{"id":8234,"date":"2012-02-22T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2012-02-22T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:08:03","slug":"the-combustible-climate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=8234","title":{"rendered":"The Combustible Climate Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/about-us/">Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online</a> The Peter Gleick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-h-gleick\/-the-origin-of-the-heartl_b_1289669.html\" target=\"_blank\">shocker<\/a> is dominating conversation in many science circles this week. That&#8217;s understandable. It&#8217;s as if he emptied a can of lighter fluid on an already flammable climate debate.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-installation/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-installation/</a> To make matters worse, the most partisan and shrillest voices are fanning the flames in spectacular fashion, as they downplay\/justify\/praise Gleick&#8217;s action. It&#8217;s tribalism gone amok. I&#8217;ll have more to say on all this, plus some of the outstanding questions that remain, tomorrow.\u00a0Meanwhile, the Atlantic&#8217;s Megan McArdle (her latest on the affair) has a must-read<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/02\/peter-gleick-confesses-to-obtaining-heartland-documents-under-false-pretenses\/253395\/\" target=\"_blank\"> piece<\/a> that touches all the right bases. Hers is a voice of reason, sanity, and perspective. She also probes some of the oddities of Gleick&#8217;s explanation that many of his sympathizers conveniently ignore or dismiss. In a normal world, that would be known as healthy skepticism.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact/">Purchase Tramadol Without Prescription</a> Anyway,\u00a0just before this crazy story got crazier with Gleick&#8217;s admission, I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org\/2012\/02\/is-the-anti-science-virus-spreading\/\" target=\"_blank\">stock<\/a> (over at the Yale Forum on Climate Change &amp; the Media) of the &#8220;anti-science&#8221; meme that has become much propagated. I examined it in the context of recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/feb\/19\/science-scepticism-usdomesticpolicy\" target=\"_blank\">remarks<\/a> made by Nina Fedoroff,\u00a0president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/results/">Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription</a> I wrote that it was important to recognize &#8220;that unscientific thinking on numerous issues clouds the minds of both liberals and conservatives.&#8221; Have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org\/2012\/02\/is-the-anti-science-virus-spreading\/\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a> and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/rentals/">https://www.secpeinvestments.com/rentals/</a> The Peter Gleick shocker is dominating conversation in many science circles this week. That&#8217;s understandable. It&#8217;s as if he emptied a can of lighter fluid on an already flammable climate debate. To make matters worse, the most partisan and shrillest voices are fanning the flames in spectacular fashion, as they downplay\/justify\/praise Gleick&#8217;s action. It&#8217;s tribalism&#8230;<span> <a href="https://forgive123.com/terms/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=8234\">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":[2553,2557,2961],"tags":[835,846,1581],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","category-science","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","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=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}