Dr. Barry Bickmore - How to Avoid the Truth About Climate Change

Barry Bickmore is Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University. His research specialties are low-temperature geochemistry and geoscience education. In this presentation, he discusses how he moved from being a climate change "skeptic" to being an outspoken advocate of mainstream climate science. He then discusses how it is that people like him can so effectively avoid the truth about climate change.
The views expressed in this symposium are solely those of Dr. Barry Bickmore.

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[ShalomYal]

NO doubt - as soon as I see 10 papers published by AAAS or the NAS I will start to rethink my position. I - even as a science teacher am not qualified to make opinion on this topic. How much more so Rush or Hanity?

[ShalomYal]

Also - Galileo was not arguing against scientists - he was arguing against the Catholic church/priests who came to their conclusions on faith not science. This is a huge distinction.

[Claudius Denk]

Seems to me it's about paranoia and evading the methods of science.

[4aSteadyStateEconomy]

Yes, that reminds me of when Rick Perry (a Creationidiot) tried to pass himself off as a modern Galileo and got the context entirely backwards.

In most right-wing anti-science arguments, the avoidance and deletion of CONTEXT (via cherry-picking) is a cornerstone. They are constantly moving the goalpost and kicking logical fallacies at it from whatever direction suits them. I'm sure that comes easily because they're used to quoting Scripture to make it "mean" whatever they want.

[4aSteadyStateEconomy]

This ranks as one of the better psychological explanations I've seen. All "conservatives" (i.e. people who eschew resource conservation and mainly want to conserve money) should watch this. I also recommend Bickmore's debunking of Roy Spencer.

[4aSteadyStateEconomy]

His goal here was not to rehash the evidence. Deniers have been shown plenty of evidence and keep ignoring it. This is about the psychology of denial and right-wing authoritarianism.

The party-line division on AGW shows that it's not about a lack of evidence, rather a lack of willingness to respect nature's laws. Our economy is based on a pyramid scheme of unsustainable depletion, and is impacting nature in countless ways beyond AGW. Anti-regulation zealots just don't care about those things.

[bueschu]

@ridgeraiser

Dir ist schon klar, dass Bickmore in dem Video erzählt, wie er vom Skeptiker zum Überzeugten wurde in Sachen anthropogener Klimawandel?

Nur so zum sagen! Joah! :D

[Claudius Denk]

Dr. Barry Bickmore seems to be uninterested in discussing the scientific reasons why he believes in global warming. He just wants to assure us that only the dumb or evil people don't accept it.

[pas9ify]

There are so many people I would love to strap down and make them watch this over and over until their programming evaporates.

[uknowispeaksense]

Exactly. You should see the latest exchange between the poptart on my blog. Its a classic. As a science teacher I wouldn't mind getting your opinion on the teaching of science. I have a small lamentation in the same blog entry I just referred to. Its uknowispeaksense(dot)wordpress­(dot)com