Sentences with phrase «scientific consensus on climate change»

In Catholic schools, we teach children about the peer - reviewed scientific consensus on climate change in science classes.
As a reflection of that work, 31 scientific societies last year released a letter, updated from 2009, to reflect the current scientific consensus on climate change.
The pervasive scientific consensus on climate change is of considerable psychological and political importance.
Much confusion and spin infects current public discussion of «peer reviewed» research: first we had Maurice Newman, the Chairman of the ABC, who suggested that «distinguished scientists» challenge the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change by «peer reviewed research», although he oddly failed to name such research.
The memo discusses ways of dealing with the White House editing, and warns that the section «no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on climate change».
No cultural group favors policies that diverge from scientific consensus on climate change, nuclear power, or gun control.
We are most concerned about Mr. Pruitt's reluctance to accept and act on the strong scientific consensus on climate change.
Although «NewsHour» journalists did note there is a broad scientific consensus on climate change, «what was stunning to me as I watched this program is that the NewsHour... had picked Watts — who is a meteorologist and commentator — rather than a university - accredited scientist to provide «balance,»» ombudsman Michael Getler wrote on Friday.
Cold snaps are routinely used by those who do not accept the mainstream scientific consensus on climate change to support their baseless contention that global warming is a hoax.
Lemonick replies: Those who do not accept the general scientific consensus on climate change span an enormous range, from people who have legitimate scientific disagreements on some of the details all the way to people who distort the facts to people who declare the whole thing a socialist plot (or, alternatively, a money - making scam).
The first panel has nothing to do with the supposed scientific consensus on climate change (humans are responsible for more than half of the warming since 1950).
The panel, which includes hundreds of experts and is open to members of the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, periodically summarizes the worldwide scientific consensus on climate change.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has called for a «red team - blue team» exercise to challenge scientific consensus on climate change.
According to an internal EPA memorandum disclosed in June, agency scientists were concerned the version containing the White House edits «no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on climate change
However, some academics have recently argued that communicators and educators should not inform the public about the strong scientific consensus on climate change.
Anyone who disagrees with the current scientific consensus on climate change should do what any other dissenting scientist would do: publish in a scientific journal — not write a book for the popular press!
Plus, most professional American scientific organizations, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, acknowledge that there is a broad scientific consensus on climate change.
We identified representative claims about climatological data made by people who reject the mainstream scientific consensus on climate change.
The US libertarian think tank, which argues that global warming is not primarily caused by humans, intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change.
The consensus among scientists on GMO safety is «stronger than the scientific consensus on climate change,» said Giddings.
As society comes to terms with the scientific consensus on climate change, climate scientists are being called on to go beyond a mere understanding of the phenomenon, says climatologist Gregg Garfin, deputy director for science translation and outreach at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
«Citing Republican elites who endorse the scientific consensus on climate change may be the most effective way to persuade citizens that climate change is a real and important problem,» says Scruggs.
Although virtually all climate scientists agree that human actions are changing the climate and that immediate action must be taken, roughly 60 percent of Americans believe that no scientific consensus on climate change exists.
Each module would inject skepticism into the scientific consensus on climate change.
Opposing the scientific consensus on climate change has become something of an article of faith for the socially conservative religious right in the US.
Mr. Hoeven's amendment is designed as an alternative for moderate Republicans who may be worried about going against a scientific consensus on climate change
A new paper published just this month reported that respondents across the political spectrum responded positively to information about the scientific consensus on climate change.
Heartland has recently been in the headlines after the release of their list «Red Team» nominees sent to the Trump EPA in an attempt to create a government sanctioned debate on the scientific consensus on climate change.
The conferences, which provides a platform and meeting space for professional climate science deniers, are dedicated to attacking the climate scientists and the scientific consensus on climate change.
Though the APS statement about climate change is more nuanced than the AAAS letter, stating — for example — «scientific challenges remain in our abilities to observe, interpret, and project climate change,» it in no way disputes the scientific consensus on climate change or the risks it poses.
The nonprofit National Center for Science Education said most science teachers understand the scientific consensus on climate change, according to a national study conducted in 2014 - 2015 by the center and Pennsylvania State University researchers.
In the light of the scientific consensus on climate change, as well as «mountains» of good scientific evidence related to other potentially pernicious effects imposed on the Earth by the over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species in our time, it could be a pointless distraction for us to be imagining a world for our grandchildren.
Prominent scientists operating outside the scientific consensus on climate change urged Congress on Wednesday to fund «red teams» to investigate «natural» causes of global warming and challenge the findings of the United Nations» climate science panel.
When ES&T (Environmental Science & Technology) contacted more than a dozen leading scientists to find out how these events affected the scientific consensus on climate change, many researchers began criticizing the Wall Street Journal and Barton.
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