Climate scientists won't make very good "cable news and blogosphere culture warriors," writes Matthew Nisbett in Slate, explaining why climate scientists who feel they are fighting a "'war' against 'anti-science' forces" are over-reacting to threats to their credibility post-ClimateGate. "To...
Climate scientists won't make very good "cable news and blogosphere culture warriors," writes Matthew Nisbett in Slate, explaining why climate scientists who feel they are fighting a "'war' against 'anti-science' forces" are over-reacting to threats to their credibility post-ClimateGate.
"To be sure, there is a need for better, clearer explanations of the science, but it's wrongheaded to imagine that researchers and their organizations could ever compete effectively, in the long term, in a political debate with climate skeptics and their allies at the Chamber of Commerce and Fox News. Instead of exaggerating the problem of an allegedly hostile American public, scientists need to wake up to the fact that they continue to enjoy almost unrivaled trust and communication capital."
We have similar issues here in Germany, climate scientists are sometimes going into some big debattes, making a good stance for themselves and then loose their credibility with some other action. However some scientists are activly working together with companies in order to help them become more envirment friendly. Here is a German article about the company Shiseido:
"Das Kosmetik und Parfüm Unternehmen Shiseido arbeitet jetzt mit Umweltwissenschaftlern daran seine Produktionen zu verbessern. Neben Produktionsabläufen werden auch die Parfüm Materialien durch die Wissenschaftler verbesser"
This is pretty interessting, cause this gives the scientist a great plattform to spread their ideas. Being enviroment friendly is good for the companies reputation.
Posted by: Jeniffer Kaynes at June 7, 2010 2:02 AM