I have recently been shocked at the depth of the ignorance
about climate change science in the parliamentary Liberal Party of Australia; it is an indictment on Australia and the Australian voters (who voted these ignoramuses into Parliament).
A screenshot from Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson's interview with Fox Business News on Nov. 4, 2015, addressing claims that the company misled the
public about climate change science for years.
Concern about policies based on science is understandable and can be used to create better policies, but in many cases the concern about policies is prompting some to misrepresent the
facts about climate change science.
Wide swaths of informational
content about climate change science and impacts are being systematically scrubbed from federal agency websites, particularly at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- see the November 22 New York Times op - ed piece «Censoring Climate Change».
Yale's «Six Americas» report found that the highly skeptical are more
informed about climate change science than those who report a high degree of concern about it (the latter of whom still regularly confuse climate with the ozone hole, etc.).
With increasing investment, our wildlife sanctuaries are destinations for
learning about climate change science, land stewardship techniques, personal carbon footprint reduction, incentive programs for homeowner green energy conversions and energy efficiency, and other community climate change groups such as Green Communities.
Michael Tobis: «After a recent leak of internal Heartland Institute documents describing a purported campaign to sow
doubt about climate change science, Heartland claimed one of the documents might be fake» MIGHT be fake?
Those searching for an extensive repository of
information about climate change science are currently directed to a webpage that says it is being updated and linked to a historic snapshot of how the page appeared on 19 January 2017, before the presidential inauguration.
This is a deliberate tactic to sow confusion in the minds of the
public about the climate change science, just as the tobacco industry did about the link between smoking and cancer, Amstrup said in an interview with Motherboard.
The Copenhagen Diagnosis is
about climate change science, not policy.
After 30 years of learning (and unlearning)
about climate change science and policy, as many know, I've tended to give extra weight to the argument for greatly intensified research pressed by Gates, and before him Richard Smalley, John Holdren, Martin Hoffert and Ken Caldeira, the Deep Decarbonization team, the Breakthrough Institute and many others.
(Take the quiz: «What You Don't Know
About Climate Change Science.»)
The recipient of millions of dollars in funding from Exxon and the oil industry, CEI has been among the most effective non-profit groups in spreading doubt
about climate change science.
Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced an amendment to the energy bill expressing Congress's disapproval of the use of industry - funded think tanks and misinformation tactics aimed at sowing doubt
about climate change science.
The Copenhagen Diagnosis is
about climate change science, not policy.
Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced an amendment into the energy bill yesterday intended to express Congress's disapproval of the use of industry - funded think tanks and misinformation tactics aimed at sowing doubt
about climate change science.