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Global Warming? No, Natural, Predictable Climate Change - Forbes Page 1 of 6
Global Warming? No, Natural, Predictable Climate Change - Forbes Page 1 of 6 Larry Bell, Contributor I write about climate, energy, environmental and space policy issues. OP/ED | 1/10/2012 @ 4:12PM | 3,332 views Global Warming? No, Natural, Predictable Climate Change An extensively peer-reviewed study published last December in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics indicates that observed climate changes since 1850 are linked to cyclical, predictable, naturally occurring events in Earth’s solar system with little or no help from us. The research was conducted by Nicola Scafetta, a scientist at Duke University and at the Active Cavity Radiometer Solar Irradiance Monitor Lab (ACRIM), which is associated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. It takes issue with methodologies applied by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) using “general circulation climate models” (GCMs) that, by ignoring these important influences, are found to fail to reproduce the observed decadal and multi-decadal climatic cycles. As noted in the paper, the IPCC models also fail to incorporate climate modulating effects of solar changes such as cloud-forming influences of cosmic rays throughout periods of reduced sunspot activity. More clouds tend to make conditions cooler, while fewer often cause warming. At least 50-70% of observed 20th century warming might be associated with increased solar activity witnessed since the “Maunder Minimum” of the last 17th century. http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/01/10/global-warming-no-natural-predictable-c... 1/13/2012 Global Warming? No, Natural, Predictable Climate Change - Forbes Page 2 of 6 Dr. -
THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION on GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (2005, Revised)
Climate Change White Paper June 22, 2010 Appendix A Leipzig Declaration The Leipzig Declaration was originally published in 1996, and revised in 2005. The 2005 text is provided below. More information can be found at: http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/LDrevised.html THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (2005, revised) As independent scientists researching atmospheric and climate problems, we -- along with many of our fellow citizens -– are apprehensive about the Climate Treaty conference scheduled for Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. This gathering of politicians from some 160 signatory nations aims to impose -- on citizens of the industrialized nations, but not on others -- a system of global environmental regulations that include quotas and punitive taxes on energy fuels. Fossil fuels provide today's principal energy source, and energy is essential for all economic growth. Stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide -- the announced goal of the Climate Treaty -- would require that fuel use be cut by as much as 60 to 80 percent -- worldwide! In a world in which poverty is the greatest social pollutant, any restriction on energy use that inhibits economic growth should be viewed with caution. We understand the motivation to eliminate what are perceived to be the driving forces behind a potential climate change; but we believe the emerging Kyoto protocol -- to curtail carbon dioxide emissions from only part of the world community -- is dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive to jobs and standards-of-living. More to the point, we consider the scientific basis of the 1992 Global Climate Treaty to be flawed and its goal to be unrealistic. -
Neutralizing Misinformation Through Inoculation: Exposing Misleading Argumentation Techniques Reduces Their Influence
Cite as: Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. (2017). Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. PloS One, 12(5), e0175799. Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence John Cook1,2* Stephan Lewandowsky3,2, Ullrich K. H. Ecker2 1 Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA 2 School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia 3 School of Experimental Psychology and Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK * Corresponding author Email: [email protected] Running head: NEUTRALIZING MISINFORMATION 2 1 Abstract 2 Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public 3 misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the reality of climate 4 change and lowered support for mitigation policies. This study experimentally explored the 5 impact of misinformation about climate change and tested several pre-emptive interventions 6 designed to reduce the influence of misinformation. We found that false-balance media coverage 7 (giving contrarian views equal voice with climate scientists) lowered perceived consensus 8 overall, although the effect was greater among free-market supporters. Likewise, misinformation 9 that confuses people about the level of scientific agreement regarding anthropogenic global 10 warming (AGW) had a polarizing effect, with free-market supporters reducing their acceptance 11 of AGW and those with low free-market support increasing their acceptance of AGW. However, 12 we found that inoculating messages that (1) explain the flawed argumentation technique used in 13 the misinformation or that (2) highlight the scientific consensus on climate change were effective 14 in neutralizing those adverse effects of misinformation. -
