Having committed environmentalists like Wills and Jennifer Marohasy, thinking they can dismiss the work
of mainstream scientists - reveling in point scoring on out of context or misrepresented studies - from outside those fields is fine but it means very little.
So Much Evidence, And Yet... But we know all this — likely as you, TreeHugger reader, are likely aware that this has long been the case made by the vast consensus
of mainstream scientists and an even vaster majority of climate scientists..
The fact that the CRU grossly mishandled the data is bad enough, but the silence
of mainstream scientists was inexcusable.
Dr. Curry has often written of her concern for the credibility
of mainstream scientists, and or the positive impact «skeptics» can have on the discussion.
Both conditions put him outside the beliefs
of mainstream scientists in their academic temples.
But it looks like an increasingly desperate move when seen in the light
of mainstream scientists scratching their heads about the global warming hiatus, and the non-manifest problems that climate change orthodoxy of yesteryear promised we should be expecting by today.
In the Krosnick study, despite the dismissive content frequently found at Fox News, a majority of even the heaviest Fox News viewers endorsed the views
of mainstream scientists.
It will pit a team of skeptical researchers against the findings
of mainstream scientists.
Here is what Krosnick writes: «It is interesting to note that even among the heaviest Fox News viewers, about 50 % or more endorsed the views
of mainstream scientists.
Actually, a number
of mainstream scientists who are growing more skeptical all the time continues to grow.
The climate disinformation front groups have not been interested in publishing reports, journal articles, or conclusions
of mainstream scientists that support the conclusion that human - induced warming is a threat to people and ecological systems around the world.
For a certain time, the problem was framed as an issue
of mainstream scientists, supporting the concept of anthropogenic climate change, versus a group of skeptics, who doubted the reality of the blade of the hockey stick.
A group of people dispute these consensus findings
of mainstream scientists.
But recently a number
of mainstream scientists have come around, agreeing that aneuploidy may play a role (even if not an exclusive one) in cancer.
Not exact matches
«Creation» seems to magically conform to whatever seems closest to it, not so much in
mainstream science, but anything some reputable
scientist might have said that might serve to give the idea a bit
of cover.
At the grass - roots level, Christian
Scientists articulated their faith before hundreds
of religious education groups in
mainstream churches yearly.
They appear at times to be pseudo-scientific to the
mainstream scientists, and the corresponding developments in religion are accused
of succumbing to naturalism.
And
scientists on both sides
of the Atlantic are currently focusing on the kernels
of food - grade sorghum, aiming to bring this gluten - free grain, little used in food formulations - into
mainstream foods products such as breads, biscuits, pizza crusts and noodles.
In contrast to most
mainstream contemporary political
scientists Lebow goes back to the writings
of ancient Greeks, among others Thucydides, Socrates, Homer, Plato, Aristotle to draw lessons from their wisdom.
While light - sheet microscopy is an old idea —
scientists at ZEISS Microscopy and collaborators first came up with it in 1903 — only in this century has the convergence
of fluorescent labels that work to process image volumes combined to make light - sheet
mainstream.
He'll believe in the brand
of climate change that
mainstream scientists warn
of if temperatures rapidly rise for another 30 years, he said.
Young U.S.
scientists do not wish to cross the borders
of this thriving and highly competitive biomedical marketplace for fear
of falling out
of what they consider the scientific
mainstream and thus being forgotten.
Increased specialization
of scientific research, pressure to pursue
mainstream topics, and the difficulty
of obtaining grant money for the most audacious projects encourage
scientists to focus on the incremental.
Given the importance
of East Anglia's data and correspondence in shaping climate policy, including via IPCC reports, some
mainstream scientists now say they find the evidence
of efforts at data withholding troubling.
No
mainstream scientists are advocating using geoengineering techniques right now, but more and more researchers feel that a worsening picture
of global climate change warrants studying such interventions in case
of a climate emergency in the future.
If the BBC wants to air the views
of sceptics purely because they disagree with
mainstream scientists, they should keep a record
of those who persistently make inaccurate and misleading statements.
