Robert Todd Carroll
New Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice 2008/5/23 New Methane rise points to wetlands 2008/5/23 Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean 2008/2/24 Increasing Acid Could Kill Most Coral by 2050 by Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Researcher: What's bad for coral reefs also bad for lobster Rising seas 'to beat predictions' BBC Arctic ice melt spurs a dire new warning, AP, by Seth Borenstein |
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climate skepticsClimate skeptics are contrarians who challenge the evidence that human activities such as deforestation and human behaviors that result in more greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are causing changes in our planet's climate that may prove devastating and irreversible. The core of the consensus view of the scientific community In one important respect, it doesn't matter what the scientific consensus on climate change is, since what matters is what policies the powerful governments of the world institute, and those governments tend to ignore science. If they don't ignore the science, they find contrarians to argue that the consensus isn't absolutely certain* and therefore we're justified in continuing along our current course. Powerful governments tend to listen to scientists when the consensus science is compatible with their policies or when it is required because of catastrophes that have already occurred or are about to occur. BBC News has posted 10 of the arguments most often made against the IPCC consensus, as well as some of the counter-arguments made by scientists who agree with the IPCC: Climate Skepticism: the Top 10. further reading
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