{"id":12969,"date":"2012-02-17T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=12969"},"modified":"2012-02-17T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:15:28","slug":"new-alarm-global-skeptic-izing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/02\/new-alarm-global-skeptic-izing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Alarm: Global Skeptic-izing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are not noted for believing in science, says a Canadian climatologist.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Petti Fong warns in the Toronto Star:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Scientists say [the Heartland kerfuffle] is a frightening sign that much of the public remains skeptical about global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are forces at work,\u201d said Nina Fedoroff, president of the AAAS. \u201cThe polling data show that the fraction of citizens who believe that climate change is real has declined since 2006. Even as the scientific consensus has increased, the belief in it has declined\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The belief in science has declined in very specific areas, Leshner said: research regarding genetically modified organisms, climate change and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American public, somewhat depressingly, is not noted for its beliefs in some scientific theories of findings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver said scientists can\u2019t be blamed for not doing a better job of communicating their findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne one hand there are a bunch of disconnected individuals publishing science,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd on the other hand there is a very coordinated effort from so-called not-for-profits and public relations firms trying effectively to undermine the science.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/1132853--scientists-sound-alarm-over-climate-change-skepticism\">Read the entire commentary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are not noted for believing in science, says a Canadian climatologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-3nb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}