Sentences with phrase «polarized climate debate»

«These results put the polarized climate debate in sharp relief, but also point to the possibility of a path forward,» said Michael Greenstone, director of EPIC and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School at the University of Chicago.

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Scientists have long predicted large - scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate - mediated changes.

The climate change debate has been polarized into a simple dichotomy.

«Debate over climate change has become dangerously polarized,» he says.

I agree that cultural cognition — the idea that we shape our views so they agree with those in the groups with which we most closely identify, in the name of acceptance by our group and thus of safety — powerfully explains the polarized passions over whether climate change is «real,» the «debate» that gets most of the attention about public opinion.

Levi, who has exposed overstatements on both sides of the polarized debate, sees the pipeline as meriting approval mainly because its impact on climate — whether approved or denied — would be minimal when placed in global context.

Coming out of Copenhagen, many participants in the international climate negotiations (as well as informed observers), noted that the UNFCCC has real limitations as the sole venue for future climate negotiations: too many countries — 192, excessively stringent requirements for agreement — unanimity, and a distinct tendency to polarize debates between developed and developing countries.

But it is clear that the tensions are running high, and a troubling sense of hostility has long since polarized the debate, even as the real - world evidence of climate change has piled up.

Climate scientists have become entangled in an acrimonious political debate that has polarized the scientific community.

«Forecast the Facts» is a front group for the individuals responsible for politicizing the science and polarizing the debate over climate change.

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Stoknes (Money and Soul), a Norwegian psychologist and economist, addresses the polarized American debate over anthropogenic climate change, observing how it has devolved into «a deteriorating and desperate spiral.»

The work of greens and liberals is to challenge the Democratic demagogues, the left - wing bullies, and the Climate McCarthyites who narrow and polarize the debate in ways that make effective policy action all but impossible.

Your comment is thoughtful and wise, at least in the general case, but in the case of climate science, I object to holding those that the likes of Judith, Marc Morano and Richard S. Lindzen disparage as «the Team» and worse, responsible to be so sensitive about what «will further polarize the debate» when it is the deniers and their oily sponsors that are 100 % responsible for polarizing the debate.

Every journalist has likely experienced this effect in covering the climate change debate or other intensely polarized debates, as a particular story is harshly criticized by commenters, phone callers, or letter writers from both tail ends of the spectrum of views on the issue.

Obviously, there are many excellent blogs that facilitate discussions between climate experts, but since the climate debate is highly polarized and politicized, blog discussions between experts with opposing views are rare.

The public discussion on climate change has become so polarized that some scientists don't even acknowledge there is a debate.

Unfortunately, judging by the polarized and entrenched political discourse that prevails in the climate debate, from all sides, few seem to be buying it.

The polarized and politicized nature of the societal debate about climate change can make it challenging for teachers to present the science honestly, accurately, and completely.

With the stakes raised, the climate debate became more polarized and venomous, and scientists including Lindzen and Emanuel were tugged into the fray.

Oilprice.com: How does the media take advantage of every major — or even semi-major — weather event to make dire climate forecasts or support one or another polarized side of this debate?

These conclusions generated a highly polarized debate over the policy implications of MBH98, MBH99 for the nature of global climate change, and whether or not anthropogenic actions are the source.»