[Vision2020] Lies, Damn Lies And Science

[Paul Rumelhart]

Great.  Another excuse to cram it down our throats.  I can't wait.

I don't know what the real answers are, but I do know that this topic 
has been so politicized that it sickens me.  It trips my "bullshit" 
meter, and layers on an extra level of skepticism that I would normally 
not have had.

Paul

Ted Moffett wrote:
> 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 
> <http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Epdoran/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
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>
>
>     29 March 2009
>
>
>       A potentially useful book - Lies, Damn lies & Science
>
> Filed under:
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>     * Communicating Climate
>       <http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/communicating-climate/>
>
> — rasmus @ 1:26 PM
>
> Lies, Damned Lies, and ScienceAccording 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/%7Epdoran/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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