Doug Jones writes in with this:
WUWT readers may be interested to see what the AAAS is doing with members’ funding. I’m amused that they baldly admit that they want to “influence public perceptions and debate when the science supporting a position is not enough to carry the argument.”
What is being said here with “Science Is Not Enough” is:
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”
The full text of the email I received is below. Sad, simply sad.
Note the twitter hashtag if you want to participate in the online discussion.
[Note the press release is here: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/0209am_webcast.shtml – Anthony]
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From: AAAS Office of Public Programs
To: [undisclosed recipients]
Sent: Fri, February 17, 2012 5:02:17 AM
Subject: Join Live Webcast from AAAS 2012 – Saturday, 18 February at 5 pm PST
View on mobile or on web page
Why do so many political leaders and citizens remain unconcerned about climate change, water scarcity, fisheries depletion, and a host of other science-related global challenges? Find out by joining us for a Webcast of the plenary panel Science Is Not Enough, featuring three of the world’s most knowledgeable and compelling science communicators during the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting.
This exceptional Webcast—set for 5:00—6:30 p.m. PT on Saturday, February 18—will arm scientists, educators, students, and citizens around the world with messages to help influence public perceptions and debate when the science supporting a position is not enough to carry the argument.
Log onto http://www.aaas.org/go/enough and live-Tweet your questions to #AAASMtg.
Participants in this 90-minute discussion will be:
James Hansen, whose testimony before Congressional committees in the 1980s helped raise broad awareness of the global climate change issue. Dr. Hansen is recognized for speaking truth to powerful entities, for identifying ineffectual policies as “greenwash,” and for outlining the actions that the public must take to protect the future of young people and other species on the planet. He is currently the Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.
Olivia Judson, who explores the intersection of science and society, focusing on such controversial issues as the actuarial use of DNA and the potential to grow human organs. Dr. Judson has presented science issues on television many times, most recently when she appeared in an episode of PBS’s “Nova” about DNA connections to evolution. She has written a weekly blog on evolutionary biology for the New York Times website, called “The Wild Side.” She is currently a Research Fellow at Imperial College in London.
Hans Rosling, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software for converting international statistics into moving, interactive, and enjoyable graphics. Dr. Rosling promotes a fact-based world view through increased use and understanding of freely accessible public statistics. He presented the television documentary “The Joy of Stats,” which was broadcast in the United Kingdom in 2010. He is currently Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
AAAS President Nina Fedoroff will introduce the speakers, and the session will be moderated by Emmy-award winning journalist Frank Sesno, former CNN Washington bureau chief, who is currently Professor and Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University.
Again, the session will begin at 5:00 p.m., PT on Saturday, February 18. Click here to watch what should be one of the most informative yet entertaining Saturday evenings you have had in a while! Be sure to submit your questions via Twitter by using the hashtag #AAASMtg.
AAASes
Europe is freezing its ass off because of the ‘wizardness’ of queen lizard’s wizards.Instead of maintaining an unpretensious lifestyle, the British royals have procured three of the most incorrect people on the lecture circuit to restore Britannia to its formal glory. As a result, efforts of destruction have led to economic chaos and much death and ruination, which are the only things the Rothschilds and British royals really ever set out to do before collecting the spoils. Word has it that the underground shelters built to house their cruddy behinds are being destroyed. Maybe this stops the attacks against the U.S. and through sloppiness and stupidity, the world.
Anthony,
I don’t know if you have seen this but it is part of the highly organized effort to brainwash the public. Unfortunately this is organized by the National Academies which is highly subsidized by our tax dollars. The goal is to teach scientists how to convince the public that there are major problem although they lack the data. “new “science of science communication”
Just take a look at the folks highlighted for the Panel discussion, all from left wing administrations: “A roundtable featuring current and former White House Science Advisors John Holdren, Jack Gibbons, and Neal Lane.” They are all from Obama or Clinton administrations. So much for fair and balanced!!!
http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/upcoming-colloquia/science-communication.html?utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=National%20Academies%20Press&utm_campaign=Sackler%20Invite%20II%20-%20with%20share%20tools&utm_content=Downloader&utm_term=
“Anyone who has followed the public dialogue on such topics as evolution, stem cell research, or climate change knows how daunting effective science communication can be. Discussions over science are often freighted with cultural, political, and moral perspectives, making the task of communicating scientific ideas even more challenging. However, a constellation of social science disciplines—from decision science to mass communication, from psychology to sociology—is converging on a new “science of science communication.” Research stretches across disciplinary boundaries, university departments, funding agencies, and scholarly journals, is debated in the media and on blogs, and has been the focus of several best-selling books.
