Ten misleading claims by climate change deniers
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023, 1:00 pm
- Location: Kerr Grant lecture theatre, Physics building room 103
- Cost: FREE
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- Contact: Professor Anthony Thomas AC
- Email: anthony.thomas@adelaide.edu.au
Professor J. Timothy Londergan taught physics at the University of Indiana (Bloomington, USA). With a colleague he established the blog Debunking Denial, which aims to challenge false "facts". In this public lecture, Professor Londergan will apply his insight into the debate on climate change.
鈥淲hile anybody is free to approach a scientific inquiry in any fashion they choose, they cannot properly describe the methodology as scientific, if they start with the conclusion and refuse to change it regardless of the evidence developed during the course of the investigation.鈥 鈥 Judge William Overton, from his ruling against the teaching of 鈥渃reation science鈥 as science in Arkansas public schools (McLean vs. Arkansas Board of Education, 1982)
鈥淎 skeptic will question claims, then embrace the evidence. A denier will question claims, then reject the evidence.鈥 鈥 Neil deGrasse Tyson (2016)