Hello to all here. Poking my head above the parapet for the first time on this group. By strange coincidence, some of these issues feature on my new blog (yes, everyone's at it these days), where those of you who don't already know me can find some rather mediocre but sincere efforts to improve communication about climate change. For the interested: http://fergusbrown.wordpress.com/ Two matters you may be able to help with: how do I get the globalchange linky thingy onto my page? - mods may be able to help here; also; I've sent James a draft of a two page mail out I'm doing soon to support research; I'd appreciate feedback from William, Michael or other climate scientists who have a spare ten minutes, before I finalise the document. Any takers? Obvously, for confidentiality reasons, I can't just post the thing on here...
With respect to what is being discussed here, the question I would ask is; how does a field of human endeavour which has at its foundation a profound belief in the value of reason go about addressing an audience which, for a variety of reasons, has a large proportion of members whose response to the issues is irrational and who do not value reason in the same way, instead apparently preferring an almost pre-rational, mythic narrative and its associated value system? Fergus. New boy :) On 12 Apr, 12:31, James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, if Jim talks about invalid hysteria detection with regards to > > scientists, isn't it a fair point to say that one reason for this > > invalid hysteria detection is that there's a lot of media coverage > > that is questionable? > > But "We know that continuing our current pattern of energy use will have > devastating consequences for the Earth's climate and people's lives," > according to Mr Benn. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/business/6546439.stm > > Panic is clearly appropriate. > > :-) > > James > > BTW gerhaus, you are currently whitelisted, so any missing messages are > certainly a fault of google rather than that of the moderators. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
