Sam Bakkila: Death by Climate Change?
making exaggerated and inaccurate projections about the health effects of global warming does not right any wrongs.Veteran German Journalist: “Interest In The End-Of-The-World Waning Rapidly”…”High Level Of Public Wearout”
Kulke writes:PBS NewsHour: Against scientific consensus before they were for it | JunkScience.comOne thing that’s clear is the high level of wearout that scenarios and visions of horror are having with the public.”Crying wolf may work a couple of times, but after dozens of times, the messenger quickly diminishes and soon gets regarded as the town fool. The Climate Vulnerability Report authors are just the latest fools and nobody is listensing to them. There are other problems out there that are pressing – and real! The financial crisis, to name one.
...So, viewers of the program were given the unmistakable impression that a plausible singular report is capable of overturning 100 years of widespread acceptance of a particular science theory. Capable of overturning a consensus, in other words.Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Nature mag picks a side ...
We are left to wonder how the NewsHour is able to explain the appearance that they were doubtful of consensus opinion validating specific scientific conclusions before they were certain it does.
Nature mag picks a side "administration, Democrats and even some enviros..have often ceded the airwaves to deniers" http://www.nature.com/news/a-second-wind-for-the-president-1.11476 …Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Nature magazine does the US ...
Nature magazine does the US scientific community no favors by adopting such a partisan approach to US politics, I say this as an Obama voter
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