On March 31 Muller testified in front
of Congress and confirmed what
mainstream climate
scientists had been saying: Earth is warming in line with the projections
of climate models.
The upper limit
of the range remains the same in both reports — 4.5 C (8.1 F)-- he noted, while most
mainstream scientists put their «best guess» for climate sensitivity somewhere in the middle
of the range, between 2.5 and 3.5 C.
For decades,
scientists had been trying to link
mainstream physics» understanding
of viscosity with a related concept: cosmic viscosity, which tells us about the universe's resistance to accelerating expansion.
Attracted to fringe
scientists like the small and vocal group
of climate skeptics, Republicans appear to be alienated from a
mainstream scientific community that by and large doesn't share their political beliefs.
A growing number
of funders are paying author fees on behalf
of the
scientists they support, but this approach is still far from becoming
mainstream.
Democrats tackle Willie Soon It was arguably to block climate change regulation that Congress invited Soon — and other
scientists skeptical
of the
mainstream view on global warming — to testify.
Smith, one
of the leading opponents
of mainstream climate science in Congress, has repeatedly accused federal climate
scientists of engaging in a massive conspiracy to falsify climate data.
««Doubter» and the clunkier «those who reject
mainstream climate science» strike me as fair terms to describe both members
of the public and the very small number
of scientists who are not convinced.»
The stakeholders participating in the Roundtable — including
scientists, physicians, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, government, patient groups, and others — discussed a case study, which was used as a springboard to confront issues from the highly technical to the economic, ethical, and regulatory that will need to be addressed if personalized medicine is to be incorporated into the
mainstream of health care.
It's hard to know just how far this view has seeped into
mainstream climate scepticism, but the themes
of corrupt science and cheating and lying climate
scientists are widely disseminated on sceptic blogs and other outlets.
As it turned out, the world's temperature has risen about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) and
mainstream scientists continue to predict, with increasing urgency, that if emissions are not curtailed, carbon pollution would lock in warming
of as much as 3 to 6 °C (or 5 to 11 °F) over the next several decades.
While it is unlikely that we can obtain complete certainty on this issue, it is important for
mainstream climate
scientists to continue to debate this issue in a manner that can be interpreted by rest
of the academic community.
«The conservative think tank Heartland Institute is suggesting
scientists, business leaders and lawyers who are skeptical
of mainstream climate science for the climate «red team» U.S. EPA boss Scott Pruitt says he wants to assemble.
Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the
mainstream climate
scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the
scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms
of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots
of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.
After all, the
scientists that Rapp calls «an in - group
of alarmists» represent, in fact,
mainstream science.
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are presently increasing every year at an accelerating rate, and it is extremely unlikely that humanity will collectively do what is necessary to not only stop that growth in CO2 emissions, but reverse it, and then reduce emissions by 80 percent or more within 5 to 10 years, which is what
mainstream climate
scientists say is needed to avoid the worst outcomes
of anthropogenic global warming.
But along with the preening admiration bestowed on Taylor from many
of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very begrudging respect
of those
mainstream climate
scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.
If one is looking for real differences among
mainstream scientists, they can be found on two fronts: the precise implications
of those higher temperatures, and which technologies and policies offer the best solution to reducing, on a global scale, the emission
of greenhouse gases.
The climate contrarians, along with a handful
of sympathetic
scientists, had offered an olive branch
of reconciliation to the climate science
mainstream, discussed issues
of common concern, and broken bread together.
But as with so many other pieces
of mainstream health wisdom, the doctors and
scientists got that one wrong, not that there was such great evidence to begin with.
After many years
of resistance from
mainstream medical
scientists, it has become clear that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, is the culprit.
Thus, they are
mainstream scientists and their views represent the
mainstream opinion
of the AGU.
[Response: I'm sure Eric won't mind me stepping in with some questions for you instead — 1) why do you keep insinuating that terrestrial and ocean uptake
of anthropogenic CO2 is somehow not accepted by
mainstream scientists?
Mainstream environmental groups, not to mention the hundreds
of scientists and economists involved in the IPCC, have long argued the business case for early action to address climate change.