Sentences with phrase «political debate over global warming»

By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that Mr. Nash succeeded in circumventing a divisive political debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

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The political debate apparently trumps any responsibility the program might feel to present to its viewers an accurate picture of the debate, or non-debate, over anthropogenic global warming among actual climate scientists.

One is that it will simply intensify the political, ideological and, yes, moral debate that has erupted over who does and does not believe we are causing global warming, and thus move us even farther from the important scientific effort that the issue deserves.

Nevertheless, global warming hypotheses have been narrowed in the press and public debate to a «consensus» view of catastrophic global warming in a political world that prizes agreement and confidence over exploration, and a media that thrives on crisis.

Nowhere is the political and ideological force of growth fetishism more apparent that in the long, tortuous debate over how to tackle global warming.

A climate researcher for decades, he had long been in the midst of political and scientific debates over global warming, tirelessly urging political leaders and the public to take action now to avoid disasters such as rising sea levels in the future.

An effort by a handful of UC Berkeley scientists to reexamine temperature data underlying global warming research has landed in the center of a national political debate over government regulation.