Your very presence on
the other side of the climate debate does more to validate the science than anything else you could do.
Beck promised the program would present the «
other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere.»
Not exact matches
Troubling, though, is the fact that 35 percent
of the
climate grade depends on having classes smaller than 25 pupils, which means that QC has taken
sides in the great class - size
debate, notwithstanding the rivers
of doubt that Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and
others have poured on the notion that smaller classes are an efficient means
of boosting achievement.
Whilst many Republican candidates are vying with each
other to kick away any role for active government action to tackle
climate change, an eerie silence seems to be coming from the
other side of the
debate.
Away from the
debate that only exists in Mann et al's heads —
of one
side representing the proposition «
climate change is real», and the
other side denying it — it seems that there is a widespread view that planet has warmed, slightly.
But I share MacCracken's view that this is the not forum for a full - blown
debate — and that the «
debate» format in general, pitting two «
sides» against each
other, is not the best way to assess the state
of scientific understanding
of climate change.
The devotees
of both
sides of the mainstream
climate debate i.e. on the one hand those who warn against the dangers
of global warming, which they attribute mainly to atmospheric emissions
of carbon dioxide, and on the
other those who assert that the theory
of anthropogenic global warming is a fraud, resort to hysteria when they sense that their ideas are under threat.
Joshua: if you're arguing that motivated reasoning is disproportionately characteristic on one
side of the
climate debate in comparison to the
other,
In short, Oreskes (who is not a scientist,
of climate or
of any
other kind) appears to have unilaterally (albeit with, perhaps a little help from her ideological friends) determined that there can be only one
side to a «scientific»
debate: That which she — in her willful ignorance — has chosen to conjure up and propagate.
But it does suggest that if both
sides of the
debate paid close attention to the social consequences
of policies, rather than the present intractable
debate on the reality
of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the
climate (but a substantial proportion
of people think it will), but if it produces some
other good outcomes it might be ok.
But it does suggest that if both
sides of the
debate paid close attention to the social consequences
of policies, rather than the present intractable
debate on the reality
of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the
climate (but a substantial proportion
of people think it will), but if it produces some
other good outcomes it might be OK.
A documentary exploring the
other side of the
climate - change
debate and its ever - changing, but often - flawed science, «An Inconsistent Truth,» will air on Newsmax TV on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.
Climate Depot «Bridges the
Climate Divide»: «Thanks to Morano, people on opposite
sides of debate are now hearing each
other out»
Hundreds
of scientists, economists, and public policy experts are set to meet in Manhattan next month to discuss the
other side of the
climate change
debate that the establishment media prefers to pretend does not exist.
Climate Depot «Bridges the
Climate Divide»: «Thanks to Morano, people on opposite
sides of debate are now hearing each
other out» — Morano's «got a huge audience and platform.
I've long intended writing a piece with the provocative title
of «the Nazi Thing» on the puzzling question
of what it is about the
climate debate which makes people on both
sides resort to using language like «denier,» «death trains» on the one hand, and «eco-fascism» on the
other, when it's so obviously counterproductive.
It's a bit cheap, given that there's no evidence or even likelihood, that actual
climate scientists are responsible for this hoax, to say that jumping to very firm conclusions on very little evidence, and indeed fraudulently improving the evidence that doesn't quite show what you want it to, are characteristic
of one
side of this
debate rather than the
other.
This fact mirrors the many varied positive claims that are made on the
other «
side»
of the
climate debate, but which seem to emerge axiomatically from the fact that «
climate change is happening».
I've seen both two
sides of the
climate debate, and in case you haven't noticed, one
side contradicts the
other on very complicated science details.
Here is the problem with Mr. Zwick's point in actual application: Increasingly, many people on both
sides of the
climate debate have decided that the folks on the
other side are not people
of goodwill.
In a damning parliamentary report, the BBC is criticised for distorting the
debate on man - made
climate change — for which it says the scientific evidence is overwhelming — through its determination to put the
other side of the argument across.
What he failed to realize when making that move is that the two
sides of the
climate debate hate each
other.
Other oddities to this episode were the number
of prominent
climate scientists, including some usually on the «alarmist»
side of the public
debate, criticizing the paper, and the general low - key news coverage.
It's a shrill cry that has been made many times when there has been a
debate with a scientific dimension: both
sides accuse the
other of «denying», and the such like, not just within the
climate wars.
On one
side of the «
debate» we are «denying» science that shows the world has warmed, and on the
other side climate science is apparently being used to drive a socialist anti-freedom agenda.