Science of Disinformation

[bonnie]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/the_science_of_disinformation_1.html

October 09, 2009

The Science of Disinformation

By Jed Gladstein

In the dictionary:

* Science is defined as "knowledge gained by the study of the physical world."

* Knowledge is defined as "possession of ... truths."

* Disinformation, is defined as "false ... information."

So, apart from a possible oxymoron, what in the world is the Science of Disinformation?

The Science of Disinformation is the deliberate, immoral disregard of truth for the sake of selling something packaged as science. Think it can't happen? It is happening in a very big way, and right in front of our very eyes.

Whatever one's view about global warming,1 it is an odds-on bet that most of us don't know very much about the science underlying what has become a global socio-economic phenomenon.2 For example, most people don't know that many scientists think Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth propagated the theory of human global warming based on some very inconvenient untruths.

Most people also don't know that when Al Gore was chosen for political reasons to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in connection with his global warming advocacy, he was supposed to share that prize with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.3 However, IPCC scientist Dr. John Christy refused to accept the Nobel Prize because he did not want to dignify "jump-to-conclusion advocates" and "scientists who see in every weather anomaly the specter of a global-warming apocalypse."4

So, what's going on here? Why do the mainstream media continue to tell us that the science "is in" on global warming, when so many scientists who actually deal with the scientific data say otherwise?5 Well, perhaps the mainstream media are relying on people like Randy Olson, a marine biologist turned movie maker, whose ideas about honesty include the notion that if you want to get a scientific message across to the scientifically illiterate public, don't obsess about facts.

In the dictionary:

* Fact is defined as "something that can be shown to be true."

* Knowledge is defined as "possession of ... truths."

* Science is defined as "knowledge ..."

* Disinformation, is defined as "false ... information."

So, I guess the Science of Disinformation is all about possessing information that does not support what people say when they want others to believe that science proves something they know it does not prove. Interesting notion of science, wouldn't you say? Let's hope our doctors don't adopt the climate change model of science any time soon. Can you imagine how you'd feel if your doctor operated on you for rectal cancer and the only thing you needed was a hemorrhoid suppository?

Jed Gladstein is an attorney, author and educator.

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[1] Some people seem to think that anyone who doesn't go along with the current global warming hypothesis is an environmental troglodyte. However, support for the global warming theory is not a precondition to believing that it is necessary for human beings to clean up the way we live on this planet. For many people, clean air, pure water and a soil free of toxicity are quality of life issues, irrespective of the global warming hypothesis.

[2] There are literally thousands of articles and studies available on the World Wide Web for people who want to become more informed. The September 27, 2009 article entitled "Global Warming 'Science" might be a good place to start.

[3] The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the agency that Congressional Democrats say they are relying on to push forward their "Cap & Trade" legislation, despite the fact that the legislation will result in every American household paying an additional $1,870.00 a year more in energy costs.

[4] Dr. John R. Christy is Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also the Alabama State Climatologist. He is the recipient of NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement was given a Special Award by the American Meteorological Society "for developing a global, precise record of earth's temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate." Dr. Christy was the Lead Author for the U.N. reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

[5] Even the mainstream media is having some difficulty these days maintaining its façade of uniformity, as shown by the article Even left now laughing at Global Warming.

[bonnie]

HEY BONNIE

WELL that is what the catholic church did kept

the people uninformed about BIBLE truths

so I guess they can do it with science keeping

the people uninformed

dgrimm60

http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/397959_murdockonline30.html

Even left now laughing at global warming

DEROY MURDOCK

SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

SAN FRANCISCO -- So-called "global warming" has shrunk from problem to punch line. And now, Leftists are laughing, too. It's hard not to chuckle at the idea of Earth boiling in a carbon cauldron when the news won't cooperate:

# Nearly four inches of snow blanketed the United Arab Emirates' Jebel Jais region for just the second time in recorded history on Jan. 24. Citizens were speechless. The local dialect has no word for snowfall.

# Dutchmen on ice skates sped past windmills as canals in Holland froze in mid-January for the first time since 1997. Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop, who inhabits a renovated 17th Century windmill, stumbled on the ice and fractured his wrist.

# January saw northern Minnesota's temperatures plunge to 38 below zero, forcing ski-resort closures. A Frazee, Minnesota dog-sled race was cancelled, due to excessive snow. Snow whitened Surf City, North Carolina's beaches. Days ago, ice glazed Florida's citrus groves.

As Earth faces global cooling, both troglodyte right-wingers and lachrymose left-wingers find Albert Gore's simmering-planet hypothesis increasingly hilarious:

"In terms of (global warming's) capacity to cause the human species harm, I don't think it makes it into the top 10," Dr. Robert Giegengack, former chairman of University of Pennsylvania's Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, told the Pennsylvania Gazette. Giegengack voted for Gore in 2000, and says he likely would again.

Commentator Harold Ambler declared Jan. 3 on HuffingtonPost.com that he voted for Barack Obama "for a thousand times a thousand reasons." He added that Gore "owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming." He called Gore's assertion that "the science is in" on this issue "the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of mankind."

"Not only is it false that human activity has any significant effect on global warming or the weather in general, but for the record, global warming is over," retired Navy meteorologist Dr. Martin Hertzberg wrote on carbon-sense.com. The physical chemist and self-described "scientist and life-long liberal Democrat" added: "The average temperature of Earth's atmosphere has declined over the last 10 years. From the El Nino Year of 1998 until Jan. 2007, it dropped a quarter of a degree Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit). From Jan 2007 to the spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping three-quarters of a degree Celsius (1.35 degrees Fahrenheit). Those data further prove that the fear-mongering hysteria about human-caused global warming is completely unjustified and is totally counterproductive to our Nation's essential needs and security."

"It is a tribute to the scientific ignorance of politicians and journalists that they keep regurgitating the nonsense about human-caused global warming," veteran Left-wing commentator and Nation magazine columnist Alexander Cockburn wrote. "The greenhouse fear mongers rely on unverified, crudely oversimplified models to finger mankind's sinful contribution -- and carbon trafficking, just like the old indulgences, is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism, and greed."

Some leftists believe the collective hallucination of warmism distracts from what they consider urgent progressive priorities:

"The most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might," University of Ottawa physics professor Dr. Denis Rancourt has written. "The global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth."

Social historian Dr. David Noble of Canada's York University concurs. He has lamented that warmism is "diverting attention from the radical challenges of the global justice movements."

Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, previously Education Minister in France's late 1990s Socialist government, denounced the "prophets of doom of global warming." He sounded amused in a September 2006 L'Express article. "The ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people."

"The so-called 'consensus' on man-made global warming is not holding up," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., told his colleagues Jan. 8. "It is becoming increasingly clear that skepticism about man-made global warming fear is not a partisan left vs. right issue."

So-called "global warming" has accomplished the impossible: It has united liberals and conservatives in laughter.

Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. E-mail him at deroy.Murdock@gmail.com

[phkrause]

Dgrimm, I see both Democrats and Republicans denouncing Global Warming!

"It has united liberals and conservatives in laughter"

pk

[bonnie]

Dgrimm, I see both Democrats and Republicans denouncing Global Warming!

"It has united liberals and conservatives in laughter"

pk

Where you don't hear it is from the politicians in Washington.

To many are afraid to buck that tide