Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Climate skeptics often highly rational, survey finds | The Hook

And as Kahan noted in an email to USA Today: "It can really ruin your life to hold a position that is at odds with your peers on a controversial issue."

Once again, with feeling: More science will not cure climate skepticism | Grist

Well-educated, carefully reasoning hierarchical individualists are less convinced of the danger of climate change.

Twitter / ClimateReality: Thanks to @AOLImpact for f

Thanks to for featuring us as their cause of the day on the AOL home page! Check it out:

Twitter / dbiello: by framing carbon capture

by framing carbon capture & storage as a race, makes it seem as if CCS actually happening well, sort of

Another nail in the coffin of Enlightenment reason | Risk: Reason and Reality | Big Think

A paper in this week’s Nature Climate Change reinforces a really important insight about the limits of our ability to reason and think rationally. It’s another blow to the crumbling ramparts of the belief that the Enlightenment, as Kant put it, was "Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance and error." Sorry, Emmanuel but we have a long ways to go.

Anarchists attack science : Nature News & Comment

A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists.

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