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I was going to mention David Brin's post on the difference between climate change skeptics and deniers, but I just realised that that's rather pointless.We have for some time been in the Shirley MacLaine era of politics: you create your own reality.
Makes me think of two things I recently saw:http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/climate-change-deniers-vs-the-consensus/andhttp://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/
Wow! That's quite a collection of cartoons there in that second link.Here's another good one:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7028418.eceShows how science responds to *legitimate* criticism. Not that I expect anyone who puts stock in those cartoons to notice.
I was going to mention David Brin's post on the difference between climate change skeptics and deniers, but I just realised that that's rather pointless.
ReplyDeleteWe have for some time been in the Shirley MacLaine era of politics: you create your own reality.
Makes me think of two things I recently saw:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/climate-change-deniers-vs-the-consensus/
and
http://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/
Wow! That's quite a collection of cartoons there in that second link.
ReplyDeleteHere's another good one:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7028418.ece
Shows how science responds to *legitimate* criticism. Not that I expect anyone who puts stock in those cartoons to notice.