Didn't the Bush Administration forbit the EPA from using the term "climate change"?
>On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:28 -0500, c b wrote: >> CB: On climate change, actually, the new technology of the internet >> can give you things that in the past would require going to a >> university library and perhaps climatology classes. With your >> critical thinking skills applied you can get for yourself a >> preliminary solid answer to your question as to whether climate change >> is occurring. There is a history on this of a number of skeptics >> raising questions, which I'm sure are readily avaiblable from a search >> engine search. > >If you're looking for an interesting case: > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_McIntyre >http://www.climateaudit.org/ > >By looking at government processed temperature data this guy found >some anomaly, asked for source code and raw data but was denied his >request. In the end the government scientist acknowleged there was a bug >and thanked him. > >*But* raw unprocessed data on temperature collected using taxpayer >funding, processing software and many other aspects of climate science >still remains totally secret even after this affair. > >Now of course there is one category of people who tend to want to keep >data secret: politicians. When I see so called "scientists" hide >raw data from the public eye I see politicians not scientists. > >Now it's very likely to me that pumping carbon in the atmosphere at >the scale and speed mankind has been doing will have major >consequences. > >But in the internet age not making raw data public is a major >shortcoming transforming in practice science/knowledge into >religion/belief and making any informed and constructive debate >impossible. > >See also my previous post on public data. > >Laurent > >PS: does Super Freakonomics mention this? > > > >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
