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Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.[1] A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.[2]history of toxic blooms off of FLA coast:
Although procedures vary from one field of inquiry to another, identifiable features distinguish scientific inquiry from other methodologies of knowledge. Scientific researchers propose hypotheses as explanations of phenomena, and design experimental studies to test these hypotheses. These steps must be repeatable in order to dependably predict any future results. Theories that encompass wider domains of inquiry may bind many independently-derived hypotheses together in a coherent, supportive structure. This in turn may help form new hypotheses or place groups of hypotheses into context.
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How does the cultural framing of climate change create division and
inaction?
After reading Kahnan’s research on how groups react to information based on percieved values of the informant and their personal outlook; it made me realise that to really move forward politically and socially we need to learn how to talk one another’s language to be able to understand where one another are coming from. This is the same in so many walks of life so why not for climate change?
Essentially it comes down to is understanding how we see the world through different value frameworks. I might be communitarian, you might be libertarian. I might be pro abortion, you might be against it. These values lie at the bottom of the choices we make, the way we respond to things, the people we socialise with; Often they have this effect without us conciously knowing it. Thats why studies such as the one I talk about below are important, because they help disentangle the subtle web cast over cultural issues such a climate change by our differing values. They help us understand one another, even if we don’t agree.This is certainly the starting point for progress and the basis for a more open debate about values in relation to climate change, rather than using pseudo-scientific or pseudo economic arguements to justify conclusions we have come to as a result of values alone. The paper described below is a good first step in gaining some insight.
Today I read this working paper written by Andrew Hoffman of the University of Michigan, entitled:
“Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate”
Hoffman decribes the logics of Deniers and Believers as essentially closed and unamenable to arguement, whereas those of convinced and skeptics are much more open to debate, to learning, to asking questions; and indeed represent the majority of people.
Frames and categories used do not threaten people’s values and therefore creative dismissive resistance to the argument
Precisely. Argument does however threaten peoples`values when they associate those values with Who I Am, whether the religious association is recognized or not. That is the overwhelming power of managing the Overton Window of what seems reasonable rather than honest debate dealing with issues over emotion.
You are looking at issues which have preoccupied me for a while.
Might I ask you to check these files and give me your reaction.
Opit`s LinkFest! to http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/p/topical-index.html
to http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html
and http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/perception-alteration.html
Kindly note these are as much or more research notes rather than any cogent argument – though my reaction of disbelief to any forecasting of the future via CO2 based modeling is escalating out of control.
Posted by | January 17, 2012, 7:42 pmPrecisely. Argument does however threaten peoples`values when they associate those values with Who I Am, whether the religious association is recognized or not. That is the overwhelming power of managing the Overton Window of what seems reasonable rather than honest debate dealing with issues over emotion.
You are looking at issues which have preoccupied me for a while.
Might I ask you to check these files and give me your reaction.
Opit`s LinkFest! to http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/p/topical-index.html
to http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html
and http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/perception-alteration.html
Kindly note these are as much or more research notes rather than any cogent argument – though my reaction of disbelief to any forecasting of the future via CO2 based modeling is escalating out of control.
NCSE Picks Fight Against Climate Science Deniers
Scientific American (blog) - 21 hours ago
Curiously, though, the tactics of climate change deniers are all too familiar! They have borrowed and mirrored many of the strategies (and in fact, ...
References for Debating Science Deniers « Rationally Thinking Out ...
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References for Debating Science Deniers ... Skeptical Science: Examining Global Warming Skepticism · Gristmill – How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic ...The Deniers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deniers
The Deniers is a 2008 book by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian environmentalist and writer. Subtitled "The world-renowned scientists who stood up against ...How to Debunk Science Deniers | Planetsave
planetsave.com/2012/01/06/how-to-debunk-science-deniers/
6 Jan 2012 – Folks over at Skeptical Science, an excellent site focused solely on debunking ridiculous anti-science myths from global warming deniers, ...Science Deniers' Talking Points | Sightline Daily
daily.sightline.org/2011/06/30/science-deniers-talking-points/
30 Jun 2011 – This is nothing new to most of you---climate science deniers' talking points seem to be in our face all the time and giving the "debate" any more ...You visited this page on 27/12/11.
