The Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University recently hosted a panel discussion on the ethics of climate change research. Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University climate scientist, Naomi Oreskes, a UCSD historian of science with particular interests in anthropogenic climate change and the development of scientific consensus, and ethics center postdoc Joseph Mazor spent a lively 90 minutes discussing the relationship between climate change research and ideology, how to minimize the distortion of climate change research, and how to discuss climate change research in the public sphere.
Download the video (scroll to the bottom of the page when it comes up), crank up the sound on your computer, and listen to a stimulating conversation while you do that long-postponed filing or office-cleaning.