Sentences with phrase «opposing positions on climate change»
It's their shared apprehension that opposing positions on climate change are, in effect, badges of membership in and loyalty to competing cultural groups; that is the cue or signal that motivates members of the public to process information about climate change risks in a manner that is more reliably geared to affirming the position that predominates in their group than to converging on the best available evidence.
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Microsoft has stated that «the Heartland Institute's position on climate change is diametrically opposed to Microsoft's position.
In no way do my values suggest that debate should be curtailed: I merely insist that a scientific debate should take place in the scientific literature and that the public be put in a position where it can make an informed judgment about the voices that are opposing mainstream science on crucial issues ranging from climate change to vaccination.
It seems to me that they have changed their position on climate change — they no longer oppose doing something about it and support policies like having an emisions trading scheme.
Although Mitt Romney's position on climate change appears to have changed over time (at one time supported policies to reduce the threat of climate change), he recently has opposed legislation designed to reduce greenhouse gases citing two reasons.
Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.
He and those like him, in positions of power who dishonestly oppose action on climate change, so abetting irreparable damage to this planet that we all share and love, will be seen by future generations as the worst of the worst.