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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
The common misconceptions about global warming are stemming from broken science, "scientists" with an agenda, that honest scientists can't refute without risking their funding and careers.
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That has more to do with our media setup as a whole instead of science because that is applicable to politics, economics, etc as well. Legitimate political analysis share very little with the views being spewed by CNN or FOX News, which would be considered mainstream. Economics works the same way as well. While I won't disagree that political forces influence environmental science, the biggest problem is that the mainstream gets their news from second or third hand sources and not first. So, if a scientist writes a paper that goes against the common misconceptions, it just won't pick up steam because the people with agendas (people with money and power) won't publicize it to a mainstream audience.
While skimming the website, the only name I saw was Al Gore. That would be like blaming the entire US political science field because Bill O'Reilly has the largest influence. As I said, I won't disagree that their are large flaws with agendas and science, but the largest problem I see is the communication between science and the mainstream, not the actual science itself. And that website does not address that issue at all.