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Climate Change, Politics, Feb 15th, 2010,
Physicist and climate historian Dr. Spencer Weart offers a historical and cultural perspective on the current debate about climate science – specifically, how it might be viewed by the historians of the future. As a history graduate and lover of futurism, this imagined perspective naturally piqued my interest. What stand out in Weart’s social history of the climate wars are the observations concerning the public’s loss of respect vis-à-vis the scientific community. This erosion of political capital came from the diversification of authority in terms of scientific information: we got our info about the climate from politicians, journalists, economists and…
Tags: climate, debate, future, historian, history, media, Politics, science, scientific, scientists, Spencer, Weart
Climate Change, Politics, Science & Technology, Jan 28th, 2010,
A cool thing about science is that – just like the climate – it’s always changing. It isn’t that ‘reality’ changes in the sense that the fundamental laws of physics somehow alter, but what does change, continually and without exception, is how we understand and interpret phenomena. This is the normal progressive route that all science takes – physical, medical, social, humanistic, whatever. Science and the scientific method are not things after all, but mutable practices which are continually built upon and modified. Newton did not write ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of…
Tags: change, climate, Climate change, comment, media, Newton, science
Climate Change, Uncategorized, Jan 16th, 2010,
The cold snap or ‘big freeze’ disproves global warming. The heat wave the UK experienced last June proved it was real. Sometimes what’s obvious or ‘crystal clear’ is anything but. Climate change and global warming are – precisely as their names would suggest – global phenomena concerning climate, and not local weather events, as many apparently believe. And so the UK’s Meteorological Office – commonly referred to as the Met Office – would like climate scientists to better inform the public because, as this BBC News opinion piece by Dr Richard Betts, head of climate impacts at the Met Office…
Tags: BBC, climate, Climate change, cold snap, global warming, Guardian, heat wave, media, Met Office, Richard Betts, scientists, UK
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 8th, 2009,
If so-called ‘climate skeptics’ think that the mainstream media is ignoring the story of the emails that were either leaked or hacked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, then they are obviously not watching television news broadcasts or reading major publications. Climategate is everywhere. If the Copenhagen summit is mentioned, so naturally is the Climategate scandal. Amazing what the words ‘trick’ and ‘hide the decline’ can do amongst a sea of otherwise boring, presumably impenetrable scientific language – all apparently camouflage for the ‘smoking gun’ that was embodied in one deadly sentence. The liberal,…
Tags: climate, ClimateGate, cop15, copenhagen, media
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 13th, 2009,
“There is no newspaper or TV [network] that has the actual job or goal of enlightening the population about how the earth system works. They have the goal of making money as the bottom line and selling their newspapers. So expecting journalists to do this job for us when they are being paid to earn money for a newspaper isn’t correct, it isn’t going to happen,” –Katherine Richardson, professor of marine science, University of Copenhagen (from ABS-CBN News) The oversimplification of environmental issues like climate change and global warming is routinely practiced by the media and by politicians. This is…
Tags: Climate change, global warming, media, politicians, scientists
