September 23, 2015
“No one’s dying because of this." Guess again.
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Tweet Interesting article from a man married to an anti-vaxxer . It reminds me a little about studies showing that a prejudiced people need intense contact with the members of the group they’re biased against before eliminating their prejudice; casual contact can be counterproductive. In the case of the article, overcoming bias was a two-way street, with the author having to abandon his (lazy) belief that anti-vaxxers were just uninformed and stupid.
— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) September 4, 2015 and Eli had a few things to say along that line.  Eli and Gavin were not pleased by Richard Betts’ tweeting, and perhaps in response, he posted some remarks on Facebook September 4: If global greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to decline in the next few years, the chances are that global warming will exceed the 2°C “guardrail†that the EU and UN aim to stay below. HELIX is researching the impacts of higher warming levels, specifically 4°C and 6°C
Tweet Stefan Rahmstorf has been having fun analyzing Bjorn Lomborg’s scientific publication record. Â Stefan has not been impressed, 20 publications, 54 total citations and an h index of 3 using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science