Tired of people saying that global warming can't be real because today is cold? Or because this winter is colder than last winter? Or any of a number of other arguments that show a complete misunderstanding of climate science, or scientific principles in general? NOAA has published "Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences," a publication which claims that "CLIMATE SCIENCE LITERACY IS A PART OF SCIENCE LITERACY." Do I sense a reaction to right-wing ideology here? The publication discusses some topics like "consensus" and "peer review", issues of basic scientific literacy which determine if someone is worth listening to in regards to the issue of global warming. Perhaps you can hand this out the next time you hear someone loudly proselytizing about how global warming is a hoax.
"No, my friend, it is science."
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Finally, some climate literacy
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hey, i am writing an essay about global watming and I came across this book: UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMING by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery. I was wondering if you could tell me about the 1500 year cycle and how come their results conflict with results from the IPCC , or is this junk science ? Is this for exxonmobil ? Isn't that unethical ?
Suesue- you are right, the Unstoppable Global Warming is junk science. There are a lot of good posts out there debunking the book, here is a good one: http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/20/unstoppable-disinformation-every-15-minutes-from-fred-singer/.
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