Founded in 1987 and based in Oakland, California the Pacific Institute is an independent, nonpartisan think-tank studying issues at the intersection of development, environment, and security.This week's American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting is quickly coming to a close. We've attended our last panel, an interesting couple hours on educating the public including folks from RealClimate.org, the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, BBC, and more. This will be the first of two posts that will serve as a bit of an epilogue to the week.
It was exciting to be able to cover Al Gore's talk yesterday, and it has been more exciting to see the breadth of coverage the talk received -- shining quite a light on the issue of political tampering of science. Here's a sampling of stories we've seen (though admittedly we haven't had a chance to give them much more than a quick look-over. And hat-tip to UCS's Michael Halpern to tipping us off to a couple of them).
Gore lights environmentalist fire under silent scientists Douglas Fischer, Oakland Tribune
Gore implores scientists to raise alarms Jane Kay, San Francisco Chronicle
Gore rouses scientists on global warming Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News
Al Gore urges scientists to speak out Alicia Chang, Associated Press
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Al Gore is one of those selfless individuals on the american left who maintains a spark of purity in activism for scientists to emulate. Thank you for impressing on the admirers among us how important it is to live up to Mr. Gore's highest standards of honesty and propriety. If only scientists would resist the tainted influence of moneyed interests that pollute the public discourse. Please continue with your efforts to filter the soiled element from public view.
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December 16, 2006 12:15 PM