Tracing Climate Change Denial in the United States and Looking for Impacts on the United States’ Science Diplomacy
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE FORMATION EUROPEENNE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT INSTITUT EUROPEEN · EUROPEAN INSTITUTE Tracing Climate Change Denial in the United States and Looking for Impacts on the United States’ Science Diplomacy By Stephanie Baima A thesis submitted for the Joint Master degree in Global Economic Governance & Public Affairs (GEGPA) Academic year 2019 – 2020 July 2020 Supervisor: Hartmut Marhold Reviewer: Christian Blasberg PLAGIARISM STATEMENT I certify that this thesis is my own work, based on my personal study and/or research and that I have acknowledged all material and sources used in its preparation. I further certify that I have not copied or used any ideas or formulations from any book, article or thesis, in printed or electronic form, without specifically mentioning their origin, and that the complete citations are indicated in quotation marks. I also certify that this thesis has not previously been submitted for assessment in any other unit, except where specific permission has been granted from all unit coordinators involved, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarized the work of other students and/or persons. In accordance with the law, failure to comply with these regulations makes me liable to prosecution by the disciplinary commission and the courts of the French Republic for university plagiarism. Stephanie Baima 10 July 2020 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgements........................................................................................................................ 3 Abstract -
Nieman Reports Winter 2005 Vol. 59 No. 4
N R NIEMAN REPORTS THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOL. 59 NO. 4 WINTER 2005 Five Dollars Citizen Journalism Words & Reflections Intelligent Design Global Warming Hurricane Katrina Coverage “… to promote and elevate the standards of journalism” —Agnes Wahl Nieman, the benefactor of the Nieman Foundation. Vol. 59 No. 4 NIEMAN REPORTS Winter 2005 THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Publisher Bob Giles Editor Melissa Ludtke Assistant Editor Lois Fiore Editorial Assistant Sarah Hagedorn Design Editor Diane Novetsky Nieman Reports (USPS #430-650) is published Editorial in March, June, September and December Telephone: 617-496-6308 by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, E-Mail Address: One Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-2098. [email protected] Subscriptions/Business Internet Address: Telephone: 617-496-2968 www.nieman.harvard.edu E-Mail Address: [email protected] Copyright 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Subscription $20 a year, $35 for two years; add $10 per year for foreign airmail. Single copies $5. Second-class postage paid at Boston, Back copies are available from the Nieman office. Massachusetts and additional entries. Please address all subscription correspondence to POSTMASTER: One Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-2098 Send address changes to and change of address information to Nieman Reports, P.O. Box 4951, Manchester, NH 03108. P.O. Box 4951, ISSN Number 0028-9817 Manchester, NH 03108. Vol. 59 No. 4 NIEMAN REPORTS Winter 2005 THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY 4 Citizen Journalism 6 The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It? BY SHAYNE BOWMAN AND CHRIS WILLIS 11 Where Citizens and Journalists Intersect BY DAN GILLMOR 13 Citizen Journalism and the BBC BY RICHARD SAMBROOK 16 With Citizens’ Visual News Coverage Standards Don’t Change BY SANTIAGO LYON AND LOU FERRARA 17 Journalism as a Conversation BY JEAN K. -
The Public and Climate
THIS IS THE TEXT OF AN ESSAY IN THE WEB SITE “THE DISCOVERY OF GLOBAL WARMING” BY SPENCER WEART, HTTP://WWW.AIP.ORG/HISTORY/CLIMATE. JULY 2007. HYPERLINKS WITHIN THAT SITE ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS FILE. FOR AN OVERVIEW SEE THE BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE (HARVARD UNIV. PRESS, 2003). COPYRIGHT © 2003-2007 SPENCER WEART & AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS. The Public and Climate Already in the 1930s, many people noticed that their weather was getting warmer. Few connected this with human activity, and still fewer feared any harm. Gradually scientists, aided by science journalists, informed the minority of educated people that modern civilization might cause global warming, sometime far in the future. In the early 1970s, the question began to concern a wider public. By then most people had come to fear planet-wide harm from technology in general. Now an onslaught of droughts suggested we were already damaging the climate. The issue was confused, however, when experts debated whether pollution would bring global warming or, instead, an appalling new ice age. By the end of the 1970s, scientific opinion had settled on warming as most likely, probably becoming evident around the year 2000—that is, in a remote and uncertain future. Some scientists nevertheless went directly to the public to demand action to avert the warming, and a few politicians took up the issue. During the hot summer of 1988, a few outspoken scientists, convinced by new evidence that rapid climate change might be imminent, made the public fully aware of the problem. Scientific discussions now became entangled with fierce political debates over scientific uncertainty and the costs of regulating greenhouse gases. -
