| No consensus OpposingArgument1 #5031 The evidence and means of gathering the evidence are sufficiently complex and uncertain that assertions of consensus about the causes, effects, or future rate of global warming require caution—even where, ostensibly, many people agree. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] Don't Believe the Hype
Author: Richard S. Lindzen
Publication info: 2006 July 02
Cited by: Price, David 11:46 PM 21 March 2008 GMT
Citerank: (1) 25368No consensusThe evidence and means of gathering the evidence are sufficiently complex and uncertain that assertions of consensus about the causes, effects, or future rate of global warming require caution—even where, ostensibly, many people agree.13EF597B
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Excerpt / Summary"According to Al Gore's new film "An Inconvenient Truth," we're in for "a planetary emergency": melting ice sheets, huge increases in sea levels, more and stronger hurricanes, and invasions of tropical disease, among other cataclysms--unless we change the way we live now.
Bill Clinton has become the latest evangelist for Mr. Gore's gospel, proclaiming that current weather events show that he and Mr. Gore were right about global warming, and we are all suffering the consequences of President Bush's obtuseness on the matter. And why not? Mr. Gore assures us that "the debate in the scientific community is over."
That statement, which Mr. Gore made in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC, ought to have been followed by an asterisk. What exactly is this debate that Mr. Gore is referring to? Is there really a scientific community that is debating all these issues and then somehow agreeing in unison? Far from such a thing being over, it has never been clear to me what this "debate" actually is in the first place."
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