Sensible commentators from more than one
side of the climate debate think the bona fide Heartland documents contain nothing particularly new, revealing, or significant (see here, here, here, and here).
Not exact matches
This post about the Suzuki - Pembina report is a case in point: both
sides of the
debate seemed to
think that I was offering aid and succor to the cause
of the
climate change deniers.
On the whole, I
think Revkin has tried to be fair to all
sides of the
climate change
debate.
Energy analysts at the Brookings Institution, a centrist
think tank, see an opportunity for Obama to use his high - profile speech to bring together both
sides of the
climate - change
debate.
The sands
of the
climate debate are surely shifting rapidly, with major implications for those who are active in the public
debate — scientist / advocates on both
sides, environmentalists and the libertarian
think tanks, the media, and policy makers and politicians.
Wow, its sure good that the world has decided that skeptics are the mindless, thuggish, anti-science
side of this
debate, because if that had not already been made clear, we might
think that key
climate alarmism groups had lost their freaking minds.
But it does suggest that if both
sides of the
debate paid close attention to the social consequences
of policies, rather than the present intractable
debate on the reality
of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might
think it is pointless with regard to the
climate (but a substantial proportion
of people
think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be ok.
But it does suggest that if both
sides of the
debate paid close attention to the social consequences
of policies, rather than the present intractable
debate on the reality
of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might
think it is pointless with regard to the
climate (but a substantial proportion
of people
think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be OK.
These
thoughts were reinforced a couple
of weeks ago talking to Eli Lehrer from R Street at a
debate held in DC between Lehrer and Bob Inglis on one
side and James Taylor (Heartland) and David Kreutzer, (Heritage) about how to deal with
climate change.
If you
think that the
climate debate is dominated by arguments related to cultural values and not science, indeed you seem to imply this, then it seems you're broadly in agreement with all my posts including this one, none
of which advocate or defend any physical
climate science or data from any
side in the
debate.
Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative
think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one
side of the global warming
debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis.»