as is snopes. You do realize it's not just a guy ranting? It's a team of people sharing well opinions and it's extremely well sourced.
Here's what Judith Curry says about science and blogging: http://curry.eas.gatech.edu/climate/towards_rebuilding_trust.html And finally, the blogosphere can be a very powerful tool for increasing the credibility of climate research. âDueling blogsâ (e.g. climateprogress.org <http://www.climateprogress.org> versus wattsupwiththat.com <http://www.wattsupwiththat.com> and realclimate.org <http://www.realclimate.org> versus climateaudit.org <http://www.climateaudit.org>) can actually enhance public trust in the science as they see both sides of the arguments being discussed. Debating science with skeptics should be the spice of academic life, but many climate researchers lost this somehow by mistakenly thinking that skeptical arguments would diminish the public trust in the message coming from the climate research establishment. Such debate is alive and well in the blogosphere, but few mainstream climate researchers participate in the blogospheric debate. The climate researchers at realclimate.org <http://www.realclimate.org/> were the pioneers in this, and other academic climate researchers hosting blogs include Roy Spencer, Roger Pielke Sr and Jr, Richard Rood, and Andrew Dessler. The blogs that are most effective are those that allow comments from both sides of the debate (many blogs are heavily moderated). While the blogosphere has a âwild westâ aspect to it, I have certainly learned a lot by participating in the blogospheric debate including how to sharpen my thinking and improve the rhetoric of my arguments. Additional scientific voices entering the public debate particularly in the blogosphere would help in the broader communication efforts and in rebuilding trust. And we need to acknowledge the emerging auditing and open source movements in the in the internet-enabled world, and put them to productive use. The openness and democratization of knowledge enabled by the internet can be a tremendous tool for building public understanding of climate science and also trust in climate research. No one really believes that the âscience is settledâ or that âthe debate is over.â Scientists and others that say this seem to want to advance a particular agenda. There is nothing more detrimental to public trust than such statements. And finally, I hope that this blogospheric experiment will demonstrate how the diversity of the different blogs can be used collectively to generate ideas and debate them, towards bringing some sanity to this whole situation surrounding the politicization of climate science and rebuilding trust with the public. . On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > While it certainly makes sense what is posted there, it is really only > someone's blog. I can just as easily post on my blog that the reason is > because sea monsters are moving closer to the coast...does not mean it is > correct. > > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You know there's a snopes like site you should check before you post > > sky-is-falling crap? > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370632 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
