GREEN CRAP The verdict is in on climate change You're a close minded sod if you deny it

“ In a LAT op-ed piece Naomi Oreskes, professor of history at UC San Diego  (hey. it could have been gender studies) had an epiphany.  Recently I had jury duty, and during jury selection something remarkable occurred. Early in the proceedings, the judge posed a hypothetical question to the 60 or so potential jurors in the room: "If I were to send you out now and ask you to render a verdict, what would it be? How many of you would vote not guilty?" A few raised their hands. "How many would vote guilty?" A few more raised their hands. ... That, of course, was the wrong answer, and the judge proceeded to explain why. Baby steps.  But the light bulb (CFL, natch) lit.  In my travels, I have met many, many people who have told me that they are not in denial about climate change; they simply don't know enough to decide. It strikes me that these people aren't unlike my fellow jurors at the start of jury selection. They are trying to keep an open mind, something that we are routinely enjoined to do in many other aspects of daily life. But .. Since the mid-1990s, there has been clear-cut evidence that the climate is changing because of human activities: burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For the last decade or so it has been increasingly clear that these changes are accelerating, and worrisome. I think we've heard enough.  At this point I wanted to yell "show us your tits!"  I Googled "Naomi Oreskes nude," hoping  she had some redeeming quality, but  no. Awk!   I then checked her out at Watts Up With That.  Anthony Watts's  climate change possee  lumps  her (Naomi Oreskes ... suggested that scientists should study history...." ) with the  gaggle of  “new AGU” climate clowns who amuse real climatologists with their buffoonery. “ I cannot begin to describe the delicious sense of irony I felt when I listened to a panel of people who have no demonstrated skill or expertise in selling messages to the public, trying to tell scientists how they should sell a message to the public. And the questioners were also entertaining. ” Clown or no, this nincompoop is teaching minds full of mush to think like her.  The woman is carrying a plague for chrisake! Treat her as such.        (→ lopped tenure) ”