{"content":[{"text":"“Consensus as strong as the one that has developed around this topic (global warming) is rare in science” \n (Kennedy 2001 as quoted in Romm 2010, p. 215). In addition, an examination of 1,000 peer-reviewed, scientific \n studies showed that the impression of confusion and disagreement among climate scientists is wrong (Boykoff and \n Boykoff 2004). Unfortunately, this impression still exists in 2010. Attempts are still being made to use law to intimidate \n scientists and stifle debate (Dickson 2010). The illusion of confusion and disagreement among climate scientists and \n attempts to curtail science are serious problems. The worst situation is the treatment of all disputes in science as a \n form of entertainment, which is kept alive by the delusion that equal numbers of scientists exist on each side of the \n debate and that no preponderance of evidence exists on one side. Until this delusion is eliminated, efforts to nurture \n the biosphere and avoid the mass deaths that will result from runaway climate change are hopeless.","bbox":{"left":0.070585,"top":0.052612,"width":0.857149,"height":0.13354900000000003}},{"text":"Acknowledgments. I am indebted to Darla Donald for transcribing the handwritten draft and for editorial assistance \n in preparation for publication.","bbox":{"left":0.070588,"top":0.197838,"width":0.8584240000000001,"height":0.031856999999999996}},{"text":"LITERATURE CITED \n Boykoff, M and J. M. Boykoff. 2004. Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press. Global Environmental \n Change 14:125-136. \n Cairns, J., Jr. 2010. Threats to the biosphere: eight interactive global crises. Journal of Cosmology 8:1906-1915. \n Dickson, D. 2010. Scientists must not be muzzled. Science and Development Network 4Jun \n http://www.scidev.net/en/editorials/scientists-must-not-be-muzzled.html. \n R. Leakey and R. Lewin. 1995. The Sixth Extinction. Doubleday, New York. \n Romm, J. 2007. Hell and High Water. Harper Collins Publishers, New York.","bbox":{"left":0.070587,"top":0.241462,"width":0.855628,"height":0.11890999999999996}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.495003,"top":0.927445,"width":0.009975000000000012,"height":0.019048999999999983}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}