"The concept of CCS was equated with climate-friendliness in the late '90s and those in favour of it became, by default, climate-friendly politicians," said Truls Gulowsen, Greenpeace Norway's director.
The rolling default in climate-change coverage cries out for the most serious professional self-scrutiny.
Trump will be forced to rely on his advisors, but he's surrounded himself with Big Oil cronies, and his chief of staff has said that Trump's default position on climate science is that "most of it is a bunch of bunk".
It seems to us that the likely solution is to just make the default choice that climate-friendly choice.
"We've watched the coalition government systematically undermine not just the renewable energy industry in Britain but the whole green economy and, by default, efforts to combat climate change.
Further variability in the impact of biochar on N2O emissions arises from adjusting the fraction of biomass-N that (if left to decompose) would be converted to N2O-N, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change default values assumed in this study up to the higher rate of 5% suggested by more recent work33,34.
One other beef: The default mode of the climate control system in AUTO mode is for the air-conditioning to be on.
All model values were kept at default, including global average climate sensitivity set to 3°C warming for a doubling of CO2.
We got no elegantly crafted, unanimously agreed plan that could take the world off its default path toward catastrophic climate change.
"The rapid rise in student loan defaults has created a climate for scammers to proliferate and prey on struggling borrowers," observes Rohit Chopra, the former student loan ombudsman of the CFPB.
Polarising figures win the numbers game almost by default – and not just with climate.
