Sentences with phrase «warming consensus really»
If it's true that a global warming consensus really exists — and not just in press releases and speeches — politicians and business leaders wouldn't be afraid to suggest such a tax.
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And there was this great, it was my favorite moment of the weekend and it was this very dramatic moment, when basically Emanuel was complaining a little bit, very politely, and smiling about the fact that journalists still are doing stories about, you know, the debate around climate science, but there's not really, of course, there's not a debate, there's consensus that anthropogenic global warming is happening and that, why are you still doing these stories, asking questions?
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.
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?»
Dr. Lubchenco's testimony before the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming: «The [CRU] emails really do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus and the independent scientific analyses of thousands of scientists around the world that tell us that the earth is warming and that the warming is largely a result of human activities.Warming: «The [CRU] emails really do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus and the independent scientific analyses of thousands of scientists around the world that tell us that the earth is warming and that the warming is largely a result of human activities.warming and that the warming is largely a result of human activities.warming is largely a result of human activities.»
Thus, the UN latched onto Michael Mann's hockey stick to overturn a consensus that there was a Medieval warm period, and now they have latched onto Nicholas Stern to overturn the opinion of, approximately, every other economist in the world who think CO2 mitigation will be really expensive.
The consensus that humans cause global warming is not really about anything that is being talked about figuratively and metaphorically.
Finally, I think what the media really want to know when they ask about Katrina and global warming is whether the connection is «significant», and I don't think there's consensus there, partly as Gavin says, that's a matter of semantics, partly it's a genuine disagreement as to how important global warming is where hurricanes are concerned compared to other factors, and how «significant» an argument the influence of global warming on hurricanes is for deciding energy policy.
If you want to do something really unusual, which would gain you respect why don't you organise an extended report into the consensus science of global warming?
Using Tom Curtis's «conversational implicature» approach to the classification scheme (ignore the classification as given and, because you are a person of goodwill, assume that all mentions of acceptance or rejection of a human role in global warming really refer to acceptance or rejection of the consensus that «humans are causing > 50 % of the current global warming») amends Table 2 as follows: