I guess Media Matters wasn’t enough? Interesting that they specifically target Fox News via the “Rupert Murdoch” mention. But I’d take their advice and send them alerts, there’s plenty of misrepresentations in the media daily:
Monitor the print and broadcast media outlets in your area and alert us to misrepresentations about global warming. Send alerts to Aaron Huertas at sciencenetwork@ucsusa.org.
From the Union of Concerned Scientists:
Promoting Climate Science for the Public Good
See our national advertising campaign
For centuries science has made the world better for all of us. It’s made our food, our air, and our water safer. It’s made our lives more productive and efficient. Science has brought us many of the conveniences we take for granted in our day-to-day lives.
But recently, science, and especially climate science, has become a political football. Organized interests seeking to delay desperately needed actions to reduce heat-trapping emissions have manufactured controversies and misrepresented the facts.
Such tactics are meant to sow confusion and lull the public into a dangerous complacency. But we will not let those who deny and distort climate science succeed.
UCS is leading a campaign to allow the voices of climate scientists to be heard and to educate the public about the overwhelming weight of the scientific evidence for human-caused global warming. To accomplish this, we are taking a number of steps, including the following:
- Working with climate scientists from around the country to disprove fallacies and educate the public about the real facts on global warming.
- Developing and distributing clear, accessible information to help the media and the public understand the science behind our changing climate.
- Building American pride in the dedicated researchers who are working to understand and adapt to the consequences of our changing climate.
- Partnering with Americans from all walks of life to set the record straight on global warming pollution and the urgent need to rein it in.
What You Can Do
- Monitor the print and broadcast media outlets in your area and alert us to misrepresentations about global warming. Send alerts to Aaron Huertas at sciencenetwork@ucsusa.org.
- If you are a scientist, we have many ways that you can get involved. Learn more by contacting Jean Sideris at sciencenetwork@ucsusa.org
- Tell Rupert Murdoch: Get the Facts Straight. Send a message today.
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h/t to WUWT reader DocattheAutopsy
pat says: August 25, 2010 at 11:10 am
“The Union of Concerned Scientists was born out of a protest against the war in Vietnam. In 1969, a group of 48 faculty members at MIT — the original “union” — sponsored a one-day work stoppage of scientific research. ….”
I’d like to know was there also a one-day paycheck stoppage?
I am VERY, VERY concerned that Jimmy Prall may lay his hands on the list of VERY concerned members… LOL
One of the issues I have with this group is that they tend to influence my professional societies. I’m a mechanical engineer with multiple professional licenses, working primarily with air conditioning systems. My professional societies are so dominated by theorists that don’t want to investigate the overall impact of their religion that I can’t state my opinion for fear of losing work.
George, It was interesting to note that this heat wave occured during the only three-day period where the record high was not already greater than 95 degF.
Here’s a good chart of this year in San Jose – I think this is one of the most informative graphs the NWS prepares:
KSJC Yearly Temps 2010
Imagine a great big ‘Watts Up With That? Union of VERY Concerned Scientists’ tour bus traveling the NH. Informing the public and reporting on local climate events.
Rupert Murdoch launches a very successful and popular time slot dedicated to these presentation tours. Maybe even a ‘Climate Channel’ is born presenting both sides of the debate. Coverage of weather events eventually include much of the rest of the globe.
I reported them to themselves, beginning with the exploitative images of children.
I said [SNIP] [SNOP] [OMGWTFLOLBBQ] [SNAP]
Welllll their IP address is part of this network…
http://www.convio.com/
Convio, Inc. CONVIO-69-48-252-128-25 (NET-69-48-252-128-1)
69.48.252.128 – 69.48.252.255
It looks like fund raising is a big part of the deal.
Maybe Anthony could dream up a similar scheme — hey man I could use the bucks — my Big Oil checks have taken a hit since BP had that little problem.
OT, but What the Heck…
Visit Wunderground.com and vote in the poll on whether AGW was part of the cause of the Russian heat wave recently ended. As of 3:35 PM the nays have it.
I’m going to help them out. “Heat-trapping emissions” is a woeful misrepresentation of the physics of the Greenhouse Effect. Shall I send them an email?
It’s depressing to see the spirit of Joseph McCarthy is alive and well.
Joe, please consider me as a charter member of the Union of Scientists Absolutely Apoplectic Over Voodoo with Numbers. I think it would be a relatively easy task to generate a Hockey Stick of our very own.
This reply to “Is Climat Change Causing Wild Weathter?” over at the National Journal by a supposed climate scientist might need to be reported to to them: Climate Changes Causes Extreme Weather
OK S.
