Not exact matches
Trump and several of his cabinet members deny the
consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide
from human activity is the primary cause of global
warming.
Despite the «science is settled» and «
consensus» claims of the global -
warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences
from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science as by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.
At the same time, Trump refused to be pinned down on the scientific
consensus that humans are
warming the planet, invoking debunked information about emails stolen
from climate scientists in 2009, American factories burdened by regulations and his engineer uncle.
Fact check: Actual scientific
consensus on global
warming (
from real scientists that research and publish scrutinized reports) is getting stronger.
He attributes the current temperature increase to Earth recovering
from the Little Ice Age and, in the same article, states that «no
consensus exists that man - made emissions are the primary driver of global
warming or, more importantly, that global
warming is accelerating and dangerous.»
The general
consensus is thawing permafrost accelerates atmospheric
warming by emitting methane that is many many times more potent in
warming and most carbon is
from man made pollution.
What he disputes is that there is a legitimate
consensus on how much
warming will result
from a given increase in CO2 levels.
Over 400 prominent scientists
from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so - called «
consensus» on man - made global
warming.
Below you can see some findings highlighted by the Rasmussen organization that show the public drifting away
from consensus that humans are contributing substantially to
warming.
Specifically on the issue of global
warming from greenhouse gases and climate change, the conference reached a
consensus on the likelihood of a rise in the global mean temperature of between 2.7 - 8 degrees F (1.5 - 4.5 degrees C) by about 2050, but not on whether such
warming has begun.
Had we established a
consensus viewpoint by now, to assess the planetary
warming from the time it measurably began actually heating, both sides could begin
from the same fiduciary.
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?»
This independent approach produced a 97.2 per cent
consensus on human - caused global
warming, confirming the 97.1 per cent
consensus we observed
from the abstract text.
From a July 15, 2013 Huffington Post article, Desmogblog's Brendan DeMelle (yes, that Desmog) said in response to the news confirming the existence of a 97 % scientific
consensus on man - caused global
warming: Continue reading →
A 2013 paper, «Quantifying the
consensus on anthropogenic global
warming in the scientific literature,» examined «11,944 climate abstracts
from 1991 — 2011» and found that «97.1 percent endorsed the
consensus position,» while a parallel self - rating survey found that «97.2 percent endorsed the
consensus.»
It seems to me that even
from a
consensus viewpoint that the calculated contribution of global
warming should still be very small, and that if there are much bigger changes in the short term they are far more likely to be weather than climate.
Coverage about global
warming in UK tabloid newspapers has been significantly divergent
from the scientific
consensus that humans contribute to climate change.
Previous research by Rick's colleague Max Boykoff found that media coverage about global
warming in UK tabloid newspapers significantly diverged
from the scientific
consensus that humans contribute to climate change.
During the 12 - day climate summit underway in Copenhagen, countries are trying to forge
consensus on how best to protect the planet
from global
warming.
quote: «Despite the 97 % expert
consensus on human - caused global
warming supported by peer - reviewed research, expert opinion, the IPCC reports, and National Academies of Science and other scientific organizations
from around the world, a large segment of the population remains unconvinced on the issue.»
As the scientific case for a climate - change catastrophe wanes, proponents of big - ticket climate policies are increasingly focused on punishing dissent
from an asserted «
consensus» view that the only way to address global
warming is to restructure society — how it harnesses and uses energy.
Anthony watts is listed as a signatory of the Leipzig Declaration which states that «there does not exist today a general scientific
consensus about the importance of greenhouse
warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide.
The fact that so many studies on climate change don't bother to endorse the
consensus position is significant because scientists have largely moved
from what's causing global
warming onto discussing details of the problem (eg - how fast, how soon, impacts, etc).
-- «Mainstream
consensus» scientists first denied that it had stopped
warming and, when this no longer was possible, scrambled for rationalizations for the «unexplained lack of
warming», ranging
from previously underplayed «natural variability» to «Chinese aerosol emissions».
If we have such an overwhelming scientific «
consensus» about the supposed threat of catastrophic man - made global
warming — and about the political and economic solutions to it — then why do advocates have to sue scientists to prevent them
from questioning it?
Using data gathered
from tree rings, etc. her and other scientists in the 60's predicted that global
warming would resume by 1980 for 2 decades (at the time there had been a cooling trend since a
warming peak in the 1930's - and there was scientific
consensus of that as all the charts as of the 1980's showed that) followed by 50 years of cooling AND they predicted a spike in cooling around 2020.
By 1995, a group of scientists had started vocally dissenting
from the emerging
consensus on its anthropogenic causes, signing the Leipzig Declaration, which stated: «There does not exist today a general scientific
consensus about the importance of greenhouse
warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide.
As for the
consensus of 97 percent of scientists who say man - made global
warming is a real phenomenon, Will contends that «they pluck these things
from the ether» (as Chait points out, the number actually comes
from this report), while Krauthammer just dismisses the idea of a scientific
consensus.
