Green Options » George Will http://greenoptions.com/tag/george-will Posts tagged 'George Will' Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:26:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Communicating Climate Change: Making the Science Accessible http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/05/communicating-climate-change-making-the-science-accessible/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/05/communicating-climate-change-making-the-science-accessible/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:26:40 +0000 Dave Levitan http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/05/communicating-climate-change-making-the-science-accessible/ Some images of climate change, like this polar bear, are easy to understand, but the science behind them is hard to communicate.In spite of a global scientific consensus on climate change, policy makers and the public still lag far behind in terms of recognizing the urgency of global warming and acting accordingly. Major news outlets (*cough,* Washington Post, *cough cough*) continue to disseminate confusing and misleading denial arguments, and well-meaning scientists and journalists struggle to articulate the realities of climate change to those who will shape the planet’s future. Perhaps a standardized language of global warming is needed.

Thomas Bowman, president of an organization that helps organizations make sustainable choices, authored a letter in the journal Science calling for a common language when discussing some of the more abstract ideas surrounding climate change. Along with researchers from George Mason University, Penn State University and elsewhere, Bowman suggests ways to help the public catch up to the science.

“At this critical moment, scientific understanding has outstripped our society’s capacity to use that knowledge by a wide margin,” they wrote. “This situation must be resolved quickly to give policymakers–and the public–the broadest range of options.”

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/05/communicating-climate-change-making-the-science-accessible/feed/ Calling Out Phony-Baloney George Will http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/22/calling-out-phony-baloney-george-will/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/22/calling-out-phony-baloney-george-will/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 15:28:27 +0000 Levi Novey http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/05/22/calling-out-phony-baloney-george-will/ George WillThere is a person who’s columns I regularly read, because I often find it fun to disagree with him. This person is George Will, conservative commentator and phony-baloney. I call him a phony-baloney, because it seems to fit with the old-fashioned bow tie he sometimes chooses to wear on television programs like Sunday’s political talk show on ABC, This Week. Why is he a phony-baloney? Well, most of all because he is one of the few members of the mainstream press who still perpetuates the myth that global warming might not exist, even though approximately 99% of the scientific community agrees that it is occuring and that it is most likely a phenomenon urged on by the human race. My primary case in point against phony-baloney, is his attack today in The Washington Post on the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.

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