They are solid points that hold lessons for advocates on both sides of the charged
debate over climate science and its implications for society.
This was not the Exxon that had emerged in the bruising
fights over climate science and policy in the 1990s, the corporation that climatologists, lawmakers and environmentalists equated with climate denial.
There is cloud
hanging over climate science, but one Cornell University expert on communication and environmental issues says he knows how to help clear the air.
He could have nodded to the deep
divisions over climate science and policies, but noted that much of the sense of controversy has come mainly because the hottest messages — unfolding catastrophe, manufactured hoax — get the most air time.
Try to find slide one — depicting the online
tussle over climate science and policy — within slide two, which places the first issue in the flow of the moment's news (via the fascinating newsmap.jp Web site):
As a result, in late 2004 one federal hurricane expert, Christopher Landsea, withdrew in protest from the climate - review process at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, leading to stories on a
dispute over climate science.
Clovis has repeatedly expressed
skepticism over climate science and has called efforts to address climate change «simply a mechanism for transferring wealth from one group of people to another.»
The decision to allow the lecture to go forward was made during the Royal Society's governing council meeting last week where several fellows and associates of the society raised
concern over the climate science denying GWPF's 17 October event.
The US Congress's most ardent global warming sceptic is being accused of turning the
row over climate science into a McCarthyite witch - hunt by calling for a criminal investigation of scientists.
This video provides a visual overview of how the Koch - funded network amplifies unscientific
doubt over climate science and blocks clean energy policies:
«We believe that any market
impacts over climate science may be nearing its floor, with the results of the three independent reviews confirming the integrity of the climate science,» the report said.
Virtually all of the
controversies over climate science hinge on just how strong the various feedbacks may be — and on whether scientists may have failed to account for some of them.
But they face a battle to lift the cloud of scepticism that has
descended over climate science and chart a new way forward: Paul Harris in New York, John Vidal and Robin McKie, The Observer, Sunday 28 March 2010»
The challenge here, of course, is that the
fight over climate science, to my mind, is a spillover from the more heated, and deeper, debate over climate policy.
The U.S. Senate's simmering
debate over climate science has come to a full boil today, with lawmakers trading feisty remarks as they prepare to vote on at least two measures offered by Democrats that affirm that climate change is real — with one also noting that global warming is not «a hoax.»
Michael Mann, an influential climatologist who has spent years in the center of the debate
over climate science, has sued two organizations that have accused him of academic fraud and of improperly manipulating data.
This reminds me of WUWT and Curry's & Jo Nova's blogs and the US Congress debates
over Climate Science.
how refreshing to know that there can still be a civil discourse between «advocates on both sides of the charged debate
over climate science and its implications for society.»
It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight
over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.
In an appearance last week at Purdue University I was on a panel with Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado and Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology exploring the heated state of the debate
over climate science and policy.
The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight
over climate science and policy, beginning with a 16 - author op - ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday and, most recently, with a 39 - author rebuttal published today in the paper.
This is because factors such as likeability and attractiveness are unlikely to survive the critical scrutiny they will encounter in a controversy as heated as
that over climate science.
According to the event description, the hearing will focus on «the ongoing debate
over climate science, the impact of federal funding on the objectivity of climate research, and the ways in which political pressure can suppress opposing viewpoints in the field of climate science.»
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has confirmed that the debate
over climate science is over.
The report also says that most of the benefits of climate mitigation policies in the short term will come in the form of public health co-benefits from reduced air pollution, suggesting that climate advocacy will be well served to move away from debates
over climate science and apocalyptic doomsaying, instead focusing on the multiple benefits in the near term of moving toward cleaner energy sources.
The Military Advisory Board chose not to engage in debate
over climate science but did note that current levels of atmospheric carbon are already at historically high levels and are increasing.
Dr. Mann's suit is unsupportable both because of his behavior toward his critics, particularly amicus curiae Dr. Curry, which demonstrates that the debate
over climate science is often contentious and because Dr. Mann engages in the debate often to silence rather than to illuminate.
(The New Republic) • Pruitt worked closely with climate - denying groups like the Heartland Institute and CO2 Coalition on his plan to host a «red team, blue team» debate
over climate science, according to internal emails.
Even the chief of the CSIRO has welcomed the «debate»
over climate science,
The hearing's goal was to discuss the «debate
over climate science, the impact of federal funding on the objectivity of climate research, and the ways in which political pressure can suppress opposing viewpoints in the field of climate science.»