Climate Science Book Club: Can Knowledge Cure Denialism?
From Forbes, of all places.
More and more people are questioning the validity of atmospheric science, and that could cost us all dearly – for man-made climate change is a bigger threat to our economy and our well-being than are Iran, the housing bubble, and New Gingrich combined.
Furthermore, the science is rock-solid, accessible, and easy to understand. In fact, the scientists carrying out the research are more transparent than any of the groups attacking them, and several excellent writers have created several eminently readable books that deal with these complexities in ways that are both understandable and accurate.
Unfortunately, it’s been deliberately obfuscated by an incessant campaign of disinformation – a campaign being carried out by people who have read the scientific literature and grasped its implications, but who have chosen to distort it.
Some of these distortions comes from groups that are looking more and more like PR firms masquerading as a “think tanks”, which means their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status could soon be a thing of the past. But their zombie hordes will still be there, armed with snippets of scientific-sounding gobbledygook that can be dashed off in seconds but take minutes each to debunk – minutes that add up to hours and days as the same incendiary gobbledygook pops up over and over again – everywhere, no matter how often it’s debunked, as we saw on my Thursday blog.
More:http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevezwick/2012/02/18/climate-science-book-club-will-knowledge-kill-the-denialist-meme/
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