Unfortunately, this is shifting the focus away from the most important element of the climate debate:
the scientific reality of global warming.
One has to wonder how productive it can be to negotiate with polluters who deny
the scientific reality of global warming.
Not exact matches
What, specifically, is the reason that you are «skeptical»
of the conclusions
of the overwhelming majority
of the world's climate scientists and every relevant
scientific organization in the world, including the national science academies
of every major country in the world, that anthropogenic
global warming is a
reality?
Brian, I'd recommend that you run the talking points through a
reality check before attaching your name to them — one excellent resource is skepticalscience.com, from whence (after.1 second
of effort) I reached the rebuttal to «Scientists predicted an impending ice age in the 1970's» («Is it really appropriate to compare the
scientific evidence for an impending ice age in the 70's to the
scientific consensus on anthropogenic
global warming today?»
And that
reality has been demonstrated over and over again, most recently in the work
of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, led by Dr. Richard Muller, who began his comprehensive assessment as an avowed climate skeptic and ended it convinced by the clear evidence that
global warming is happening and is caused by human activity.This conclusion is emphatically shared by the best and brightest
of the
global scientific community, including our own National Academy
of Sciences.
The
scientific consensus over the
reality and causes
of global warming has grown stronger over the past decade, as reflected in the widely publicized reports
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The faux pause has nonetheless been used by political partisans like Senator Cruz to cast doubt on the overwhelming
scientific consensus that humans are causing rapid
global warming, simply because they find the political implications
of that
scientific reality inconvenient â $» to their ideological views and the views
of the special interests who fund their campaigns.
In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range
of likely adverse consequences, based on
scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the
reality of human - induced
global warming as a significant problem.
Dismissing natural variability even though it is well demonstrated by now that the consensus view on so - called «
global warming» has failed seems to invert the
scientific process
of (in rough form): Observe > hypothesis > test / predict > measure result > Compare to observation > reconcile to
reality.
Every qualified
scientific body in the world, from the American Association for the Advancement
of Science to the Royal Society, agrees unequivocally that
global warming is both a
reality, and caused by man - made greenhouse gas emissions.
«The
reality of global warming has been confirmed by 11
of the world's National Academies
of Sciences, as well as 18 different
scientific societies across the nation.
However, readers
of my column will know that I give contrarians, or sceptics, or deniers (call them what you will) short shrift, and as a close follower
of the
scientific debate on this subject I can state without doubt that there is no dispute whatsoever within the expert community as to the
reality or causes
of manmade
global warming.
But the
scientific reality is that the chart confirms a steady
global warming that has been taking place since the end
of the Little Ice Age (late 1700s)- well before the influx
of the giant CO2 emissions from the industrial / consumer era.
Adjacent is a chart that depicts the output
of climate alarmism
of catastrophic
global warming scientists, versus
scientific reality.
What, specifically, is the reason that you are «skeptical»
of the conclusions
of the overwhelming majority
of the world's climate scientists and every relevant
scientific organization in the world, including the national science academies
of every major country in the world, that anthropogenic
global warming is a
reality?
That 40 % number is a falsehood - there is about a 98 % consensus
of all scientists who study this phenomena that anthropogenic climate change is a
reality, and every major
scientific institution in the world supports the conclusion
of man caused
global warming.
In fact there is no genuine
scientific «debate» about the
reality of anthropogenic
global warming.
As we discussed last time, there is a remarkable level
of scientific consensus on the
reality and severity
of human - caused
global warming.
After being shown evidence
of the consensus on human - caused
global warming, Australian acceptance
of this
scientific reality grew across the political spectrum, but especially among conservatives.
As the
scientific evidence became clear, internal documents show that some
of the world's largest carbon producers — including Chevron, BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, and ConocoPhillips — worked for years to deceive the public about the
reality of global warming.
In short, the
scientific consensus on human - caused
global warming is an indisputable
reality, supported by many different lines
of evidence, despite the strategic efforts to deny it.
COP21: With the UN climate conference still trying to agree an effective way to tackle
global warming, a
scientific group warns that policy is ignoring the
reality of a melting world.
Critics say that Exxon and these groups continue to muddle the debate even as
scientific consensus has emerged, and as much
of the industry has taken a more conciliatory stance toward the
reality of global warming.
An executive (and founder) with Green Peace recently admitted he left the organization because
global warming was more
of a political issue than
reality and the «
scientific» models being developed were designed to back up
global warming assertions instead
of to process real data in unbiased fashion.
If you're wondering why Congress has yet to tackle this
global crisis despite overwhelming
scientific consensus and ballooning costs
of inaction, Think Progress has an interactive map that shows the huge sums
of political donations given by the oil and gas industry alongside which members
of Congress deny the
realities of global warming.
Given all this it seems to me that anyone touting this as proof that «
global warming is a hoax» completley misunderstands the process
of scientific endeavor or has completely exhausted any real argument that rightfully brings into to doubt the
reality of climate change.
G8 Climate Statement (PDF) Here is a 2005 joint declaration on the
realities of global warming signed by the heads
of the chief
scientific advisors for all the G8 countries (China, Canada, Brazil, Russia, United States, Japan, Italy, India, Germany).
The «man - made hysteria» associated with the
global -
warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions
of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification
of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice
of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding
of basic
scientific concepts, and
reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.