Sentences with phrase «obfuscated science»

Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and obfuscated science in the climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come from folks on all sides of this issue at one point or another).

Exxon officials have consistently denied the company tried to obfuscate the science of climate change.

I suppose that it really does show up the difference between attempting to properly communicate the science to the public, and attempting to obfuscate the science.

Industry's job is to get us there, not obfuscate the science or lobby against the policy.

Not exact matches

They just realize that they have to obfuscate their religious leanings if they have any hope of wedging themselves into Science curriculum.

Such claims are an obfuscating amalgam of theory and conjecture, reality and fantasy, nonfiction and science fiction.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

Furthermore, real science and real scientists are transparent and answer the question when asked, they don't obfuscate the issue.

We do not include mainstream journalist pieces that are occasionally mistaken or somewhat sensationalist (see the main website for that kind of commentary), but we do include the op - ed pieces that are specifically designed to confuse, obfuscate and abuse the science.

The techniques used by the tobacco industry to confuse public debate about tobacco science, well - documented in the materials analyzed by Ong and Glantz, closely resemble methods used by some of the people working to obfuscate climate science.

They take every opportunity to obfuscate the issue with comments like the scientists are wrong, it's all a hoax, when they've heard from a friend of a friend of a friend whose brother flunked statistics, never took science, but works for an oil company and has his own blog, that it is so.

All your lying and handwaving is only to obfuscate that you can't support your climate cult beliefs with empirical data and science.

Dr. Lindzen and others acknowledge it, Dr. Curry obfuscates the entire motive of AGW agenda science with such narratives.

Holdren calls the proposal a «perversity» of the original intent leading to a «kangaroo court» for ulterior - motivated stone - throwers intent on obfuscating consensus science regarding the serious threat climate change poses.

In the case of AGW the debate can't be advanced while trying to obfuscate the very specific ideology of the advocates themselves at the highest ranks of science communities.

So it's all about intentions obfuscated by phony technical debates that large numbers of the public accept as validating a partisan science consensus.

Unfortunately one can not «prove» anything in science, but one can obfuscate, hype uncertainty and misinform.

What more perfect classroom is there for tutoring the intelligent layman to be skeptical of the «known laws of science» than the stream of stupidity wrapped in obfuscating words than the hockey stick of Mann and the screaming doom from Hansem's mouth?

«It is my experience which guides my firm support of the proposition that skeptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right... They do not, as some improperly suggest, «obfuscate» the issue: They assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the «consensus» argument, and they compel necessary corrections,» he said.

It's generally positive what Dr. Curry states but she refuses to connect the obvious political I.D. of the warming activist culture and by doing so obfuscates what any logical observer can admit; AGW belief and culture, green and greenshirt alike, is based on political inclination and desire not «science».

And it's even worse for science if he has understood but he deliberately tries to obfuscate his understanding.

«I am concerned that the central functions of the Agency have been obfuscated by ideology, frustrated by a severe lack of transparency, undermined by science the Agency keeps hidden, and implemented without regard for economic consequences,» Vitter said.

If they are still obfuscating the central political purpose of climate agenda science through abstraction they are still serving a purpose to that agenda.

In their responses, they throw much in the way to obfuscate the reality that Gummer's predictions were barely grounded even on computer modelling, and were far from uncontroversial, even within consensus climate science.

A key issue in PNS is to distinguish carefully between authentic extended peer networks (and their proper domain of action) and efforts to obfuscate and attack science, sponsored by hidden corporate and political interests.

Course readings will focus on the question of «authority» in the field of climate science, exploring «climate research, popular environmentalist texts, and industry campaigns aimed at obfuscating evidence of ecological collapse.»