From 1997 to 2014, the Kochs funneled over $ 88 million to 80 organizations that advance the Kochs»
attacks on climate change science while presenting themselves as experts.
Koonin, who worked for two years in the Obama administration and now teaches at New York University, has long called for a public
debate on climate change science.
The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of the President's
Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and change.
The Kyoto Treaty to stem global warming is frozen in political limbo in the United States, where the current Congress is likely to reject the pact — but that won't stop international teams from stepping up
work on climate change science and policy.
In a couple of weeks, the UN's official
advisors on climate change science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will update its global assessment on the issue.
Several cities and counties in California have filed lawsuits against Exxon and other oil companies, alleging they conspired to cast
doubt on climate change science and delay restrictions on greenhouse gases.
One of those leaked emails, dated October 2009, was from Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the US government's National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the IPCC's lead author
on climate change science in its monumental 2002 and 2007 reports.
Since then, he has received support from the Park Service, including a four - day training
course on climate change science and communication earlier this year.
Lubchenco and other Obama administration leaders have said the plan would help the agency handle a growing demand for
information on climate change science and impacts, a message she reiterated yesterday.
Raymond Pierrehumbert, a longtime climate scientist now at Oxford, stopped by The New York Times earlier this month for a long fruitful
chat on climate change science and solutions and the hurdles — mostly internal and social (including political)-- that impede progress.
To me, that says the climate science community — including the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change science working group — has not adequately conveyed the reality you state here.
Michael Tobis, who is often a critic of my
thinking on climate change science, creditably took the time to watch my talk and offered a constructive reaction on his Planet 3.0 blog.
Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus
on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.
(Skeptical Science) When these politicians are asked about the basis for their positions on climate change, they almost always respond by saying such things as they «have heard that there is a disagreement among scientists» or similar responses that strongly suggest they have informed an opinion
on climate change science without any understanding of the depth of the scientific evidence on which the scientific consensus view 0f climate change has been based.
E-mails leaked last November cast doubt on the integrity of a few of the 4000 scientists who produce consensus reports for the U.N.
body on climate change science (Science, 4 December 2009, p. 1329).
The March 20th -26 th cover story of The Economist, «Spin, science and climate change,» deftly bypasses the politics surrounding «climategate», to tackle the more important issue: whether any of this has any
bearing on climate change science and policy.
It seems clear to me that if a group (such as EPA) wanted to get an objective scientific
judgment on climate change science, CRU et al., and therefore the IPCC, might be the last place that they would want to rely on.
Some old - timers will remember a series of «bombshell» papers back in 2004 which were going to «knock the stuffing out» of the consensus
position on climate change science (see here for example).