Comments on: THE TICKS AND AFFECTATIONS OF NEWSREADERS http://climatedenial.org/2006/06/06/the-ticks-and-affectations-of-newsreaders/ Charting the disconnect between climate science and action Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:09:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Larry Saltzman http://climatedenial.org/2006/06/06/the-ticks-and-affectations-of-newsreaders/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Larry Saltzman Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:57:05 +0000 http://climatedenial.org/2006/06/06/the-ticks-and-affectations-of-newsreaders/#comment-31 The problem of climate change denial is certainly critical to understand and you are to be commended for addressing it. Obviously, much of it is driven by the rightwing think tanks in the pay of the energy industry who put this stuff out. And in turn the journalistic misapplication of the principle of balanced reporting gets the denial message out in a disproportional way. It makes it sound like scientists are equally divided on the issue. There is also clearly a psychological problem for many people to face such a horrific problem as global warming. Finally there is a profound ignorance of science amongst the general population of this country. I also think that the terms global climate warming and global climate change are part of the problem. They are nice words that fail to describe the catastrophe. Terms like global climate disruption or global climate catastrophe are far more accurate compelling and urgent and better describe what is coming. The problem of climate change denial is certainly critical to understand and you are to be commended for addressing it. Obviously, much of it is driven by the rightwing think tanks in the pay of the energy industry who put this stuff out. And in turn the journalistic misapplication of the principle of balanced reporting gets the denial message out in a disproportional way. It makes it sound like scientists are equally divided on the issue. There is also clearly a psychological problem for many people to face such a horrific problem as global warming. Finally there is a profound ignorance of science amongst the general population of this country.

I also think that the terms global climate warming and global climate change are part of the problem. They are nice words that fail to describe the catastrophe. Terms like global climate disruption or global climate catastrophe are far more accurate compelling and urgent and better describe what is coming.

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