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.”
Our Gav is so ,it just seems that it is only in the US of A that he gets any recognition. I says to him Gav your time will come when the holier than thou Charles Windsor sits on the throne of England. You will become Lord Gav of Carbon Capture and will have all the recognition you deserve.
Am I the only one who could never stand the sound of Joan Baez, whatever she was singing?
102.DaveF says:
September 17, 2010 at 3:17 am
No Dave – you are not alone.
I have been a Nat Geo fan since 1965 and kept every edition until we moved a few years back. I cancelled my subscription last week and explained why. No answer and not likely to be.
I am continually amazed that scientists and organisations comprising educated and smart people are so pig headed and anti-science as to ignore all, every bit of evidence that points to natural variability of climate. These people should not get another job based on their lack of honesty and scientific endeavour. Here in Aus the complete staff of the CSIRO should be sacked.
It gets more and more George Orwell and the bummer is I cannot think of any new speak words myself. Though some of theirs are quite good,
Debate – shutting up (verbally or physically) any who disagree.
Consensus – see above.
Fostering Community- see above.
Warmistas are going to reframe cc as a pubic health issue: PHIFIGLEAF.
Phifigleaf?
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“Ed says:
September 16, 2010 at 2:25 pm
“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.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/014888.html
“Y2Kyoto: It’s A Contest!
Anthony Watts, on The morphology of “global warming”;
Obama’s science Czar John Holdren has decided the new name for global warming, er, climate change shall be:
Because the first two didn’t work apparently.
And neither will this. First of all, it’s three words, and secondly, they don’t exactly roll neatly off the tongue. That adds up to one big fat TV reporter fail.
So, comments are now open to SDA reader suggestions for a new Big Scary Name for the coming fourth stage of morph.
Winners will be announced Monday. Keep it clean.
Posted by Kate at September 17, 2010 1:26 AM”
I wonder if they’ll set up offices in the Ground Zero Mosque.
Seriously, it does look like some sort of global meltdown.
Definition of Climate Science as seen in the Merian Webster Dictionary in about 2025 when the world comes to its’ senses:
Climate Science: pej. sl. (pejorative slang) – Term for any scientific field overrun by politics and advocacy rather than the scientific method. As in: “Watch it – that PR phrasing sounds like climate science nonsense to me!”
Jimmy Haigh 3:33:
I somehow always knew you were a kindred spirit, Jimmy.
How is it possible that educated people, however driven by their passion to be understood, could produce such an inane manifesto?
The memo is going out, it’s now to be called “global climate disruption”. (h/t Michell Malkin)
’cause “global warming” isn’t scary sounding enough.
DaveF says:
September 17, 2010 at 5:23 am
“I somehow always knew you were a kindred spirit, Jimmy.”
I’m sure we’re not the only ones. In my worst nightmares I’m being forced to listen to Joan Baez singing with the accompaniment of Kenny G on saxaphone and Nigel Kennedy on violin.
Some citizens are more equal than others – I guess some scientists are more scientific than others?
I humbly disagree. IMHO it’s because, according to Jones, we have had around 15 years of statistically insignificant warming. Furthermore, regarding CC, many of us have told Warmists that the climate always changes and they are actually talking about the weather.
Unfortunately one more example of politics deciding what the science should say. All science is suffering from this cabal.
Jimmy Haigh 8:01:
“In my worst nightmares…”
And Bob Dylan on the mouth-organ.
At this point, instead of “global climate disruption” why don’t they just call it “New Coke”? Will probably fare just as well with the general public who is no longer falling for their bull(snip). The desperation is palpable.
Good pals! we are building a nice big house for all of you to enjoy or…do you prefer perhaps drinking a specially formulated beverage for total oblivion?. You will like it, it’s Kool-Aid flavored with natural arsenic.
I think it should be called “global climate science disruption”, and the “climate scientists” are responsible for the disruption of science about climate. Any disruption certainly isn’t obvious from the facts about climate. Besides, there is obviously an effort to distort the facts about climate that is global in scale.
This is the “Interesting Times” we were talking about, time ago, here in WUWT. Buy more popcorn!
This reminds me of when Jerry Pournelle wrote in BYTE magazine 20+ years ago of the AAAS holding seminars on “Marxist Science”. (what’s the French phrase for ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same”?)
Trofim Lysenko would be proud of how the AAAS is carrying on his work, no?
Ozone Layer Recovering
The ozone layer is all OK now here in Oz,
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/earths-ozone-recovering-20100917-15gcf.html
so retraction of the comment of Slip Slop Slap……………. , at least for us that use zinc cream, take our eskies and ice to the beach and surf. And wear polaroids.
I thought extrapolation from Met Bureau findings to studies on southern penguins and thence to human activity was the basis of the ozone story. Any hints?
Share their best practices? Expet Schmidt and Mooney to remain silent, then
The current problem with AAAS is that there are too many A’s and not enough S’s
Here are the two major problems, along with their solutions:
Problem 1: Excess CO2 being placed in the atmosphere by humans.
Solution 1: Do not open bottles of Champagne.
Problem 2: AGW must be reduced.
Note : A is the abbreviation for Anthropogenic (Caused by Human Activity)
Solution 2: Anthropogenic Global Wobbling is caused by Hip Hop Dancing. We must turn down stereo volume and imprison all DJ’s.