[36] A survey carried out by the UK Royal Society found that in 2005 ExxonMobil distributed US$ 2.9 million to 39 groups that «misrepresented
the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence».
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It found that in 2005, Exxon distributed nearly $ 3 million to 39 groups which «misrepresented
the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence that greenhouse gases are driving climate change».
Mahlman says that outside attention to
the science of climate change by contrarians and amateur observers has amplified the Mann von Storch disagreement.
Such is the concern about ExxonMobil that earlier this year the Royal Society, considered Britain's leading scientific academy, wrote to it asking that it stop funding groups that have «misrepresented
the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence».
Not exact matches
In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor
of geography and earth and space
sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven
by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, whose state is currently being ravaged
by wildfires, said, «Scrapping the Clean Power Plan ignores sound
science and the extreme cost
of climate change.»
The irony continues with the feting
of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada
by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding
of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student
of the
climate -
change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming
science is «not settled.»
Since taking leadership
of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the
science behind
climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global w
climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent
Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global w
Climate Commission, the body created
by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects
of global warming.
She hopes to pursue a higher degree in Food
Science and Technology in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic causes
of climate change, poor human health, and animal cruelty
by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.
James Painter is the head
of the journalism fellowship programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study
of Journalism, and is author
of a recent RISJ study on
climate change and the media, called «Summoned
by Science».
Delaying infrastructure decisions is no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter
of life and death for people in countries most affected
by the adverse consequences
of climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival
of Social
Science
The CIC will support Ghana's National
Climate Change Policy (NCCP), spearheaded
by the Ministry
of Environment,
Science, Technology and Innovation.
«They didn't sign up for budget deficits... They didn't sign up for
science being pushed out
of the way
by ideology... They didn't sign up for the denial
of climate change... They didn't sign up for North Korea getting nuclear weapons...»
The place
of climate change in
science education could fall
by the wayside.
The letter comes on the eve
of a House hearing on the legality
of the subpoenas issued
by the House Committee on
Science, Space and Technology to Schneiderman's office over the investigation over whether major energy companies downplayed the risks
of climate change.
He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting
climate change science field research with the Harvard Department
of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award
by the Obama administration).
«For the sake
of future generations who could be harmed
by irreversible
climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold
science against ideology,» he said in a statement.
«Northern domination
of science globally relevant to
climate change policy and practice and lack
of research led
by Southern researchers in Southern countries may hinder development and implementation
of bottom - up global agreements and nationally appropriate actions in Southern countries,» they write.
The Administration proposes to restructure the current
Climate and Land Use Change program, eliminating $ 11.1 million in climate research and development activities and reducing Interior's Climate Science Centers (CSCs) by $ 8.5 million, halving the number of regional CSCs from eight t
Climate and Land Use
Change program, eliminating $ 11.1 million in
climate research and development activities and reducing Interior's Climate Science Centers (CSCs) by $ 8.5 million, halving the number of regional CSCs from eight t
climate research and development activities and reducing Interior's
Climate Science Centers (CSCs) by $ 8.5 million, halving the number of regional CSCs from eight t
Climate Science Centers (CSCs)
by $ 8.5 million, halving the number
of regional CSCs from eight to four.
The letter, which included a statement on
climate science by the leaders
of 18 scientific societies, stated, «Although debate about policy options exists,
climate change is not a scientifically - controversial topic.»
«Rather than trying to assess the probability
of an extreme event occurring, a group
of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree
changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced
by climate change) altered the severity
of the impact
of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data
science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Seeing the vast areas affected
by climate change during this cruise has highlighted for me the importance
of the
science I play a small role in.
Scientific consensus that humans cause
climate change is akin to the scientific consensus that smoking causes cancer, says a report released today
by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
McCarthy expressed hope that the report, coming from a trusted source — AAAS publishes the prestigious journal
Science — and written
by a group
of esteemed American
climate scientists, would get across the message that 97 percent
of climate scientists are in agreement and that early action is needed on
climate change.
reported in the journal «
Science», scientists led
by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute
of Global Commons and
Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.
And
by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting
changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate
of how sensitive Earth's
climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor
of atmospheric
science at the University
of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global
climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.
«The
climate is
changing at a pace and in a pattern that is not explainable
by natural influences,» said John P. Holdren, assistant to the president for
science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology
science and technology and director
of the White House Office
of Science and Technology
Science and Technology Policy.
The effort is the brainchild
of two retirees frustrated
by what they see as the orthodoxy
of «settled
science» on
climate change.
Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief
of staff and a 15 - year veteran
of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term
of the administration editing
science reports from various agencies on
climate change to downplay the role
of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements
of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on
climate change, according to an investigation
by the U.S. House
of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed»
by the
science expected from the International Government Panel on
Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task
of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.
Flooded farmland has already forced thousands
of Bangladeshis to higher ground, but that's just the tip
of the iceberg, so to speak,
of the numbers
of people who will need to move because
of climate change in the coming decade, according to a report released
by the Center for International Earth
Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the United Nations University and CARE International today.
Holt said that
climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emi
climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emis
change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations
Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emi
Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emis
Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary
of the first
climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emi
climate -
change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emis
change statement
by the President's Council
of Advisors on
Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
However, the strong evidence that supports the
climate science and human causation
of climate change doesn't warrant equal weight with minority claims, often disputed
by other research, that are not credible, they add.
Such a transition has been made possible
by the convergence
of several factors: a stream
of new
science showing an accelerating pace
of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national sec
climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secu
change and its impacts; the everyday experience
of people witnessing the
change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secu
change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals
of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national sec
Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secu
Change; and the shifting stances
of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the
climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national sec
climate on grounds
of stewardship
of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds
of national security).
Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House
Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver
of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house
by Harvey's floodwaters.
Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University
of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention
by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the
climate science is [that is, how bad the impact
of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms
of new ways
of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.
With these words, Thomas Stocker
of the University
of Bern in Switzerland summed up the new assessment
of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
Climate Change (IPCC).
Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs
of communities displaced
by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting
of the AAAS
Science and Human Rights Coalition.
The
science - related cuts proposed
by the Trump administration come in programs that deal with issues it opposes ideologically, such as
climate change and the use
of regulation to reduce pollution.
Several questions in the 2010 survey addressed the «Climategate» controversy, which brought allegations
of flawed
science by researchers contributing to the work
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change.
Associate professor
of natural resource social
science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about
climate change and whether variation in the
climate is triggered
by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination
of both.
«This appears to be a carefully timed attempt to reignite controversy over the
science behind
climate change when that
science has been vindicated
by three separate independent reviews and a number
of studies.»
According to the Center for
Science and Technology Policy Research, news coverage
of climate change in 50 newspapers around the globe dropped
by more than half in late 2009 to 2010.
U.S. geoscientists are accustomed to being used as a punching bag
by climate change skeptics in Congress, who challenge the
science of global warming.
And,
by the same token, evidence that meets the rigorous demands
of science is often discounted if it goes against what people want to believe, as illustrated
by widespread dismissal
of scientific evidence
of climate change.
Nonsense on Stilts
by Massimo Pigliucci (University
of Chicago Press) A tour
of solid
science, shaky
science, and pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking
by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on
climate change, evolution, and even UFOs.
The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model
of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic
science could help solve other important problems
by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance
of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.
Results
of a new study
by researchers at the Northeast
Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a
Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on
climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a
climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part
of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.
The research, led
by scientists at the University
of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School
of Marine and Atmospheric
Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival
of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as
climate change and ocean pollution.