[In case you missed it]: Michael Mann interview: Denialists are waging “asymmetric warfare” against climate science (posting from Climate Science Watch)

Mooney: [A questioner asks] Do you have any ideas about what could have been done differently in responding to the stolen e-mails controversy?

Mann: Yes, I think there is now a growing awareness on the part of the scientific community—the climate science community in particular—that we have to be far better at defending ourselves and defending our science against disingenuous and dishonest attacks. The side that is issuing these attacks, our detractors, are extremely well-funded, they are extremely well-organized. They have basically had an attack infrastructure of this sort for decades. They developed it during the tobacco wars. They honed it further in efforts to attack science that industry or other special interests find inconvenient. So they have a very well-honed, well-funded, organized machine they are bringing to bear now in their attack on climate science.

It’s literally like a battle between a Marine and a Cub Scout when it comes to the scientists defending themselves. We obviously don’t have the resources, we don’t have the experience, we haven’t been trained, we’re not public relations experts like they are, we’re not lawyers and lobbyists like they are – we’re scientists, we’re trained to do science. So it’s like a classic example of asymmetric warfare, and that’s really the way we should think about this.
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I guess what we all underestimated was the degree, the depths of dishonesty, and dirtiness, and cynicism to which the climate change denial movement would be willing to stoop to advance their agenda. That’s the only thing I think that surprised many of us. …

Australian Science Communicators » [Journalist] Chris Mooney on ABC TV at the National Press Club

“In Australia policy action by government has already stalled as a result of this negativity and the community is losing
confidence in the scientific research effort.
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“Collectively, we must ensure we remain a nation driven by knowledge, not by doubt.

“Chris Mooney is widely respected and will bring to SmP a fresh perspective, challenging many established ideas. He is
abundantly qualified to discuss the importance of distinguishing legitimate research from ideology and unsubstantiated
opinion ,” she said.

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Amid a monumental set of massive bergs -- made out of hunks of real ice -- Lagerfeld sent out models in fur-covered tweed skirt suits, splashing in shaggy cavewomen boots through puddles of Arctic melt at his fall-winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear show.

Four models in head-to-toe coffee-coloured yeti suits huddling among icebergs, like refugees of the global warming-induced apocalypse, opened the display. After milling about in a daze, they dispersed, and Lagerfeld's parade of climate-change chic commenced.