Climate Craziness of the week: Guardian's Damian Carrington 'glass half full' moment

M Courtney says: @ur momisugly January 22, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Gail Combs, I don’t doubt you when you say “The Climate Change industry has hired Stan Greenburg”.
However, I question the fearsome reputation, effectiveness and even significance of Stan Greenburg.
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Greenburg is one of the behind the scenes guys like Maurice Strong, another powerful man many people have not heard of. I mention him because he is completely over looked and he should not be. You may not have heard of him but he has been active behind the scenes in your country.

Labour role for Tony Blair’s former political strategist Stan Greenberg
The renowned polling guru and political strategist Stan Greenberg is playing a key behind-the-scenes role in Labour’s general election effort, PRWeek has learned.
The man who helped Bill Clinton and Tony Blair get elected is providing high-level strategic communications advice in a number of seats that Labour is fighting hard to hold.
Greenberg confirmed he was involved in Labour’s general election effort….

Greenberg is no light weight.

Stan Greenberg
Dr. Stan Greenberg has served as polling advisor to an array of special leaders, including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, South African President Nelson Mandela, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Romanian President Traian Basescu.
In 2009, Greenberg published Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders – leading George Stephanopoulos to conclude, “No single strategist has done more to lay the foundation for modern progressive politics – across the globe.”
He also wrote The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It and Middle Class Dreams that put the spotlight on “Reagan Democrats.” Those insights made him the principal polling advisor to the Democratic Leadership Council during the formative years of change (1988-1994) for the Democratic Party….
Greenberg’s corporate clients include Boeing and Microsoft….

Pacific Standard The Science of Society: Why Are You So Smart, Stan Greenberg?

Stan Greenberg used numbers and intelligence to help get Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and other political figures elected. The CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and co-founder of Democracy Corps with James Carville and Bob Shrum came into the spotlight during the 1992 Presidential campaign when the Man From Hope took the nation by storm and defeated incumbent George Bush. Greenberg and his “War Room” cohorts fashioned the strategy using polling numbers and focus groups. Two decades later, polling is all the rage in political rhetoric, but Greenberg believes the second part of the equation is missing. There are too many numbers and too much noise, and not enough understanding….
The Miami University political science department was really good, and I went to Harvard afterward. I did a Ph.D. and got the top grade on the Ph.D. exam. I went to Yale after three years and started teaching there at a scarily young age. I was 25. I taught for 10 years, up to 1987. I started my company in 1980, but I was teaching at the same time. I was a Guggenheim Fellow….
I was at Harvard and MIT, and I had some of the best advisers in terms of people who were using advanced math and statistics in polling. At the time, that methodology was controversial within political science. I was being schooled in that. But I was also with people who were studying political economy and political philosophy. I was continually blending those things together….