«The IPCC... thinks the world will be between about 1.5 and 4 degrees
warmer...,
from marginally beneficial to terrifyingly harmful, so it is hardly a
consensus of danger...»
The experts say their research DOES NOT UNDERMINE THE SCIENTIFIC
CONSENSUS THAT EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES
FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY DRIVE GLOBAL
WARMING, BUT THEY CALL FOR A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE WAY CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS CONSIDER WATER VAPOUR.
Most interesting, the
consensus from multiple tree ring data sets around the world, also suggest natural habitats were
warmer during the 1940s than they are now.
While the Kyoto Protocol had already been set into place as the primary solution to climate change, the historian of science Stuart Weart marks the point at the year 2001 where climate scientists had actually reached a
consensus that human activity was
warming the planet via GHG emissions and land - use changes, the former largely
from fossil fuel use.
Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than at any time since at least a million years ago, and there is no notable scientific dissent
from the
consensus position that global
warming is happening, is human caused, and presents a global problem.
I still think, despite the «
consensus», that late 20th century
warming was mostly
from the sun, c02 having a very small role, why?
The latest attack on global
warming consensus comes
from Dennis Avery and Fred Singer who claim to have found 500 peer reviewed papers refuting that the last few decades of global
warming are primarily anthropogenic.
The Earth has
warmed 0.85 °C
from 1880 (preindustrial times) to 2012, according to the latest
consensus science reported in September by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific body established by the United Nations to inform governments of climate risks.
I think the original distinction that PG was making is that there are actual
warm bodied scientists who are willing to put their names to paper dissenting
from the supposed
consensus view.
Two, in response to arguments
from some climate change skeptics, many scientific organizations with expertise relevant to climate change have endorsed the
consensus position that «most of the global
warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities» including the following: • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Astronomical Society • American Chemical Society • American Geophysical Union • American Institute of Physics • American Meteorological Society • American Physical Society • Australian Coral Reef Society • Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO • British Antarctic Survey • Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences • Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society • Environmental Protection Agency • European Federation of Geologists • European Geosciences Union • European Physical Society • Federation of American Scientists • Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies • Geological Society of America • Geological Society of Australia • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Royal Meteorological Society • Royal Society of the UK
A recent series of reports
from the Science and Public Policy Institute spotlights problems with the peer review process of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and efforts to create the illusion of scientific
consensus on global
warming.
This slide in status has occurred amid a growing scientific
consensus that rising levels of heat - trapping emissions
from smokestacks and tailpipes are
warming the climate and could become the biggest environmental problem of the next 100 years.
Oreskes» studies on the much - repeated «97 percent
consensus» agreement among scientists that the effects of Anthropogenic Global
Warming (AGW) require draconian political measures has brought her praise and scorn
from equally well - qualified commentators.
Their efforts cover a range of activities,
from lobbying to political contributions to media campaigns that attempt to discredit the scientific
consensus around global
warming.
According to the book Why Scientists Disagree About Global
Warming, the most frequently cited source for a «
consensus of scientists» is Oreskes» a 2004 essay for the journal Science, in which she reported examining abstracts
from 928 papers published in scientific journals in 1993 and 2003 she found using the keywords «global climate change.»
Trump has also appointed officials such as EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, all of whom question the scientific
consensus that carbon released into the atmosphere
from burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of global
warming.
«Defendants stole a page
from the Big Tobacco playbook and sponsored public relations campaigns, either directly or through the American Petroleum Institute or other groups, to deny and discredit the mainstream scientific
consensus on global
warming, downplay the risks of global
warming, and even to launch unfounded attacks on the integrity of leading climate scientists,» the San Francisco suit reads.
«We analyze the evolution of the scientific
consensus on anthropogenic global
warming (AGW) in the peer - reviewed scientific literature, examining 11944 climate abstracts
from 1991 — 2011 matching the topics «global climate change» or «global
warming».
His probe follows revelations that Wei - Hock (Willie) Soon of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who disputes the scientific
consensus that human activities are the main driver of global
warming, failed to disclose research funding
from Exxon, Southern Company, and other fossil - fuel industry sources.
The declaration states that ``... it has become increasingly clear that — contrary to the conventional wisdom — there does not exist today a general scientific
consensus about the importance of greenhouse
warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide.
The
consensus message
from many national and international assessments of the science is pretty simple: Natural factors can't explain the size or patterns of observed
warming.
Quantifying the
consensus on anthropogenic global
warming in the scientific literature — Abstract — Environmental Research Letters — IOPscience We analyze the evolution of the scientific
consensus on anthropogenic global
warming (AGW) in the peer - reviewed scientific literature, examining 11944 climate abstracts
from 1991 — 2011 matching the topics «global climate change» or «global
warming».