Preconceptions and the Cost of Losing the Information War

By: American Decency Staff

I wasn’t expecting to see such a sarcastic headline and opening paragraph from the Heritage Foundation:

When Barack Obama won his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, he proclaimed that “generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that… this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

The 840-page report from the National Climate Assessment has been answered with a vigorous response from those who dispute its findings. There are many examples to be found in the new media, such as this one from William Sullivan, who writes that:

… nothing I can find in the material provided for mass consumption offers convincing links between the report’s observations (or its outlandish predictions) and the potentially underlying causes. It seems nothing more than mere presumption that the cause of the observations and predictions is carbon and fossil fuel proliferation. You’re simply to assume that it’s true because they say so. Think no more.

Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/05/12/preconceptions-costs-losing-information-war/#ebBrUC66r4aQPrlL.99

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