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Apologies for being away yesterday (I’m assuming you’ve all noticed by now that I’m taking Fridays off). Started reading Jeff Goodell’s Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future<\/a> yesterday and became engrossed in it… I’ll have a review up in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n

Spent some time this morning reviewing DeSmogBlog’s coverage<\/a> of this weekend’s Environmental Wars conference<\/a> in Pasadena, CA. According to the conference website, the event was designed to highlight the debates still occurring over global warming and other environmental issues:<\/p>\n

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Why are we still debating climate change? How soon will we hit peak oil supply? When politics mix with science, what is being brewed? Join speakers from the left & the right, from the lab & the field, from industry & advocacy, as we air the ongoing debate about whether human activity is actually changing the climate of the planet. <\/p>\n

From June 2-4, 2006, the Environmental Wars conference will host scientists, writers, environmentalists, and thinkers from all points along the environmental spectrum at the California Institute of Technology for questions, answers, and opinions. <\/p>\n

The conference is hosted by the Skeptics Society<\/a>, a scientific and educational organization that applies rational inquiry and journalistic research to claims made by scientists, historians, writers and politicians on a wide range of subjects. The society publishes Skeptic<\/em> magazine, and hosts regular lecture series with past speakers including Richard Dawkins, Susan Blackmore, Ursula Goodenough, Jared Diamond, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Jennifer Michael Hecht.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

DeSmogBlog’s coverage has been detailed and fascinating, withmultiplee perspectives on speakers ranging from climate scientists to headliners Michael Crichton and John Stossel. There’s a short audio interview with Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science. Despite the known rightward leanings of the headline speakers, it looks like a pretty wide-ranging event, with plenty of scientists particularly making the argument for human-induced climate change, as well as lots of discussion of the often perilous relationship between science and ideology.<\/p>\n

Categories: conference<\/a>, event<\/a>, globalwarming<\/a>, climatechange<\/a>, chrismooney<\/a>, michaelcrichton<\/a>, johnstossel<\/a>, environment<\/a>, debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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