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THE farcical scaremongering by global warming activists about the «dying» reef has cost Australians jobs and money:

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In her first major environmental proposal, Nixon called on New York State to commit to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050 — a benchmark that has been something of a Holy Grail for activists concerned about the warming of the planet as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

Other organised protesters who've received the BBC blessing of warm approval recently, accompanied by woolly reporting about who they are, are the Russian protesters who apparently would like to be governed by oligarchs and the Socialist Workers Party activist who confronted Andrew Landsley for the cameras.

The event also featured an activist singing group, The Raging Grannies, who sang about global warming to the tune of Glory, Glory Hallelujah.

The non-profit 350.org, launched in 2008 by writer and activist Bill McKibben and others to raise awareness about global warming, has circled the proverbial wagons around the cause of reducing atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm.

Activist Bill McKibben starts a climate road show in a bid to raise awareness about the need to address global warming now

MIAMI — One of the first sea - level rise maps Broadway Harewood saw was a few years back, when climate activists gathered in his neighborhood to talk about how global warming would affect people in less - affluent South Florida communities.

A plan: See: http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/28/winning-climate-messages-combine-dire-scientific-threat-with-solutions-for-a-just-world/ «New psychological research finds that dire messages about the threat of global warming will strengthen people's acceptance of climate science when combined with solutions, which is the approach taken by leading climate activists.

Questions about Field's pro-industry stance on global warming come as the DEC faces accusations from environmental activists that the agency gave the natural gas industry exclusive and unfair access to draft drilling regulations up to six weeks before they were released to the public or to any other stakeholders.

Thursday was World Environment Day, and the green messages were flowing all around, including one from Alain Robert, a French stuntman and activist who scaled the jungle - gym like exterior of The New York Times headquarters to hang a banner about the human cost of global warming.

Is it actually Chevron turning out the «fossil fuel industry denial light» about the certainty of man - caused global warming, or is it one solitary unmistakably pro-global warming lawyer nudging an entire company into the most inexplicable kind of politically correct appeasement to enviro - activists?

Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio was on hand at the first annual South by South Lawn (SXSL) festival at the White House Monday for a discussion with President Obama about climate change and a screening of his new documentary film about global warming.

Neither Gelbspan nor anyone repeating his accusation ever proved the money trail led to an industry directive to lie about global warming science; none of them have proved skeptic climate scientists were instructed to mimic tobacco industry tactics; journalists have demonstrably not offered overall fair balance in to skeptic climate scientists; the «wedge» being driven is one arguably pounded by enviro - activists who push the «skeptics don't deserve fair media balance» talking point; and Gelbspan was not the first one to bring up this talking point.

As ever, the fatal problem with enviro - activists» enslavement to the «reposition global warming as theory» phrase as proof that skeptics are paid illicit money to lie about certainty of global warming is that there is no evidence of it being a top - down fossil fuel industry directive of any kind.

«We're actually looking at a situation where a select group of individuals — 7,125,985,886 of them, to be exact — are singlehandedly responsible for global warming and are refusing to do anything about it,» author and activist Dan Cregmann told reporters, noting that these culprits have a horrible track record of following recommended environmental guidelines and disclosing their total energy consumption.

The fact (as amply evidenced in Dr. Curry's post above) that climate scientists (at least some of them) and climate activists are in a tizzy tells us all we need to know about how certain, how settled, man - made global warming is.

Climate activists excitedly report that climate litigation «has the potential to reshape the way the world thinks about energy production and the consequences of global warming.»

Dig deep enough in the «crooked skeptics» accusation, and you ultimately discover that in regard to the notion about skeptics being in a pay - for - performance arrangement with anybody in the fossil fuel industry, there's only one usable weapon in the enviro - activists» arsenal to indict those skeptics as industry - paid shills: the supposedly leaked industry memo set from a public relations campaign called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) supposedly containing the «reposition global warming» strategy goal, which targeted «older, less - educated males» and «younger, lower - income women.»

What about Lindzen associating himself with Watts (an activist on the other side of the spectrum) and coaching him (in an email sent from his university account) how to obtain a statistically insignificant warming trend (at 95 % confidence level) in the CRUT data?

Environmental activists should stop talking about global warming because no one cares.

To quash the notion that no valid scientific criticism exists against the idea of man - caused global warming, enviro - activists often say «denier scientists» are paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about the issue, insinuating a parallel to expert «shills» who did the same for «big tobacco».

Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the «science says» game when talking about global warming.

