A conference of climate-change skeptics gathered in New York City this week to congratulate each other for daring to challenge the accepted science of global warming. A range of high-profile deniers painted themselves as put-upon independent thinkers branded as heretics by the church of climate-change dogma. Films were shown. Speeches were made. Al Gore jokes abounded. But actual climate science was largely avoided. Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University geosciences professor, said that with the media and most policymakers now largely ignoring the climate skeptics, "they have to get together to talk to each other, because nobody else is talking to them."
source: The Washington Post, The New York Times
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Angry African Posted 5:36 am
04 Mar 2008
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enki09 Posted 1:27 pm
04 Mar 2008
It seems that we have an argument which is un-winnable as it is framed. Both sides are making predictions of different futures based on the same set of data. But the future will be what it will be regardless of which side wins the argument. That is the reality.
Our energy future can be determined based on what works best and what meets the needs of the consumer best at the lowest cost. The need to replace fossil fuels for reasons of the economy, security and the environment are and have been well known since before the climate change issue became a factor.
While it is true that the potential for dire consequences related to human induced climate change are a great incentive to move rapidly on the energy issue that is all that it really is; an incentive to do what we have to do either way. This argument is just a replay of the creation vs evolution debate in different clothes.
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TitanGreens Posted 5:22 am
05 Mar 2008
But don't ignore the planet just because you have a big oil company in your back pocket.
http://video.titantv.com/content/000B00PS/video.aspx
Enjoy!
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