Sentences with phrase «public discussions of global warming»

Not exact matches

I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).

(There's also time for the administration to reconsider an approach taken on climate discussions last week, when the White House, according to Reuters, asked that a session on global warming with a group of mayors not be public.)

Concerning the discussions of influencing public perceptions on global warming, the gentle folk here might be interested in:

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

The Louisiana bill calls for, «an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including... global warming...» The bill also calls for «instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner.»

At the Northeast Public Power Association's annual conference in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month, what was billed as a «common sense» discussion on climate change was actually a talk by Steve Goreham, an author of books that deny that burning fossil fuels causes global warming.

Now, it doesn't go in the direction it sounds like you prefer, the long series of discussions on the science end up endorsing much of the core of the modern scientific consensus around the physics of greenhouse and global warming (though pointing out places where public media frequently argues well beyond the science).

Much of the public and scientific discussion around a slowdown, or hiatus, in the rate of global warming has been misguided, says prominent climatologist.

Third, although the article ended with a substantial discussion of responsible argumentation over the issue of hurricanes and global warming in the mainstream press, as an apparent model they pointed to their own public commentary:

December 5, 2014 Public discussion of scientific topics such as global warming is confused by misuse of the term «skeptic.»

The first because it very clearly explains why we must immediately stop investing in fossil infrastructure (and it was McKibben who in 2012, with his blockbuster Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, first drew the political implications of «the carbon budget approach» out into the public discussion).

Public discussion of scientific topics such as global warming is confused by misuse of the term «skeptic.»