Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chaired the 1994 hearings where tobacco executives unanimously declared under oath that cigarettes were not addictive, watches today's global -
warming deniers with a sense of déjà vu.
Not exact matches
Trump, by contrast, appears to have no engagement
with science, has implicitly
denied the scientific consensus when it comes to global
warming, and he wasn't supported by the tech industry during the election (the highly ideological, libertarian Thiel notwithstanding).
The irony continues
with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change -
denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global
warming science is «not settled.»
You likely
deny evolution and global
warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating
with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.
The term «global
warming denier» is so offensive because it seeks to attach skepticism about the
warming and / or its supposed Draconian solutions
with denying the Holocaust and being «anti science.»
Why do they lump the gospel of Jesus Christ
with faving lower taxes (not caring for the poor),
deny global
warming (not being good stewards for the environment), refuse reasonable gun control (being common sense good citizens)?
Denying global
warming is one prime example held by extremists who seem to lean toward the religious right
with respect to political ideology.
As for pundits the Merson types are like climate scientists who
deny global
warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along
with the crowd.
We've slept
with our babies for thousands of years to protect them and hold them
warm, and this need of physical proximity at an early age is so deeply ingrained into us humans that no new guidelines should try to
deny that.
So, the main answer to your query is «there's no logical reason for global
warming denying to be associated
with conservatives, if you are willing to bypass partisan soundbites».
Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned
with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected by the consequences of regulations to reduce global
warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to
deny global
warming.
They are designed to keep your feet
warm and dry and are made
with high - quality leather, 1680
denier ballistic nylon.
Scientists discuss lessons learned from the struggle
with those who would
deny human - caused global
warming
Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled
with how to convey the high stakes of global
warming without making people feel helpless or fueling
deniers by coming across as alarmist.
Climate - change foes, on the other hand, are successfully changing people's minds — Republicans and Democrats alike —
with messages
denying the existence of global
warming.
«This would be consistent
with the elite cues hypothesis, in that we would expect political leaders who
deny anthropogenic global
warming to claim victory during unseasonably cold periods or amplify their denial during unseasonably
warm periods that invite challenge to their worldview,» says Bohr.
2) A better ability to constrain climate sensitivity from the past century's data 3) It will presumably be anticorrelated
with year to year variations in global surface temperature that we see, especially from El Ninos and La Ninas, which will be nice whenever we have a cool year and the
deniers cry out «global
warming stopped!».
With climate change deniers saying the cold temperatures contradicted the idea of global warming and some climate scientists suggesting that cold extremes could have a counterintuitive warming link, researchers wondered, «how can we reconcile this idea of global warming with these really extreme cold temperatures?&ra
With climate change
deniers saying the cold temperatures contradicted the idea of global
warming and some climate scientists suggesting that cold extremes could have a counterintuitive
warming link, researchers wondered, «how can we reconcile this idea of global
warming with these really extreme cold temperatures?&ra
with these really extreme cold temperatures?»
Yesterday, the Heritage Foundation hosted The Heartland Institute's CEO Joseph Bast, along
with two of Heartland's contracted climate denial scientists (Willie Soon and Bob Carter), to present their new report that
denies the seriousness of global
warming.
Re: 98 Satellite data: Some weeks ago I had a discussion
with my American «
Deny - aleban» nephew about global
warming, and I came across some points of interest, which I think somebody should take a closer look into: I wrote this to him: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9m66ktqf28mghs/Pil1.pdf?dl=0 and the point of interest starts at page 6, where I write about the 98 - thing.
I had thought there was a legitimate scientific debate about the role of global
warming and hurricanes, but it appears that the
deniers, although they are legitimate scientists, seem to have fallen in
with the think tank ideologues and PR lobbyists who masquerade as scientists.
Global Climate Coalition dissolves as many corporations grapple
with threat of
warming, but oil lobby convinces US administration to
deny problem.
Reminds me of global
warming deniers, ultra sensitive on their own websites about a peep showing evidence, but full of deliberately misleading and even rude posts on websites concerned
with addressing AGW, whose regulars bend over backwards to respond both factually and super duper sensitively.
Wolford 200
denier tights to keep me
warm, as well as the layering
with a Maison Martin Margiela x H&M turtle neck, and Pauw leather biker jacket (similar low budget, or high end).
I am a widow some 15 years and now it's my turn to find the man that I will share time and passion
with, someone who is not afraid of being intimate and able to show affection - I am a
warm and loving woman
denied the joys of companionship for far too long - so new day and a new me in the works -...
