Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future.

[Booyah]

Required reading for the right on this board.

Al Gore’s new book outlines climate change solutions, a prescription for problems described in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2009-11-05-algore_N.htm

[Redwingenator]

Originally Posted by Booyah

Required reading for the right on this board.

Al Gore’s new book outlines climate change solutions, a prescription for problems described in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2009-11-05-algore_N.htm

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Gore climate film's nine 'errors'

A High Court judge who ruled on whether climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in schools said it contains nine scientific "errors".

[GreenSpartan]

Originally Posted by Redwingenator

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Gore climate film's nine 'errors'

Why don't you read the decision where the judge finds in favor of the defendent (i.e. against the people saying Gore's movie shouldn't be shown in schools) because the movie is "substantially founded upon scientific research and fact"?

Further, far from being errors, which one might think is flat wrong like saying the sun revolves around the earth, the issues were typically issues where the judge thought Gore was either stretching the evidence (e.g., Katrina was caused by climate change) or there wasn't enough evidence to make a particular claim even if the current available evidence is supportive.

[Left_Of_The_Dial]

Looks interesting. What field of science does the author specialize in?

[GRR Spartan]

When you have multi-national companies based in the US making use of green card engineers shipping engineering jobs overseas , buying major equipment that was built overseas and designed by foreign engineers for over 30 years should we be surprised?

We also have a significant portion of the population that has not felt education, especially scientific based education was worth while to earn a good living (see MI's 35-65 population) or have contempt for higher learning (segments of the religious right) so we get what we deserve.

India, China, Japan and Eastern European countries make their technical universities the most coveted schools to gain entry. Here in the US we have the same corporations who spend millions to convince us Global Climate Change is a myth and import workers or export jobs complain because their corporate tax rates are too high.

So we have a population that minimizes the importance of scientific study and political culture that is willing to spend billions per year in places like Iraq and squeals like stuck hogs when they are asked to raise taxes so we can reduce the cost of higher ed to our population.

[Mike Ockisard]

[Booyah]

Originally Posted by Left_Of_The_Dial

Looks interesting. What field of science does the author specialize in?

Global warming. Has done it for many years now. Where have you been?