Conservative thinktanks still questioning the science of climate change, study finds

[HuckleB]

Climate change denial is on the increase, according to a joint Irish-British study of publications from conservative US thinktanks. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/conservative-thinktanks-still-questioning-the-science-of-climate-change-study-finds-382133.html

"The research was conducted by political scientists at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the University of Exeter in the UK and analysed more than 16,000 publications about climate change by 19 major conservative thinktanks in the US over 15 years from 1998 to 2013.

Thought to be the largest study of such material, the research was published in the Journal of Global Environmental Change. It found, despite the vast majority of scientists having reached a consensus on global warming, arguments against the science of climate change are on the increase.

The study involved an examination of 8,300 articles, 3,000 reports, 100 interview transcripts, 680 press releases and open letters, and 3,900 scientific reviews over 15 years.

Overall, it found “the era of climate science denial is not over” and conservative thinktanks have not shifted from questioning the science of climate change to focusing on policy debates.

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Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Ugh.

[Human101948]

1. Their jobs depend on not understanding the evidence...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

[HuckleB]

2. So they're clearly ThoughtlessTanks, not ThinkTanks.

[Jefferson23]

3. Profits, profits, profits, profits. ugh. K&R