Miller-McCune on the Nisbet Climate Report

I spoke with Emily Badger last week for her piece on Matthew Nisbet's controversial "Climate Shift" report, and I think her story came out quite well. The piece explains that the reason this report was so strongly attacked and criticized is not so much because of its actual contents, but because of what it omits or appears to downplay--perhaps most centrally, right wing attacks on climate science. Thus, the issue is the report's framing--ironically, given that this is what Nisbet studies. And indeed, my biggest problem with the report didn't have anything to do with the most contested topic--alleged money differences between enviros and industry. While I'm very skeptical of Nisbet's analysis on this point, I agree that the cap-and-trade coalition, once it had industry partners like GE and BP, had significant political clout. Instead, my biggest issue is Nisbet's un-nuanced depiction of scientists as partisan and ideological. As Badger ...