There are now over 60 comments at the Point of Inquiry forums on the latest show. So this one has clearly produced a lot of dialogue. I want to continue to blog about some of the most memorable content--and in this respect, there was nothing like the show's closing. I asked for Mann's final words, and boy did I get them. He pointed out that the strength of climate science alone was clearly insufficient to stop the denial movement, and said that we probably should have expected a revival of that movement in the past three months--although even he didn't expect how low it would go:
Despite all the talk a few years ago about 'the debate being over'...the forces of anti-scientific disinformation were just lying dormant. But they would be back. And so this didn't surprise me at all, and in fact, I fully expected that, in advance of ...