[Vision2020] Lies, Damn Lies And Science

[Ted Moffett]

Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett:

This article from EOS ('*Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate
Change*', *Volume 90*, Number 3, 2009, available to American Geophysical
Union members) which is quoted by Realclimate.org lower down and is
available to the public at the website first below, claims that only 58
percent of the public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant
contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to
97% of specialists surveyed.  This is a very recent effort to quantify the
scientific consensus on the validity of anthropogenic climate change and
contrast this consensus with public opinion:

http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
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http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/03/a-potentially-useful-book-lies-damn-lies-science/#more-661

 29 March 2009 A potentially useful book - Lies, Damn lies & Science Filed
under:

   - Communicating
Climate<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/communicating-climate/>

— rasmus @ 1:26 PM

[image: Lies, Damned Lies, and Science]According to a recent article in Eos
(Doran and Zimmermann<http://www.agu.org/journals/eo/eo0903/2009EO030002.pdf#anchor>,
'*Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change*', *Volume 90*,
Number 3, 2009; p. 22-23 - only available for AGU members *- update: a
public link to the article is
here<http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf>
*), about 58% of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is
a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature,
as opposed to 97% of specialists surveyed. The disproportion between these
numbers is a concern, and one possible explanation may be that the science
literacy among the general public is low. Perhaps Sherry Seethaler's new
book *'Lies, Damn Lies, and Science'* can be a useful contribution in
raising the science literacy?
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