SWIFTBOATING THE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
The theft of 1,000 private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that deniers have learned lessons from dirty politics and are running a new campaign to undermine public trust in climate scientists. The feeble response from the UEA and the climate science community shows that scientists are still totally underestimating the fragility of that trust and the crucial role it plays in building public belief. The Importance and fragility of Trust The lay public, when presented with confusing data and competing arguments about climate change deploy the heuristic (a fancy word for...
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Tags: Climate Change, Climate Research Unit, Climate Science, Climate Scientists, Dirty Politics, East Anglia, Fancy Word, Feeble Response, Fragility, Heuristic, Public Belief, Public Trust, Research Unit At The University Of East Anglia, Science Community, Uea, University Of East Anglia