Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy
Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the "climategate" nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming.
Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the "climategate" nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming.
Alex Higgins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
The Maya in the 8th century had little ability to understand the climate change that was happening to them. Our civilization knows what is happening and even has the ability to prevent catastrophe.
Lisa Bennett | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
Why are we ignoring the biggest threat in human history--or, as a future generation might put it, fiddling while Rome burns? First, we are not programmed to take future threats as seriously as immediate ones.
A. Siegel | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
It is really sad that CBS News allowed itself to be played, so well, by the global warming denier crowd, helping to give legitimacy to an invented story.
A. Siegel | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green
Bob Conley is a "Democrat In Name Only" and thus represents, by himself, bipartisanship in the global warming denier wing of the know-nothing wing of the Flat Earth Society.
Fox News | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, sounded the alarm about global warming in testimony before a S...
Think Progress | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living
The right-wing organization WorldNetDaily (WND) is rewarding children for "debunking" global warming in a new video/essay contest. "The contest was la...
Matt Osborne | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green