The Science of Truthiness

[image error]I just put up a transcript of a talk I gave at the Tucson Festival of Books, which aired on C-SPAN. It's about why conservatives deny global warming, and attempts to give a "scientific" explanation–basically, to provide a scientific account of why Colbert's "truthiness" exists.

It starts out like this:

So the question before us on this panel is, "Will the Planet Survive the Age of Humans?" And I want to focus on one particularly aspect of humans that makes them very problematic in a planetary...