Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics
The American Geophysical Union plans to announce Monday that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. The effort is a pushback against congressional conservatives who have vowed to kill regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
The still-evolving efforts reveal a shift among climate scientists, many of whom have traditionally stayed out of politics and avoided the news media. Many now say they are willing to go toe-to-toe with their critics, some of whom gained new power after the Republicans won control of the House in last Tuesday’s election.
On Monday, the American Geophysical Union, the country’s largest association of climate scientists, plans to announce that 700 climate scientists have agreed to speak out as experts on questions about global warming and the role of man-made air pollution.
Some are prepared to go before what they consider potentially hostile audiences on conservative talk-radio and television shows.
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Interesting development. This shows that when pushed hard enough even timid academics will fight back.
Besides the AGU effort described above, the recently concluded annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) had sections of the meeting devoted to discussing the distortion of the science by so called “skeptics”.
My question, though, will those who want to demonize science really care? Creationism activists already look like fools to most of the educated populace, yet the creationists don’t seem to care. Will Rush Limbaugh really care if hundreds of scientists start speaking up about the idiocies spouted on his right-wing hate-radio talk show?
