It’s almost like liberal academia wants to silence dissent on the Goracle’s junk science.
(Climate Ethics/PSU) — Over the next few weeks, ClimateEthics will take a deeper look at what has been referred to as the “climate change disinformation campaign” through an ethical lens. Although ClimateEthics has examined these issues briefly before, see: An Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Is This A New Kind of Assault on Humanity?, this is the first in a series of posts that will examine this phenomenon in depth. […]
This series is based upon the assumption that skepticism in science is essential to increase understanding of the natural world. Yet, ideologically based disinformation is ethically abhorrent particularly in regard to behaviors about which there is credible scientific support for the conclusion that human activities threaten life and the ecological systems on which life depend. This report focuses on specific tactics that have been deployed in the climate change disinformation campaign. It is not a critique of responsible skepticism. The tactics that will be examined in detail include:
- Lying Or Reckless Disregard For the Truth
- Focusing On An Unknowns While Ignoring The Known.
- Specious Claims Of “Bad” Science
- Creation of Front Groups
- Manufacturing Bogus Climate Science
- Think Tank Campaigns
- Misleading PR Campaigns.
- Creation of Astroturf Groups
- Cyber-bullying Scientists and Journalists
. . . However, a review of the tactics used by the scientific disinformation campaign will reveal that these tactics can’t be construed as the application of reasonable scientific skepticism, but, as we shall see, often constitute malicious, morally reprehensible disinformation. Yet these tactics provide important lessons about norms that should guide reasonable skepticism.
Yet, as we shall see, much of the ideological climate disinformation that has been prominent in the climate change debate in the United States and a few other developed countries is deeply ethically abhorrent.
HT: Climate Depot