Re: Observations related to last Wednesday's lecture on why the word "believe" was so prominent in a speech by President Obama, and on this: Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?

Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?

We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge--from climate change to vaccinations--faces furiou . . .

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text

Hope for the planet: Most Republicans Say They Back Climate Action, Poll Finds

From NYT 1/30/15

Most Republicans Say They Back Climate Action, Poll Finds

 It's a mainstream concern, not an extremist thing:

Lecture 3 - Links and Videos related to lecture "Oil and American Cultural History"

Current Events

1. Oil price drops means bust cycle hitting towns like Midland, TX

 cyclicality of fossil fuel economies

2. State of the Union Address “climate change” (not “global warming”) & Republican response “[white] working people”; the “Keystone Jobs Bill” Obama will “block good American jobs” no climate mention…Republicans censored version; Boehner: "inadvertent"

3. Peabody Energy named Energy Company of the Year by Platts

Greg Boyce, CEO  stock-price way down but “it will come back” & “technology solutions, not regulatory solutions” – Peabody response to#SOTU "pain at the plug"

4. NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., ACCCE & ‘clean coal’ state of the union & Business Owner ad

ACCCE: American Coalition for Clean CoalElectricity (industry front group, includes Ameren, Peabody, & number of other companies, now hidden), ties to ALEC

Recent publication “The Social Benefitsof Carbon”  (see my earlier discussion of the ACCCE's view of science with regard to Peabody, Ameren, and WUSTL connections).

Sourcewatch page on ACCCE; Polluter Watch & Wikipedia ACCCE forgery scandal

ACCCE (aka "America's Power" on Twitter: 
Obama is on a “climate crusade” with “calamitous consequences”