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Most coverage of science by the media is now balanced, accurate and engaging, Lord Drayson said. …

In a debate staged at the World Conference of Science Journalists last week in London, Lord Drayson argued that the British media were the “best in the world” at covering science. …

“Sensational science reporting is fine as long as it is accurate and it is good science,” he said. “We need good reporting that also transmits the ‘wow factor’ of science … We need a society that is awestruck by science, not dumbstruck by it.”

Lord Drayson’s positive view was countered by John Martin, an expert in heart disease from University College London, who argued that the headlines and sensationalism in science journalism could have an “incredibly negative” effect.

He told of having to inform 160 people who had written to him in the hope of getting treatment that their expectations had been “raised inappropriately” by press accounts of his work.

Professor Martin argued that such sensationalism was the result of a “structural problem” in the media caused by profit motives driving the news agenda. He also accused some scientists of hyping their own stories to receive coverage.

“I think scientists are driven to overexaggerate the possibilities and their results in order to get limited funding,” he said.” “Official: scientists no longer need fear the press” http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407327&c=1

Here’s a story about how foreign lawyers use the media and environmental laws to game the international legal system:

Actually the case you link to conflicts the U.S. press. On one hand they love to slam international corps like Dole on pesticide and pollution issues. But they cannot afford to alienate their biggest advertisers. Looks like both sides have dirt all over them on this one. No doubt Nicaragua is tipping the scale. But Judge Chaney has a major problem with her reliance on secret/sealed testimony.

Secret testimony in civil cases does not pass “rule of law” scrutiny anymore.

The man-in-the-street rarely stops to think too deeply about issues like global warming.

He’s heard a barrage of propaganda – and if he lives in the UK, his children have been exposed to colossal volumes of propaganda in schools. He feels “there may be something in this”.

So he’s already doing many of the gestures.
Recycling bus tickets. Check.
Sitting in the dark for an hour every year. Check.
Tried some organic food and it was OK. Check.

He’s doing these either because he believes in it all or because he wants a quiet life. And it’s not a big sacrifice.

But in spite of doing all the right things, and his friends and neighbours are also all doing the right things, he hears every day that the problem is now worse than ever.

So he tunes out.

And if he stops to think he quickly realises that these gestures are not going to make any difference. If we really are going down the gurgler then drastic action is needed right now – not gestures and not conferences about conferences and reports about reports and vague plans for 2050.

So he tunes out again.

During the 30′s & 40′s the communists took over most of the media and infilterated many parts of the federal government as well as much of the CIO unions. In the late 40′s I wa unable to work as an electrical engineer since I refused to join a union that supported the communist international org.

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For years I considered the JackAss as the perfect symbol for the Democrat Party, but now I’m not too sure. The leadership, (to twist a book title) is “Not Stupid Just Evil”, so I would borrow an acronym from our friends “down under” and name them the “American RAT* Party”.
* RAT = “Regulate And Tax” or “Ration And Tax”

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance

This is another indication that the UN initiated World Revolution is much more than a conspiracy theory. http://green-age

What this last link provides is an inconvenient list of those who should be prepared to answer for the damage AGW has inflicted. They need not answer queries about agenda – that is clear – they need to tell the world why they chose to fabricate a lie and destroy honest science (and scientists) on the way. They will need to answer. If only before the court of public opinion. But likely before a more ominous court.

1. Would you expect calm and reasoned analyses from hypochondriacs, those suffering from manic depression (journos) and those with egos larger than a whale’s penis (editors)?
2. The whole thing is ‘shaping the market and shaping the products’. It’s a well known business tactic, perfectly legitimate if a genuine need has been identified (e.g. a new drug treatment for an incurable disease). It’s just that here, the market should be securing reliable affordable power for the forseeable future, not phantom scaremongering about climate (which is generally aiming to blind, not to inform).
3. In capitalism, you only tell the truth when the opposition is dead and you will enjoy superprofits for decades. That’s reality…….so wait until the war for new market share is completed before you expect truth: we’ll all be long dead by then, I’m afraid……
4. I’m coming increasingly to the conclusion that the traditional media is actually contributing significantly to ill-health. I’m seriously wondering about stopping worrying about news and finding a life where ‘news’ isn’t necessary. If enough of us do that, maybe news will return to reality?
5. There seems a small possibility that our ‘energy guy’, Ed Miliband, may try some sensible sustainable energy projects, championing microgeneration locally. He’ll be fighting huge bureaucratic inertia. I truly wish him well – it’d be truly great for Britain to actually do something sensible for once……
6. Whether we’ll also be doing CCS large scale I don’t know………R+D in the next economic cycle, me thinks……….

I read that link out of curiosity, and had a realization. The Chinese don’t trust global warming because of the drum beating on the population surge. They actually followed through and made people have only one child.

http://www.reptileconservation.org/ for more information.

As an East Anglian I resent the idea that our major science institution would be so dim as to dilute an important course with sociological claptrap about ‘gender’ relationships in a warming world. They know that science is above such nonsense. They are also committed to free and open sharing of all their science, data and methods.

And I am Marie of Romania.

JF

As in I don’t like it?