Sentences with word «sceptic»

Environmentalists often refer to climate sceptics as climate deniers, claimed by their opponents to be a deliberate attempt to ally them in the public mind with far right wing holocaust deniers.

In 2008, Heartland decided to host a conference for climate sceptics in New York — it would be the first of eight conferences for skeptics and deniers (six of them were held in the US, one in Germany and one in Australia).

Whether it is the PDO, or another natural oscillation (my money's on the AMO), which is holding global temperatures more or less constant its significance is not just as a weapon for sceptics in the future.

The shadow Climate Change Secretary is winning some plaudits for his «positive environmentalism» from sceptics such as Mr Montgomerie, raising hopes that the Tories can square the circle and remain broadly united.

It is not just the creationists but also the global warming sceptics who have tried to systematically undermine the credibility of a mass of scientific research.

I'm assuming one of the objectives was to assuage the doubts of many sceptics about the integrity of the temperature record — the land temperature record in particular.

Moreover, notice that many sceptics do not take issue with the propositions that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, much of the increase in atmospheric CO2 can be attributed to industry, that this warming will likely cause a change in the climate, and that this may well cause problems.

If the survey is intended to characterize the position of prominent sceptics like myself, then a more useful set of first statements might include:

Some global warming sceptics say these figures disprove the basic hypothesis of global warming, that rising greenhouse gas emissions automatically produce rising temperatures.

The hottest year on record was 1998, and the relatively cool years since have led to some global warming sceptics claiming that temperatures have levelled off or started to decline.

But we must listen more carefully to these so called sceptics who are suggesting that CO2 is not the problem - otherwise we could be wasting valuable resources in changing something that will make no difference.

The importance of this rebuttal or whatever you want to call it becomes even more obvious when you re-visit the Guardian's take on the Steig et al. article when it was published — «Research «kills off» climate sceptic argument by showing average temperature across the continent has risen over the last 50 years.»

If genuine sceptics think there's merit in pointing out that the very recent trend reversal in Arctic ice extent is worth noting (and I do!)

I am an AGW sceptic from life experience.

Even more unfortunate for Lewandowsky, however, the comment in question did not belong to a climate change sceptic at all.

Of course not, because this gets to the core of what sceptics such as Monckton wish to achieve in their ideologically - driven and fossil - fuel backed quest (including Exxon funding).

I know of no prominent sceptic in Australia or America who denies such realities.

The Deputy Leader of UKIP Lord Monckton of Brenchley, a well known sceptic on climate change, wrote to the Telegraph today saying of the prince:

In opposition, the party's business advisory group on climate policy included two high - profile climate science sceptics in the form of business figures Hugh Morgan and Dick Warburton.

A true sceptic looks at all of the evidence and derives a conclusion that best explains it.

Even sceptics such as Lindzen agree that there's a «naked» 1 degree C greenhhouse effect from CO2 increases.

People are always claiming that Steve and other sceptics gets some bit of funding from the gas and oil lobby (he doesn't), while they never consider the scientists who will be, not just poorer, but out of both a job and a career when AGW is shown not to be an issue.

And that, I suspect, will be necessary to convert the millions of borderline AGW believers (who only believe because it seems safe to do so) into sceptics.

The quarrelling should be done with the AGWers not between sceptics.

Those in favour of a break with the EU often paint a rosy picture in which the UK is able to get what it wants and maintain unfettered access to the single market while sceptics tend to assume that the EU can not offer to renege on some core principle like the freedom of movement for persons but at this stage it's mostly guesswork (and possibly quite a bit of bluff / wishful thinking on both sides).

The floods of offensive and threatening emails aimed at intimidating climate scientists have all the signs of an orchestrated campaign by sceptics groups.

Amid the strongest evidence yet that humans have changed the climate, media reporting is giving sceptics too much of a free rein

If cash buys you memes, then why are the poorly - funded sceptics so much better at creating them?