Garte

"People are more often risk averse if they feel they aren't in control of the exposure," Prof. Garte says.

The Hazards Of Life On the Edge 2009

Jeffrey Garte, a spokesman at AboveNet, said the company doesn't comment on market rumors or speculation.

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Neither Garte nor the Pilkeys are full-blown green skeptics; to the contrary — they are global warming believers who lean slightly left-of-center in their politics.

Claremont.org 2009

The prospect that a new generation of environmentalists such as Nordhaus and Shellenberger, along with academic dissenters such as Garte and the Pilkeys, can work a reformation of the movement may not seem very bright.

Claremont.org 2009

Garte goes on to argue that excessive pessimism about the environment undermines good scientific investigation and distorts our understanding of important environmental challenges.

Claremont.org 2009

Garte recalls his surprise, and the surprise of fellow experts attending a professional conference in Europe, when presented with data from a speaker showing steadily declining air pollution trends along with the claim, "everyone knows that air pollution levels are continually decreasing everywhere."

Claremont.org 2009

The prospect that a new generation of environmentalists such as Nordhaus and Shellenberger, along with academic dissenters such as Garte and the Pilkeys, can work a reformation of the movement may not seem very bright.

Claremont.org 2009

"We should pay attention to our successes as much as to our failures," Garte writes, "because in order to know where to go next, it is just as important to know where (and how) we went right as it is to know where we have gone wrong."

Claremont.org 2009

Garte recalls his surprise, and the surprise of fellow experts attending a professional conference in Europe, when presented with data from a speaker showing steadily declining air pollution trends along with the claim, "everyone knows that air pollution levels are continually decreasing everywhere."

Claremont.org 2009

Garte goes on to argue that excessive pessimism about the environment undermines good scientific investigation and distorts our understanding of important environmental challenges.

Claremont.org 2009