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Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?
scientificamerican.com ^ | Feb. 23, 2011 | Robin Lloyd

Posted on 02/23/2011 4:00:11 PM PST by PROCON

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Scientists must engage with the public and be vigilant against projecting stereotypes of their profession—such as the elitist, arrogant scientist, Schmidt said.

Too late, not only are you arrogant, but you're on the wrong side of true science!

1 posted on 02/23/2011 4:00:17 PM PST by PROCON
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To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ping!


2 posted on 02/23/2011 4:01:20 PM PST by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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Because perhaps you so called climate experts keep changing the definition to suit what you currently put out? Like it was global warming until we caught on to that scam so now it’s climate change? In my neck of the woods that happens four times a year.


3 posted on 02/23/2011 4:02:32 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
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To: PROCON
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?

Because we can be!!

4 posted on 02/23/2011 4:03:01 PM PST by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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To: PROCON

Between work, sleep, eating, MSM, televised pro sports and xBox, who has the time to read up on this stuff?

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5 posted on 02/23/2011 4:03:39 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: PROCON

Translation: Why don’t Americans believe our made up facts, lies and falsified data even after we got caught covering it up?


6 posted on 02/23/2011 4:04:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (RINO'S no more! Defeat socialist in every party!)
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To: PROCON
"I aint cotton to no book lernin. Ima one of them Conservatives an I only got me gun an a bible. Now go back to yur city slickers in that there Europe an leave us alone."


7 posted on 02/23/2011 4:05:27 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: PROCON

Maybe it’s because the “science” is bought and paid for by leftist political interests, and whenever the data is examined it seems to have been manipulated. In the same direction. Every time.

Then there’s the annoying refusal of the planet to actually get warming, despite the steady increase in CO2 levels.


8 posted on 02/23/2011 4:06:38 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: PROCON

Climate Change?
Did the evolution of the planet stop all of a sudden? The planets what. 4 to 6 billion years old. How many hot and cold cycles has it gone through?


9 posted on 02/23/2011 4:07:38 PM PST by DMG2FUN
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To: PROCON

What a load of patronizing shiite muslims.

That’s a room full of people trying to get gubment grants.


10 posted on 02/23/2011 4:07:49 PM PST by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: RobRoy

Come on, Rob, don’t you have anything else!!..:=)


11 posted on 02/23/2011 4:07:49 PM PST by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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To: PROCON

Because science isn’t consensus? Because we were told that global warming would mean winters without snow and now we are told that global warming meansxwinters with more snow?

You’d think someone from a magazine called “Scientific American” would be familiar with the scientific method. I’m guessing the author was one of those people who didn’t think she should have to take math and science classes in high school because she’d never use what she would learn in the real world.


12 posted on 02/23/2011 4:08:28 PM PST by JeffChrz (High-speed rail: supported by those too cheap to drive themselves and too elitist to take the bus.)
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To: PROCON
The title says it all.

Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?

Mr. Lloyd do you beat your wife and abuse your children every day or a couple times a week?
13 posted on 02/23/2011 4:10:17 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: PROCON
Scientists and journalists debate why Americans still resist the consensus among research organizations that humans are warming the globe

Consensus??? Last I heard 80% of the atmospheric scientists say man is not the cause. In fact the consensus of most credible scientists say that global warming is a natural occurrence related to the sun's activity and there is nothing we "MAN" can do about it.

14 posted on 02/23/2011 4:11:01 PM PST by drypowder
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To: PROCON

The real question should be “How can ANY American be skeptical of AGW, in spite of decades of the ‘noble’ monolithic leftist media-education-union complex trying to indoctrinate the ‘peasants’”?


15 posted on 02/23/2011 4:11:23 PM PST by rfp1234 (Le Parti du The'. Ne marchez pas sur moi!)
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To: PROCON

Grant whores!

16 posted on 02/23/2011 4:11:41 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: PROCON

They can take their climate change and shove it. I really am getting to the point that total eradication of the planet would be a blessing.


17 posted on 02/23/2011 4:13:07 PM PST by dforest
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To: PROCON

I had a subscription for years, but...now I can see I was right to let it lapse.

Many moons ago. Another reason I don’t read National Geographic anymore.


18 posted on 02/23/2011 4:15:03 PM PST by rlmorel (The Interstate Commerce Act...The Swiss Army Knife of Constitution Shredders everywhere!)
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To: PROCON
Scientists and journalists debate why Americans still resist the consensus among research organizations that humans are warming the globe

Easy to explain. Humans are not warming the globe. That premise is a colossal lie. If humans could alter the climate, it would have been screwed up beyond habitability long before now, because as a whole, humanity is a fallible lot.

19 posted on 02/23/2011 4:15:13 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: PROCON

BECAUSE AGW IS A LIE AND YOU ARE ALL ****ING LIARS!

LLS


20 posted on 02/23/2011 4:15:53 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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