Study suggests how to win over 'deniers' › News in Science (ABC Science)

While climate change expert Professor Andy Pitman said the paper is "a very useful contribution to the strategy of finding solutions to climate change", University of New South Wales School of Psychology Scientia Professor Joseph Forgas attacked the paper for taking what appeared to be a "very biased ideological position".

"It assumes that 'denial' only results from 'deception, ignorance or misunderstanding' which is a very poor position to take when your objective is to bring about reasoned attitude change," he says. "To label those who remain unconvinced by the evidence as 'deniers' is reminiscent of the Holy Inquisition."

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All major economies have agreed to ‪#EndFossilFuelSubsidies‬ - this pledge now needs to be translated into action to fight ‪#climatechange

Flashback: Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » WTF? This is What They Mean by Oil and Gas Subsidies?

Seriously, nearly half the “subsidy” number is the ability of a company to use LIFO accounting on inventory for their taxes?  Since the proposition is to eliminate these only for oil and gas, what is the logic that somehow LIFO accounting is wrong in Oil and Gas but OK in every other industry?   In fact, at least the first two largest items are both accounting rules that apply to all manufacturing industry.  So, rather than advocating for the elimination of special status for oil and gas, as I thought the argument was, they are in fact arguing that oil and gas going forward be treated in a unique and special way by the tax code, separate from every other manufacturing industry.