Citations:climate hawk

English citations of climate hawk

Noun: "An advocate of aggressive steps regarding climate change and clean energy"

• 2010 October 21, David Roberts, “Introducing ‘climate hawks’”, in Grist Magazine‎^[1]:

  The point is not that environmentalists need something new to call themselves, but that the class of climate hawks is not coextensive with the class of environmentalists.

• 2014 November 13, Ross Douthat, “A Test For Climate Hawks”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

  First the U.S. had to “show leadership” by promising to cut emissions, many self-styled climate hawks had argued during the debates over cap and trade and the president’s E.P.A. regulations, because then and only then the world’s developing economies would be pressured/shamed/persuaded into following along.

• 2015 June 25, Andrew C. Revkin, “In Weighing Responses to Climate Change, Severity and Uncertainty Matter More than ‘Reality’”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

  As Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman have written in “Climate Shock,” it is the deep uncertainty, not the basic science, that drives the need for prompt action. Even the ultimate climate hawk, David Roberts, has acknowledged deep uncertainty.

• 2015, Philip Smith, Nicolas Howe, Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 183:

  In the climate change blogosphere, a parallel debate about causation emerged between skeptics and true believers, alongside a more complex debate about risk perception and public opinion. Grist's arch-climate hawk David Roberts battled with the New York Times's arch-realist Andrew Revkin over the meaning of Sandy.

• 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists, Georgetown University Press (→ISBN), page 23:

  The journalist David Roberts coined the term “climate hawk” in 2010 to name those who work to slow greenhouse gas emissions on behalf of humanity. This term incorporates those who “understand climate change and support clean energy but do not share the rest of the ideological and sociocultural commitments that define environmentalism as historically understood in the US.”