The Consensus Handbook Why the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Is Important
The Consensus Handbook Why the scientific consensus on climate change is important John Cook Sander van der Linden Edward Maibach Stephan Lewandowsky Written by: John Cook, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge Edward Maibach, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, and CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia First published in March, 2018. For more information, visit http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/consensus-handbook/ Graphic design: Wendy Cook Page 21 image credit: John Garrett Cite as: Cook, J., van der Linden, S., Maibach, E., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). The Consensus Handbook. DOI:10.13021/G8MM6P. Available at http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/consensus-handbook/ Introduction Based on the evidence, 97% of climate scientists have concluded that human- caused climate change is happening. This scientific consensus has been a hot topic in recent years. It’s been referenced by presidents, prime ministers, senators, congressmen, and in numerous television shows and newspaper articles. However, the story of consensus goes back decades. It’s been an underlying theme in climate discussions since the 1990s. Fossil fuel groups, conservative think-tanks, and political strategists were casting doubt on the consensus for over a decade before social scientists began studying the issue. From the 1990s to this day, most of the discussion has been about whether there is a scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming. As the issue has grown in prominence, a second discussion has arisen. Should we even be talking about scientific consensus? Is it productive? Does it distract from other important issues? This handbook provides a brief history of the consensus on climate change. -
South-Coast Report Happs Comments
A RESPONSE TO THE DRAFT DOCUMENT “South Coast Regional Sea-level Rise Planning and Policy Response Framework by Whitehead and Associates, July 2014” Prepared for the Eurobodalla Shire Council and Shoalhaven City Council. Primary council contacts: Norm Lenehan (ESC); and Isabelle Ghetti (SCC) I have read the above draft document and, whilst there are too many points of contention to be addressed here, I would like to focus on issues of concern regarding some questionable assumptions made and highly questionable sources of authority. It is perhaps appropriate that Whitehead and Associates state: “Limits to understanding climate change science, predicting future emissions and projecting future sea-level rise, mean that there is significant uncertainty and absolute predictions cannot be reliably made.” And: “However, there is presently no means to place robust numerical likelihoods on the rates of future sea-level rise.” I would firstly like to reflect on the following questionable statement from the draft document: “We note that there is genuine scepticism relating to the reality of climate change, but among scientists that have an established track record in climate science and directly related fields, this point of view is apparently only held by a small minority of suitably qualified professionals.” To say: “.. there is genuine scepticism relating to the reality of climate change,..” is a fatuous comment and I would challenge Whitehead and Associates to point out just one scientist who claims that the climate is not changing. Climate has always changed, sometimes slowly and sometimes rapidly. It is changing as you read this and will continue to change irrespective of what we do. -
Climate Policy—From Rio to Kyoto: a Political
Hoover Press : EPP 102 DP5 HPEP02FM01 24-05-00 rev1 page i CLIMATE POLICY— FROM RIO TO KYOTO A Political Issue for 2000— and Beyond S. Fred Singer HOOVER INSTITUTION on War, Revolution and Peace Stanford University 2000 Hoover Press : EPP 102 DP5 HPEP02FM01 24-05-00 rev1 page ii The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become the thirty-first president of the United States, is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic and internationalaffairs. The views expressed in its publications are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers, or Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution. www.hoover.org Essays in Public Policy No. 102 Copyright 2000 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Materialcontained in this essay may be quoted with appropriate citation. First printing, 2000 Manufactured in the United States of America 050403020100987654321 ISBN 0-8179-4372-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (not available at time of publication) Hoover Press : EPP 102 DP5 HPEP02FM01 24-05-00 rev1 page iii Executive Summary Within the United States, global warming and related policy issues are becoming increasingly contentious, surfacing in the presidential con- tests of the year 2000 and beyond. They enter into controversies in- volving international trade agreements, questions of national sover- eignty versus global governance, and ideological debates about the nature of future economic growth and development. On a more detailed level, determined efforts are under way by environmental groups and their sympathizers in foundations and in the federalgovernment to restrict and phase out the use of fossil fuels (and even nuclear reactors) as sources of energy. -
