Climate Denial

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🗓️ 9 January 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Do you believe in climate denial? According to climate scientists, it’s all around us. How can scientists learn to communicate to a skeptical public? Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard; Co-Author, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2011) Joe Romm, Founding Editor, Climate Progress; Author, Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga (CreateSpace, 2012) Eugenie Scott, Chair, National Center for Science Education This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on December 16, 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
0:40.3	Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,
0:45.3	economy and the environment.
0:46.3	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,
0:50.3	Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:53.3	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:58.1	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
1:01.7	It's our future. It's time to come together.
1:06.3	Climate One is changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.
1:10.8	I'm Greg Dalton, and today we're talking about the story of climate science and denial.
1:15.5	Concern in the federal government about the effect fossil fuels are having on the Earth's atmosphere goes back to the days of President Lyndon Johnson.
1:23.1	Since then, the scientific consensus about the basic facts of climate disruption have become more solid,
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