[Coral-List] Global Warming Theory

[Tim Wijgerde]

Dear Steve,

I fully agree with your views. 99% of all
scientific publications supports the theory of global warming. Only 50% of
all popular-scientific publications does the same. I believe this has to
do with scientific passiveness. We cannot simply publish in Nature or
Science and let the science journalists take over; scientists will have to
publish in these areas as well. At least make sure there is some sort of
review process that ensures scientific views are expressed correctly in
the media.

I still hope that more scientists will support
projects such as ours (Coral Science), which allows scientists to publish
their views in an understandable way to a large public. In the end, a
popular-scientifc article will receive a lot more attention compared to
the average scientific publication. That's just reality. But you can use
it to your advantage. 

We are open to manuscripts (and we have
some nice stories in the pipeline, thanks to scientists such as Dr.
Fenner, Dr. van Oppen and  Dr. Houlbreque).

Best

Tim
coralscience.org




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> After following your
discussion relating to climate change,
> I would like to insert an
observation from a real world,
> non-scientific perspective. I
seems to me, that among those of you
> who are the most respected
in the marine sciences, the opinion that
> anthropogenic climate
change is real and problematic strongly prevails.
> The problem
is, that you are allowing the views of those like Gene's
>
unidentified friend to win out in the court of public opinion.
> I
don't know how many of you caught George Will's recent columns
>
on this subject, but these opinions are prevailing at least in part,
> because of your collective passivity.
> The climate change
skeptics are not only well financed, but they are
> better
organized. As a result they are winning over too many converts to
> their
> doctrines. It is not only on this subject that your
hesitancy to
> collectively speak out is problematic. Your recent
discussion on
> sustainable
> seafood is yet another
example. (I, for one, am tired of being labeled as
> somewhat
> unstable because I avoid eating grilled grouper.) My point is that
you
> have a
> responsibility to find a more effective way
to aggressively promote these
> concepts.
>  You cannot be
satisfied to publish in scientific journals that are
> generally
ineffective
> in stirring public opinion.
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Mussman
> sealab at earthlink.net
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Tim
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Tim Wijgerde, M.Sc.
CEO Coral Publications
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phone: +31 617692027
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Netherlands

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