Public opinion is influenced by the government, media, and grassroots programs, and simultaneously politicians, journalists, and movement leaders are only successful if the public supports them. Taking this into consideration, recent major events such as Republican acknowledgement of climate change, the media’s criticism of deniers, and revolutionary protests indicate Americans are starting to tip towards […]
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Let’s Talk Context
July 28, 2011 
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by ecoAmerica’s Special Projects Director Judy Mills Frank Snepp is quoted as saying, “Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.” Frank Snepp? I had to Google him. He was the CIA’s chief analyst on the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War and was one of the last to be evacuated from […]
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July 26, 2011 Comments Off
Climate change denial strongest among pale, male conservatives According to recent research on Gallup polls, conservative white American males are more likely to be climate change deniers. The research revealed these men wrongly think they are well-versed on climate change, and therefore are more certain they are right and not open to facts opposing […]
Read more Climate change denial becomes harder to justify
May 16, 2011 Comments Off
The National Research Council's message to Congress: climate change is occurring and we can't risk inaction. Similar statements have been made before by experts, but Republican "deniers" continue to influence the public's thinking and necessary environmental policies. Deniers must be stopped or converted soon because, as stated in this Washington Post article, "the longer the […]
Read moreThe Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It’s the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century
March 8, 2010 Comments Off
Bill McKibben, 350.org, compares the carbon lobby's years long effort to discredit an increasingly large mountain of climate science to OJ Simpon's legal defense. He emphasizes that the great quantity of evidence and data supporting climate change provides a larger target for the deniers to attack. On top of this offensive advantage, deniers have more […]
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Here’s A Hint: Try Facts and Reality
by Bob Perkowitz Science is key to denier arguments about climate change. They keep the denial debate vibrant by claiming the science isn’t settled. They embrace the any scientist who disagrees with some aspect of a climate report as if he or she was a messiah. In response, like Pavlov’s dogs, we begin […]
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