Showing posts with label climate denial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate denial. Show all posts
Thursday, 22 January 2026
Saturday, 24 October 2020
Polling Shows Growing Climate Concern Among Americans. But Outsized Influence of Deniers Remains a Roadblock (excerpt): DeSmog
"More Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn
is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat,
prolonged drought, massive wildfires, monstrous storms, and
other extremes.
California burns
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| Climate change denial |
These kinds of disasters are becoming increasingly costly and impossible to ignore. Yet even as the American public becomes progressively more worried about the climate crisis, a shrinking but vocal slice of the country continues to dismiss these concerns, impeding efforts to address the monumental global challenge.
Weather Extremes Driving Climate Concern
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. has already seen 16 billion-dollar weather disasters this year, including horrific fires in the West and powerful storms like Hurricanes Sally, Laura, and Delta on the Gulf Coast.
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| Florida's coast regularly floods |
This reality of intensifying climate disasters in part helps explain the rise in concern on this issue among the American public, says Ed Maibach of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. Maibach is part of a research team that since 2008 has surveyed and categorized American attitudes on climate change into six different groups that they call the “Six Americas.”"
Read time: 9 mins By Dana Drugmand
Monday, 19 October 2020
Amy Coney Barrett says she’s “not a scientist” and has no “firm views” on the topic of climate change: (excerpts) LAT and NYT
Amy Coney Barrett, the president’s Supreme Court nominee, was asked about climate change during Senate confirmation hearings. She responded
that she’s “not a scientist” and has no “firm views” on the topic. The
Supreme Court could play a big role in determining whether the federal
government is able to mount a serious response to the climate crisis; as
Marianne Lavelle wrote recently for InsideClimate News, activists are
worried the court’s landmark 2007 climate ruling could be in danger.
Wikipedia pic from 2018 Amy Coney Barrett
"But with Senator Kamala Harris of
California, the Democratic 
Photo from Alliance for Justice
candidate for vice president, Judge Barrett,
the daughter of an oil executive, went further. She described the
settled science of climate change as still in dispute, compared to Ms.
Harris’s other examples, including whether smoking causes cancer and the
coronavirus is infectious.
“Do you believe that climate change is happening and threatening the air we breathe and the water that we drink?” Ms. Harris asked.
Judge Barrett responded, “You asked me uncontroversial questions, like Covid-19 being infectious or if smoking causes cancer” to solicit “an opinion from me on a very contentious matter of public debate,” climate change.
“I will not do that,” Judge Barrett concluded. “I will not express a view on a matter of public policy, especially one that is politically controversial.”
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Merchants Of Doubt Full Movie
"A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change. Director: Robert Kenner" YouTube
Related: Climate Hustle 2: Showcasing a Thinning Roster of Climate Science Deniers (excerpt): DeSmog
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