GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
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Posted on 05/28/2011 6:51:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Cold shoulder for climate change
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN | 5/24/11 4:28 AM EDT
Climate scientists are in a tough spot.
They have never been more certain about what they know. Powerful new satellites can hone in on mountainous regions to measure ice melt. Stronger computers model changes in disruptive weather patterns. Scientists are even more comfortable attributing climate change to visible effects around the globe, from retreating Himalayan glaciers to southwestern U.S. droughts and acidifying oceans.
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For instance, National Research Council members got a collective shrug earlier this month when they went to Capitol Hill to share their work — a congressionally mandated, 18-month review of the nuts and bolts of global warming science and ideas for what U.S. policymakers could do about it.
Only a small group of House and Senate aides showed up for private briefings on the study. And while a couple of staffers asked parochial questions about how climate change affects their districts and states, the authors also got the second degree on whether there is even a problem.
“They said, ‘There are those who believe it’s a bit of hogwash. And not only hogwash, but a fraud,’” said Albert Carnesale, chancellor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and chairman of the NRC panel.
“Scientists aren’t a lobbying force,” said Andrew Revkin, author of The New York Times’s Dot Earth blog. “They’re trying to make science matter in an arena where the only way it matters is to use it to support an existing agenda.”
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Consider the source:
The NRC report — which pulled together experts from engineering, science, business, nonprofits, government and politics — had as its key conclusion, “Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
Ping
Note to self:
Tent time in Kandahar
Night folks.
As soon as they started talking about a "consensus" among "scientists" (the list of "scientists" including numerous politicians and activists), they started trying to be "a lobbying force."
If "a consensus" mattered in science, we'd still be talking about the "luminiferous ether" instead of the theory of general relativity, because Einstein's brilliant insights into the interaction between mass and space would have been dismissed as poppycock.
Politicizing it is fraud.
Those involved in either are not legitimate scientists...
The two choices are not mutually exclusive.
GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
Global Warming on Free Republic
“We need to equip ourselves with the ability and capacity to deal with the heightened scrutiny … which we have been subjected to recently,” IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri said earlier this month during a conference in Abu Dhabi.He means, they need to figure out how to lie better. They've been trying: Global Warming Debate Lost Under an Avalanche of Corruption
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