House Science Chair's First Action Is To Hold A Climate Change Denier Hearing. By Rebecca Leber "House Science Chair’s First Action Is To Hold A Climate Change Denier Hearing" Coming off of the hottest year in U.S. history and 333 months of higher-than-average global temperatures, Rep.
Lamar Smith’s (R-TX) first move as the new chair of the House Science and Technology Committee includes a hearing on climate science, according to Dallas News. For Smith, who criticized “the idea of human-made global warming,” the hearing will be an opportunity to give a platform to the committee’s climate zombies: I believe climate change is due to a combination of factors, including natural cycles, sun spots, and human activity. David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost. One of the world's leading naturalists has accused US politicians of ducking the issue of climate change because of the economic cost of tackling it and warned that it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake people up to the dangers of global warming.
Speaking just days after the subject of climate change failed to get a mention in the US presidential debates for the first time in 24 years, Sir David Attenborough told the Guardian: "[It] does worry me that most powerful nation in the world, North America, denies what the rest of us can see very clearly [on climate change]. I don't know what you do about that. It's easier to deny. " Asked what was needed to wake people up, the veteran broadcaster famous for series such as Life and Planet Earth said: "Disaster.
It's a terrible thing to say, isn't it? Will This Be The First Time The Debates Are Silent On Climate Since 1988? By Brad Johnson, Guest Contributor on October 22, 2012 at 9:00 am "Will This Be The First Time The Debates Are Silent On Climate Since 1988?
" By Brad Johnson Click the image to speak out before the debate. 1988. Eugene Robinson: Why no discussion of climate change? Yet neither has mentioned the subject in the debates.
Instead, they have argued over who is more eager to extract ever-larger quantities of oil, natural gas and coal from beneath our purple mountains’ majesties and fruited plains. “We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years,” Obama said in Tuesday’s debate. “Natural gas production is the highest it’s been in decades. We have seen increases in coal production and coal employment.” Romney scoffed that Obama “has not been Mr. If this is a contest to see who can pretend to be more ignorant of the environmental locomotive that’s barreling down the tracks toward us, Romney wins narrowly. Fox claims "global warming is over" based on word of UK tabloid.
Let’s face it, Fox News has never been much for science over the years.
Their viewers probably complain that it hurts their brain, and that science won’t confirm their belief in the world being created in seven days. Keeping in line with Fox News’ choice of being ignorant, Fox & Friends repeated a false story about climate change that only the British tabloids could create. In Fox News science, dinosaurs lived alongside people. Dinosaur via Shutterstock. Michael Specter: The danger of science denial. Right-Wing Climate Denier Strategizes To Smear Wind Energy. Rinehart appoints climate change sceptic Ian Plimer. Climate change scepticism Views & Research - The Conversation. Analysis and Comment (58) It is difficult to make a conclusive link between human-caused climate change and the record drought in California, record freezes in parts of Canada and the US, Britain’s wettest-ever winter and Australia’s… The sight of speakers known to dispute the scientific evidence supporting climate change being called to speak at a parliamentary select committee on the latest IPCC report last week has raised certain… Several Australian corporate figures have recently disparaged climate scientists.
First, former banker David Murray questioned the integrity of climate scientists on national TV. Casting such aspersions… Australia has the most concentrated press ownership in the world. This week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will be compendious, cautious, thorough and as authoritative as a scientific report can be. The warm start to Australian spring has been accompanied by a deluge of pseudoscience. Tuesday, November 6 was a game changer. Global warming controversy. Global mean land-ocean temperature change from 1880–2012, relative to the 1951–1980 mean.
The black line is the annual mean and the red line is the 5-year running mean. The green bars show uncertainty estimates. Source: NASA GISS. Web leak shows trail of climate sceptic funding. Science adviser … Professor Bob Carter.
THE paper trail connecting the climate change sceptic movement in Australia and the conservative US expert panel the Heartland Institute goes back at least to 2009, documents obtained by the Herald show. The Heartland Institute, a leading group that funds activities designed to sow doubt about climate change science, was embarrassed this week when its strategy and budget documents found their way to a US blog. The institute described the leak as a theft and said a police investigation was under way, while apologising to the 1800 companies and individuals whose identities were revealed as donors. Documents from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission show that a group funded by the Heartland Institute, via a thicket of other foundations and think tanks, provided the vast majority of the cash for an anti-carbon price lobby group in Australia in 2009 and 2010.
Advertisement Editor's note: In other words, we focus on public education. Climate change denial. This article is about campaigns to undermine public confidence in scientific opinion on climate change.
For the public debate over scientific conclusions, see global warming controversy. Climate change denial is a denial or dismissal of the scientific consensus on the extent of global warming, its significance, and its connection to human behavior, especially for commercial or ideological reasons.[1][2] Typically, these attempts take the rhetorical form of legitimate scientific debate, while not adhering to the actual principles of that debate.[3][4] Climate change denial has been associated with the fossil fuels lobby, the Koch brothers, industry advocates and free market think tanks, often in the United States.[5][6][7][8][9] Some commentators describe climate change denial as a particular form of denialism.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]