Climate Science and Media Distortion -- Stephen Schneider

A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider. Schneider explains the problems facing the public's understanding of climate change and consequently the lack of action in Washington legislatively.

This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the introduction to an event honoring Stephen Schneider and presenting an award in his name to Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the EMS Environment Institute.

This video was also partially screened by Ben Santer at the 2011 AGU (American Geophysicists Union) Conference held in San Francisco (http://revkin.tumblr.com/post/14094189165/ben-santer-on-steve-schneider-and-def­ending)

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[TheDivineCellphone]

Very good video !! - important words in a heated debate.

May i ask, whats the music in the end of the video ?

[Plomomedia]

@TheDivineCellphone it's called "howard zinn instrumental" and you can download it on soundcloud/plomomedia

[nickschor]

@janjamm: Yes, very well put. Don't know if anyone picked up on his statement about "knowing personally" about the risks associated with the biopsy, but he had acute mantle cell lymphoma. He argued risk asessment/analysis to the point that treatment protocols for the disease were changed. He even wrote a book on his experience called "The Patient From Hell".

[Plomomedia]

@nickschor I knew he suffered from something himself, but didn't know the details. Thanks, I want to read that book.

[wbill221]

This is so on target. We can solve out needs for energy without burning stuff. But it does require stopping the distortion.Let's get our heads together and turn his work into actions that do maintain a spot in high probability portion of the pattern.

[DaveMcRae999]

Thanks for putting this together. We lost a treasure.

[chastityjc]

if we don't

rev 11:18

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great;

and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

[chastityjc]

i get mad to hosea 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

[eddiequest4]

Dammmm - I miss that guy.

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

@Plomomedia, put the words "global warming" and/or "climate change" in the video title and this will get more views.

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

@dannykeat, because the average dolt can only handle evidence that makes them feel good. Very few science-based videos get bulk viewership. That's the domain of flaky music videos and car crash scenes.

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

The main "problems facing the public's understanding of climate change" are just a bunch of stupid, greedy people. Nothing much has changed over history.

[TheAman4243]

Wake up people... this is happening.

[Spanishtech1]

Excellent video! I will share it!