As a huge Batman nerd, I'm a bit biased to this film, but how can you
deny that powerful stories about a marathon runner, a boy
with cancer, a cop, and wealthy guy who dresses up and visits sick kids at hospitals isn't heart -
warming and inspiring.
We have a president - elect
with debauched attitudes toward women, a man who has
denied facts about global
warming and disparaged our own intelligence community.
Without
denying that the Human Age has triggered global
warming and a terrifying mass extinction, Ackerman banks on our ability to address looming crises
with creativity and determination in this precisely illuminating, witty, and resplendently expressive guide to the framework for a more positively human and humane future.
Their shaped canvas fits together into rectangles that
deny the shaping, while
warm colors and soft modeling in turn disturb the picture plane
with the illusions of a third dimension.
Hence when the facts of global
warming collide
with the ideology of unfettered economic activity, the facts are routinely
denied simply because they imply the need for state intervention.
They have very little to do
with the rapid
warming we are seeing at present, which, if we are not to
deny the evidence, is overwhelmingly due to anthropogenic greenhouse gasses.
2000 The Global Climate Coalition dissolves as many corporations grapple
with the threat of
warming, but the oil lobby convinces the U.S. administration to
deny a problem exists.
Global
warming deniers * pull similar dirty tricks
with the comparison of global temperature
with model projections — for example, by plotting only the tropical mid-troposphere, and by comparing observations
with the projections of scenarios which are furthest from reality.
2) A better ability to constrain climate sensitivity from the past century's data 3) It will presumably be anticorrelated
with year to year variations in global surface temperature that we see, especially from El Ninos and La Ninas, which will be nice whenever we have a cool year and the
deniers cry out «global
warming stopped!».
I am not
denying global
warming in anyway, just I think it is best to always check speculation
with a little more sober look into fact.
What
deniers want to do is skip all that, misrepresent the models by claiming they predict steady
warming (conflate multi-model ensemble means
with individual model runs), and conclude the physics is wrong and CO2 causes less
warming.
I felt that he is global
warming skeptic or
denier to read his article but it was not related
with global
warming issue and I felt his article is difficult to understand because English is my foreign languge, I give up others of him.
As usual
with any Post article that discusses global
warming and climate change, the comments are already dominated by sneering, arrogant
deniers who ignore the actual content of the article and launch into their scripted, robotic, idiotic diatribes.
This is contributing to all of us going down the tubes together as a result of global
warming skeptics and
deniers who are playing around
with the well known casino rule of «gambler's ruin» by always betting against the house.
How do I answer the sceptics /
deniers who utilise the cooling since 1998, matched
with the trend lines in the IPCC reports that show
warming climbing while the reality is cooling or at least flat lining?
In terms of the gold that a climate science
denier might find in the paper, at the very least, they could argue that the fact that the troposphere isn't
warming more quickly than the surface shows that the climate models are unreliable — even though the models predict just the pattern of
warming that we see —
with the troposphere
warming more quickly than the surface over the ocean but less quickly than the surface over land.
I agree
with Gavin that calling people «
warmers» or «
deniers» is not productive.
I get endless angry e-mail thanks to my own web site, The Cost of Energy, for talking about global
warming and peak oil, a combination that darkens the skies
with deniers, I can assure you.
The» top ten» arguments employed by the relatively few
deniers with credentials in any aspect of climate - change science (which arguments include «the sun is doing it», «Earth's climate was changing before there were people here», «climate is changing on Mars but there are no SUVs there», «the Earth hasn't been
warming since 1998», «thermometer records showing heating are contaminated by the urban - heat - island effect», «satellite measurements show cooling rather than
warming») have all been shown in the serious scientific literature to be wrong or irrelevant, but explaining their defects requires at least a paragraph or two for each one.
A feature of [the global
warming] controversy is that those that
deny there is a problem often seem to have political or ideological views that lead them to be unhappy
with the actions that would be necessary should global
warming be due to human activity.
a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade - long campaign by Exxon - funded front groups — and the scientists they work
with — to
deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on global
warming and delay action to fix the problem.
«
deny there is a problem often seem to have political or ideological views that lead them to be unhappy
with the actions that would be necessary should global
warming be due to human activity»
Although he is sure that
warming will be catastrophic, his opinion of the proposed remedies is deeply skeptical, and de facto he finds himself cast into the outer darkness of the
denier political camp, to weep and gnash his teeth along
with the rest of us.
See: Director James Cameron Unleashed: Calls for gun fight
with global
warming skeptics: «I want to call those
deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out
with those boneheads»)
Some meteorologists who might otherwise be global
warming deniers might, because they are flattered that they got an interview
with the President,» he said.