http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/should-scientists-fight-heat-or-stick-to-data/
Andrew Revkin: " Some leading lights in environmental science have been pushing their colleagues, and institutions like the National Academies, to come out swinging against the ongoing barrage of assaults from organized opponents of restrictions on greenhouse gases and climate skeptics/contrarians/denialists/realists (pick your label depending on your worldview).
"The debate over a climate communications strategy was disclosed when a string of e-mail messages was leaked to the Washington Times and Greenwire (the Greenwire story was also published online by The New York Times)(link below). Here's one of the most trenchant comments, not surprisingly from Paul Ehrlich, a battle-hardened veteran of such fights:
"Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons' debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules. Now practitioners and students of climate communication, ranging from Randy Olson, the biologist turned filmmaker, to Matthew Nisbet at American University, are weighing in with a mix of encouragement and warnings about next steps. In an ongoing e-mail conversation on the climate wars by a dozen or so people, Dr. Olson and Dr. Nisbet had this useful exchange, reproduced with their permission:..." (continues, link above.)
Also see: E-Mails Show Scientists Planning Push-Back Against 'McCarthyite" Attacks on Climate Science (via @greenwire @nytimes)
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