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More press coverage on the intesifying “global warming” versus “global cooling” debate
By Dr. Mark D. Nispel | March 2, 2008
Even the New York Times is taking note of the recent increase of debate activity between the global warming/anthropogenic and global cooling/solar crowds
Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell
In general the article is pretty good and balanced in terms of reporting the debate. At the end it even points out the danger that the anti-global warming crowd just turns into the opposite extreme of what they claim the global warming crowd is.
So is the solar/global cooling crowd little more than the typical anti-majority reactionary ‘Everyone is against me. But I’m smarter than everyone else. And now I’m a martyr position?’ Or is there more to it than that?
Whereas the global warming crowd makes some pretty bold statements as to what they know and understand on the basis of the climate models they work with, no one claims they know it all in regard to the connections between solar behavior and changes in climate. Or if they do the ignorance behind the claims is pretty obvious, amounting to nothing but another ‘correlation is proof of causation’ argument.
In the end, lots of people see that the decisive period of time is coming up in the next five years or even three years after which we will know much more about who knows what. That makes for a very interesting period and a very interesting topic in science.
So in sort of a preparation to the main events, I want to take a closer look at some of the solar related arguments in a few posts.
m.
Topics: Physics, climate, space |
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