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Scientists plan to challenge deniers of global warming

by ishambat | November 7, 2010 at 10:55 pm

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On Monday, the American Geophysical Union, the country's largest association of climate scientists, plans to announce that 700 climate scientists have agreed to speak out as experts on questions about global warming and the role of man-made air pollution.

John Abraham of St. Thomas University in Minnesota, who last May wrote a widely disseminated response to climate change skeptics, is also pulling together a "climate rapid response team," which includes scientists prepared to go before what they consider potentially hostile audiences on conservative talk radio and television shows.

"This group feels strongly that science and politics can't be divorced and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists," said Scott Mandia, professor of physical sciences at Suffolk County Community College in New York.

"We are taking the fight to them because we are … tired of taking the hits. The notion that truth will prevail is not working. The truth has been out there for the past two decades, and nothing has changed."

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richard brubaker (not verified)

at 06:45 on November 8th, 2010

'and nothing has changed' He sure got that right. In 69 yrs. the climate where I live hasnt changed.

ishambat

at 17:08 on November 8th, 2010

It has all over the world, including where I am.

As for your neck of the woods, either you got lucky or you just haven't noticed it. It's the frog-in-the-heating-water effect.

JohnJB (not verified)

at 22:30 on November 8th, 2010

Warmers never let the facts get in the way of a good fantasy, do they? www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2010/2010-37.shtml "Inaccurate News Reports misrepresent a Climate Science initiative of the American Geophysical Union". It took me less than a minute to find the truth on the AGU site.

ishambat

at 02:45 on November 10th, 2010

The article you have quoted does not negate the article I have quoted.

The 700 people who are going to the conservative shows to tell the truth are members of AGU who have decided that they've had enough and that it's time to fight back.

That the rest of the AGU are not doing the same is based on just what the person quoted in your article states: That AGU is a scientific, not advocacy, organization.

JohnJB (not verified)

at 15:56 on November 11th, 2010

There are no 700 who are going to talk shows. The AGU has 700 scientists who have agreed to answer reporters questions that are forwarded to them by the AGU. Which is the service they provided before Copenhagen. It is an answer service and nothing more.
The AGU press release specifically states this and was released to counter the report you quoted.
The article you linked to and quoted from was an L.A. times article.
The AGU press release states in the first sentence; "An article appearing in the Los Angeles Times, and then picked up by media outlets far and wide, misrepresents the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a climate science project the AGU is about to relaunch." (emphasis mine)
Could you please explain the logic that says this "does not negate" the article you quoted?
This is totally separate from John Abrahams efforts with his "Rapid Response Team" which numbers apparently about 39. Which contains the usual suspects)
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-climate-scientists-20101108,0,3784003.story