Also via Quark Soup, an excellent video of a presentation by Naomi Oreskes; half about the early history of scientific concern about anthropogenic climate change (lots of new stuff to me there) and half about the history of the denial movement. It's an hour long, but I highly recommend finding the time to watch it.
Update: Atmoz also linked to this video. Check out caerbannog's comment there.
Did you happen to read Lubos Motl's comment on it in Quark Soup?
ReplyDeleteI sent the link to a retired engineer who's a doubter, and haven't heard back from him.
ReplyDeleteI like to think this means that the talk got through to him, but am curious - what is the response of other genuine (non-shill) doubters when they view the talk? Is this the way we can reach sincere people who've come down with "everything Al Gore knows is wrong" disease?
Heh!
ReplyDeleteNo, John, I missed it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Lubos is a piece of work isn't he?
Interestingly he fits in the pattern Oreskes identifies of passionately anti-communist physicists without any serious training in climate being at the core of the denial movement.
Well, actually Motl may be more:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kolej.mff.cuni.cz/~lmotm275/
Which points at:
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~motl/