Steve Wilson (Reporter) - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Steve Wilson (reporter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wilson_(reporter) Steve Wilson (reporter) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steve Wilson is an American news reporter. Currently running his own nonprofit investigative reporting group, he is best known for his whistleblower lawsuit with then-wife Jane Akre against WTVT in 1997[1] and his work as WXYZ-TV's Chief Investigative Reporter in Detroit, Michigan in the late 2000s.[2] Contents 1 Professional life 1.1 WTVT Whistleblower lawsuit 1.2 Kwame Kilpatrick and the Civic Fund 1.3 Beyond WXYZ 2 References Professional life Wilson began his news career offering investigative news reports to various outlets in the 1980s. His reports were aired by CBS and ABC affiliates, and eventually led to Wilson joining Inside Edition, a nationally syndicated tabloid program. He would stay with Inside Edition for more than five years, and many of his reports won Emmy Awards for consumer reporting.[3] Wilson met his future wife, Jane Akre, at a journalism convention in Washington. The two later moved to South Florida and eventually to Tampa, where they joined WTVT, the local Fox owned-and-operated television station. WTVT Whistleblower lawsuit In 1997, Wilson and Akre began work on a story regarding the agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto and recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a milk additive that had been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration but also blamed for a number of health issues. Wilson and Akre planned a four-part investigative -
Exxon: Denial and Deception
DENIAL AND DECEPTION: A Chronicle of ExxonMobil’s Efforts to Corrupt the Debate on Global Warming A Report by May 2002 Acknowledgements The report was written and researched by Janet Sawin and Kert Davies, using research and reports by Greenpeace United Kingdom, Ross Gelbspan, Kirsty Hamilton and Bill Hare. Special thanks to the Ozone Action files. Greenpeace is grateful to the founda- tions, donors and members who support our global warming campaign. Foreward One way to look at human history is through the peri- experiment on the global climate. We have already odic struggles between those embodying the cor- been provided a glimpse of what happens as global rupting influence of power and those who have kept warming goes unabated, from the loss of low lying such power in check or even successfully under- island nations and beaches the world over, to the mined it. The American Revolution is arguably the spread of infectious diseases, disrupted agriculture, birth of the freedom movement in the Western world, more severe weather cycles including super storms, although the British might argue that the birth of the more droughts, more floods, and ultimately the mas- "rights of man" came from the issuing of the Magna sive die-off of the great forests, the disappearance of Carta and frankly, all cultures can point to great liber- many glaciers, and the further accelerated loss of ators of one era or another. biodiversity. Regardless of where it began, every massive center ExxonMobil’s role in defeating efforts to stop global of unaccountable power, whether it be the Roman warming is impressive. -
Social Media and Social Movements: a Critical Analysis of Audience's Use of Facebook to Advocate Food Activism Offline Ginevra Corinna Elvira Adamoli
Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2012 Social Media and Social Movements: A Critical Analysis of Audience's Use of Facebook to Advocate Food Activism Offline Ginevra Corinna Elvira Adamoli Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AUDIENCE’S USE OF FACEBOOK TO ADVOCATE FOOD ACTIVISM OFFLINE By GINEVRA CORINNA ELVIRA ADAMOLI A Dissertation submitted to the School of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2012 Ginevra Corinna Elvira Adamoli defended this dissertation on October 12, 2012. The members of the supervisory committee were: Andrew Opel Professor Directing Dissertation Deana Rohlinger University Representative Jennifer Proffitt Committee Member Jeanette Castillo Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii This dissertation is dedicated to my loving dog Maya (2005-2010) iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I want to express my gratitude to all members of my committee for the guidance they provided through this process of learning and discovering. My appreciation goes to my Chair, Dr. Opel for his patient and help in pushing me and challenging me in developing this project. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such an influential person who has showed me how to become a better scholar and human being.