The National Academy of Sciences is hosting an intensive two-day colloquium to survey state-of-the-art research on communication and to consider its implications for governance, policy, and public engagement. ”
Highlights include:
“Presentations by leading scientists summarizing the state of knowledge in their fields.
A keynote address by Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of the top-selling Thinking, Fast and Slow.
A roundtable featuring current and former White House Science Advisors John Holdren, Jack Gibbons, and Neal Lane.
Discussions led by Arizona State University president Michael Crow, New York Times journalist David Pogue, and PBS NOVA executive producer Paula Apsell.
The colloquium will provide a unique opportunity for all scientists to improve their understanding of the public and address its information needs, for scientists in contributing disciplines to meet and learn from colleagues in other disciplines, and for communication practitioners to enhance their knowledge of the state of the science. ”
A registration fee of $150 covers the cost of meals during the conference.
Please help to promote the colloquium by sharing this message with your colleagues, or clicking here to forward this email to a friend. You can join the conversation about the Sackler Colloquium on Twitter by using the hash tag #sackler.
Why do so many political leaders and citizens remain unconcerned about climate change, water scarcity, fisheries depletion, and a host of other science-related global challenges?
If they stopped conflating issues (especially made up ones) they would have a better chance of actually solving some of them.
But actual problem solving isn’t on their agenda is it? Or the real problem that they want to solve isn’t being articulated.
Posted at Bishop Hill by sHx – thought it worth adding to the AAAS thread here:
Wonder who is the real man behind the curtain – the Wizard of AAAS? 😉
People are unconcerned about depleted fisheries and a host of other possible ills because they have been fed an endless diet of rediculous and unfounded climate panic for a quarter of a century. Why would anyone worry about water scarcity when they are swept away by the rising tide of sea level rise alarmism?
If you want people to focus on real environmental issues, quit pumping tens and even hundreds of billions of dollars out of the productive economy for BS pseudo science and personal profit. You know… the kind of stuff your noted panel member James Hansen has been doing for over 20 years now.
Speaking of his great awareness raising, in that now famous congressional testimony didn’t he tell us Manhatten would be underwater by now? Why is the AAAS holding up rediculous and long disproven panic mongering as “science”. Perhaps a name change is in order AAAPS.
Sorry, I got cranky there. But I have been asking for 25 years for anyone to propose a mechanism by which any realistic amount of warming would not be beneficial. I have asked publicly, privately and at conferences.. Not only has no one done so, no one has even given it a try. In short warming is good, everyone knows it, even the alarmists.
I think that what’s confusing the greens these days is that they’re used to being in a vanguard position, underfunded, unpopular and hysterical with their religion.
Unfortunately they haven’t made the shift to mainstream so well. Old tactics don’t work when you’re beyond revolution.
May I suggest an accurate, and completely alternate view that the science IS enough?
The science (much of it presented in easy-to-understand terms here on WUWT) is indeed enough to convince people 1) that CAGW is a bogus argument; 2) that CO2 is beneficial to the biosphere (of which we are an integral part); and 3) that shilling a cause primarily for more taxpayer-paid grant money in these tough economic times really turns people off.
These bozos at the AAAS are so inculcated with their own message they fail to realize that people are sick and tired of being lied to, yet the AAAS’s continue to push, push, push! And they will fail miserably because people actually DO see the “science”–it just isn’t the “science” these AAAS’s want us to see.
The Edmonton Journal carried three articles from the conference in today’s (February 20) paper. Below are the titles and URLs.
Decline in large fish numbers a global problem, researchers say
By Larry Lynn, Vancouver Sun; Postmedia News
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Decline+large+fish+numbers+global+problem+researchers/6178999/story.html
Professor encourages academics to tweet
By Ike Hager, Vancouver Sun; Postmedia News
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Professor+encourages+academics+tweet/6179000/story.html
Brace for bigger, hotter wildfires, expert warns
Traditional firefighting techniques may lose effectiveness: researcher
By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Brace+bigger+hotter+wildfires+expert+warns/6179001/story.html
J says: February 17, 2012 at 12:15 pm “The ancients knew that truth alone will not carry the day if it is not winningly presented, thus the art of rhetoric.”
Fallacy is one of the techniques of rhetoric.
They started with BS Baffles Brains, and their faith in its efficacy is undeminished.
typo: … undiminished.