The Prime Minister's chief science adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, plans to tackle the controversial issue of climate change denial at a seminar on scientific integrity this week.Sir Peter will speak about scientific integrity and its implications
The Prime Minister's chief science adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, plans to tackle the controversial issue of climate change denial at a seminar on scientific integrity this week.
Sir Peter will speak about scientific integrity and its implications for the debate over climate change when he participates in a lecture series at Victoria University on key policy challenges facing the nation.
"While there is a very high level of consensus amongst climate scientists as to the nature of climate change and its anthropogenic underpinnings, there is a high level of denial and scepticism in the broader community," according to notes for the Wellington seminar .
While scepticism was part of a robust self-correcting scientific process, denialism was different, and comparable situations had included arguments over tobacco and cancer, evolution and creation, and the HIV-denial movement.
Sir Peter is expected to canvass the different motives underlying different positions and the challenge they present to the science system.
