UPDATE: An AAAS member and WUWT reader relates how he’s finally had enough, and has canceled his AAAS membership today. See below the “Continue reading>” line.
Gee, it’s been a crazy day, one embarrassing thing after another for warmists today. I’m sure Chris Mooney will do his usual smear of WUWT during the seminar, it’s always a crowd pleaser.
Via Dr. Judith Curry’s inbox.
Dear Member,
This fall, AAAS is launching MemberCentral, an exclusive website for AAAS members. MemberCentral is dedicated to highlighting AAAS activities and fostering community among our members. To support these goals, the site will feature original content presented as webinars, videos, podcasts, blogs, and more.
On September 27, 2010, at 12:00 p.m. ET, AAAS MemberCentral is conducting its first webinar: “Climate Change and the Public: Overcoming Skepticism After Climategate.”
Featuring panelists Gavin Schmidt, Ph.D., of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS); Edward Maibach, M.P.H., Ph.D., of George Mason University ; Brenda Ekwurzel, Ph.D., from the Union of Concerned Scientists; and author and science journalist Chris Mooney, this discussion will explore ways the scientific community can combat negative public attitudes toward climate change. Panelists will share their best practices for public and media engagement, debate how to respond to critiques, and explore the idea of reframing climate change as a public health issue.
As an audience member you will have the opportunity to submit questions to the panel during the event.
A short registration is required to view this webinar. Space is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. Reserve your space today.
Register Now
Can’t make the live webinar? ” Climate Change and the Public: Overcoming Skepticism After Climategate” will be available for on-demand viewing at the launch of AAAS MemberCentral.
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Remember what “we shall overcome” used to stand for?
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UPDATE: This comment is worth elevating. – Anthony
Lance Wallace 2010/09/16 at 3:47 pm
I got the invitation today and after 20 years of paying my dues to AAAS it was finally too much–I requested an immediate cancellation of my membership.
“Today I received my invitation to the first Webinar of
your new website Member Central. This is titled Climate
Change and the Public: Overcoming Skepticism After
ClimateGate. I and I believe many other AAAS members
am personally affronted by your choosing to present
this panel, containing only apologists for the
“consensus” view on climate change. The revelations of
Climategate are a stain on science, and your attempt to
treat it by an intensified PR campaign is distasteful
and self-defeating. How much better it would have been
had you chosen to present a proper debate, with AAAS
scientists (e.g., Lindzen of MIT or Freeman Dyson) on
both sides of the issue.
For the first time, I am ashamed of my membership in
AAAS and request that you terminate my membership
immediately.”
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I almost wish I was eligible to be a member, so I could, in the fashion of Richard Feynman and Groucho Marx, tell them when to stick that button.
I’m so disappointed…..no James Hansen? [snip]
“Panelists will share their best practices for public and media engagement, debate how to respond to critiques, and explore the idea of reframing climate change as a public health issue.”
In other words, in the absence of credible science, how to use PR as a fig-leaf.
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“explore the idea of reframing climate change as a public health issue”
This gives a whole new meaning to the term “Advancement” in their acronym.
Having received an education in chemistry, I am shamed by the very proposition of such a heinous and reprehensible tactic.
Most folks are unaware that Joan Baez’s father, Albert Baez was an accomplished Ph.D. physicist who developed the X-ray reflection microscope which is still used in medicine today. In a long intro to their version of “Old Blue” the old bluegrass band The Dillards (you may remember them from the Andy Griffith show) talked about growing up in Salem, Missouri where they had a “privy” as opposed to an indoor bathroom. They also had a bunch of coon hounds who, if the door was not secure, would hole up in the privy on a cold winter night. Then they talked about seeing Joan Baez singing “Old Blue” at some festival and how the whole crowd was teary eyed and weeping. They explained that their version of the song was different. “If you’ve ever been growled out of your own privy on snowy night you’re not gonna sine Old Blue like Joan Baez!”
You can bet that Gavin’s message of “We Shall Overcome” ain’t gonna be quite like that of Joan Baez, either.
Hmmm….they had better put a whole section on the agenda for dealing specifically with WUWT!
“Overcoming Skepticism After Climategate.”
Note the word ‘after’.
Because Climategate changed scepticism or because it changed the ‘settled’ science?
Out of the mouths of babes……..
They say they will “debate how to respond to critics”. How about instead they figure out how to debate their critics. If there is one thing that has done more to further the skeptic cause it is the refusal of the “consensus” to debate those who don’t buy the party line.
Remember what “we shall overcome” used to stand for?
It still does.
The problem is that it’s only us middle aged people that can apply it to the current situation. The way forward is to educate your children/grandchildren. I missed a holiday with my kids grandparents in the UK recently due to work pressures. I received a postcard from my eight year old daughter of a snow covered Tenby in South Wales. The message was look at all this ‘Global Warming in Tenby’ …
My kids know it’s a scam, do yours. If not then why not.
Reverse the Education/Propaganda with a definitive statement. My kids know that if their teacher feeds them nonsense then I will go to the school and talk to/complain about the teacher.
We shall overcome them…
Whoever chose Gavin for a panel on how to handle PR better had a devious sense of humor.
Chris Mooney’s recent hurricane book actually wasn’t too bad, compared to Heidi Cullen’s sci-fi thriller that sold zero copies.
