Comments on: Denial & Delay: Global Warming B.S. Detector Tips

By: Stuart Mathieson

Stuart Mathieson — Wed, 25 May 2011 01:47:17 +0000

I know two characters who are in denial about AGW. One has a degree in geology but long term unemployed with no intention of disrupting his bludging lifestyle, the other doing his PhD in cell biology. Both are ant-fem, ant-jewish, anti-colour, attribute cultural achievements of non-anglo saxon cultures to alien intervention and, not surprisingly pro-nazi.
Hardly a scientific sample but I’ll bet not uncommon.

By: Hooks, Roles, and the Climate Change Blame Game

Hooks, Roles, and the Climate Change Blame Game — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:40:27 +0000

[...] I asked Stephen Leahy, a well-known international science journalist, a direct question about solutions to this impass between scientists and the media who report on them. Here is his answer: "Mutual understanding goes a long way. I did a session in front of 500 ecologists at a conference a few years ago about how media works – deconstructing the process for them. They vented their worst media experiences – some were really awful. I offered advice/tips. No one punched me when it was over. One of the main things I emphasized is the need for scientists to ask questions before they answer them. Who is the reporter, what have they done, what media etc. Media is not monolithic. In fact it has become extraordinarily diverse making it easy for fakers, pretenders, disinformers to operate with impunity. I've had lots of science training, workshops etc – way more than any scientist has had or needs about media. But few journalists have." He also has advise for the reading public, with his Global Warming BS Detector. [...]

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Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:11:17 +0000

[...] Denial & Delay: Global Warming B.S. Detector Tips [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:43:58 +0000

Scientists around the world who have done climate research for the past 25 years get their funding almost entirely from government and universities, not from solar cell or wind machine manufacturers.

And real scientists provide proof – evidence, measurements etc — that is then published in science journals for all to see. Denialists do not, they criticize, offer wild theories and rant endlessly.

By: Deep cynic

Deep cynic — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:19:10 +0000

“Follow the money” has to work both ways. There are economic entities that stand to benefit from global warming. Their support for GW research has to be scrutinized as closely as Exxon’s support for the “denial” camp.

By: danny

danny — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:09:00 +0000

The Ostrich Brigades

btw, that headline in the IPS news was great. Another good metaphor for the climate debate. The Ostrich Brigades, sigh. Whoever writes those headlines deserves some kind of prize for good wordsmithing.

danny

By: danny

danny — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:03:28 +0000

I think these denialists are part of the old Flat Earth Society. I think maybe it’s best to ignore them. But then again, as a reporter, you must set the record straight. Thanks, sir!