One of the unfortunate side effects of which was that (and this is not necessarily your field's fault in the direct sense) every two - bit environmental activist, campaigner, and pressure group took it as license to fully politicize the science with naive and exaggerated claims about the «effects» of global warming (apparently it's responsible for everything), or where the «tipping point» was (30 years, no 20 years, no 10 years, etc.) or how quickly we could «de-carbonize» our economy (50 % reduction in 40 years, no 70 % in 30 years, no 90 % in 15 years).

For over two decades, both the overall enviro - activist community and the mainstream media have had what amounts to nearly absolute control over framing the public narrative about the global warming issue.

Just to let you know how stupid the global warming activists are, I've been to the south pole 3 times and even there, where the water vapor is under 0.2 mm precipitable, it's still the H2O that is the main concern in our field and nobody even talks about CO2 because CO2 doesn't absorb or radiate in the portion of the spectrum corresponding with earth's surface temps of 220 to 320 K. Not at all.

CEI's Sam Kazman, the ad co-creator, said that «Global warming activists warn us about the alleged threats from global warming, but are usually silent about the much more immediate threats from global warming policies.»

«Peer review» has long been the refuge of desperate activists — eg this classic moment starring Ed Begley Jr — who would like us to believe that only the white - labcoated gatekeepers of climate truth are in any position to pronounce publicly about global warming.

If warming activists had real science they wouldn't have to grasp at ancient left - wing conspiracy theories about «Cato» or «big oil» to sell their wares.

Instead of the accusation from Schneiderman et al. being that Exxon engaged in racketeering in order to misinform its shareholders about the certainty of man - caused global warming, the question should be asked if a particular clique of enviro - activists (Gore, Oreskes, Gelbspan and those at «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action» http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=4482) instead engaged in racketeering when it comes to hoodwinking environmentalist donors about the certainty that skeptic climate scientists are «industry - paid crooks.»

Various entities have been losing the global warming issue war for many years, succumbing to enviro - activist pressure to offer, at minimum, some kind of politically correct capitulation about how human activity is responsible for the warming.

The fallout from this March 21 tutorial hearing was that enviro - activists ignored what the judge concluded about that «GCC / GCSCT» material and instead proclaimed a hugely overgeneralized victory about the position stated by Chevron's attorney * (* author's addition: which is noted my April 19, 2018 blog post), while Michael Bastasch at The Daily Caller reported that a «Federal Judge Dismissed Claim Of A Conspiracy To Suppress Global Warming Science.»

Eric Michelman, the Seattle - based climate activist behind the campaign, said he started the project to get more climate scientists» voices into public conversations about global warming.

Make no mistake about it, the mantra repeated by enviro - activists everywhere is that there is no doubt about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, and nobody should bother to listen to skeptic climate scientists because what few skeptics there are were paid industry money to lie, just the same way «shill experts» lied on behalf of «big tobacco» years ago.

So, once again, it is ever more obvious that the collective lot of enviro - activists have only one source for their unsupportable accusation about a fossil fuel industry denial mating, the worthless set of «reposition global warming» memos, and the one guy responsible for gaining media traction for them, Ross Gelbspan.

The ultimate psychological projection here might be that when enviro - activists say the fossil fuel industry engaged in racketeering when it conspired with skeptics to misinform the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, this is instead a giant arrow pointing to enviro - activists doing all the racketeering on misinforming the public about settled global warming science and industry - corrupted skeptics.

In order to wrong - foot sceptics, activist climate scientists (for that is what they must be if they are not agnostic about global warming) have had to reinterpret the evidence.

«This is dead - serious business,» wrote climate activist and 350.org founder Bill McKibben in his initial «call to arms» back in May, «a signal moment in the gathering fight of human beings to do something about global warming before it's too late to do anything but watch.»

Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse effect is, whether it will lead to a harmful amount of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).

... Continue reading Scientists speak to us about the warming pause, while activists deny their work.

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The bad news is that we're entering presidential election season, which means activists in the party (and warm activists are party activists) will continue their strategy of demagoguing the issue, while doing nothing about it - expect to take a beating in the partisan press and the big paper editorial pages.

Whether from ignorance or mendacity, climate activists continue to ignore climate scientists» work about the pause in warming since roughly 1998.

If you are an enviro - activist with no intellectual curiosity about the matter, and one of your prominent leaders tells you a leaked industry document's strategy statement to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» proves skeptic climate scientists were paid industry money to lie and misinform, then that's all you need to know on the topic.