{"id":10471,"date":"2010-03-01T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mike-mann-on-point-of-inquiry-climate-denial-astroturfing-online-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:37:24","slug":"mike-mann-on-point-of-inquiry-climate-denial-astroturfing-online-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mike-mann-on-point-of-inquiry-climate-denial-astroturfing-online-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mann on Point of Inquiry: Climate Denial Astroturfing Online? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are now <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforinquiry.net\/forums\/viewforum\/35\/\">some 51 comments<\/a> at the Point of Inquiry forums on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">latest show<\/a>. But so far none are getting into what I found most intriguing in my interview with Mike Mann.<\/p><p>When I asked his views on the &ldquo;really energized global warming movement on the web&rdquo; at around minute 31:30, Mann suggested something that has been on a lot of our minds&mdash;namely, that although it may appear that online climate deniers are really fired up right now on the web (hence all the comments on everybody&rsquo;s blog), he suspects some of it is astroturfing:<\/p><blockquote><p>The anti-science industry has fully exploited the resources made available by the World Wide Web. So it isn&rsquo;t coincidental. It isn&rsquo;t like that&rsquo;s an organic thing that has emerged from grassroots anti-climate change activists&hellip;.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>In the exchange, which runs about 2 minutes, I tell Mann I too have my suspicions, but at the same time, am skeptical and would want to see some solid proof before I fully buy into this idea. After all, there really is a groundswell on the political right at the moment (see the Tea Party movement) and that is surely also spilling over into the climate denial blogosphere. And that would be, I guess, &ldquo;organic.&rdquo; So the question is, how could we tell the two apart?<\/p><p>Meanwhile, if you haven&rsquo;t yet I encourage you to listen to the Mike Mann interview <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">here<\/a>, and to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/michael_mann_unprecedented_attacks_on_climate_research\/\">subscribe to the Point of Inquiry podcast<\/a> via iTunes.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rAmhhgALo7s4u1bQEV04Gt_rXgU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a81b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rAmhhgALo7s4u1bQEV04Gt_rXgU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a81b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a81b_i6j0ALVg1mc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now some 51 comments at the Point of Inquiry forums on the latest show. But so far none are getting into what I found most intriguing in my interview with Mike Mann.When I asked his views on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mike-mann-on-point-of-inquiry-climate-denial-astroturfing-online-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}