{"id":9203,"date":"2012-08-16T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9203"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:00:41","slug":"whos-responsible-for-the-polluted-climate-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9203","title":{"rendered":"What to Do About the "Polluted" Climate Discourse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription Andrew Montford, a Scottish climate skeptic who blogs<\/a>\u00a0at the Bishop Hill site, recently tweeted<\/a> of his trip<\/a> to London:<\/p>\n

Order Pregabalin Online Had interesting conversations with a couple of enviro jouros today. Both agreed that media refusal to report “reasonable middle” is problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/marksnews/ This prompted UK climate scientist Richard Betts to respond<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/about-us/ It is increasingly annoying that some media cover climate as a debate between NGOs and sceptics, with no actual scientists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Klonopin For Sale Online Ben Pile, a sharp critic of environmentalism who frequently\u00a0dissects<\/a>\u00a0media coverage of climate change, then chimed in<\/a> with his own complaint:<\/p>\n

https://ramedicare.com/auto-draft/ Plenty of stories in media with just one scientist, and no counter view at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He linked to a recent post<\/a>\u00a0of his that pointed out a spate of such stories.<\/p>\n

All three observations are, to varying degrees, legitimate. Of course, there’s this grumble at the other end of the grievance spectrum: Not enough sirens and flashing lights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ambien No Prescription Meanwhile, another take that addresses the dysfunctional climate discourse (and its resulting polarization) is advanced<\/a> by Yale’s Dan Kahan, who argues that our \u00a0“reasoning powers have become disabled by a polluted science-communication environment.” He writes:<\/p>\n

People acquire their scientific knowledge by consulting others who share their values and whom they therefore trust and understand. Usually, this strategy works just fine. We live in a science-communication environment richly stocked with accessible, consequential facts. As a result, groups with different values routinely converge on the best evidence for, say, the value of adding fluoride to water, or the harmlessness of mobile-phone radiation. The trouble starts when this communication environment fills up with toxic partisan meanings “\u201d ones that effectively announce that “\u02dcif you are one of us, believe this; otherwise, we’ll know you are one of them’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This tribal dynamic pretty much characterizes the state of our climate debate today. \u00a0Any efforts to cleanse the “polluted science-communication environment” that Kahan refers to will necessarily require the media (across the spectrum) to curb its too often simplistic and sensationalistic coverage of climate change. Is that possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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