The Strange Science
of Global Warming |
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The Politics of Global Warming
by Thomas Sieger Derr
"With the virtual apotheosis of Al Gore, talk of global warming has become pervasive—and pervasively one-sided. Churches of all varieties have signed on as a moral cause. Corporations, including former doubters,
have adopted anti-warming language, either from new conviction or convenient public image. Politicians, with few exceptions, dare not openly deny that there is a problem, though their responses may vary."
"Through it all, one would never know there are dissenters of distinguished credentials in the scientific community. Even where their existence is admitted, they are thoroughly marginalized, accused of being in the pay of the oil companies
(Gore slyly and meanly implies this in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth), or dismissed as over-the-hill retirees out of touch and perhaps a bit senile. Their articles are denied publication in Science and Nature, those two so-called flagship
science journals of high reputation despite some embarrassing lapses."
From the August/September 2007 issue of First Things:
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6000 |
Climate of Uncertainty
by Steven F. Hayward
"Notwithstanding the relentless drumbeat of studies offered as proof of onrushing catastrophe, policymakers are rightly wary of handing over the keys of the economy to the very same people who brought us the population
bomb that turned out to be a wet firecracker, predicted imminent resource scarcity, which also fizzled, and even, in the 1970s, hyperventilated that our greatest climate risk was a new ice age."
From the February 27, 2006 issue of The Weekly Standard:
http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/779fgpcf.asp |
Strange Science
by Thomas Sieger Derr
From the November 2004 issue of First Things:
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=395 |
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