What a minefield they are throwing themselves into! Except for Gavin who was a figure in the ClimateGate email “leak”, the others will only be able to spout their typical liberal talking-points and have nothing insightful or useful to say about ClimateGate.
“debate how to respond to critiques” — I guess the standard operating procedure of “openly and honestly” will have to be debated.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry – people who claim to be scientists but table a motion starting with – “Overcoming Skepticism ..”
I was passing through Glasgow today. Pope Benedict was conducting a Mass in Glasgow Green. I shoulda popped along to the “big gig” and asked him to say a prayer for the AAAS
This conference is taking place in September. Don’t these professors have students to teach, and work to do at their universtities? Doesn’t Gavin have anything to do at Goddard other than organize communication conferences and run RC?
I’m sure they will all talk to each other there, console each other, and feel a whole lot better about the miserable situation they’re in at the end of the conference.
“He sees just what he wants to see…”
“Gee, it’s been a crazy day”…
I got one for you. I posted this in ‘Tips and Notes’
WOW …just WOW!
“A newly-published book by a retired NORAD officer predicts October 13, 2010 as the tentative date for a fleet of extraterrestrial vehicles to hover for hours over the earth’s principal cities. Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere dangerously approaching a “critical mass.” ”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20100914/bs_prweb/prweb4491804_1
REPLY: Yeah, we’ll leave that one right where it is. – Anthony
I don’t know who’s idea it was to link, in any the old “We Shall Overcome” ALCU slogan to this seminar but as one of those who was in the streets of Chicago in 1968 and on the Univ. of Wis. campus before that, I am pissed by the doing. I am sure that was not the intention and I love satire almost as much as geology. On this one perhaps just a little sensitivity please.
REPLY: Satire is the intent, and of course the linkage would not be made at all if they hadn’t used “overcoming” in the title of the seminar. – Anthony
From the AAAS website; “What we do.
In addition to publishing Science and other science-related publications, hosting scientific conferences and meetings, and helping scientists advance their careers, AAAS undertakes numerous programs and activities that promote science to the public and monitor issues which affect the scientific community.”
OK, so how does this fit in?
On September 27, 2010, at 12:00 p.m. ET, AAAS MemberCentral is conducting its first webinar: “Climate Change and the Public: Overcoming Skepticism After Climategate.”
Why are they addressing the public in particular? Why ‘overcoming’? If this is a science organisation, why not just “Skepticism After Climategate”?
So AAAS is an advocacy group?
Imagine Joseph Priestly discovering oxygen and the phlogistonians having a love-in to develop a reframing webinar to work out strategies to win the public back to the phlogiston camp. I guess this is progress. In the 17th Century the consensus just simply threw you in jail if you questioned the dogma. Not to much progress mind you. Hansen and Suzuki did wish for these good old days in proposing trials for crimes against humanity for CAGW dissenters. Hey I just had a revolutionary idea – let’s have an honest, scientifically supported debate. Naw that’s stupid, it probably wouldn’t even happen.
Ahh, Joan, one of my first favorite whack jobs. “The Day They Drove Ole Dixie Down” is my favorite of hers.
“As an audience member you will have the opportunity to submit questions to the panel during the event.”
With Gavin? Really? What do you bet they screen(moderate) first?
“explore the idea of reframing climate change as a public health issue.”
Bwahahahahaha!
I’ve heard it all now.
“I’m sorry sir, your bodyweight means you don’t qualify for grant assisted roof insulation.”
“Put that cigarette out! Don’t you know there’s a war on carbon?”
“That’s right sir, the flight is $87, and the fuel levy is $765.43. We can hire you a bicycle for $34 though.”
“Come on you lackeys, pedal harder! The lights are going dim!”
But their panelists are the people that caused the skepticism and negative public attitudes……….
this discussion will explore ways the scientific community can combat negative public attitudes toward climate change. Panelists will share their best practices for public and media engagement, debate how to respond to critiques, and explore the idea of reframing climate change as a public health issue.
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postmodernism science in it’s finest hour………..
and an insult and total disgrace to the scientific community as a whole
I got the invitation today and after 20 years of paying my dues to AAAS it was finally too much–I requested an immediate cancellation of my membership.
“Today I received my invitation to the first Webinar of
your new website Member Central. This is titled Climate
Change and the Public: Overcoming Skepticism After
ClimateGate. I and I believe many other AAAS members
am personally affronted by your choosing to present
this panel, containing only apologists for the
“consensus” view on climate change. The revelations of
Climategate are a stain on science, and your attempt to
treat it by an intensified PR campaign is distasteful
and self-defeating. How much better it would have been
had you chosen to present a proper debate, with AAAS
scientists (e.g., Lindzen of MIT or Freeman Dyson) on
both sides of the issue.
For the first time, I am ashamed of my membership in
AAAS and request that you terminate my membership
immediately.”
One of the reasons I dropped my AAAS membership after 20+ years. Scientific American and National Geographic are not being renewed either. I will pay to receive scientific information but I’ll be darned if I am going to pay to receive propaganda.
The “Union of Concerned Scientists” has the strong odour of a union of government employed losers. Like a “Government of All Talents” (GOAT), in the case of climate warming/change etc, this means academic obfuscation, bickering and confusion.
Unbiased and unthreatened scientists – i.e. mostly those scientists not employed by government – will treat this with attempt to stifle scientific debate with the contempt it rightfully deserves.