOT report / comment ACCURATELY nor FULLY on what Hansen (and the dozens of his co-author
climate scientists) have been saying for YEARS NOW in his published peer - reviewed papers?
If different groups of scientists have a public bet running on this, this will signal to the public that this forecast is
not a widely supported consensus of the
climate science community, in contrast to the IPCC reports (
about which we are in complete agreement with Keenlyside and his colleagues).
Frankness
about the uncertainties won't please the headline writers, but is essential to the credibility of
climate science.
If the many queries I have asked recently, but especially this one
about 27,000 workers in the field of
climate science is
not appropriate for posting to RC as a question and a request for help, then I honestly do
not know what would be.
I am
not specifically talking
about climate / weather, just
science.»