Sentences with phrase «than attacking climate»

Whereas they once spent more time debating the utility of climate policy than attacking climate science, that trend has reversed over time.

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One of the major attacks on climate science has been the denigration of models, now in less than two weeks two very public model predictions based upon science have proven spectacularly true.

Verbal attacks on mainstream climate science are perhaps louder than they have ever been.

And I'd rather deal with the problem of farming in a warmer climate than farming under attack by Martian death rays — which is as relevent as the possibility of a new ice age for the next 150 + years.

Dr. Somerville was on the team attacking that premise, but he offered a definition of the word «crisis» that was very different than those used by many climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore.

The upshot is that Brussels survived this week's terrorist attacks, but it may not survive climate change (much of the city is less than 100 feet above sea level).

You could argue that attacking demand is a more effective way of preventing exploitation than blocking the pipeline (though I don't see any reason the two efforts are incompatible) but one way or another if you care about climate, you can't consider the oil sands a «reasonable» energy source.

Blair, pardon me if I seemed to be over-reactive, but if you follow the topic of climate change for more than a very short while you'll see that all too often the «argument» of people who disagree with results they don't like is to mount the ultimate personal attack: they try to substitute comments about an author's personal background for substantive comment about the author's work.

On the same day as the attacks, a paper by James E. Hansen and other climate experts was released arguing that carbon emissions are transforming our world far more quickly than expected, in ways that may inundate coastal cities and cause storms more horrendous than any in modern history.

Interestingly, Bartlett appears more concerned by our vulnerability to terrorist attacks and foreign aggression through electromagnetic pulse weapons (EMPs) than he is worried about climate change, but the end result of that concern is still a belief in resilience and responsibility.

Many people, in the end, were embarrassed by this major attack on climate change scientists when it turned out to be nothing more than manufactured media hype.

An example of climate scientists» bridge bombing, rather than bridge building, is the Mann group attacking a book reviewer for giving a positive review to Pielke, Jr's «The Climate Fix.climate scientists» bridge bombing, rather than bridge building, is the Mann group attacking a book reviewer for giving a positive review to Pielke, Jr's «The Climate Fix.Climate Fix.»

Mhyre has been very poorly mentored by climate «scientists» to commit illogical rhetorical attacks rather than upholding true science by exploring ALL models and testing them against ALL data.

This relationship between a lobbyist for one of the nation's largest utilities and an aggressive purveyor of attacks on climate science and policies warrants much deeper scrutiny than it has so far received.

I encourage ETC to join the conversation constructively rather than sniping from the sidelines, misrepresenting the science and attacking climate scientists — leave that to the right - wing think tanks.

Rather than attack Tom you should see him as an example of climate scientists of all persuasions who are trying to analyse the behaviour of complex chaotic systems by the application of simplistic relationships studied in a laboratory.

There was no major climate march in Paris — it had been called off in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in the city, replaced by more quiet actions — but activists in other places around the world more than made up for it.

«Nuclear is dying of incurable attack of market forces despite what the industry wants you to believe,» he remarked, adding that micropower offer more climate solution per dollar spent than nuclear.

However, this is also a can't - miss opportunity to put that entire enviro - activist notion to the ultimate test, with an outright challenge to billionaire Tom Steyer to consider a far more chancy gamble than the $ 100 million he's pledged toward Senate and gubernatorial races that «attack climate - change deniers» — a gamble that either makes or totally busts the two decade - old accusation that skeptics are paid to lie and spread misinformation.

Despite the fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has provided more information about climate change than has ever been known about any previous global threat, the GCC has been unrelenting in its attacks on the IPCC process and the scientists themClimate Change (IPCC) has provided more information about climate change than has ever been known about any previous global threat, the GCC has been unrelenting in its attacks on the IPCC process and the scientists themclimate change than has ever been known about any previous global threat, the GCC has been unrelenting in its attacks on the IPCC process and the scientists themselves.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which has received more than $ 7 million from DT in recent years, has for many years attacked human - caused climate change science and the renewable energy industry.

Rather than engage the climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man of «conservative orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»

When I started looking into different blogs I was shocked by the aggressive, humiliating and selfish communication style of many so called «climate scientists» using their time more for advocating «settled» science and attacking «skeptics», than for research.

First, of course, there was that string of boo - boos he made in his BBC Horizon documentary, Science Under Attack, in which he set out to make fools of people he branded «deniers» only to end up proving himself significantly more ignorant of the complexities of climate science than the «deniers» were.

Rather than attack the substance of the paper, the warmists reverted to their usual tricks, lead by Kert Davies, an activist lawyer who works for a Greenpeace front organisation called Climate Investigations Center.

Tony Blair's chief scientist has launched a withering attack on President George Bush for failing to tackle climate change, which he says is more serious than terrorism.

Attacked constantly, exonerated repeatedly, he knows the climate change denialist methods probably better than anyone.

Perhaps nothing underscores its importance more than the strenuous efforts that opponents of climate action have exerted in attacking consensus.

As someone who has endured more attacks from the forces of climate denial than possibly any other person on the planet, Mann provides great insight into the modes of attack.

It is intellectually dishonest to devote several pages to cherry - picking studies that disagree with the IPCC consensus on net health effects because you don't like its scientific conclusion, while then devoting several pages to hiding behind [a misstatement of] the U.N. consensus on sea level rise because you know a lot reasonable people think the U.N. wildly underestimated the upper end of the range and you want to attack Al Gore for worrying about 20 - foot sea level rise.On this blog, I have tried to be clear what I believe with my earlier three - part series: Since sea level, arctic ice, and most other climate change indicators have been changing faster than most IPCC models projected and since the IPCC neglects key amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks, the IPCC reports almost certainly underestimate future climate impacts.

Anyone who claimed that the story is more complicated than the axiom, «climate change is happening» was «attacking science».

Curry might say something about the» 76 - ’78 warm phase, but either climate sensitivity is no more her expertise than many amateur bloggers or she is intentionally muddying the waters with a long screed about Balmaseda reanalysis and attacking the strawman of «hiatus = missing heat».

As a veteran journalist for several Washington, D.C. newspapers, I've interviewed more than 100 victims (by actual count) of ethically - challenged climate change believers protecting their income, in - group status, or warped personality maintenance innards who routinely attack dissenters with the same error - ridden stock accusations without the slightest idea what the dissenter actually did or said.

«As one of the nation's leading climate researchers, no one has felt the brunt of the attacks from politicians and the fossil fuel industry more than Michael Mann.

In a city still reeling from the deadly string of terrorist attacks, participants representing more than 130 countries will gather to formalize their commitments to curbing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Call me cynical, but after more than a decade of research and writing into the role big fossil fuel companies have played in sponsoring coordinated attacks on climate science with public relations spin, I remain unconvinced we won't see a resurgence in climate denial.

Indonesia considers environmental and climate concerns to be nothing more than economic discrimination, and civil society campaigns against deforestation and industrial plantations to be unfair attacks.