Sentences with phrase «of vocal climate»

A very, very small number of vocal climate scientists and a somewhat larger group of what I would call advocates and bureaucrats really determine what you hear in the media about AGW science.

funded an array of front organizations to create the appearance of a broad platform for a tight - knit group of vocal climate change contrarians who misrepresent peer - reviewed scientific findings

If a couple of vocal climate skeptics have received money from tobacco companies at some time in the past, it doesn't prove that «merchants of doubt» are driving climate skepticism.

It was interesting to note, however, that most of the projects described are based in the US, with its high proportion of vocal climate change naysayers.

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But the Republican president has shown flexibility on some campaign promises, and U.S. allies have been vocal on the importance of the climate accord.

«He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override,» Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama's climate change agenda, said in an interview.

Cenovus and Suncor have been vocal supporters of the NDP government's climate change policies which include an annual 100 - megatonne cap on total emissions from the oilsands.

There are LOTS of us out there, but in the current political climate some of the more vocal nutbags have managed to tie faith to patriotism.

I am also a vocal advocate of Climate Change (yes it is a thing and no it is not an opinion).

But the Republican president has shown flexibility on some campaign promises, and U.S. allies have been vocal on the importance of the climate accord.

The paper has been speaking to GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny - a vocal supporter of Ed Miliband, whose union has also made a contribution to the shadow energy and climate change secretary's leadership campaign.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

In the area of climate change, the leaked documents revealed that the group funds vocal climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso ($ 11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($ 5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($ 1,667 per month).

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.

«It will be highly ironic if that happens, but I don't think it's going to get him an award from the Sierra Club or the League of Conservation Voters,» said Myron Ebell, a vocal skeptic of mainstream climate science.

Their concerns have been sparked by two simultaneous developments: increasing public criticism by key Republicans of research funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a congressional power shift that has placed many vocal so - called climate change sceptics and opponents of environmental regulations in positions of power.

Some of the researchers who once led the company's modeling became vocal climate contrarians, among them Brian Flannery and Roger Cohen.

With the House in Republican hands, some of the climate issue's most vocal advocates have been dislodged from their powerful perches, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Diego Luna has been vocal about his pride as a Mexican in the current political climate and the importance of the movie's diverse cast, something we're warmly reminded of again in an anecdote the actor shared on Twitter.

What's more, the election of a proudly vocal climate denier to the White House really throws a monkey wrench in Gore's message of positivity: Even with a late - breaking epilogue that acknowledges the dire news of a Trump presidency, the film feels — as of, oh, today — sadly outdated.

Congressional sources said the decision was based not on opposition to the program, but on a lack of vocal support in a tight budgetary climate.

Leakey campaigned for the protection of the Great Apes and has become increasingly vocal about the threats to biodiversity arising from global climate change.

[Andy Revkin — Above, Mr. McCain appears to be using references to observed changes in ice and climate to fend off potential criticism from a small, but vocal array of climate scientists and conservative or anti-regulatory groups that disparage computer simulations showing the consequences of rising greenhouse - gas concentrations.]

A few vocal deniers will grasp at any straw to muddy the public's attention and understanding of the real climate threats we face.

The fact is, many scientists on both sides of the debate are not climate scientists, they are earth scientists, astrophysicists, palaeontologists, economists, statisticians, and here in Australia, one of the most vocal pro-AGW commentators is a professor of psychology.

««overselling» of climate change attracts strong criticism from a vocal and disproportionately publicized few.»

In my view, unfortunately, people in the younger (college - age) generation may well have to get «peaceably vocal» regarding climate change, and do some walking, and paint some signs, to bring about some healthy movement on the issue of climate change IF more of our leaders don't begin to act responsibly and maturely, soon.

«As the climate - change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad... Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree»

But there remains a vocal defense of the old orthodoxy — climate variation is normal and human activity can play no role.

In recent years, Bezdek has been very vocal in his opposition to new U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and argues that excessive amounts of C02 are good for the planet and that the scientfic consensus on climate change is a «manufactured myth.»

This is why climate change is now a prime area, and thanks to the vocal skeptics, especially in the political arena, the perception of uncertainty is promulgated which helps to fund more research.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R - Okla., a vocal climate science denialist, criticized President Obama's participation in a Paris summit to address climate change yesterday, saying that climate science ignores the role of God in determining global temperatures.

ppt presentation on this topic to three colleagues, each of whom is a very respected senior scientist and none of whom have been particularly vocal advocates on the subject of climate change (names are withheld to protect the guilty / innocent).

All, however, have been vocal before Congress, on broadcast news or on the Internet in arguing that human activity is not the primarily driver of climate change.

His unwillingness to debate or force others to debate the science of climate change with the vocal group of «doubters» is a shame for the position of the IPCC and other intergovernmental bodies.

Economic stasis continues in Europe, previously the most vocal advocate of action on climate change.

Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy wrote.

Pioneer companies are vocal in their support of political ambition: RE100 members AkzoNobel, Royal DSM, Unilever, Nestlé, Apple, Google, and Ikea have been praised for their leadership in actively supporting ambitious climate policies.

The most vocal critics of climate dogma are a half - dozen think tanks that together spend less than $ 15 million annually on environmental issues.

The small but vocal part of the infosphere dominated by the climate deniers seized on this «fake» photo to try to paint the entire climate science community as fake.

I decided to become more vocal about my climate skepticism after an Excel letter came to my house informing me of a a rate increase due to the closure of coal plants.

And a vocal minority of corporate interests and their ideological allies are spending a lot of money to hijack the public debate about climate change.

Despite vocal commitments to help tackle climate change, six key multilateral banks (MDBs) financed over $ 7 billion in coal, oil, and gas projects in 2015, and funded a total of $ 83 billion in fossil fuels from 2008 - 2015.

A major problem I have with the vocal critics of consensus messaging is that - in the case of climate science - it is clear that one exists.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, one past recipient of Exxon funding that has been vocal in questioning climate science, hasn't received any money from Exxon in 2006, he said.

ClimateDepot.com is the website of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow employee Marc Morano, a conservative global warming denier who previously served as environmental communications director for a vocal political denier of climate change, Republican Sen. James Inhofe.

Some of the more vocal of the establishment climate researchers have fallen into a mode of open denigration of climate sceptics («deniers» is the offensive popular terminology of the day).

The company is also vocal about its sustainability commitments in policy conversations, in support of more ambitious climate and energy regulations.

You don't think that they aren't aware of climategate and the general anti-Koch attitude of the more politically vocal climate scientists?