Climate, Science and Denial
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"How neo-liberal thinkers have hijacked the debate on climate
change"http://bit.ly/OAS7gv
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/climate2c-science-and-denial/4163970
Broadcast: Monday 30 July 2012
Last year’s annual Lowy Institute Poll showed a steep fall in the number of
Australians who believe that climate change is a serious problem that needs
immediate attention. The number of respondents wanting to see action on
climate change has fallen 27 percentage points over the last five years. In
the United States polling found that in 2007, 73 per cent of Americans said
they believed that climate change was caused by continued combustion of fossil
fuels. By 2011 that percentage had dropped to 41 per cent. It would seem
that the climate change denialists have been successful in getting their
message across and resistance to the idea of climate change is increasing. But
what’s this denialism all about and where does it come from?
Guest: Professor Philip Mirowski, Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics and the
History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame in
Indiana.Interviewer: Philip Adams
Comment mentioning geoengineering
David Lewis : "Mirowski hasn't a clue what the scientists who are studying
geoengineering actually think. If someone did want to understand how the
scientists doing the research actually view things one way is to monitor their
daily exchange of views going on in the geoengineering Google group. Start by
reading Paul Crutzen's paper, i.e. search term "albedo enhancement by
stratospheric" - this paper brought discussion of the idea out of the shadows.
David Keith's talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEys3PeseA lays out a
typical rationale - he is a lead author for the AR5. Ken Caldeira is another
top flight climatologist who has decided to devote his research to this
subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb0hF0qFbio "
Robert Tulip
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