Sentences with phrase «warming debate becomes»
If the answer to the first question is yes or if the answer to the second is no, the global warming debate becomes merely interesting, with very few real political consequences.
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The Global Warming Policy Foundation is an independent think tank chaired by the former British finance minister Nigel Lawson that claims to «bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist and all too often depressingly intolerant ``.
A Sensitive Debate The dramatic nature of global warming captured world attention in 2001, when the IPCC published a graph that my co-authors and I devised, which became known as the «hockey stick.»
Climate change and global warming has become part of our everyday life, and central to this debate is the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
The whole global warming debate reminds me of the rule that if you say something enough times to enough people it becomes accepted as fact for no other reason that everybody is saying it.
«The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral crusade when it's really an engineering problem.
In this debate we often find scientific leftists who are willing to consider the precautionary principle for nuclear power and global warming suddenly becoming very adventurous about the effects of new scientific and industrial developments on the environment.
Furthermore, unlike the endless culture war disputes where the debating tactics of the right have been developed, there is a fact of the matter regarding anthropogenic global warming, which will sooner or latter become undeniable.
For this reason, the debate over the Medieval Warm Period has become intrinsically linked with the man - made global warming debate.
As Congress argues the validity of global warming, Cushman continued, the Keystone Pipeline has become a fulcrum in the debate.
In this case, they also indicate how political the entire Global Warming debate has become.
Mann's paper passed through the peer review process unscathed, and went on to become a key cornerstone of the entire anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis and the subsequent policy debate.
See: Laughable: UN Report: «Damage being caused by climate change... is no longer a matter of debate» — «The science has become more irrevocable than ever» — Sept. 24, 2009 — Also, AP's Seth Borenstein delivered his usual pabulum on global warming, complete with extensive quotes from Corell.
Indeed Mann has a point and the blame for the «hockey - stick» becoming such an important icon of the debate really lies with the IPCC's TAR which used the «hockey - stick» as an icon for global warming.
A Sensitive Debate The dramatic nature of global warming captured world attention in 2001, when the IPCC published a graph that my co-authors and I devised, which became known as the «hockey stick.»
TWITTER has become a hotbed of debate between staunch believers of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) and those sceptical of the supposed adverse impacts of mankind's energy emissions on planet Earth.
«I published 15 years ago this graph called the «hockey stick» that shows how unprecedented recent global warming is, and it became an icon in the climate change debate,» Mann said.
Anyway, I am becoming ever more convinced of the need for Steve McIntyre's 2xCO2 Yields 3C Warming engineering study as a tool for managing these AGW debates.
The phrase «the debate over global warming is now over» does not mean that there is no more to learn scientifically, as Lindzen's comment suggests, but that theoretical analyses combined with observational evidence have together produced a broad scientific consensus that human activities have become the primary factor influencing the global climate.
This is because the global warming debate has become extremely political.
But since that was before, according to the IPCC, global warming became the dominant factor in temperature rises, it is not clear past plateaux [sic] are relevant to this debate»
The study - published in this spring's Sociological Quarterly - documents opinions on global warming, and seems to confirm that global warming has become yet another political totem issue; a worrying sign for the chances of moving forward from debate to action on slowing climate change
As a lifelong Democrat, it is with deep regret that I conclude that this endless debate over CO2 - induced global warming will not be resolved unless the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives has the courage to close agencies (NAS, EPA, NASA, DOE) that ignored their mandate and became «agents of the apparatus.»
As a scientist I have tried to resist seeing the global warming debate as first and foremost a political, not scientific issue, but the evidence is becoming overwhelming.