An open letter to Google about their fundraiser for Senator James Inhofe
Some colleagues and I, all of whom were Google Science Communication Fellows in 2011, wrote and posted at Climate Science Watch an open letter to Eric Schmidt and Larry Page of Google about their fundraiser for Senator James Inhofe. You can read the letter here.
Four of us also wrote a more extensive essay, which Andy Revkin posted at his Dot Earth blog. We’re hopeful that our efforts will stimulate discussion of how corporate america should deal with those (like Senator Inhofe) who deny the reality of climate change.
Comments welcomed!
Here’s the link to the open letter:
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/08/01/open-letter-from-google-science-communication-fellows/
Here’s the link to the longer essay:
Addendum, August 1, 2013 8:15pm: There’s an article describing the open letter on Climate Progress that has more than 3100 Facebook “likes”, which is more than any other article with which I’ve ever been associated.
The headline is slightly misleading, as we’re not “Google’s own scientists”, but it’s still worth a read.
My Technology Review article called “The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything” received 1100 Facebook likes and the editors thought it was a blockbuster. Getting a tweet from Vinod Khosla (and lots of others) helped in that instance. Given that it’s got more than three times as many “likes”, I think it’s fair to say that the open letter to Google has gone viral.
