Meanwhile,
reports about climate change science are increasingly gloomy.
Not exact matches
A new government
report on the
science of
climate change has made it past the Trump White House unscathed with forceful statements
about humanity's role in rising temperatures and their severe threat to the United States.
«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate
climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public
about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its
report on the matter in December 2007.
The IPCC draft
report is the third and final study in a U.N. series
about climate change, updating findings from 2007, after the Japan
report about the impacts and one in September in Sweden
about climate science.
A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous
climate change summit,
reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings
about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental
sciences.
Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW's
Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate
Science in Society Award for
science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate
science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us
about the future impact of
climate change.
A group of Iowa high school students helped
report a statewide investigation into classroom
science instruction that found that «nearly half of teachers surveyed by IowaWatch journalists teach
climate change «as theory, informing students
about the variety of thought that exists.
But, it said,
about three in 10 middle and high school
science teachers «
reported telling their students, wrongly, that the causes of recent
climate change are the matter of scientific debate.»
Last month, the New York Times
reported that Phil Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist working for the White House, edited scientific
climate change reports to significantly exaggerate uncertainty
about the
science behind global warming.
A few days ago I was interviewed
about the challenges and opportunities in
reporting on complicated, but consequential,
science (
climate change being a prime example) for the Journalist's Resource project of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
However, there are plenty of
science articles that are just interesting,
reporting events and explorations in the Arctic and elsewhere that give a fascinating view into how early scientists were coming to an understanding
about climate change and processes.
As I explained last winter in my Issues in
Science and Technology essay, I've unlearned almost as many things as I've learned
about human - caused
climate change in more than a quarter century of
reporting on the issue.
We first heard
about The
Science Museum's new climate change gallery back in March this year when we read an exasperating report in The Times saying the museum was «revising the contents of its new climate science gal
Science Museum's new
climate change gallery back in March this year when we read an exasperating
report in The Times saying the museum was «revising the contents of its new
climate science gal
science gallery to
In fact, during an hour long June briefing to launch a major government
climate change report, a panel that included White House
science adviser John Holdren and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco mentioned greenhouse gases just once â $» instead warning
about the perils of â $ œheat - trapping gasesâ $ or â $ œheat - trapping pollutants.â $
While recent headlines
about the woes of U.N. - led efforts to assemble a comprehensive picture of the
science have caused gleeful headlines on The Drudge
Report and other skeptical media outlets, the vast weight of the evidence — from melting glaciers to warming oceans to satellite temperature readings, and much more — still points to a
changing climate caused by human activity.
In summary, there is little new
about climate science in the
report, and nothing at all new
about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic
changes.
There's a question
about what would we do if things start getting worse, if
climate change leads to some kind of crisis situation,» Ken Caldeira, one of the
report's authors and a researcher at the Carnegie Institute for
Science, said.
Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for
Science say incorporating observational data of «Earth's top - of - atmosphere energy budget» shows the «warming projection for the end of the twenty - first century for the steepest radiative forcing scenario is
about 15 per cent warmer (+0.5 degrees Celsius)... relative to the raw model projections
reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change.»
The IPCC's claims
about these things have been thoroughly refuted by the recent
report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on
Climate Change,
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical
Science, which cites nearly 5,000 peer - reviewed scientific articles that contradict the IPCC's claims.
Martin Manning talks
about some of the challenges faced by the IPCC and its scientists from his perspective as head of the Support Team for the IPCC Working Group I (
Science of
Climate Change) for the Fourth Assessment
Report, released in 2007.
The mainstream media
reports the follies of the Right, but less often those of the Left — which are highlighted by their increasing abandonment of
science in their quest to alarm the public
about climate change.
Yale's «Six Americas»
report found that the highly skeptical are more informed
about climate change science than those who
report a high degree of concern
about it (the latter of whom still regularly confuse
climate with the ozone hole, etc.).
In 2005, during the peak of
climate hysteria and the drive to create an international political response to climate change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challe
climate hysteria and the drive to create an international political response to
climate change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challe
climate change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challen
change, the Royal Society entered the political debate forcefully and published A Guide to the Facts and Fictions
About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challeng
About Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challe
Climate Change — a report which spoke unequivocally about official climate science and those who dared to challen
Change — a
report which spoke unequivocally
about official climate science and those who dared to challeng
about official
climate science and those who dared to challe
climate science and those who dared to challenge it.
In the rest of this response, I will show, first, that the indicated quote from the U.S.
Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)
about U.S. droughts is missing a crucial adjacent sentence in the CCSP
report, which supports my position
about drought in the American West.
In a hard - hitting
report, which appears to confirm environmentalists» suspicions that there is a well - funded opposition to the
science of
climate change, Greenpeace accuses the funded groups of «spreading inaccurate and misleading information»
about climate science and clean energy companies.
According to the book Why Scientists Disagree
About Global Warming, the most frequently cited source for a «consensus of scientists» is Oreskes» a 2004 essay for the journal
Science, in which she
reported examining abstracts from 928 papers published in scientific journals in 1993 and 2003 she found using the keywords «global
climate change.»
