TUHO: recenze naomi oreskes na knizku “rise of deadly anti-science” - o paralelach mezi antivax hnutim a climate denial

TUHO: Another suggestion in the book is that academic institutions and scientific organisations need to do more to stand up against anti-scientific aggression, and to encourage scientific outreach and public engagement. Hotez notes that the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—along with many individual scientists—have largely stood on the sidelines of these debates, most likely for fear of being seen to be “political”. As Hotez argues, the difficulty with this position is that the anti-science problem we face is political. When scientists refuse to acknowledge this, we are being unscientific, because we are ignoring evidence. Similarly, when scientists dismiss anti-scientific claims as “emotional”, we are ignoring the well-established evidence that most people respond more to emotional appeals—and appeals to core values—than they do to dry facts. And when we stand on the sidelines, refusing on principle to become involved in a partisan debate, we allow anti-scientific forces to frame the terms of that debate.

KEB: muzu se ptat stejne, kde se bere ta pohadka, ze se pripoji .. na produkci ze solaru a vetru nema ani osminu, fosilni produkce v absolutnich cislech roste rychleji nez OZE ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China

NYRLEM: kde se pořád bere ta pohádka o tom, že svět se nepřipojí? Čína staví v obnovitelných zdrojích víc než celý svět dohromady, valí reaktor za reaktorem a prý se chystá zavádět vlastní systém povolenek.

California is the world’s largest economy to file a climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, joining more than 40 other U.S. states and municipalities

CALIFORNIA — California has sued ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute to make them pay for lying to the public for decades about their fossil fuel products’ central role in the climate crisis, joining a growing nationwide wave of climate accountability lawsuits against Big Oil.

California Sues Big Oil for Climate Deception
https://climateintegrity.org/news/california-sues-big-oil-for-climate-deception

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Alexandr Vondra ostře o von der Leyenové: Green Deal je tragédie - CNN Prima NEWS
https://cnn.iprima.cz/vondra-ostre-o-leyenove-green-deal-je-tragedie-vsechno-zdrazuje-a-horko-je-furt-dal-411958

K praci Willieho Soona

Willie Soon is a name that pops up every so often in climate ‘debate’. He was the lead author on the Soon and Baliunas (2003) paper (the only paper that has ever led to the resignation of 6 editors in protest at the failure of peer-review that led to its publication). He was a recent speaker (from 37.20) at the 2011 Heartland Institute conference, and can be counted on to produce a contrarian take on any particular issue that anyone might care about – ranging from climate, to mercury in fish and polar bear population dynamics.

Recently, there has been a renewed focus on how much money Willie Soon has taken from fossil fuel companies for his ‘research’ (over a $1 million dollars). While that is impressive, the real issue is not how he gets paid, but the quality of his science. The discussion last week about his finances did lead people to notice his publically accessible website where he has posted papers, emails, calculations and reviews going back to 2003 (Update: since this piece was posted, many items have been blocked. We have switched the links to saved versions). There is quite a lot of interesting stuff there, including a few curious tidbits.

RealClimate: How Soon is now?
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/how-soon-is-now/