Erstellt am: 20. 3. 2014 - 12:38 Uhr
Today's Webtip: What We Know
The issue of climate change is a hot button topic in the U.S. Some people don't believe it is happening, some people believe it is happening but it's just a natural cycle, some believe it is happening and people have influenced it but there is nothing we can do to change it and some think we need to get our heads out of the sand and make some changes fast.
And the media and politicians think all of those opinions should carry the same weight. In the interest of fairness and balance. Something that has made it very difficult to actually get any type of political consensus.
I have been following the discussion online for ages now, read many articles by scientists who try to make it clear that the "debate" among experts is basically non-existant, and watched them all get drowned out by a handful of individuals and groups who have a disproportionately loud voice in the media.
Now the AAAS has apparently had enough.
Who or what is the AAAS?
"The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest non-government general science membership organization and the executive publisher of Science, a leading scientific journal."
They have put up a site called What We Know. It's an attempt to do an end run around the standard media by presenting their arguments directly to the populace. According to Alan Leshner, CEO of the AAAS "What we are trying to do is to move the debate from whether human-induced climate change is reality. We want to move the debate to: Exactly what should you do about it?"