FYI. wil
Dr. Wil Burns
Class of 1946 Visiting Professor
Center for Environmental Studies
Williams College
11 Harper House, Room 12
54 Stetson Ct.
Williamstown, MA 01752
william.c.bu...@williams.edu
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Dear All -
While discussing climate change with 'skeptics', I've been presented with
the following article:
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.BlogsConten
Steve,
A good place for an overview on this stuff is http://www.realclimate.org/
The arguments in the web link you provide have
been around, in varied forms, for some time, even
though they're regularly contextualized and
refuted. There's a nice literature on the
political strategy and
Two perhaps useful thoughts:
1) something from a piece I wrote for a conference recently:
We also do not want scientific truth decided by votes, whether those of
the public or of scientists. We do not trust something as the truth about
how the world works because it meets the democratic
Sorry, didn't end that penultimate sentence in my previous post. If one
smoothes out the temperature datapoints over a decade, one sees that
temperatures have continued to rise during the last decade; factors such as
ENSO events, create shorter-term anomalies, that facilitate cherry-picking
of
