Global Warming-- Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

[depakid]

The outright dishonesty that's become the "norm" in the corporate media over the past 20 years never ceases to amaze me:

"An Op-Ed article in the Wall Street Journal a month ago claimed that a published study affirming the existence of a scientific consensus on the reality of global warming had been refuted. This charge was repeated again last week, in a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

I am the author of that study, which appeared two years ago in the journal Science, and I'm here to tell you that the consensus stands. The argument put forward in the Wall Street Journal was based on an Internet posting; it has not appeared in a peer-reviewed journal — the normal way to challenge an academic finding. (The Wall Street Journal didn't even get my name right!)

My study demonstrated that there is no significant disagreement within the scientific community that the Earth is warming and that human activities are the principal cause.

Papers that continue to rehash arguments that have already been addressed and questions that have already been answered will, of course, be rejected by scientific journals, and this explains my findings. Not a single paper in a large sample of peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 refuted the consensus position, summarized by the National Academy of Sciences, that "most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations."

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More: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0724-28.htm

Naomi Oreskes is a history of science professor at UC San Diego.
Published on Monday, July 24, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times.

[Dead_Parrot]

1. ...sigh...

Same shit, different day.

[Kailassa]

2. Just grab hold of your chairs and keep saying after me:

"the Titanic's not sinking, the Titanic's not sinking..."

[Javaman]

4. Perhaps rearranging the chairs will help...

Those that plant their fingers firmly in their ears and scream lalalalala, will be the ones screaming for us to help them when they have no food. At which point, I will politely put my fingers in my ears and scream lalalalalala.

:)

[bananas]

3. There are a lot of good posts in the GD thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1726755&mesg_id=1726755