Chill man - Josh 114

From the post at Climate Etc - more name calling of skeptics, but this one is ok.

Comments

[GrantB]

We examine whether conservative white males are more likely than are other adults in the U.S. general public to endorse climate change denial. We draw theoretical and analytical guidance from the identity-protective cognition thesis explaining the white male effect and from recent political psychology scholarship documenting the heightened system-justification tendencies of political conservatives

The authors are of course noms de plume of Professor Sokal and one of his posts grads.

Surely?

[j ferguson]

Why is it always "them" these guys study? Never "us."

[bernie]

It is interesting that one of the early researchers in this area, the late Aaron Wildavsky - But Is It True? actually did focus on "environmental scares" such as Alar. His view of those who are highly sensitized to risks was not quite as flattering. His work is the basis of Kahan et al. which is also referenced by Judy and Vaughan Pratt.

[anonym]

@GrantB

Scant chance of that. Sokal is the very model of the Simon Singh/Center for Inquiry/ScienceBlogs-school 'official skeptic', with an extra dash of hard leftism. He doesn't have much time for either Republicans or climate denial. Check out the preface of his book Beyond the Hoax from 2008 (it's included in the Amazon preview):

It thus transpires that even sociologist of science Bruno Latour, who spent several decades stressing “the social construction of scientific facts”17, now laments the ammunition he fears he and his colleagues have given to the Republican right, helping them to deny or obscure the scientific consensus on global warming, biological evolution and a host of other issues:

[Pascvaks]

OK Josh! What's he looking at? Bet she's HOT! Time to ICE UP Those Surf Boards Boys!

(MORE! MORE! MORE!...;-)

[Shub]

the 'cool dude' letters look as though they were written with a piece of charcoal.

[simpleseekeraftertruth]

So let me get this right.Doing some basic arithmetic on the data presented we get;

37% of all adults believe that the effects of global warming will never happen

90% of all adults deny that recent temperature increases are primarily caused by human activities

53.5% of all other adults do not worry at all about global warming

Sounds reasonable.

[simpleseekeraftertruth]

and I didn't!

53.5% of all adults do not worry at all about global warming

[Bruce]

Are there any non-white males or females of any kind int he Hockey Team?

[Viv Evans]

Well, this cartoon has a hidden meaning ... it ain't just about the 'cool dudes' (and I'm cross anyway because there's a huge number of 'cool dudettes'!) - it also hints deliciously at the transcripts of the interview with that 'drowned polar bear specialist', Monnett which was making the rounds on that and the day before.

Josh gets it, and unlike the AGW graphs, his cartoons say more than a thousand or even ten thousand words can!

[Suzannah from Canada]

Viv,
A cool dudette would need to sport a radio collar - only the polar bear girls can wear collars 'cause the necks of the boys are larger than their heads, so a collar falls right off - and that might spoil the cool sunglasses effect.

But I agree, I am ticked off as well by the notion that only men can be rational about science.

[Latimer Alder]

I much prefer to be thought of as a Cool Dude rather than as a Hot Head.

Chill !!

[Piotr]

Josh, except for the color (colour?) of the T-shirt you've got Doc of http://www.the-whiteboard.com down to a "T" :)

Piotr

[Josh]

latimer, can I pinch that. I think that could be a good Tshirt line.

[Josh]

And, Viv, of course dudes includes dudettes, where would we be without you!

Tho the study in question did seem to be a tad chauvinistic. Tsk tsk.

[Jack Hughes]

The bizarro study found that many climate skeptics were white males aged over 40.

Unlike Al Gore, Richard Black, George Monbiot, Michael Mann, Stephen Schneider, Paul Ehrlich, Prof Jones, etc etc

[Latimer Alder]

@Josh

'latimer, can I pinch that. I think that could be a good Tshirt line.'

Pinch as much as you like..... It would be an honour just to know that I might have inspired a piece of your great work.

[Alexander K]

Josh, another slogan comes to mind when I think of your work -
'Move over, Daumier!'
The history of cartoonists going straight to the nub is being vigorously carried forward in your work.

[John Whitman]

Josh,

Your Cool Dude cartoon immediately brought the movies of The Pink Panther to mind.

Your polar bear would be cast as the Pink Panther character, I think the bumbling Inspector Clouseau would be best portrayed by Gavin Schmidt of RC with Al Gore as a backup stand in.

So much fun, but so little time . . . .

John

[ProgContra]

As a non-white sceptic, I find I've obviously allowed myself to be influenced by too many white guys... The conjunction of environmentalism and race is certainly worth picking apart though. I've made a stab at it here:

http://progcontra.blogspot.com/2011/08/climate-change-in-black-and-white.html

[klem]

So now we have a peer reviewed sexist racist paper to try to explain climate scepticism. Amazing. This one will be forgotten quickly I guarantee it.

Look folks, face facts, climate alarmism is dead, climate alarmism is so 2009.

cheers

[MarcH]

Why no entry from JOSH in this contest!...

http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/science_idol/2011-science-idol-contestants.html

Love to see his take on number 8-check out the graph in the corner.