«While the UK media, including the BBC, has some of the best
science and environment correspondents in the world, who provide insightful and factual
reporting about climate change, too many editors are willing to publish or broadcast inaccurate and misleading information, seemingly on the grounds that atmospheric physics should be treated as just a matter of opinion,» Mr Ward said.
(September) Review by Tony Allan published in People and
Science (17 July) Review by Joseph Bast at American Thinker (16 July) Review by Max Boykoff published by Nature
Reports Climate Change (11 July) Blogged by Roger Pielke jr at his personal blog (20 June) Review on celsias website Why we disagree about climate change (29 May)-L
Climate Change (11 July) Blogged by Roger Pielke jr at his personal blog (20 June) Review on celsias website Why we disagree about climate change (29 May)-LS
Change (11 July) Blogged by Roger Pielke jr at his personal blog (20 June) Review on celsias website Why we disagree
about climate change (29 May)-L
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change (29 May)-LSB-...]
DeSmog Blog was founded, is funded, and is run by a convicted and self - confessed crook, and furthermore that crook is now in the business of running a solar energy corporation (I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF J. LEFEBVRE»S SOLAR INVESTMENTS, BUT TIM LAMBERT AT THE
SCIENCE BLOG DELTOID
REPORTS HERE THAT MONCKTON IS TALKING
ABOUT THE WRONG JOHN LEFEBVRE) and therefore has a direct vested interest in peddling the
climate change scare.
Susan was the Senior
Science Writer on all three National
Climate Assessments, authoritative reports written in plain language to better inform policymakers and the public about climate change and its effects on our
Climate Assessments, authoritative
reports written in plain language to better inform policymakers and the public
about climate change and its effects on our
climate change and its effects on our nation.
In 1991, Western Fuels, a $ 400 - million coal consortium, declared in its annual
report it was launching a direct attack on mainstream
science and enlisting several scientists who are skeptical
about climate change — specifically Drs. Robert Balling, Pat Michaels and S. Fred Singer.
At a time when The Guardian just
reported another poll showing a drop in concern
about climate change, and a New York Times front page this week described Britons» growing doubts
about the
science, its worth taking a look at that anti-
science campaign, which was waged by Einstein's critics because like today's
climate denial movement, the anti-relativity movement had some success too.
In addition to concealing the known risks, Exxon and Suncor... directed, participated in, and benefited from efforts to misleadingly cast doubt
about the causes and consequences of
climate change, including: (1) making affirmative and misleading statements suggesting that continued and unabated fossil fuel use was safe (in spite of internal knowledge to the contrary); and (2) attacking
climate science and scientists that tried to
report truthfully
about the dangers of
climate change.
Newsweek
reported: «the leaders accepted the
science of
climate change and agreed to work together to do something
about it.»
Even before Indiana's top enforcer of federal and state environmental regulations was advising coal companies on how to continuing polluting our air and water, it appears that denial of basic
climate science is the state's official position on global warming — Indiana's 2011 «State of the Environment»
report rehashes tired
climate denier arguments such as global temperature records having «no appreciable
change since
about 1998.»
Gadget Guy: -LSB-...] And none of the problems have been with the actual
science that underlies
climate change (which is what the Working Group 1
Report is all
about).
«We are alarmed by
reports stating that Exxon (becoming ExxonMobil in 1999) hid the truth
about the role of fossil fuels in influencing
climate change and intentionally spread disinformation
about climate science,» according to the letter (PDF) signed by 45 Democratic representatives.
The most recent
report was published in 2014 and represents «the most comprehensive and authoritative synthesis of knowledge
about global
climate -
change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability ever generated,» according to a statement by President Obama's
science advisor when the
report was published less than four years ago.
But the real key is that if you find something wrong with WGII or WGIII, you're not attacking the
science of
climate change, because those
reports aren't
about science.
More around social tipping points than a scientific ones (though the first tipping point is
science)... the
Climate Institute Australia released their
report «The Top Ten Tipping Points on
Climate Change» the other day and I've written
about it in this article...
He has
reported from the 2015 Paris
climate negotiations, the Northwest Passage, and the Greenland ice sheet, among other locations, and has written four books
about science, politics and
climate change.
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Both TIME mag and NYT are poised to
report news of new literary and movie genre dubbed «cli fi» — coined by yours truly from my earlier «polar cities» work, one things leads to another — and the NYT story will be
about «
climate science education» issues and «
climate change education» issues in higher education in USA and overseas...... so it's a story that interview academics and professors of
science education etc...... and TIME mag will be
about new NOAH movie by Darren A set 5000 years ago and TIME is calling it a «cli fi movie» on its cover March 24 issue, get ready.
Heartland
reports it will consist of «concurrent panel sessions exploring what real
climate science is telling us
about the causes and consequences of
climate change, and the real consequences of choices being made based on the current perceptions of the state of
climate science.»