Although it has been a bit combative on climate and carbon emissions at the Copenhagen conference, it has taken a leading role among the G-20 group of nations in helping push for effective responses to the world financial crisis.
This has never been truer than right now, in what has to be the most contentious, combative political climate of my lifetime, full of half-truths and hand measurements.
Erdogan sounded in combative mood this morning.
Wallinger's nag is not in frisky or combative mood.
A greater threat to the firm arises from Exxon's combative position on climate change.
Central to this is a caveat on the use of combative and militaristic language in communicating climate action.
Women students are "put off by combative conversational styles" and resent a "climate of individualism" that prevails in science, engineering, and technology (SET) courses (Hoffman-Kim, 1999).
But his mood quickly turned combative.
Waspishly, Briffa does also suggest however that another climate scientist, Kevin Trenberth, is "extremely defensive and combative when ever criticized about anything because he figures that he is smarter than everyone else and virtually infallible".
But her leadership abroad is rather at odds with the Government's increasingly poor record on environmental matters at home, something the Commons Energy and Climate Change select committee pressed home yesterday in a combative hearing.
Other anti-climate science groups have emerged, such as the Galileo Movement (the patron is the combative radio host Alan Jones) and even a political party devoted to "axing the tax".
