Re: Climate change and objectivity
apenwarr: The lack of informed discussion on Global Warming is frustrating. Even granting the fact that temperature has been increasing over the last few decades, I haven't yet heard a convincing explanation on why this is necessarily due to carbon emissions as opposed to any number of other things. It seems like a probable explanation (CO2 is a
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Well, the position of the global warming "skeptics" is that global warming can be due to any number of things, _except_ Bush and friends.
Global warming "may" be due mainly to CH4 (even though there's so much more CO2 out there as to totally overwhelm the increased global warming power of CH4), it "may" be due mainly to increase solar activity (even though global warming has increased even during periods of unincreasing solar activity), and it "may" be mainly due to China and India. Heck, it "may" be due mainly to Al Gore's energy usage (as shown by energy use figures pulled out from the AEI's butt).
But somehow we "know" -- a priori -- that global warming definitely _can't_ be due to Bush, or ExxonMobil, or their ilk. Even if (or because) they've been pumping out the aforementioned denialist bullcrap.
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