My latest hosted episode of POI has gone up--it's about the newly created Climate Science Rapid Response Team, formed by several climate researchers to battle back against misinformation. Here's the show description:
For the community of scientists who study the Earth’s climate, these are bewildering times.
They've seen wave upon wave of political attacks. They're getting accustomed to a public that grows more skeptical of their conclusions even as scientists grow more confident in them.
No wonder there’s much frustration out there in the climate science world—and now, a group of researchers have organized to do something about it. Their initiative is called the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, and it pledges to organize dozens of researchers to help set the record straight.
But can scientists really maintain a war room? What would that look like? How far can they go in fighting back against misinformation, without leaving themselves politically ...
