Science finds little love among GOP presidential candidates | NJ.com

This week, Jon Huntsman, trying to stake mainstream middle ground, wondered whether the GOP was pandering to a new segment of voters: those who had cut science class.
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We wonder: How long before a GOP candidate insists we could feed all of the nation’s hungry children with the moon’s green cheese?
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“All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring,” Huntsman told Time. But if, like Perry, you don’t believe in global warming, then you don’t believe it exacerbates droughts.

Rick Perry’s assertions on global warming reveal reporting challenges when science, politics collide | Poynter.

“In some issues in science, there’s really just one answer,” said Tom Yulsman, the co-director of the University of Colorado Center for Environmental Journalism. “That makes science a lot different from our binary world of politics.”
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“Part of the context is stating – even in a political story — that there’s very little scientific debate,” said Yulsman, who developed a Poynter Webinar on covering climate change.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram told readers in Perry’s home state, “While most climate scientists believe that climate change is real and that fossil fuel combustion is helping warm the Earth, a core group of dissenters, coupled with some conservative groups and activists, has challenged that view.”

“I worked on that sentence for about 10 minutes,” Star-Telegram political reporter Aman Batheja told me in a phone interview. “That was an important part of the story, that Perry was saying something that’s different from what most experts in the field feel.”

EU 'may propose Kyoto Protocol extension' | EurActiv

"To ratify [a second Kyoto period] will take countries years," said Mark Lynas, climate advisor to the president of the Maldives, which is vulnerable to rising sea levels, a by-product of global warming.

So the leaders of the Maldives were sitting around one day, trying to figure out who should be the climate advisor to the president, and someone said "Hey, how about that idiot who threw that pie at Bjorn Lomborg"?!

Bjørn Lomborg cream pied by Mark Lynas - YouTube

A pie was thrown in his face at Borders Bookshop in Oxford just after 7pm Sept 4 2001