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HunterCA -> RE: I know Global Warming Again (6/17/2015 8:30:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
NYT had interesting piece that ideology drives scientific denial:
• Dr. Oreskes’s (who researched scientific denialists) approach has been to dig deeply into the history of climate change denial, documenting its links to other episodes in which critics challenged a developing scientific consensus.
• Her core discovery, made with a co-author, Erik M. Conway, was twofold. They reported that dubious tactics had been used over decades to cast doubt on scientific findings relating to subjects like acid rain, the ozone shield, tobacco smoke and climate change. And most surprisingly, in each case, the tactics were employed by the same group of people.
• The central players were serious scientists who had major career triumphs during the Cold War, but in subsequent years apparently came to equate environmentalism with socialism, and government regulation with tyranny.
• In a 2010 book, Dr. Oreskes and Dr. Conway called these men “Merchants of Doubt,” and this spring the book became a documentary film, by Robert Kenner. At the heart of both works is a description of methods that were honed by the tobacco industry in the 1960s and have since been employed to cast doubt on just about any science being cited to support new government regulations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/science/naomi-oreskes-a-lightning-rod-in-a-changing-climate.html
Cloudboy, did the NYT tell you that the the reason the scientists knew the environmentalists where lying was because all of the socialist politicos from behind the iron curtain went into the environmental movement when the wall came down and are now using that movement to spread socialism. The scientists should know shouldn't they? Are you a science denier? I mean, really Cloudboy, who are you going to believe, Al Gore or scientists.
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