TalkingStickTV - Prof. Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

Interview with Prof. Naomi Oreskes co-author of the book "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming"

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  News & Politics

[sailRichard]

ElementCabinet You obviously have not read the book. If you did, you would know that there are no ad hominems, no slogans, no conjecture in the book, just honest investigative reporting.

After 6 investigations found that climategate was a non event with no fudging of science, leading Senate denialist Inhofe (R-OK) demanded another investigation by the Inspector General, which came to the exact same conclusions. That makes 7 investigations - no wrong doing.

[DocSnowUU]

Yes, this does a great job of tracing the 'denialists' from their roots in questioning science from tobacco to ozone to global warming.

And comments below do a great job of illustrating how many disciples they have created. Notice the 'blind eye'--"I don't hear much in the way of factual arguments here"--and the unsubstantiated accusation that's assumed to be true--"The 'climate gate' fraud. . ." (at least five independent inquiries have found no wrongdoing of any sort.)

[MarkNabes]

Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence—Carl Sagan

And we have that! Dr Rajendra Pachurai chief climatologist modeler of the IPCC is leading a team of the greatest computer modelers ever assembled.

[mphello]

Excellent! Keep up the great fight!

It's hilarious how none of these deniers has the guts to spew their denier conspiracy lunacy at an AGU or IPCC conference.

[Quercuspalustris50]

Wait about 5 or 10 years, and when the price of gas goes to 8 to 12 dollars a gallon, then you'll see who the slavemaster is. Then watch the price of everything else that is oil dependent rise - farming/food, plastic, shipping, air travel, medicine, etc..

[BlackBeltMonkeySong]

You don't understand. All climategate investigations were toothless and biased, and all the scientists are exaggerating, and don't really understand science. Otherwise he would be wrong about his entire world view, and that is just a little bit too confronting.

[sailRichard]

Not embracing renewables will mean we lost out in the worldwide clean energy revolution. That's the most promising sector of the economy and way to create jobs. If we don't tackle global warming seriously now, the draconian measures that will likely be necessary on a global scale later on, will be your worst nightmare.

Desperate measures will be the only choice, if we wait too long.

[nobravenewworld]

i'd rather face global warming than the elites' "solution" to global warming. enjoy your total slavery. and good job ignoring genetic manipulation that is the real threat to humanity, not carbon.

[pseudotruth]

Except "The "climate gate" fraud" wasn't a fraud. Do you have any evidence for fraud? No! Numerous independent enquiries in different countries have failed to find any evidence of fraud. NOBODY has shown any evidence of fraud.

Except idiots like you are still claiming fraud. That says a lot about you.

[Richard Pauli]

This is a superb lecture about recent psycho history.