Mr. Wirth is a veteran of the communications
wars over global warming.
Nov. 8, 8:09 a.m. Updated In the face of probes by a state attorney general, hints of hostile congressional hearings and assaults from critics in the blogosphere, hundreds of members of the American Geophysical Union are preparing to speak out * to challenge disinformation and misinformation deployed in the policy
wars over global warming.
In the current
wars over global warming we are seeing an example of scientists behaving badly.
Not exact matches
Both have been chosen because of their hopes for a brighter future, but
over the decades, Frank (now played by George Clooney) has become disillusioned, and it's up to Casey and Athena to bring him around and in the process save the world from... Well, I won't spoil it, but let's just say this is the sort of movie in which a discussion of
global warming plays a supporting role and the senselessness of Hollywood movies and video games receives its obligatory culture -
war spanking.
I think after what has transpired
over the past few days, the truth finally being acknowledged by the press, and now this on
global warming it is my opinion that Bush and Cheney along with Karl Rove should be tried for treason and
war crimes.
Original Post: In the
war of words
over global warming, a seemingly counterintuitive rift has emerged between climate scientists and meteorologists.
Their solution: to send an elite team of top scientists forward in time, to a point long after the Tobacco
Wars are
over, when everyone knows smoking causes lung cancer, the miniskirt has given way to the upskirt,
Global Cooling has become
Global Warming, and the last thing anybody expects is a guerrilla marketing attack from nicotine shills.
When you think about it rationally, it's well nigh preposterous to be pulling our hair out
over global warming while ignoring the potential for nuclear
war..
Keep in mind, also, that the data are measured
over a time period that largely predates the polarization related to
global warming — so using that study as a way to confirm assertions about the impact of the climate
wars on public trust in scientists is motivated reasoning in its purest form.
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In saying that IPCC reports issued
over the past 20 years had «created an ever - broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and
global warming,» the Committee linked those reports to potential violent conflict and
wars that could result should extreme climate change occur.
The report says that in the next 30 to 40 years there will be
wars over water, increased hunger instability from worsening disease and rising sea levels and
global warming - induced refugees.
Indeed regarding the N - word, Helen Clark reckons
global warming is akin to the threat of nuclear holocaust that hung
over the world during the Cold
War.
The fight by conscientious scientists to elevate the growing crisis of
global warming into the limelight of concern
over the last several years — higher that of the Iraq
War and the World Trade Center catastrophe — fits all of those journalistic prerequisites to a tee.
If this happens, it will be like the arrival of the Messiah, to lead the charge to end
global warming which is leading us all to desertification of our home, Planet Earth which will lead to fighting
over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world
war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabitable.
In July 2006, a New Yorker article described him as briefly becoming «a victim of an edit
war over the entry on
global warming»....