Moderators: Sorry. Twice.
http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/is-climate-change-causing-wild.php#1623134
OK S.
Theo Barker says:
August 25, 2010 at 11:56 am
Given their history and membership, is the true meaning of the acronym UCS – “Union of Covert Soviets”? Do they have more affinity to Lysenko than Einstein?
Any organization with Union in its name likely is guided by some sort of variation of early 20th century socialist ideology.
Rather like any org or country with democracy in the name is always a dictatorship.
This one would be a good start…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11076786
It is all well and good sending them articles with Fallacies, but when they realise that you are sending them stories against their agenda they will just mark your e-mail address as spam, then they will never see another message sent by you from that e-mail address, unless you have lots of e-mail addresses you would soon be censored and your message would not take up any of their time.
Thats why I would always use a disposable e-mail address. I found loads of sites offering single use e-mails by googling “disposable email”. You can even check back on some of the sites to see if there is any reply to your concern.
Just my 2 cents. BTW I have to use my real e-mail address to ensure my posts appear here.
And the great missing cloud mystery continues today; even though we won’t be having any new records; so we are still a couple of hot records shy for San Jose.
But nary a cloud today; hot solar radiation; with my baseball cap on my head gets hot and sweats; but just my walking speed air flow through strap holes in hat, even when walking on brand new blacktop parking lot, gives refreshing evaporative coolign; showing that the relative humidity really is quite low; hence the “heat” component of the soalr spectrum is getting though almost ubtrapped by H2O vapors.
So you don’t need any fancy Playstation to do at least weather research; let alone climate research; you literally can walk outside and hold your finger up in the air.
If the ucs actually did some climate science instead of political blustering; the state of climate science might become a tad better than ancient astrology.
Can we form a Union for Concern Trolls?
Do it for the grand children of course.
RockyRoad says:
August 25, 2010 at 11:46 am
This reminds me of that list the Obama administration was putting together–you know, the one where you were encouraged to notify them about your neighbor’s questionable behavior. I preempted the process and sent in my own personal information and encouraged all my friends to do the same. It wasn’t long after that they took the site down. I’m hoping they were being overwhelmed with people submitting their own “un-American” behavior.
I wrote and asked that I be added to the enemies list because I didn’t want to be the only one not receiving a government check that wasn’t on the list.
This was my submission –
Dear Concerned Scientists,
I’ve got one for you. I’ve read and seen recently in the MSM that there are a bunch of wack jobs running around saying CO2 is a pollutant. Would you believe it? Some of these weirdoes are even on the Supreme Court. Any one that thinks that a gas that is essential to life on this planet is a pollutant certainly should not be in such a position of responsibility.
If you ask me the only CO2 that is a pollutant is the CO2 coming out of their mouths. As concerned scientists I really think you should set these people straight but I’m not going to hold my CO2.
Jeff Clarke
Thing that always bothered me about the UCS is in the name:
‘Concern’ – by its nature is emotional
Science – by its nature is not.
The UCS was the fourth-largest recipient of foundation grants for climate studies in the period 2000-2002, a fourth of its $24M grant income being for that purpose.
Page 16: http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/289.pdf
Suggests that a lot has been invested in being ‘right’.
The largesse of backers both private and public does not necessarily make them ‘wrong’, but they have a an awful lot at stake given the receding tide of credibility in their ‘alarmist’ activism.
Big Media wants you to be an informant. You turn ’em in, we’ll get ’em.
A society based on Fear. Sounds like something we used to be at odds with in a country far away.
“For centuries science has made the world better for all of us. It’s made our food, our air, and our water safer. “
Lol.
I quickly skipped through the text and thouight that it was an admirable suggestion. It seemed pretty much a repeat of what has been going on in WUWT for some time – helping people understand the science of a changing climate and disprove the fallacies. Then I started to read the comments and thought I had missed something.
I had indeed.
I missed one sentence – “Organized interests seeking to delay desperately needed actions to reduce heat-trapping emissions have manufactured controversies and misrepresented the facts.”
So perhaps we should all ignore that sentence, monitor the print and broadcast media outlets in our area and alert them to misrepresentations about global warming. Things like the link between CO2 and warming, rising temperatures, melting polar icecaps etc.
Send alerts to Aaron Huertas at sciencenetwork@ucsusa.org.
“”” scott lurndal says:
August 25, 2010 at 12:23 pm
George E. Smith says:
August 25, 2010 at 10:40 am “””
Thanks Scott, that’s a great chart. And the interesting thing besides it pointing out that this is cooler than normal year; if you compare the three day black peaks with the pink all time max, you immediately see that todays peaks are not at all unusual; for San Jose highs; they are just ho hum new record highs as far as San Jose goes.