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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.

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Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global wclimate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global wClimate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.

James Painter is the head of the journalism fellowship programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and is author of a recent RISJ study on climate change and the media, called «Summoned by Science».

The letter comes on the eve of a House hearing on the legality of the subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to Schneiderman's office over the investigation over whether major energy companies downplayed the risks of climate change.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

The letter, which included a statement on climate science by the leaders of 18 scientific societies, stated, «Although debate about policy options exists, climate change is not a scientifically - controversial topic.»

Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to human - caused climate change, she said.

«A grandstand play, put on by people who don't like Trump or the GOP, regardless, that has nothing to do with climate change, alternative fuels or any other science.

McCarthy expressed hope that the report, coming from a trusted source — AAAS publishes the prestigious journal Science — and written by a group of esteemed American climate scientists, would get across the message that 97 percent of climate scientists are in agreement and that early action is needed on climate change.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

A surrogate debate on climate change was held in Washington, D.C., this week by an independent organization advocating for science - related dialogue by candidates for office

The effort is the brainchild of two retirees frustrated by what they see as the orthodoxy of «settled science» on climate change.

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Holt said that climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emiclimate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emischange was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emiClimate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emisChange Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emiclimate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emischange statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secClimate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuChange; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house by Harvey's floodwaters.

With these words, Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern in Switzerland summed up the new assessment of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

Several questions in the 2010 survey addressed the «Climategate» controversy, which brought allegations of flawed science by researchers contributing to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Nonsense on Stilts by Massimo Pigliucci (University of Chicago Press) A tour of solid science, shaky science, and pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate change, evolution, and even UFOs.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

A significant number of Americans already do not use science to inform their opinion on controversial topics from genetically modified crops to climate change, according to a January poll by the Pew Research Center.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and SwitzScience Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzscience academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

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It relied on a raft of published materials, including work by the Nobel Peace Prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a series of 21 studies from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

«Previous work has largely focused on how climate change may affect economic activity by lowering the productivity of workers,» said co-author Kyle Meng, an assistant professor of environmental economics in UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Department of Economics.

He writes about lawmakers» attitudes on climate change and tracks efforts by political groups to promote and stigmatize the science around warming.

The research was given prominence in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and then was picked up by many in the wider science community and by the popular media.

The full quote:» Three investigations of the alleged scientific misconduct of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — one by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, a second by the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Royal Society, chaired by Lord Oxburgh, and the latest by the Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their collClimate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — one by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, a second by the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Royal Society, chaired by Lord Oxburgh, and the latest by the Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their collClimate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their collclimate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their colleagues.

Climate science still faces the dilemma articulated by the late Steve Schneider and misrepresented by his adversaries — how do we best ensure that the public arrives at an accurate understanding of climate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the points we believe important but without acknowledging uncertaClimate science still faces the dilemma articulated by the late Steve Schneider and misrepresented by his adversaries — how do we best ensure that the public arrives at an accurate understanding of climate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the points we believe important but without acknowledging uncertaclimate change, when the «sound bite» limits on our speaking time to the media force us to choose between making a few points with all the appropriate caveats, vs presenting details of all the points we believe important but without acknowledging uncertainties?

M.T.B. was supported by NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, J.A.B. acknowledges support from the ARCCSS (CE110001028), E.C.J.O. by ARC grants FS110200029 and CE110001028, N.J.H. acknowledges funding support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Earth Systems and Climate Change (ESCC) Hub Project 2.3 (grant B0024391), P.J.M. by Marie Curie CIG PCIG10 - GA -2011-303685 and NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, S.C.S. by an Australian Government RTP Scholarshipin, M.F. by a CAS - CSIRO collaborative project on Marine Science and the Blue Economy and the Western Australia Marine Science Institution.

Sally, who was nominated by Dr. Beat Schmid, Associate Director, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, was honored for her exceptional contribution in the field of atmospheric science, particularly in her efforts to improve understanding of the radiative effect of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's atmosphere and their representation in climate models.

For oceans There was a publication released last year by the Pew Center (Pew is a charitable foundation whose main focus is education) «Coral Reefs & Global Climate Change» a summary of the current science on this issue.

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

We have a climate change adaptation task force shared by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

On p. 336: 271 Abrupt change from wet to dry in the Sahara (at least, as measured by offshore dust) as the summer sun gradually changes: Peter B. deMenocal, J. Ortiz, T. Guilderson, J. Adkins, M. Sarnthein, L. Baker, and M. Yarusinsky, «Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period: Rapid climate responses to gradual insolation forcing,» Quaternary Science Review 19: 347 - 361 (2000).

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

Science Trends is a leading source of science news and analysis on everything from climate change to cancer research, all of which is curated and written by a community of experts in theirScience Trends is a leading source of science news and analysis on everything from climate change to cancer research, all of which is curated and written by a community of experts in theirscience news and analysis on everything from climate change to cancer research, all of which is curated and written by a community of experts in their field.

The details of Monckton's Apocalypse Cancelled luncheon lecture series were released late last week by tour organizer Friends of Science, the Calgary - based «astroturf» group devoted to opposing the scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate change.

On November 7, 2013, Director Susan Hassol and Science Director Richard Somerville spoke on «Telling the Climate Change Story» as invited speakers at the annual Mather Lecture hosted by the University of DelawarOn November 7, 2013, Director Susan Hassol and Science Director Richard Somerville spoke on «Telling the Climate Change Story» as invited speakers at the annual Mather Lecture hosted by the University of Delawaron «Telling the Climate Change Story» as invited speakers at the annual Mather Lecture hosted by the University of Delaware.

On January 27, the Wall Street Journal published an op - ed on climate change by the climate science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiologOn January 27, the Wall Street Journal published an op - ed on climate change by the climate science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiologon climate change by the climate science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology.

The nonprofit National Center for Science Education said most science teachers understand the scientific consensus on climate change, according to a national study conducted in 2014 - 2015 by the center and Pennsylvania State University reseaScience Education said most science teachers understand the scientific consensus on climate change, according to a national study conducted in 2014 - 2015 by the center and Pennsylvania State University reseascience teachers understand the scientific consensus on climate change, according to a national study conducted in 2014 - 2015 by the center and Pennsylvania State University researchers.

Summer 2017 — Issue 6, cover art by W. Jack Savage • Sixth issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.»

The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.

For oceans There was a publication released last year by the Pew Center (Pew is a charitable foundation whose main focus is education) «Coral Reefs & Global Climate Change» a summary of the current science on this issue.