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How we know we're not wrong about climate change
A professor of History and Science Studies explains |
Andrew Dessler |
27 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| For those interested in why the scientific community is so certain about climate change, take a look at this presentation and this book chapter, both by Naomi Oreskes. She does a great job explaining how science reaches conclusions, and why we can be pretty sure that humans are indeed warming the climate. |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, education, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Not everyone's a Feynmann
Public presentations on global warming -- not as easy as you might think |
JMG |
01 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| So I had an opportunity to go see a free, open-to-the-public talk by Dr. Michael Mann, one of the lead authors for the IPCC, the person most associated with the 'hockey stick' graph of temperature, and a faculty member at Penn State University. His topic: 'Global Climate Change: Past and Present.' A review:All in all, a disappointment. It was almost like an advertisement for Edward Tufte's pamphlet about how PowerPoint fails us. Mann, one of the brains behind Realclimat ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, education, scientific research (all these topics) |
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