{"id":47169,"date":"2019-07-10T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T23:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47169"},"modified":"2019-07-10T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T23:13:04","slug":"david-attenborough-calls-on-voters-in-us-and-australia-to-respond-to-climate-science-denial-among-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47169","title":{"rendered":"David Attenborough Calls on Voters in US and Australia to Respond to Climate Science Denial Among Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Attenborough Calls on Voters in US and Australia to Respond to Climate Science Denial Among Leaders<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Veteran broadcaster David Attenborough has expressed his disappointment at the rise of climate science denial in the US and Australia and called on voters to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referencing the rise of climate science denial in some countries while giving evidence to a committee<\/a> of MPs in the UK, Attenborough said he was \u201csorry that there are people in power and internationally, notably the United States, but also in Australia\u201d where \u201cthose voices are clearly heard\u201d. He said he hoped the \u201celectorate will actually respond\u201d to public figures that promote climate science denial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attenborough also said it would be \u201ca very sad day\u201d if President Donald Trump succeeded in withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement, praising the UN process as an example of international cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused climate science deniers of cherry-picking their data, arguing it \u201cisn\u2019t proof\u201d to find a particular example of where glaciers had grown, rather than shrunk. \u201cIt\u2019s just an example,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proof is in the graphs, the proof is in the scientific records, the proof is in when you analyse bubbles from the sea ice and glacier ice to show you what has happened to the climate over the years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Attenborough also said those that disagree with mainstream climate science should not be totally silenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is very, very, important that the voices of dissent should have a place where they\u2019re heard and a place where the arguments between the two sides can be worked out in public and deterred and analysed in public. That\u2019s very important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that the voice of criticism and the voice of disbelief should not be stamped on\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Attenborough Calls on Voters in US and Australia to Respond to Climate Science Denial Among Leaders Veteran broadcaster David Attenborough has expressed his disappointment at the rise of climate science denial in the US and Australia and called on voters to respond. Referencing the rise of climate science denial in some countries while giving evidence to a committee of MPs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[2956,10967,23469,26240],"class_list":["post-47169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-science","tag-climate-science-denial","tag-david-attenborough","tag-richard-collett-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47170,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47169\/revisions\/47170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}