[ExI] scientific ignorance in the usa

[Anders Sandberg]

On 12/02/2013 02:10, spike wrote:
>
> I don't know a more appalling example than a new anchor asking if 
> meteors are a result of global warming:
>

To be honest, given the range of things blamed on climate change it 
might not be too unreasonable. Just look at 
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm - a lot of the sources are 
*really* bad, but that will be hard to tell for most people. Even when 
you actually go for peer reviewed publications you get plenty of 
apparent contradictions ( 
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/03/the-big-self-parodying-climate-change-blame-list/ 
), and most input people get is the far more crazy and extreme popular 
media. Which are manned by journalists who get their world-view from media.

Hmm, maybe I should bring this up when I am on radio about the NEO 
tomorrow evening.


In fact, given that higher solar activity can expand the atmosphere and 
cause satellites to spiral in, maybe a hotter atmosphere will be able to 
catch a few extra NEOs? (No, I don't think the effect matters)

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University

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