Sentences with phrase «warming science denial»

From Donald Trump to Sean Hannity to Harold Hamm to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R - Exxon), one of the favorite global warming science denial idiocies is «Ha... if there's so much warming, why's there snow outside.»

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And the question of how science on the fringe should be dealt with remains open: some observers say that Meldrum, who has been lambasted by colleagues and passed over for promotion twice, should just be left alone to do his thing; others counter that in this era of creationism, global warming denial, and widespread antiscience sentiment and scientific illiteracy, it is particularly imperative that bad science be soundly scrutinized and exposed.

Indeed, the rehabilitation of our water bodies can not happen with a denial of science that portrays the toll of global warming on our oceans due to excessive carbon dioxide emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.

Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man - made global warming.

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Denial is so warm, fuzzy, and comforting that it is hard to overcome with the clear light of science and education.

S. FRED SINGER: A godfather of global warming denial, author of The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished warming denial, author of The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Warming's Unfinished Debate.

«Climategate», and the wider attacks on climate science, had nothing to do with the science itself, and neither did the entire earlier history of global - warming denial we have studied.

Much of the Anti-Global Warming rhetoric published by The Independent Institute is the work of a few persons, and one stands out, both in quantity of releases, as well as notoriety, S. Fred Singer who ran the climate - denial tobacco - funded organisation Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).

Principia sits among a hardcore of climate science denial, in that it promotes discredited views that carbon dioxide can not warm the planet.

Attempting to drum up fear about global warming in the San Antonio Express - News, Andrew Dressler and Gerald North wrote an Oct. 6 article titled, «Climate change is real and denial is not about the science.»

The industry of climate science denial is succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific evidence for global warming has increased.

Here are three great videos debunking contrarians with excellent historical overviews of the science by Dr. Naomi Oreskes: «The American Denial of Global Warming», «Merchants Of Doubt», and «Answering Climate Change Skeptics».

An industry of denial, abetted by news media and «info - tainment» broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science — an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human - caused, carbon - based emissions are linked to warming the Earth.

««The writing is a well - researched investigation into the continuing fabrication of the defence of Climate Change «scepticism», which amounts to a long narrative of invention, first of outright denial of the science of Global Warming, then of foot - dragging delay being urged on all Governments.»

Davies, who now runs the Climate Investigations Center and continues to expose climate denial and attacks on solutions to global warming, worked with many researchers over the years (including DeSmog's Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia) to assemble a clear record of Exxon's extensive funding of organizations and think tanks responsible for spreading doubt and denial about climate science.

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The Heartland Institute conferences have been a mainstay of climate science denial for years, where presenters, most of which have no genuine expertise in climate science, will claim that either global warming is not happening, that its not caused by fossil fuel emissions, or that impacts will be minor or beneficial.

Now he believes global warming denial is quite absurd given the science / facts.

Driven by factors like the Bush administration's censorship of climate science communication, Al Gore's prominent role in promoting awareness of the science of global warming, and frequent Republican deployment of climate change denial and «skepticism» to oppose greenhouse gas regulation, a destructive dichotomy has been created suggesting that valuing the role of science in public policy is a matter of political partisanship.

Astonishingly, the Australian (the Murdoch broadsheet) continues its campaign of climate science denial in the midst of our worst heatwave with a major piece on the weekend built around the claim that the British Met Office had «quietly» downgraded its forecast warming.

I forgot to mention that on the «science denial kills» question, while others have already pointed out how laughably bogus the «Global Warming is killing people» claim is, we might also mention that when the globe cools, (and when people don't have access to low cost energy for warmth), the associated crop failures, disease, starvation, and cold related deaths, number in the millions annually as history has amply demonstrated.

The world is not warming for decades hence — despite the progressive denials of mainstream freakin» climate science.

Finally, while numerous global warming denial sites are getting excited by Sheehan's conversion, as if he is some great arbiter of scientific truth, it seems perhaps that he hasn't always been that great at assessing science anyway as Tim Lambert points out in this comments thread at Deltoid.

This is powerful, though not really news, for those unaware of the aggressiveness and obstinate cultivation of ignorance via conspiracy theory of the denial campaign: «Global warming deniers guilty of attack on science»

Attacks on any scientific consensus, whether it be human - caused global warming or the link between smoking and cancer, exhibit five characteristics of science denial.

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Even before Indiana's top enforcer of federal and state environmental regulations was advising coal companies on how to continuing polluting our air and water, it appears that denial of basic climate science is the state's official position on global warming — Indiana's 2011 «State of the Environment» report rehashes tired climate denier arguments such as global temperature records having «no appreciable change since about 1998.»

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Then again, John Cook thought that Skeptical Science would be obsolete by now due to global warming denial becoming an untenable belief, so we suspect The Escalator will continue to be a useful myth debunking tool for some time to come, particularly since climate contrarians seem to prefer nitpicking the graphic to learning from it.

AUSTRALIANS HAVE been keeping the London - based climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) busy in recent weeks, writes Graham Readfearn.

They of course can simply deny the specific accusation, and argue that creationism is legitimate science, or that global warming denial is just proper skepticism.

While world leaders met in Paris to hash out a climate deal that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Nye shared with Quartz his thoughts on climate change denial, curbing global warming, the wonders of electric cars, and why we should invest in science education.

In one study, for instance, when political conservatives were shown a fake newspaper article that framed the science of climate change as supporting an «anti-pollution solution to global warming» — presumably suggesting environmental regulations, perhaps by the EPA — their denial of the science actually increased, relative to a group of conservatives who had not been shown any newspaper article.

But since the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009, GOP leaders have been reluctant to publicly support climate science, instead expressing skepticism or even flat - out denial of global warming.

A sidebar link in this «Paris climate accord was of no value» story points to climate change denial business rag (Investors Business Daily) which misrepresents science to «prove» that «A Startling New Discovery Could Destroy All Those Global Warming Doomsday Forecasts» «Climate Change: Scientists just discovered a massive, heretofore unknown, source of nitrogen.