I am not going to take exception to what Ken or Tip Rouse says with respect to climate science. My two cents plain (when I was growing up that was CO2 in water, called seltzer) is that they are over generalizing. I believe that science is practiced as it has been in the last 350 years since the Royal Society of London was organized. However, climate science has emerged into the public arena and the public is the consumer. It is now climopolitical science, corrupted by lawyers, politicians and VCs etc. who see fortunes to be made by manipulating and distorting the science. In that arena it is surely what the public believes that counts. The Republicans were in; now the Democrats; the proclaimers, now the deniers. Give it 4 or 8 more years and it will change again. And what better medium than the WSJ?
-gene -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tip Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 7:20 PM To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: WSJ - Op-Ed on Global Warming Skepticism On Jun 28, 1:35 am, Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> wrote: > That something like this would be published in The Wall Street Journal > indicates the deterioration of a world that believes that it is what > you believe that counts, not empirical confrontation with experience. > Empiricism may have risen its little head for a few centuries, but is > now drowning in a sea of medievalism. > Reality has become just another special interest group. So after years of science by consensus and UN authority the rules change? The 'deniers' can produce as much 'science' as the 'warmers'. Isn't it about time that science returned to a basis of comparison and exchange of research and thought? It seems that as the rice bowel appears to be coming into jeopardy the AGW rhetoric becomes even more sustained and frantic. How can AGW science be considered legitimate when the believers are unwilling to put their beliefs to the harsh tests of research comparison and debate? Respectfully, Tip Rouse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
