Sentences with phrase «political climate thanks»

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Green industries are particularly eager to recruit young scientists, thanks to a favorable political climate and a growing market for renewable energy sources.

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

This is why climate change is now a prime area, and thanks to the vocal skeptics, especially in the political arena, the perception of uncertainty is promulgated which helps to fund more research.

Role: Thanks to his prominence as a theoretical physicist and popularizer of science, as well as his leftish political affiliations — he has long been active in the anti-nuclear movement — Dyson is seen by many as bringing credibility to climate - change skepticism.

Thanks for posting an excellent essay on the dilemma climate scientists face today between being honest and impartial as scientists or supporting a political agenda falsely cloaked (as Mosh and Fuller wrote) as a «noble cause».

Whether to even accept the overwhelming evidence that climate change is real and human - caused has become a partisan political issue, thanks in large parts to the efforts of bad actors like the Koch Brothers to poison both our atmosphere and our public discourse.

Thank you Wagathon, for reminding everyone on Climate Etc of a wise and foresighted conservative statesman, who rejected willful ignorance and ideology - first political dogma, and who possessed the courage to deal wisely with inconvenient scientific truths!

In a recent study, sociologist Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques find that 92 percent of the books promoting climate skepticism are associated with conservative think thanks:

Thank you, Dr Curry — it is indeed about protecting the integrity of science, not just of climate science, because in the end how can the general public trust any scientific statement which is used as basis for political decision making if this particular instance is being waved aside?