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Stewardship Notes
- Members of Congress, States, Scientists, Business Groups File Petitions for EPA to Reconsider CO2 Endangerment Finding
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 19, 2010)
Poor Lisa Jackson. The EPA Administrator was required by law to conduct a careful scientific assessment of whether carbon dioxide in the atmosphere poses a risk to human health before her agency issued a “finding” that it does. She decided to take the easy way out. Instead of having the EPA’s...
- Blockbuster Film Avatar Betrays God, Humanity, and America--But It’s Great Movie Making
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 19, 2010)
James Cameron’s film Avatar has become the top box office movie in history. Its production quality is astounding--something audiences have come to expect from Cameron, whose past triumphs include Titanic and The Terminator.
But as Loredana Vuoto points out, the film “denigrates America, its...
- Portrayal of Warming Critics as Creationists and Appeal to Consensus Reveal Ignorance
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 18, 2010)
The New York Times, otherwise known as the Gray Lady, presumably finding actual discussion of the scientific evidence related to climate change and of the mounting evidence of corruption of scientific process in the wake of Climategate too frightening to engage, launched a flurry of copycat...
- Wanted for Premeditated Murder: How Post-Normal Science Stabbed Real Science in the Back on the Way to the Illusion of “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 18, 2010)
Climate Change and the Death of Science is the most important article we’ve linked to in quite a long time. If you have time to read nothing else from this issue, read this. It’s worth every minute it will take.
As Climategate and other transgressions of fundamental scientific procedure by global...
- ‘Post-Normal Science’ Versus Science: How Ideologues Created the Illusion of ‘Scientific Consensus’ About Global Warming While Stabbing Real Science in the Back
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 15, 2010)
The outstanding article “Climate Change and the Death of Science,” by blogger Jerry Bouey, explains brilliantly how science got hijacked by “post-normal science” along the way to the “overwhelming scientific consensus” on manmade global warming. Along the way it points out that one of the world’s...
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