See:
"The Cost of Climate Inaction"
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RouletteTresultsofi.pdf
In the comment section there are many vociferous comments by ignorant
people who do not believe in global warming. There are many
accusations of fraud by large groups of scientists. This shows how
unscientific the general public is, and how prone people are to
believe in conspiracy theories. The same kinds of people oppose cold
fusion, and have posted many ignorant comments at the CBS 60 Minutes site.
I am aware that some readers here also feel that the global warming
hypothesis is wrong. However, let me say to those readers: you people
are wrong, and I do not particularly want to hear from you today,
thanks all the same.
I think the attacks by mainstream scientists on cold fusion have hurt
the image of science in the general public, and encouraged these
kinds of irrational attacks against well-founded conclusions based on
data, which cannot be proved with absolute certainty. The proposition
that cold fusion may solve the energy crisis also falls in this
category: it is likely to be true but it cannot yet be proved with
100% certainty.
Many scientists have criticized McKubre for speculating on 60 Minutes
about how cold fusion may solve the energy crisis. I think these
people are out of line, and I think McKubre was fully justified. A
scientist has a social responsibility to make reasonable
extrapolations from his own data. If his data indicates that he may
have a solution to the energy crisis, his job is to report that fact
to the public. Fleischmann and Pons did this in 1989. They were
completely justified and it turned out they were right.
- Jed
