{"id":23784,"date":"2012-08-13T18:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=23784"},"modified":"2012-08-13T18:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:38:38","slug":"jerry-browns-anti-anti-climate-science-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/08\/13\/jerry-browns-anti-anti-climate-science-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Brown’s Anti-Anti-Climate Science Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

California governor posts a direct rebuttal to climate change contrarians<\/strong><\/p>\n

Governor Brown is pushing back against those who deny the evidence for climate change and this week, used a Lake Tahoe environmental conference to say that he’s taken his campaign online.<\/p>\n

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Jerry Brown's new website is a countermeasure against climate science "deniers."<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Governor has long been a vocal supporter of climate action but his new “Just the Facts” website<\/a> represents his most definitive reaction against what he calls “the deniers” of widely accepted climate science.<\/p>\n

About half the site is devoted to a rehash of the evidence<\/a> that global warming is real and effects are happening now. The other half is a rebuttal to climate science contrarians<\/a>, whom the site describes as, “a small-but-vocal group” that “has spread misinformation about the science, aiming to cast doubt on well-established findings and conclusions.”<\/p>\n

I asked Brown spokeswoman Elizabeth Ashford who actually wrote the copy for the site. She told me that it was authored by “staff” at the Governor’s Office of Planning & Research, in consultation with climate scientists and several state agencies. She said it’s been in the works for about six months.<\/p>\n

Asked if there was some precipitating event for the site, Ashford said only that the Governor was, “aware that there continues to be an undercurrent of mistrust of the science,” that he wanted to address. The site breaks no new ground. Portions reflect the writings of social scientists like Naomi Oreskes<\/a>, who have sought to document<\/a> efforts by entrenched industrial interests to cast doubt on the science, taking a page from the playbook of the now-defunct Tobacco Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Because of the serious impacts of climate change,” the Governor’s site explains, “the delay and obfuscation tactics of the deniers are particularly concerning, which is why we present some responses to the denier arguments on this website.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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