ah yes the article that the UK Met office had to write an editorial to point out that their assessment was nothing of the sort. IE Newsmax fabricated the story ((which is nothing new) exactly what Plait was talking about. There is no science involved only business interests, this is the root cause of the publics mistrust of science, to many do not want to accept science when it conflicts with idealism. They would rather enter the PR battle which the scientists have no budget for.
It spills over so the public distrusts all fields of science. A facebook friend and colleague (Sr. software engineer) posted the
following article a few days ago with the caption "Some more actual science on global warming":
http://www.newsmax.com/Rahn/Global-Warming-Temperature-Data/2013/04/02/id/49...
I'm continually amazed at how otherwise smart people seem to be so easily duped. Note that the author of this "actual science" works for the Cato institute, whose board members include the Koch brothers.
Compare and contrast with ACTUAL science:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/11/28/1210514109.full.pdf+html
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Science editorial in the Chronicle
No need to apologize, Brent. The misunderstanding was mine.
When the people of this country decide to get serious about educating our youth in the hard sciences and engineering, we won't have to be concerned with the deniers anymore.
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