Scientists Challenged to Become Better Global Warming Propagandists

[Geee]

American Thinker:




Can scientists become "Deadly Ninjas of Science Communication"? That was proposed by Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War Against Science," and a member of the board of directors of the American Geophysical Union. Mooney advocated this idea in a presentation at the Union's December 13-17 fall meeting in San Francisco.

Mooney is concerned that global warming skeptics are getting the upper hand in the ongoing debate. Mooney has an unquestioning belief that disaster will overtake the world if we don't mend our CO2-emitting ways. Many other speakers at the meeting, like Mooney, suggested that if scientists improved their communications skills, the skeptics could be defeated.

At the same fall meeting four years ago, Al Gore spoke to ten thousand assembled scientists. The scientists treated him like a rock star. Why would the scientists love Al Gore? His movie, An Inconvenient Truth, was full of scientific errors. But this is about not biting the hand that feeds you. When Al Gore spreads global warming hysteria, financial and political support for climate science increases. Scientists become guests on TV shows instead of lab drones.

But a dark cloud is gathering over climate science. Public fear of global warming is declining. Most of the activist scientists gathered in San Francisco were blind to the possibility that there is any defect in their scary product. It must be that forces of darkness (perhaps Republicans or coal companies) are financing skeptics. Apparently the skeptics, cleverly disguised as grassroots activists, have an uncanny knack for propaganda.

[pollyannaish]

The Global Warming crowd seem to be suffering the effects of Chicken Little syndrome. They don't need to get better at it. They need to knock it off.

[Pepper]

Pollyannaish! Geee!

 

Al Gore and all the morons were faced with the equivalent of a coin toss. Gore could have said heads (warming), he could have said tails (cooling)

 

He could simply have said, it will change, climate change is always with us. He banked on the wrong flip because it fit his agenda of evil Western industry .

 

In fact, Al Gore is a lot like Sheriff Nifong Dupnik. They both have an agenda and no, don't bother them with contrary evidence.