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PS (I): Sobre os e-mails e outros assuntos: Open Left:: Climate change news on 3 fronts--denialism, nuclear and coal-shows complexity of struggle
PS (II): Sobre o mesmo assunto:
In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes:
"Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research
center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the
behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global
warming.
While few U.S. politicians bother to question whether humans are
changing the world's climate -- nearly three years ago the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded the evidence was
unequivocal -- public debate persists. And the newly disclosed private
exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit
of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual circle that
appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its
enemies.
In one e-mail, the center's director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania
State University's Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of
academics that question the link between human activities and global
warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which
represents the global consensus view on climate science."
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PS (23.11.09): E ainda este: Newtongate: The final nail in the coffin of Renaissance and Enlightenment “thinking” « Climate Progress: "The blog Carbon Fixated has a must-read post that provides some perspective on the scandal du jour:"
PS (II): E mais este:
The theft and web publication by climate change deniers of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit is an extremely worrying development in the tortured politics of global warming.
[...] the deniers are
now declaring war on the scientists themselves. Like the creationists they unconsciously mimic, they make no distinction between the political and the scientific sphere – it is open season in both.
And the strategy is simple. Given that scientists are one of society's most trusted groups
(unlike journalists or politicians), the climate denial movement has
begun a battle to undermine public trust in climate scientists
themselves. No more will the legions of anonymous researchers who
collect and interpret data from meteorological stations, satellites and
ice cores be considered above the fray – they now run the risk of
personal attacks, exposure of their private lives and vilification.
[...]
None of
this would matter if the public weren't fooled. But they are. Polls
show climate "scepticism" is rising, perhaps even to a majority
position, on both sides of the Atlantic. Presumably public trust in climate change
scientists is falling commensurately. This will in turn undermine
consensus in mitigating climate change – which is of course the very
intention of the deniers in the first place.
Some of the scientists whose private emails have been exposed write for the blog RealClimate,
where they argue that the revealed correspondence shows "no evidence of
any worldwide conspiracy ... no admission that global warming is a
hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data" and so on. But as George Marshall, a writer on climate change who specialises in the psychology of denial on the issue, puts it: "This is hardly the point. This is an orchestrated smear campaign and does not require balance or context."
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