{"id":368134,"date":"2010-02-26T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:14:03","slug":"announcing-the-new-point-of-inquiry-featuring-michael-mann-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368134","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the New Point of Inquiry, Featuring Michael Mann | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/02\/22\/announcing-my-next-point-of-inquiry-guest-climatologist-michael-mann-ask-your-questions-now\/mann_treering\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6940\" title=\"mann_treering\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/files\/2010\/02\/mann_treering-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"mann_treering\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\"\/><\/a>It&#8217;s live <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">here<\/a>, and here&#8217;s part of the show description:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">For the scientists who study global warming, now is the winter of their despair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">In the news, it has been climate scandal after alleged climate scandal. First came \u201cClimateGate,\u201d then \u201cGlacierGate,\u201d \u201cAmazon Gate,\u201d and so on. In public opinion polls, meanwhile, Americans\u2019 acceptance of the science of global warming appears to be declining. Even a freak snowstorm now seems to sow added doubt about this rigorous body of research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">In response to growing public skepticism\u2014and a wave of dramatic attacks on individual researchers\u2014the scientific community is now bucking up to more strongly defend its knowledge. Leading the charge is one of the most frequently attacked researchers of them all\u2014Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">In this interview with host Chris Mooney, Mann pulls no punches. He defends the fundamental scientific consensus on climate change, and explains why those who attack it consistently miss the target. He also answers critics of his \u201chockey stick\u201d study, and explains why the charges that have arisen in \u201cClimateGate\u201d seem much more smoke than fire.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">show is here<\/a>, and you can subscribe on iTunes for further episodes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>The show airs just in time, apparently; Joe Romm <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/26\/michael-mann-false-and-misleading-claims-wall-street-journal-oversimplify-piece-by-jeffrey-ball-and-keith-johnson\/\">documents<\/a> yet another unfair and bogus attack on Mann, this time from the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/03NBoFX5DtE8Fk63Kt7scpJHDgY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/03NBoFX5DtE8Fk63Kt7scpJHDgY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/03NBoFX5DtE8Fk63Kt7scpJHDgY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/03NBoFX5DtE8Fk63Kt7scpJHDgY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/0xclst4-_3U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s live here, and here&#8217;s part of the show description: For the scientists who study global warming, now is the winter of their despair. In the news, it has been climate scandal after alleged climate scandal. First came \u201cClimateGate,\u201d then \u201cGlacierGate,\u201d \u201cAmazon Gate,\u201d and so on. In public opinion polls, meanwhile, Americans\u2019 acceptance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}