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<font size="+1"><i>March 30 , 2017 </i></font><font size="+1"><i>Congress
displays </i></font><font size="+1"><i> "horrendously
depressing display of scientific illiteracy" </i></font><span
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<font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/03/29/unbalanced-climate-change-hearing-proves-pointless/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/03/29/unbalanced-climate-change-hearing-proves-pointless/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">change</b><span
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Post</font></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">(This story, originally published Wednesday afternoon, was
updated in the evening.) The House Science Committee convened a
hearing on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b>-<b style="font-weight:
normal;">change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>science
Wednesday morning and it went just as I expected. We learned
little, and political theater ...</div>
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Just Spent 2 Hours Debating the Biggest <b
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Deniers in Congress</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">At a congressional hearing on climate science Wednesday,
Michael Mann lamented that he was the only witness representing
the overwhelming scientific consensus that manmade<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>poses
a major threat. "We find ourselves at this hearing today ...<br>
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<blockquote><font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
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<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/03/29/science-committee-show-hearing-on-climate-change/">"Science":
Committee Show Hearing on Climate Change</a></b><br>
Mike Mann's best line on Chairman Smith's use of the phrase
"scientific method" –<br>
"I don't think that means what you think it means."..<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM86Bl4jSEI">(video)
Hearing- Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and
the Scientific Method</a><br>
Gizmodo: Presiding over this shitstorm was, of course, Texas
Republican Lamar Smith, who has been Chair of the committee since
Republicans took the House in 2012.<br>
It was, overall, a horrendously depressing display of scientific
illiteracy, but there were some odd bits of optimism to be found.
The witnesses all agreed at various points that yes, the climate
is changing and that humans play a role (though they disagreed,
contrary to overwhelming evidence, on the magnitude of that role),
and they also agreed that the Trump administration's proposed cuts
to Earth-observing systems at NASA, NOAA, and elsewhere are a
monumentally dumb idea...<br>
"Before we impose costly government regulations, we should
evaluate scientific uncertainties and ascertain the extent to
which they make it difficult to quantify humans' contribution to
climate change," Smith said in his opening statement, ignoring the
vast piles of evidence on that very topic...<br>
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House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has challenged
the credibility of Science magazine - one of the world's most
respected science publications.</div>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">A Scientist Just Spent 2 Hours
Debating the Biggest<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b> Deniers in
Congress</span></a></h2>
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255);">A team of scientists led by the University of Southampton
has found that the Antarctic ice cap underwent dramatic cycles of
expansion and melt-back millions of years ago when carbon dioxide
levels were similar to those experienced today.<br>
"Increasingly we are understanding that the Antarctic ice cap is
not some enduring monolithic block but a much more slippery
ephemeral beast - and the implications of that realisation for the
future of Antarctic ice sheets in a very rapidly warming .<br>
Large swings in isotopic composition suggest that the Antarctic
lost and regained almost all of its ice in numerous 110,000-year
cycles between the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs...<br>
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was switching back and forth between a unipolar glacial state and
a largely deglaciated state," said Dr Liebrand.<br>
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involved in the study, added: "All of this happened during an
interval when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ranged between
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fossil fuel-burning, we will experience in 50 to 100 years from
now...<br>
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<blockquote>Republican 2018 guv candidate Scott Wagner keynoted an
event for natural gas advocates in Harrisburg on Tuesday, offering
an ... ah ... novel explanation for the scientific phenomenon
known as climate change:<br>
"I haven't been in a science class in a long time, but the earth
moves closer to the sun every year-you know the rotation of the
earth," Wagner, a York County state senator, said, according to
