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Because of the complexity of global warming science as well as the challenge of securing accurate estimations of emissions from these various sectors, this estimation is the best we can hope for.

It confirms it backs the Heartland Institute, for example, which describes global warming science as a «fraud.»

This is likely to come up in global warming science as well.

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Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

Kyoto will be ineffective — even assuming the overstated pro-Kyoto science is correct, Kyoto will reduce projected warming insignificantly, and it would take as many as 40 such treaties to stop alleged global warming.

In a CNBC interview last Thursday, Pruitt rejected established science pointing to carbon dioxide as the main driver of recent global warming.

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.»

And to all the people who think that science is cold and heartless with no soul or hope as opposed to religion which is warm and fuzzy and gives people hope: how many lives does science save every single day as opposed to religion; clothe people; keep them warm; let them communicate better; let them eat better and live in better safety than what religion could ever, or has ever, provided?

Just as every Easter long - falsified stories about Jesus are warmed up by journalists to increase the print - run of their magazines, so similar nonsense is brought forth whenever issues of science and religion are covered in the media.

Thinking of himself as a grand world - historical figure, attuned to the latest intellectual trend (preferably one with a tinge of futurism and science, like global warming), demonstrating his own incomparable depth and farsightedness.

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.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

«Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You» teaches about the science behind global warming, as well as activism (something I'm especially keWarming: The Solution is You» teaches about the science behind global warming, as well as activism (something I'm especially kewarming, as well as activism (something I'm especially keen on).

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«I pointed out the planet has existed for four billion years,» Yeo said earlier in our interview, as he outlined his rationale on the science underpinning global warming.

But Taylor of the Heartland Institute said it should not come as a surprise that the subject of human induced global warming would become more contested as it moved out of the realm of pure science into the realm of policy.

«Our findings mean that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previously thought,» said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and lead author of the study.

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

Last year, a study published in Science Advances found that the oceans have been steadily storing more heat since the 1980s and that deeper layers of the ocean are starting to warm up, as well.

For almost 100 years, Science News has been reporting the latest advances in science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon dScience News has been reporting the latest advances in science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon dscience, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon dioxide.

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

What happens when the world moves into a warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

Beyond basic subjects such as climate and weather, this site from the U.K. Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs covers a wide range of pressing atmospheric science issues including acid rain, air quality, climate change, global warming and ozone depletion.

The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, says that too little is known about endocrine disruptors to say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as global warming and loss of species habitat.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

But as the world warms they will shrink and temperatures will rise ever higher, according to a study that could help to resolve one of the biggest uncertainties in climate science.

Despite her accolades, Blackburn is warm and accessible, with traces of the shy science nerd who would serenade creatures as a child.

As the world warms, many species will once again be forced to flee, says Scott Loarie, a biogeographer at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who coauthored the 2009 study.

U.S. geoscientists are accustomed to being used as a punching bag by climate change skeptics in Congress, who challenge the science of global warming.

The research published in the journal Science Advances predicts that as the oceans warm fish — which appear to be superior predators in warm water — will extend their ranges away from the equator and cause a decline in the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and whelks.

The National Science Foundation - funded study appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 45 years after atmospheric scientists Mikhail Budyko and William Sellers hypothesized that the Arctic would amplify global warming as sea ice melted.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

He held a hearing in December that described the science around warming as a kind of liberal religion.

If so, instead of clumping, the researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science, this warm dark matter would have stretched into filaments thousands of light - years long and weighing as much as millions of suns.

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

One of climate science's great quests is to project how much earth warms when carbon dioxide concentrations double — something known as climate sensitivity.

In a paper published in Science today, researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University (JCU) and the University of Queensland (UQ), as well as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigated what this warming pattern means for GBR coral bleaching events into the future.

But the win was also a hopeful sign for scientists who have watched from the sidelines in disbelief as politicians cut science funding and distorted research on evolution, stem cells and global warming.

Within moments, a roasty scent permeates this food science laboratory at Pennsylvania State University, conjuring in my mind my local bakery in the predawn hours as baguette loaves — golden - brown, crusty and warm — are taken out of massive ovens on rolling steel carts.

Candidates who believe in global warming are describing the plan as an economic anchor; so are those who question the science behind warming.

«I am sure that those global leaders were driven by a primitive fear that the present ambient warm weather is somehow caused by humanity; and that fear — as far as I understand the science — is equally without foundation,» he said.

More recently, his service on the science committee was interrupted by 4 years as the senior Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, where he was a reliably skeptical voice on climate science.

The IPCC's Working Group I on the physical science of climate change found no evidence that greenhouse warming has stopped, as contrarians would have it.

In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research on tea as a model system for understanding how a warming climate is putting stress on specialty crops and the impact of those changes on farmers.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

When this world - class atmospheric scientist insists there's no such thing as global warming, is he talking science — or religion?