Graham Readfearn | Climate Science Denier Ian Plimer Recruits ...
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13 Dec 2011 – TAGS: australian climate science coalition, bob carter, deniers, galileo movementWhat do climate science deniers have to do to succeed on Yahoo ...
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Top answer: All they need to do is cast doubt into the minds of those actually looking for answers by stating that "we don't know all there is to know" which is very ...Clinton Says GOP Climate Deniers Making The U.S. 'Look Like A ...
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20 Sep 2011 – Former President Bill Clinton has some tough words for Republican climate-Obama Calls Out 'Climate Change Deniers In Congress' | TPMDC
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21 Apr 2011 – At a fundraiser in San Francisco Wednesday evening, President Obama took direct, and unusually blunt aim at a faction in the U.S. Congress ...What causes someone to become an active denier of climate science ...
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7 answers
The denier tends to run with political groups that are funded by oil and coal .... that 'American Deniers' in particular tend to frame their denial in parochial terms, ...http://desmogblog.com/byron-kennard-why-i-m-ridiculing-climate-deniers
Simple rebuttals to denier talking points -- with links to the full ...
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28 Dec 2010 – Simple rebuttals to denier talking points — with links to the full climate science. By Joe Romm on Dec 28, 2010 at 7:15 am. Progressives should know the most ...This is nothing new to most of you—climate science
deniers’ talking points seem to be in our face all the time
and giving the “debate” any more airtime seems
counterproductive. But maybe there’s something we can
learn from the messages and frames (and messengers) that
are working for the science deniers in order to better hone
climate policy champions’ communications—especially
those that tap into particularly American values like
“personal freedom.”
Andrew Hoffman, the Holcim (US) professor of sustainable
enterprise at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, studied the core values or
worldviews that define the science denial position on climate. He points out that “climate
change has been enmeshed in the culture wars where beliefs in science often align with beliefs
on abortion, gun control, health care, evolution, or other issues that fall along the contemporary
political divide.”
To better understand this “distinctly American phenomenon,” he studied the way climate science
deniers have consistently framed the issue. He’s boiled it down to three themes:
Why do you hate freedom? For science deniers, “climate change is inextricably tied to a belief
that climate science and policy are a covert way for liberal environmentalists and the
government to diminish citizens’ personal freedom.”
Job killers. “A second prominent theme is a strong faith in the free market, an overriding fear
that climate legislation will hinder economic progress, and a suspicion that green jobs and
renewable energy are ploys to engineer the market.”
Pointy-headed scientists. “The most intriguing theme is strong distrust of the scientific peerreview
process and of scientists themselves: “Peer review” turns into “pal review,” and
establishment scientist-editors only publish work by those whose scientific research findings
agree with their own. Scientists themselves are seen as intellectual elites, studying issues that
are beyond the reach of the ordinary person’s scrutiny.”
Science Deniers’ Talking Points
The Reference Frame: I'm a denier: a song
motls.blogspot.com/2010/11/im-denier-song.html
10 Nov 2010 – The best theoretical physics blog that the search engine can offer you, by a Czech conservative string theorist, focusing on high-energy physics ...Our Universe - a completely new look upon some old questions
Ever considered that since the last 10 years sciences are advancing at an ever increasing, nearly logarithmic speed, leaving behind ideas we grew up with at schools?
About the Psychology of the Crowd...
The word is seldom heard, yet it appears to me that the evolution of society his heading towards the 'ochlocracy'. 
The over-democratized and over-ruled western world and its neighbours (North-Africa, Israel, Syria) are since 2008 looking for answers to a crisis of historic proportions. The evolution of society roughly follows the line from monarchy to kingdom, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and finally ochlocracy. Western-Europe appears to be on the brink of the latter. Generalized ochlocracy means power to the people, or more precise: power in hands of the crowd, or 'mob-ocracy' as some modernists define it.
