There are a lot of big articles you (and I) should be reading this week.
The latest Time puts the continuing failure to protect New Orleans on the cover: "The Threatening Storm: How years of misguided policies and bureaucratic bungling left New Orleans defenseless against Katrina--and why it may happen again," by Michael Grunwald. Read it here.
The latest Newsweek goes with the story of industry funding and global warming denial (a story that many of us have been telling for years): "The Truth About Denial," by Sharon Begley. Read it here.
Finally, USA Today's great science writer Dan Vergano looks at the "war on science" following Richard Carmona's testimony. I'm quoted in the piece, which you can read here.
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some readers may be interested in this.
No surprise that the main stream media is continuing the onslaught of AGW scaremongering. It is easy to sell magazines with covers of the earth frying in a pan like an egg to credulous hair salon patrons. P.T. Barnum would be proud.
It is telling that in the above job posting from "Americanrogress.org" for an "assisant editor, science progress" that an "undergraduate degree in a scientific discipline" is only "desirable" and is the last thing mentioned. While the word "progress" as in "progressive" is part of the job title. Of course you folks on the left have no problem with organizations that have outright political biases so long as they comport with your politics.
This would be fine except you vilify any group such as the CEI or the Cato Institute as "right wing propagandists".
Lance,
*yawn*
"This would be fine except you vilify any group such as the CEI or the Cato Institute as "right wing propagandists".
When they engage in right-wing propaganda on a regular basis, such accusations are fair game. CATO and the CEI (along with Heritage, the AEI, etc.) have consistently misrepresented the science on climate change, and their political rationale for doing so is no secret to anyone. They have also done the same thing in the past with the science linking smoking to lung-cancer, among other things.
In fact, I don't deny that left-wingers have had their fair share of bouts with science. The recent uproar around DCA as a "miracle cure" for cancer saw many otherwise intelligent leftists on the blogosphere stoop to some egregious conspiracy mongering and crankey. But there is no denying where the bread is buttered on climate change denial.