Real Science: Letter from 2110: "A Brief Review of the Climate Fights of the 21st Century"
"...As in most controversies in the first half of the 21st century, views were polarized to an extreme. The voices of people concerned about risks they thought probable, but not certain, were hard to hear amidst the shouts of those who were convinced that the risks were either catastrophically imminent or nonexistent. For the climate case, however, the polarization was redoubled by professional public relations efforts, funded since the late 1980s by fossil fuel and right-wing political interests. The extreme skepticism these groups promoted took on a life of its own.
The controversy was one more step in the trends we have seen operating since the mid 20th century. First, the decline in the prestige of all authorities and would-be authoritative organizations. Second, the great expansion of the scientific community coupled with an increasing interdisciplinarity: strengths which brought a weakness in that that there were no longer any universally respected spokespeople (like Millikan,...
The controversy was one more step in the trends we have seen operating since the mid 20th century. First, the decline in the prestige of all authorities and would-be authoritative organizations. Second, the great expansion of the scientific community coupled with an increasing interdisciplinarity: strengths which brought a weakness in that that there were no longer any universally respected spokespeople (like Millikan,...
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