This video shows Naomi Oresekes talking to Liberal Senator, Nick Minchin, a climate change skeptic, explaining the error of his analysis of the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZQNiDIBxO4


This second video is her discussing her book, "Merchants Of Doubt", which explored the history of the denialism method of challenging scientific knowledge, so as to prevent any action being taken based on the agreed science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX3y6BQd4LI&feature=related

I like her plain speaking, at about the 6:38 point in the video, she says, " I think it's quite threatening for ordinary citizens to realise that we've been duped, that we've been misled, and that what we think are HONEST debates, are actually NOT HONEST debates, that THIS (Denialism) is a Public Relations Campaign, whose intention is to deceive us, and that is a very hard thing to accept, nobody likes to admit, that they've been duped, but I think in the book, we show pretty clearly that we've all been victims of this DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN".

I guess the desire to believe anything which does not comfortably fit your world view is hard for everyone, but surely there has to come a point where only the lunatic fringe will maintain their allegiance to Climate Change Denialism.

I guess the desire to believe anything which does not comfortably fit your world view is hard for everyone, but surely there has to come a point where only the lunatic fringe will maintain their allegiance to Climate Change Denialism.

The "loon" and Denialism terms used together again.

If you take ozpolitics board as representable, we have already reached that point, where only the loony fringe are remaining in denial.

That second video is great how she talks about the strategies.
I would love for climate skeptics to make a comment on that.

I wonder how Minchin was dumb enough, to talk with her?

perceptions_now wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 2:34pm:

I wonder how Minchin was dumb enough, to talk with her?

You certainly would see Abbott caught in that sort of trap.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 4:03pm:

perceptions_now wrote on Jul 20th, 2012 at 2:34pm: I wonder how Minchin was dumb enough, to talk with her? You certainly would see Abbott caught in that sort of trap.

I would have thought Minchin was a little smarter than Abbottabad?

THE DENIALISTS LOVE THEIR CHILDREN!!