GOP ignores danger of global warming
AlterNet
by staff
06/28/06
'There is a debate over whether [climate change is] manmade or naturally caused,' Bush said yesterday. Yet among scientists, the debate has long been over. Rather than argue the science, the right has resorted to manufacturing scientific doubt where there is none. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a column from a prominent climate skeptic that argued, 'There Is No 'Consensus' On Global Warming.' Commentators on CNBC picked up on the theme later in the day, saying, 'There is not scientific consensus.' (One network anchor said there is no way 'puny, gnawing little humans' could change the climate in '70 years.') The right wants the public to ignore scientific research that find 'human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming,' and instead believe that we should wait for more research before we take action...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/38199/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
06/28/06
'There is a debate over whether [climate change is] manmade or naturally caused,' Bush said yesterday. Yet among scientists, the debate has long been over. Rather than argue the science, the right has resorted to manufacturing scientific doubt where there is none. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a column from a prominent climate skeptic that argued, 'There Is No 'Consensus' On Global Warming.' Commentators on CNBC picked up on the theme later in the day, saying, 'There is not scientific consensus.' (One network anchor said there is no way 'puny, gnawing little humans' could change the climate in '70 years.') The right wants the public to ignore scientific research that find 'human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming,' and instead believe that we should wait for more research before we take action...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/38199/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 28. Jun, 16:25