( I look at the representations which say the 'Deniers' positions for them - since they are patently incapable of speaking for themselves ! - as evidence of 'Driving the crowds' )
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/prof-ian-plimer-the-missing-science-a-final-word-on-the-nonsense-about-cliTHE INGENIOUS WAYS WE AVOID BELIEVING IN CLIMATE CHANGE- A VIDEO PRESENTATION
opit says: Point : Climate Change Denial exists only in the minds of those who wish to shift the Overton Window from what is real to what is not.
How to Understand And Confront Holocaust Denial
www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/thema02.htm
Other examples of known Holocaust deniers linked with political ..... In frames of the project the special exhibition for young people "Ukraine and the Holocaust" ...'Holocaust denier' set for key role in Greek government?
Georgios Karatzaferis, right-wing leader who previously compared IDF to Hitler may have major role in new government( You can find similar premises about Evolution and Vaccination. In each case coverage drives conclusions - but evidence is scarce to demonized - even through Search Engine results.
Mind Control is about Acceptable Thought - not protecting truth, which is a consequence of considering different scenarios.
Luckily we have farcical pseudo religious positions maintained to distract us from reasonable people by pushing 'fundamentals' of the Talmud as religious law - except Sharia! - especially the Southern Conference and Dominionist propaganda founts.
Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
www.theocracywatch.org/
5 Sep 2008 – Sarah Palin is a "Dominionist" with an apocalytic End Times theological viewpoint that sees the war in Iraq as part of God's plan.Daily Kos: Sarah Palin: Dominionist Stalking Horse
www.dailykos.com/story/.../-Sarah-Palin:-Dominionist-Stalking-Hors...
29 Aug 2008 – There are quite a number of extremely troubling links between Sarah Palin and neopentecostal dominionists--enough that, in truth, she may be ...Shall I look up the Kenyan Evangelism - from the US - that resulted in killing of children for 'witchcraft' ?
BTW
Code of Hammurabi - Legal History and Philosophy
www.commonlaw.com/Hammurabi.html
For the complete text and for interesting comparisons in the translation, see the Code of Hammurabi as rendered at the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. ...) THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA
There are times when the capacity of mankind to blind itself to plain reality is simply breathtaking. Thus to this day we still believe, as was universally believed two centuries ago, that the seas surrounding us afford an infinite source of wealth. As recently as half a century ago, two respected academics asserted in a book titled The Inexhaustible Sea that what the ocean "has to offer extends beyond the limits of our imagination -- that someday men will learn that in its bounty the sea is inexhaustible."
A boundless delusion. What informed scientists now know, as Callum Roberts writes in this measured but passionate and immensely important book -- a persuasive synopsis of existing scholarship augmented by the author's own research -- is that the resources of the sea are as limited as those of land and air, and that our penchant for exploiting them to the point of extinction is appalling.
Task Force Established by President Obama Releases Final Strategy for Reversing Deterioration of Gulf Ecosystem/USDA $50 million financial assistance for restoration projects announced as Task Force efforts shift from planning to action
Canada’s climate challenge: 1 out of 3 ain’t good enough.
I should be embarrased to be a resident of Alberta and find my positions much more acceptable here than elsewhere – which is not usually the case as energy and mining destruction in the style of the blight north of Fort MacMurray ( the stench alone will give you a headache at Fort MacKay )
But even neoConservatives might get one thing somewhat right about the International Tax on the Use of Fire which is proposed as a solution to the world’s problems.
You might not think so if Australia passing such regs against the will of the people was more commonly known. In fact, carbon credits have been prosecuted for fraud in the EU – as trading in a mirage which enables polluters to evade remedial action should be.
We do need pollution solutions. Stage managed ‘debate’ won’t get us there.
Living proof that conservation works
Worldwide fish stocks are falling as ever more rapacious and technologically-advanced fleets chase diminishing shoals
How I fell in love with a fishTED talk on fish farming
Light Hawk
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Nature and Parks
Florida Living Magazine recently named Hollywood Beach "Florida's Best Beach."
RESULTS OF THE SECOND NATIONWIDE 2010 SURVEY ON GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS
the centre developed a detailed questionnaire (Click Here to Download the Questionnaire) covering the nine key areas considered crucial for reflecting the values and principles of GNH. These key areas of GNH fall within the domains of psychological wellbeing, health, time use, education, culture, good governance, ecology, community vitality and living standards.
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