Sentences with phrase «of global warming fears»

The acompanying PR blitz by the usual promoters of global warming fears?

(For more reasons to be cautious about accepting the claims of Global Warming theory, see the nearby «Short History of Global Warming Fears.»)

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 evidence.

One has to wonder if Politicians as of late would be concerned about Global Warming as they are if there weren't Big Dollars to be made off of Global Warming fears.

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..

So secular society is driven by transmuted religious impulses, transmuted sacrificial behaviors, one of which is fear of global warming.

Despite the «science is settled» and «consensus» claims of the global - warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science as by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.

With the current economic crisis, fear of global warming, and failing environment, this year's Buy Nothing Day has a greater sense of urgency.

Amid fears about global warming, terrorism, disease, and nuclear proliferation, the threat of rocks from space may seem more the province of bad Hollywood movies than front - page news.

Lovelock explained that his decision to endorse nuclear power was motivated by his fear of the consequences of global warming and by reports of increasing fossil - fuel emissions that drive the warming.

Still another impediment has been fear that the initiative's «avoided emissions» strategy would lead to similar plans being considered as part of future global warming / climate change treaty negotiations.

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.

WHEN a climate scientist forecasts that global warming will trigger mega-famines, floods of refugees and geopolitical meltdown, we may fear that they have a myopic world view.

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.

He then refers to «Dr. Crichton, a medical doctor and scientist» and his work of fiction «State of Fear», and says this book is «designed to bring some sanity to the global warming debate».

(Gore has also not addressed this: Another Moonwalker Defies Gore: NASA Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin rejects global warming fears: «Climate has been changing for billions of years» — Moonwalkers Defy Gore's Claim That Climate Skeptics Are Akin To Those Who Believe Moon Landing was «Staged»)

Climatologists reporting for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say we are seeing global warming caused by human activities and there are growing fears of feedbacks that will accelerate this warming.

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 stopped.

This movie capitalizes on the fears of global warming.

Throughout Lost Planet 3, there are a number of pretty on - the - nose corollaries drawn between current fears of global warming and fossil fuel consumption and the game's background story of the Earth's slowly collapsing civilization.

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.

It is impossible to stay indifferent to such a global problem as global warming, that is why you have to write a persuasive essay global warming, which will be able to present your own fears and worries at the subject, if you have some, of course.

Watch it once to learn more about the three most feared and respected motorcycle clubs and a second time to read the scrolling news ticker — I knew it was only a matter of time before scientists proved global warming is a liberal hoax!

5 David Deming (2005) «Global Warming, the Politicization of Science, and Michael Crichton's State of Fear.»

I think the best explanation as to why the «politics of fear» isn't working is simply because nobody has taken the time to map out and publicize the worst case scenario of global warming (perhaps it would be better put as «global heating»?)

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 authors of the paper did an honest job of trying to raise some interesting questions about a complex subject, but as a reward, their paper got picked up by the Heartland Institute crowd, who trumpeted it under banners like «Global Warming Fears Melt Away.»

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.

QUOTE: «I think the best explanation as to why the «politics of fear» isn't working is simply because nobody has taken the time to map out and publicize the worst case scenario of global warming (perhaps it would be better put as «global heating»?)

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 global warming alarmists could not pursist without their endless use of fear, scare and dire predictions; most of which are based on faulty computer programs.

The first of these, which came out under the banner «Global Warming Fears Melting,» is headed by a quote from Patrick Michaels starting, «Kilimanjaro turns out to be just another snow job...» and goes downhill from there.

See the Independent article, «Review of the year: Global warming: Our worst fears are exceeded by reality,» by Connor and McCarthy (emphasis mine):

The immediately quantifiable effects of air pollution are so much worse than the feared effects of global warming I don't really see why we would conflate the issues.

Like hundreds of millions of people, I share the fear of runaway global warming and ocean acidification, of losing the richness of life forms we humans share the planet with, of plastic and other toxics substances contaminating the biosphere.

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.

... Climate of Fear — Global - warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.

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).

I fear until global warming filters down to hit us personally or «inconveniently» on an experiential level, meaning something devastating and unimaginable like our children or family members die or are unrecognizably impaired, (of course I'm referring to the wealthier countries whose children aren't dying or suffering from our hubris immediately anyway), only then will we see an environmental revolution that produces less discussion and more visceral healing «action».

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.

Updates below Purveyors of climate doubt have seized on a news release from the Research Council of Norway with this provocative title: «Global warming less extreme than feared?»

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.

This gives us all more cause to defend our rights and our future by voting this November 4th for candidates that will help fight global warming and will honor the importance of civic engagement, rather than fear it.

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]