Aug 21, 2023 12:40 AM
(This post was last modified: Aug 21, 2023 12:57 AM by C C.)
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/signal-and-noise
INTRO: Climate change is real and important. Mitigation and adaptation policies make excellent sense. Scientific integrity is important also. Climate advocates have been extremely successful in promoting representations of the science of extreme weather that depart significantly from the actual research of the scientific community and assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This post is inspired by the successful efforts last week of climate activists — including three widely-cited scientists — to enforce misinformation by the legacy media. In a nutshell, ABC News wrote an accurate story about how climate was not a major or even significant factor in the Lahaina, Maui fire and disaster. After being mobbed by the enforcers, the story was changed to emphasize the role of climate. These sort of activist scientists who seek to enforce preferred public narratives have been called the “science police.”
Today’s post pushes back against this narrative enforcement with some actual science. Have a look at the panel below... (MORE - details)
RELATED (scivillage): Corruption of the academic peer review process
INTRO: Climate change is real and important. Mitigation and adaptation policies make excellent sense. Scientific integrity is important also. Climate advocates have been extremely successful in promoting representations of the science of extreme weather that depart significantly from the actual research of the scientific community and assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This post is inspired by the successful efforts last week of climate activists — including three widely-cited scientists — to enforce misinformation by the legacy media. In a nutshell, ABC News wrote an accurate story about how climate was not a major or even significant factor in the Lahaina, Maui fire and disaster. After being mobbed by the enforcers, the story was changed to emphasize the role of climate. These sort of activist scientists who seek to enforce preferred public narratives have been called the “science police.”
Today’s post pushes back against this narrative enforcement with some actual science. Have a look at the panel below... (MORE - details)
RELATED (scivillage): Corruption of the academic peer review process