Barry Karr <SkeptInq@AOL.COM> wrote:
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:10:40 EST
From: Barry Karr Subject: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Online: Climate Change Communications
To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE@listserv.aol.com
Moving Beyond Gore’s Message:
A Look Back (and Ahead) at Climate Change Communications
Matthew C. Nisbet
Conventional wisdom pegs 2007 as the long awaited tipping point in waking the American public up to the urgency of global warming. As evidence, optimists point most notably to Al Gore and his Noble prize winning efforts at communicating about the “climate crisis.†Perhaps more importantly, Gore’s publicity campaign was backed up by ever stronger and louder expert agreement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Yet as I review in this column, conventional wisdom runs up against the reality of public opinion. Despite Gore's breakthrough success with Inconvenient Truth, American opinion today is little different from when the film premiered in May 2006. Gore has done a very good job of intensifying the beliefs of audiences who were already concerned about climate change, but a deep perceptual divide between partisans remains. As editor Donald Kennedy wrote at Science, this continued climate gridlock rates as the “science breakdown†of the year.Still, the past twelve months were not without several overlooked developments that present both opportunities and challenges. They include the emergence of a new paradigm in climate change communications; the rise of an “invisible middle†of climate perspectives; and a powerful new public health definition of the problem. In this column, I highlight these developments with many links to additional information at my blog Framing Science and other sources.To Read More of This Article Visit: http://csicop.org/scienceandmedia/beyond-gores-message/Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D, is a professor in the School of Communication at American University where his research focuses on the intersections between science, media, and politics. He blogs about these topics at Framing Science. E-MAIL: nisbetmc@gmail.comAlso: On Larry King Live Tonight (Boy does it hurt promoting him)The Stephenville Lights - UFO SightingsFrom Skeptic James McGaha:On 8 Jan 2008 about 2 dozen residence of Stephenville, Texas a
small (~17,000 pop.) town about 70 miles southwest of Dallas saw
what they considered strange lights in the sky. Some are now
calling it a mile wide UFO from another world. Dare I say,
a new UFO myth has started "The Stephenville Lights"!!!
I will be discussing this case on Larry King Live
on CNN Friday 18 Jan. (1900 local MST)(check your local listings).
The show has a film crew in Stephenville to interview residence
live.
James McGaha, MS, FRAS
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