Washington Post: Series of missteps by climate scientists threatens climate-change agenda

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/14/AR2010021404283.html :banghead:

I was very fond of the Ross Ice Shelf.

I blame those tyrannosaur deniers. Their extravagant lifestyles and meat-rich diets were to blame. Tyrannosaur prey alone produced millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane per year. This surely contributed to the mean surface temperature of the Cretaceous being 4 °C above modern level. The warming caused the ocean conveyor to stop, causing an ice age, resulting in a devastating increase in the polar ice caps, thus lowering the sea level and destroying the delicate ecosystem of the North American Inland Sea.

may will go the way of the dinosaurs.

With a quick stopover at Easter Island.

excuse my language but I've seen enough of their coverage on the environment

They're simply reporting the facts.

"Skeptics" are making PR headway. Unable to refute the core science, their strategy appears to be "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_slicing">death by a thousand cuts."

Global Warming, as it is such a well known issue now for two decades, requires a much larger Op.

The Internet seems to magnify their ability to project and deliver False Realties and Propaganda.

Most recently, even though it is a fact that roughly 95% of Americans got tax cuts under Obama, only 12% believe they did and even more thought their Fed taxes were HIGHER!

I stand in awe and disgust of the evil powers of our Modern Propaganda Machine. In terms of the sheer power of the Propaganda as mated with modern advances in the understanding of psychology, advertising, marketing, PR combined with the power of the "nuclear delivery system" of a corporatized media to make it work.

Basically, it's a "cigarettes don't cause cancer" strategy that the RW/Bushies always use, which obviously becomes more thoroughly advanced and updated so as to present a seamless lie.

On the other side of it, the "death by 1000 cuts" method must prey on some near-universal psychological understanding of people that is beyond my knowledge, but who's outlines are clearly visible because we have all watched it work over and over and OVER again, these last 12 years or more.

The method of attack works every time, that "kill the messenger" attack and event-based thinking vs. scientific thinking (which loses the battle of the PR almost every time). And the other side of it turns down the volume knob on any tiny crack in the False Reality Bubble they generate so even if the truth is out there, no one will hear it anyway.

It seems like it shouldn't work, and if it does that people would catch onto it, especially after the RW "cigarettes don't cause cancer" Propaganda Op was busted wide open.

But if we think about it, the only reason it truly failed was that they got busted in court by their own documents from one of them there "frivolous lawsuits" that actually wasn't quite so frivolous.

If that hadn't happened, maybe 25% of the nation would STILL believe the cigarettes-cancer link was a Lib'rul Lie and 60% more still wouldn't be sure.

It really is an amazing, if not totally creepy sight watching The Lie trump The Truth time and time again. Oh well. It's the Corporations' World, we are just profit centers in it.

"Our product is doubt."

If "skeptics" can produce any doubt about the credibility of the science in people's minds, then people feel free to draw their own conclusion. In the case of a smoker, who wants to continue smoking, they can say, "Well, there's no proof that smoking causes cancer..."

The same strategy works for "Climate Change."

Not so nice for humans.

This is just the convenient excuse of the month for doing nothing. When the dust settles, there will be another excuse. And then another.

:puke: just like froggies in a kettle. Except frogs don't have the capacity for Evil, like a lot of the bald monkeys do.

Thanks for digging it up again - an odd analogy but fitting in many ways!
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