Well, you might have noticed I tend to keep things light on Fridays and this one's no exception. I won't be posting again today because I'm holding a roundtable on (you guessed it) Science Communication. I'm in good company with Dietram, Matt, Abel, and a few other leading experts on how messages resonate with the public and policymakers. So I'll be tied up all day, wishing Chris were able to be here with all of us too. For really, what is 'Framing Science' without my favorite SciBling and coblogger?
And now without further ado, (with special thanks to Kraig for allowing us to post this video), here's a clip on global warming from 1989. You see, Carl Sagan was warning us of our planetary fever even then - and evidently often enough for SNL, Tom Hanks, and Mike Meyers to take notice...
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Wow! Funny how Mr. Gore has closed the book on
"GLOBAL WARMING" and now has claimed "THE DEBATE IS OVER"
Seems to me the real Inconvenient Truth may be that Mr. Gore(who has a larger carbon footprint than most of us combined) will not make himself available to debate the facts on many things like WHO THE IPPC really is as well as other scare tactics he used in his MONEY MOVIE....
Even a left of center news organization aired this piece, which is a bit shocking in itself...
Re Carl Sagan
Isn't this the same Carl Sagan who pontificated about nuclear winter back in the 1970s?
Yikes. Neil Postman warned us...
Yes, Carl Sagan was one of the authors of the TTAPS reports (1983 and 1990) on the effects of a nuclear war. As I recall, he also wrote at least one book on the subject. Hopefully, we will never do the experiment to find out if TTAPS is correct.
He also predicated the burning oil wells in Kuwait after the first Bush Oil War would result in global climatic effects that did not happen. His book The Demon-Haunted World used that error and, as I recall, other mistakes he made as an example of the process by which scientific knowledge improves.