Sentences with phrase «skeptics seized upon»
The Telegraph apologized for creating the false impression that Dr. Pachauri had been earning millions of dollars from his consulting work, allegations that climate change skeptics seized upon to question the integrity of the United Nations climate panel he leads.
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The way that skeptics collectively seize upon, exaggerate and trumpet any press release that questions global warming only reinforces how established the scientific consensus really is.
A British reporter brought up the batch of e-mail messages and files that a British climate research center says were stolen from one of its servers and that have since been seized upon by skeptics and foes of cuts in greenhouse gases as evidence of corruption in climate science.
The «Amazongate» column, authored by Jonathan Leake, Science & Environment Editor of the Sunday Times, was immediately seized upon by climate skeptics as further evidence to discredit the IPCC just two weeks after it was found to be using shoddy glacier data in its 2007 climate assessment.
One of the claims of the most recent assessment before this one, that the Himalayan glaciers were set to disappear within 40 years, has since been retracted, and skeptics have seized upon such predictive errors to invalidate the IPCC's findings entirely.