{"id":5061,"date":"2011-03-03T17:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2011-03-03T17:42:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:42:44","slug":"of-scapegoats-and-minefields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=5061","title":{"rendered":"Of Scapegoats and Minefields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/terms/"></a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thebenshi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Olson<\/a>, the scientist-turned-filmaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.nytimes.com\/comments\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/01\/the-east-anglia-climate-snatch-not-yet-a-crime\/?permid=3#comment3\" target=\"_blank\">dares to depart<\/a> from conventional wisdom among climate advocates, many who would hang the news media in collective effigy over climategate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/1185-2/">Buy Xanax Online Overnight</a> The media were irrelevant and largely blameless in Climategate. The whole incident was a case study in the absence of effective leadership in both the science and environmental communities.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/implants/"></a> In an essay he <a href=\"http:\/\/thebenshi.com\/2011\/03\/03\/118-the-downside-of-alarmism-if-uncertainty-is-conveyed-credibility-will-fade\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> today, Olson also throws down the gauntlet to climate change communicators (but presumably not journalists):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/"></a> EVERYONE wants to know, &#8220;How can we best communicate elements of uncertainty?&#8221;\u009d My answer is, &#8220;Very carefully, if at all.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/accommodations/">Order Klonopin Online</a> Randy Olson, the scientist-turned-filmaker, dares to depart from conventional wisdom among climate advocates, many who would hang the news media in collective effigy over climategate: The media were irrelevant and largely blameless in Climategate. The whole incident was a case study in the absence of effective leadership in both the science and environmental communities. For&#8230;<span> <a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/gift-cards/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=5061\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2576],"tags":[835,860,1524],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-communication","tag-climate-change","tag-climategate","tag-randy-olson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}