Articles Tagged "Greenwashing"

An Oregon University professor has controversially compared skepticism of global warming to racism.

Sociology and environmental studies professor Kari Norgaard wrote a paper criticising non-believers, suggesting that doubters need to be have a ‘sickness’.

The professor, who holds a B.S. in biology and a master's and PhD in sociology, argued that ‘cultural resistance’ to accepting humans as being responsible for climate change ‘must be recognised and treated’ as an aberrant sociological behaviour.

Resolving skepticism about climate change alarmists, she added, is a challenge equitable to overcoming ‘racism or slavery in the U.S. South’.

In the last 30 years, Norgaard said, climate change has been seen as either a hoax or fixable with minimal political or economic intervention.

‘This kind of cultural resistance to very significant social threat is something that we would expect in any society facing a massive threat’, she said.

Brace yourself for a week of Green brainwashing when Thursday culminates in an orgy of Green propaganda called Earth Day.

Be alert to the tons and tons of Green stories in your weekly and daily newspaper of choice, the weekly snooze-magazines, and especially on television where all the local reporters will dutifully interview people who are recycling things destined for a landfill or protesting to save salamanders.

Amidst the deluge will be endless appeals to buy products deemed Green, but which are always more expensive than those that have not been blessed by the Sierra Club.

Your children, in particular, will learn precious little about the way the real Earth functions. Aside from the usual demented “global warming” scenarios guaranteed to give them nightmares, the schools will pretty much abandon efforts to teach anything resembling the way the Earth actually behaves.

With any luck the kids will hear about an Iceland volcano whose eruptions have shut down trans-Atlantic flights because, kids, that’s just one of the horrible things that happens when a volcano goes off. Other times, it destroys all human habitation on a Caribbean island or, as the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo did in 1991, it not only killed hundreds of people, but put so much pollution in the atmosphere the global temperature actually dropped in the year that followed.

We could not resist putting this onto the news blog, it's a two hour course to indoctrinate weathermen into propagandists. Someone should take a course and challenge every silly assertion and then go public with what a crock this training is.......you could not make it up......ok you could....when will common sense win.....when we apply reason and logic using science.....and put a stop to this Greenwash

Excerpt: Warming air and oceans, beetle-ridden trees and thawing glaciers are sending a message.

New Online Course Helps Meteorologists Explain Climate Change

New tool helps broadcasters communicate science to the public

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Broadcast meteorologists now have a new source of science-based information to help them answer their audiences’ questions about climate change.

“Climate Change: Fitting the Pieces Together,” was made available today by the National Environmental Education Foundation, in partnership with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET®).

The two-hour course – offered free of charge – provides a basic overview of climate-change science and answers questions about climate change frequently asked by television news viewers. An advisory committee with representatives from government, academia, the nonprofit world and media developed the course.