{"id":9149,"date":"2012-08-06T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2012-08-06T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:18:09","slug":"the-conversion-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9149","title":{"rendered":"The Conversion Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a 2006 NYT op-ed, environment writer Gregg Easterbrook pronounced<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/andrew-plimmer/ based on the data I’m now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2011, in an essay<\/a> titled, “Confessions of a Climate Change Convert,” conservative blogger D. R. Tucker said:<\/p>\n

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Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription While\u00a0others<\/a>\u00a0have made similar conversions over the last decade, nobody’s has been as closely scrutinized and widely discussed (in the media and blogosphere) as that of Berkley physicist Richard Muller. But the circumstances and hoopla surrounding his “conversion<\/a>” has puzzled many in the climate science community, \u00a0including<\/a>\u00a0NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt:<\/p>\n

Buy Hydrocodone Online Overnight As most readers are probably aware, there was\u00a0an op-ed in the Saturday New York Times<\/a>\u00a0from Richard Muller announcing the\u00a0Berkeley Earth<\/a>\u00a0team’s latest results. It was odd enough that a scientific paper was announced via an op-ed, rather than a press release, odder still that the paper was only being submitted and had not actually been accepted, and most odd of all was the framing “\u201c a “\u02dcconverted skeptic’ being convinced by his studies that the planet has indeed warmed and that human activity is the cause “\u201c which as\u00a0Mike<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ken Caldiera<\/a>\u00a0pointed out has been known for almost 2 decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/flawlessconsultingeurope/ Gavin also correctly noted that “the “\u02dcconverted skeptic’\/prodigal scientist meme is a very powerful\u00a0framing<\/a>\u00a0for the media.” This has been borne out by the lavish coverage Muller received everywhere from NPR<\/a> and\u00a0Rachel Maddow<\/a> to the Los Angeles Times<\/a> and the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When it comes to climate change, the conversion meme–especially when it’s deftly exploited by someone with a flair for self-publicity–is like catnip for the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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