Possibly more interesting :-) is the analysis in an article in today's issue of Science (4 December 2009) by Eli Kintisch on "Stolen e-mails turn up heat on climate change rhetoric" (Vol 326, p. 1329). Those seriously interested in science-and-society issues but who have no easy access to the journal, please send me a personal email (off-list) and I can send you a copy of this article for your personal use.
Jan -- Jan Visser, Ph.D. President & Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute E-mail: [email protected] Check out: http://www.learndev.org and http://www.facebook.com/learndev Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/ _____ From: Steven Parker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants) Hi Nellie You may enjoy this skit from John Stewart of the Daily Show. Takes the mickey out of both the climategate scientists, "warmists" and "deniers" without the "polar" outlook :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPUpIBWGp8 On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:45 PM, NELLIE DEUTSCH <[email protected]> wrote: Steven, As an educator, I would like to make a difference they only way I know how and that is by educating people to become aware and perhaps change their habits to that we can save what we can. I would love to move this to WikiEducator the best platform I know and begin the process. Steven, you are welcome to begin adding the information that you have and I will be more than happy to create workshops so we can engage participants in the process of learning. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Steven Parker <[email protected]> wrote: Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's happening. The Telegraph and Times have published this article on the University of East Anglia destroying the climate data for the past 150 years upon being pressed under the Freedom of Information act. Pretty shocking to me that this has occurred preventing other scientists to verify the results. Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Clim ate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change data dumped http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece "The CRU is basically saying, 'Trust us'. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science," he said." "(Jones) He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is "unequivocally" linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity." Also other IPCC scientists are turning on each other. Dr. Eduardo Zorita writes: "CRU files: Why I think that Michael Mann (Of Hockey Stick debacle fame), Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process." "These words do not mean that I think anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. On the contrary, it is a question which we have to be very well aware of. But I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere -and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now- editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations,even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties under a unified picture. I had the 'pleasure' to experience all this in my area of research." http://coast.gkss.de/staff/zorita/myview.html Doesn't surprise me. Lots more revelations to come, great resources to talk around the science and politics of climate change with students. Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org <http://www.wikieducator.org/> To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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