StateImpact Pennsylvania. "We're moving closer to the sun."..<br>
He added, according to StateImpact's Katie Meyer, that, "We have
more people. You know, humans have warm bodies. So is heat coming
off? Things are changing, but I think we are, as a society, doing
the best we can."<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovIy-dHO48">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovIy-dHO48</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovIy-dHO48">(video)
Planet Will Burn Before Corporate Media Covers Climate Change as
Existential Threat</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Published on Mar 10, 2017<br>
Paul Jay says that the elites and their corporate media are not
dealing with the climate crisis with the urgency it deserves
because they think they will be ok and live by the philosophy of
'to hell with what comes tomorrow'<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/">Climate
Change Skeptic Group Seeks to Influence 200,000 Teachers</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Twenty-five thousand science teachers opened their
mailboxes this month and found a package from the Heartland
Institute, a libertarian think tank that rejects the scientific
consensus on climate change.<br>
It contained the organization's book "Why Scientists Disagree
About Global Warming," as well as a DVD rejecting the human role
in climate change and arguing instead that rising temperatures
have been caused primarily by natural phenomena. The material will
be sent to an additional 25,000 teachers every two weeks until
every public-school science teacher in the nation has a copy,
Heartland president and CEO Joseph Bast said in an interview last
week. If so, the campaign would reach more than 200,000 K-12
science teachers...<br>
The campaign elicited immediate derision from the National Center
for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit in Oakland, California
that monitors climate change education in classrooms...<br>
"It's not science, but it's dressed up to look like science," said
NCSE executive director Ann Reid. "It's clearly intended to
confuse teachers."<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nagt-jge.org/doi/abs/10.5408/13-071.1?code=gete-site">http://nagt-jge.org/doi/abs/10.5408/13-071.1?code=gete-site</a></font><br>
COMMENTARIES ON CLIMATE LITERACY<br>
<b><a
href="http://nagt-jge.org/doi/abs/10.5408/13-071.1?code=gete-site">Raising
Climate Literacy Through Addressing Misinformation: Case Studies
in Agnotology-Based Learning</a></b><br>
<blockquote> ABSTRACT<br>
Agnotology is the study of how and why ignorance or misconceptions
exist. While misconceptions are a challenge for educators, they
also present an opportunity to improve climate literacy through
agnotology-based learning. This involves the use of refutational
lessons that challenge misconceptions while teaching scientific
conceptions. We present three case studies in improving climate
literacy through agnotology-based learning. Two case studies are
classroom-based, applied in a community college and a four-year
university. We outline the misinformation examined, how students
are required to engage with the material and the results from this
learning approach. The third case study is a public outreach
targeting a climate misconception about scientific consensus. We
outline how cognitive research guided the design of content, and
the ways in which the material was disseminated through social
media and mainstream media. These real-world examples provide
effective ways to reduce misperceptions and improve climate
literacy, consistent with twenty years of research demonstrating
that refutational texts are among the most effective forms of
reducing misperceptions.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/science/new-york-climate-change-inquiry-into-exxon-adds-prosecutors.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/science/new-york-climate-change-inquiry-into-exxon-adds-prosecutors.html?_r=0</a>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/science/new-york-climate-change-inquiry-into-exxon-adds-prosecutors.html?_r=0">This
Day in Climate History March 30, 2016 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> The New York Times reports:<br>
"More government officials are asking what Exxon Mobil knew about
climate change.<br>
"Attorneys general from Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands
announced Tuesday that they would join Eric T. Schneiderman, New
York’s attorney general, in his investigation into whether Exxon
Mobil lied in decades past to investors and the public about the
threat of climate change.<br>
"The additional participation was announced during a news
conference at Mr. Schneiderman’s offices in Lower Manhattan
announcing support from 15 states, the District of Columbia and
the Virgin Islands for the Obama administration’s Clean Power
Plan.<br>
"Attorneys general from Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Virginia, Connecticut and the Virgin Islands, as well as former
Vice President Al Gore, attended the event."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/science/new-york-climate-change-inquiry-into-exxon-adds-prosecutors.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/science/new-york-climate-change-inquiry-into-exxon-adds-prosecutors.html?_r=0</a>
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