I don't in any way intend this post to be a plea for compromise between
those who believe in climate change, peak oil etc, and those that don't.
Thursday morning, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt left
those who believe in climate change going through a wide range of emotions after saying he does not believe that carbon dioxide emissions are a primary contributor to global warming.
The comment went viral and received tons of flack from
those who believe in climate change's effects.
But when this topic is examined in detail, most of the experts — including mainstream liberals
who believe in climate change and human causation — understand that what they don't know is far greater than what they do understand.
A new survey finds that while the proportion of Americans
who believe in climate change holds steady, the number of the uncertain has dropped and the ranks of the disbelievers have grown.
However, the implication of Lewandowsky's claim is that
those who believe in climate change have transcended such human faults.
At the same time, Americans (
those who believe in climate change, at least) have never been more sure global warming will pose a risk in the near (ish) future.
The CEI - funded by Exxon Mobil - unleash a torrent of press releases uncovering «flaws» in the work of climatologists
who believe in climate change.
Also in 2012, the Institute launched and then quickly pulled a billboard ad campaign comparing people
who believe in climate change to murderers like Charles Manson and the «Unabomber,» Ted Kaczynski.
These organizations, which include the Heartland Institute — a group that once compared
those who believe in climate change with the Unabomber — have undermined public confidence in climate science so much that scientists have to defend even their most fundamental findings.
But we are supposed to think that that's irrelevant because immediately after experimenters told them «97 % of scientists accept climate change,» a group of study subjects, while not changing their own positions on whether climate change is happening, increased by a very small amount their expressed estimate of the percentage of scientists
who believe in climate change?
At the same time, Americans (
those who believe in climate change, at least) have never been more sure global warming will pose a risk in the near (ish) future.
The number of conservative voters
who believe in climate change has almost doubled in the past two years, according to a new poll that attributes the rise in part to a lessening hostility toward the issue by Republican leaders.
Those numbers are even higher when only
those who believe in climate change are asked.
(It recently compared
those who believe in climate change to terrorists.)
Regardless, for a man
who believes in climate change, McAuliffe's boast is exasperating.
A politician
who believes in climate change is too low of a bar — we need more.»
Yet this tag doesn't just apply to those who assert the whole concept is a fraud — such as President Trump, who has suggested it might be a ploy by the Chinese to hamstring the U.S. economy — but even to scholars like Danish author Bjorn Lomborg,
who believes in climate change but thinks its impact is being deliberately exaggerated to scare the public into backing extreme and ineffective measures.
With Clinton —
who believes in climate change and advanced a fairly clear, if inadequate, roadmap to carbon neutrality — there was hope of pushing her toward a more progressive position on climate action.
Not exact matches
«You don't even need to
believe in climate change and carbon and all that stuff,» says Keller,
who supports a mandatory 10 - to 15 - year phaseout of fossil - fuel imports.
According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters
who say they
believe in human - caused
climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.
According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical
who: dismisses evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «
climate change is real and caused by humans»; think that «the founders were evangelicals
who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children;
believe in traditional roles for the sexes; think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.
Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your
in - law
who doesn't
believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.
Look buddy, you can
believe in anything you want, The world is flat,
Climate change is not man made, or that you have a invisible best friend
who talks to you at night.
Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those
who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase
in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply
changing the formation or bringing
in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental
change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place
in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly
believe that either they don't know how to proceed
in the present economic
climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!
«On his watch we have an environment secretary
who doesn't
believe in climate change, our carbon emissions are rising rather than falling and the government has failed to set a target a clean up our power system by 2030.»
Cuomo,
who has had to cope with the aftermath of two major storms
in his two years
in office — Irene
in 2011, and now Sandy — says the state could be better prepared for
climate change that the governor
believes could be the new normal.
On the environment, Delgado said the country needs to properly fund the Environmental Protection Agency and make sure it is run by a person
who supports the environment and
believes in climate change.
Anyone
who has a brain
believes in Climate Change.
«It is absurd to leave someone
in charge of a department whose role is to protect the country from a growing
climate crisis
who himself
believes that «people get very emotional about this subject, and I think we should just accept that the
climate has been
changing for centuries».
Event attendee Chris Karmosky of Treadwell, a climatologist
who teaches meteorology at SUNY Oneonta, said the
climate is
changing and though many
in his profession
believe that humans are to blame for accelerated
climate change, the general population does not
believe that is the case.
Senior government advisers
in any position
who do not
believe in climate change should be removed from their posts, said the Green Party leader.
«With the Trump administration
in place, people
who don't necessarily even
believe in climate change, I'm really worried whether the money will even be there,» said Councilman Donovan Richards, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Rockaway.
Senior government advisers
in any position
who do not
believe in climate change should be removed from their posts, says the Green Party leader.
Seven
in 10 Republicans and nearly all Democrats
who believe climate change is happening think the government needs to take action.
Researchers found that having a teacher
who believed climate change was occurring — as 92 percent of students
in the study did — was a «strong, positive predictor» of students» belief
in global warming.
The study found that none of the «dismissive» group — those
who don't think the
climate is
changing or want legislation —
believe global warming will harm the United States
in 50 years.
In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.&raqu
In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read,
in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.&raqu
in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians
believe that so - called
climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians
who want to regulate business.»
«So far, I
believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist
who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of
climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.
«The humor video made people laugh more, and people
who found it funny were more likely to want to plan to partake
in activism, recycle more and
believe climate change is risky,» said Christofer Skurka, a third - year doctoral student
in communication,
who is the paper's lead author.
He said the recent controversies, combined with the unusual heavy snowfall
in Britain last winter, may explain why there has been a small decrease
in the percentage of people
who believe that the
climate is
changing.
Can those
who believe in «alternative facts» on
climate change find an alternative planet?Maggie McPherson responds to deniers
who mocked...
Twenty - nine percent of the Catholics
who participated
in the Pew survey said they
believed that working to address
climate change issues is essential to being a Catholic.
Oxford University atmospheric physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert,
who is among the scientists
who believe cutting methane should be less of a priority than cutting carbon dioxide to tackle
climate change, said the study is useful
in evaluating methane capture systems at landfills.
Who's to Blame To avoid price gouging, consumer advocate Newton and scientist Mills urge insurance companies to be transparent about the models they use for setting premiums — specifically how they factor
in catastrophes
believed to have been brought on by
climate change.
And news outlets produce the same stories about the large percentage of Americans
who reject evolution or
climate change or
believe in UFOs or ghosts.
He does not
believe in the slightest that
climate change is real and tells us that he can find many a eminent scientist
who would back up his claim.
NPR has always struck me as fairly balanced
in that they always give both sides of the story, no matter how nutty or fucking ridiculous the other side is (like those
who still
believe abortions cause cancer,
climate change isn't real because there's still ice
in the oceans, etc).
It may be somewhat
in jest, but it now gives fuel to those
who believe climate change (Global Warming has become a vilified word) is not real or just a money making scheme.
I have posted on RealClimate about 4 times
in the past 5 years regarding the potential thaw of the methal hydrate deposits at the bottom of the oceans.I stated
in my posts on your website that I
believe firmly that those deposits are
in quite a good bit of danger of melting from
climate change feedback mechanisms.On Nov 8th, ScienceDaily posted a huge new study on the PETM boundary 55 million years ago, and some key data on how the methane at that point may very well have melted and contributed to the massive
climate shift.I am an amateur
who reads
in the new a lot about
climate change.I'd now like to say «I told you so!!!»