Citations:climate hawk

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

 * 2015, Philip Smith, Nicolas Howe, Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781316300978), 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 9781626164369), 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.”
 * 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 9781626164369), 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.”