A new feature here at Geek Philosophy: each week I’ll pick a geek who’s done something worthy of special recognition, something that highlights how increasingly important all things geeky are becoming to the world. The first Geek of the Week: NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, who’s also an adjunct professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University.
In 1999, Dr. Hansen wrote this:
In my view, we are not doing as well as we could in the global warming debate. For one thing, we have failed to use the opportunity to help teach the public about how science research works. On the contrary, we often appear to the public to be advocates of fixed adversarial positions. Of course, we can try to blame this on the media and politicians, with their proclivities to focus on antagonistic extremes. But that doesn't really help.
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