Skeptics = ‘Dismissives?!’ – Wash Post offers new climate terms to replace ‘skeptic’ & denier’ – “At one end of the center’s spectrum are the ‘alarmed’… At the other end of the spectrum are the dismissives’
Wash Post Excerpt: For Katharine Hayhoe, a prominent Texas Tech University professor and director of the school’s Climate Science Center, the label “skeptic” should be reserved for those truly interested in testing and retesting hypotheses in order to find the truth behind phenomena. In short, the true skeptics are the scientists themselves. “We demand evidence, […]
Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer: ‘Doubling or tripling CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere will be a major benefit to life on Earth’
Via Washington Post: Excerpt: Princeton physics professor William Happer pushed back against the term “denier.” Happer is one of the scientists I mentioned in my story as among those researchers who reject the notion that climate change is all that severe — and who was working with Pruitt’s EPA on the “red team-blue team” exercise. […]