Monday, March 19, 2012

Chris Mooney | Got Framing? Why Scientists Must Pay Attention to Communication Science, and Not Just as an Afterthought

Look, I want better global governance as much as the next liberal—but I know that the to express oneself in this way is to trigger conservative ire. And that goes doubly or triply if you’re a scientist and you want to be seen as a nonpartisan expert who is fair and even-handed. The call for global governance will appear inherently political to conservatives; heck, I am willing to bet that in a controlled experiment, such a framing will also drive them to deny global warming even more strongly than they do normally.

Twitter / @kellyrigg: British Medical Journal - ...

British Medical Journal - 7 articles now online frm change supplement coming out on Saturday

Media Watch shocked by a scientist who asks questions | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Media Watch disgraced itself tonight with its attempted attack on Dr Jennifer Marohasy. (Transcript to appear here.)

Climategaters update world temperature data | JunkScience.com

2010 is now the warmest year on record, according to HadCRUT.

Arizona cities buried in rare snowstorm as much of U.S. enjoys balmy weather - Minnesotans For Global Warming

(CNN) -- Parts of Arizona will remain buried under snow Monday as a surprising late-winter onslaught paralyzed travel and closed schools. Yet much of the eastern two-thirds of the country will continue to enjoy unseasonably warm temperatures, a day before spring officially starts.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a great name for a Desmog Blogger - "Mooney"... But with all his attempts at gentleness in his message he sticks his head in his nether regions, still. Desmog is a fallacy factory of the highest order.

1/ He should look up the definition of Liberal, as it was initially intended.

2/Basically, he wants the proponents of global governance in the name of Gaia to LIE and misrepresent what their intentions are.

3/ He, like many on his side, confuse "morality" for philosophy. There are no "systems of morality" - morality is an absolute collections of values that all societies share. It is not up for definition.
Philosophy is a collection of preferences that a person may have or a group of people may share. They might change day to day.
Lefties are the worst at wrongly defining their philosophies as morality.

Brian Lemon