There's been a lot of talk about what is behind the thinking of the "skeptics" crowd, kicked off largely by Gavin Schmidt's experience in more or less losing a debate:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/adventures-on-the-east-side/ and by Chait's article "Why the right goes nuclear over global warming" in the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-chait25mar25,0,3748551.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions I sent a comment about this to RealClimate, spending considerable effort on formatting it for legibility. It looked fine in the previews, but (unlike my previous efforts using HTML tags) got hopelessly mangled in the commentary section. So I reposted my comment in blogger, along the way starting a climate/ global change specific blog. I argue that there isn't that much substance to the "arrogance meme", but it is a trap we easily and regularly fall into. Here's the blog entry: http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-truth-is-losing-ground.html Comments and inbound links would be much appreciated. mt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. 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/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
