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Jamie K is currently offline  Jamie K   UNITED STATES
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DC wrote:
> This is getting interesting innit?

It would be nice if we could finger an easy non-human-caused explanation
for current global warming. I can understand the desire to be off the
hook. However the linked articles don't get us there. Misinterpretation
of the science and hyperbole about the scientists don't add much to a
real discussion about climate change.

According to this site, the newspaper has already printed an apology.

From http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/792 0

******quote*****

"Apology to Dr. Nigel Weiss

Nigel Weiss, professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge,
believes that the warming trend in Earth's climate is caused by
greenhouse gases produced by human activity, and that the effect of a
potential future reduction in solar activity would not reverse or cancel
out that trend, but might have a small effect in mitigating it. He has
held these views for several years. Incorrect information appeared in a
column in the Financial Post on Feb. 2. The National Post withdraws any
allegation that Dr. Weiss is a global warming "denier" and regrets the
embarrassment caused him by the Feb. 2 column and a further column on
Feb. 9."

As for Lawrence Solomon himself, the man who presents us with ten -- no
nine -- people he, and few others, describe as "Deniers" -- and all of
whom, he now admits, recognize global warming as being anthropogenic in
nature, thus blowing up his entire series, is what, exactly? The man
whose polemical articles begin with such minute attention to the
"credentials" and scientific training, as he sees it, of his Ten -- no
make that Nine, no make that in the end none -- of his Deniers, is
described as follows:

"Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Urban Renaissance Institute
and Consumer Policy Institute, divisions of Energy Probe Research
Foundation."

Look into the "Urban Renaissance Institute" and the "Consumer Policy
Institute" which are "divisions" of the "Energy Probe Research
Foundation," and see what you turn up. Go ahead -- it will be a useful
exercise.

This kind of nonsense, already out-of-date, already exposed to ridicule
should not be put up, any more should some paper from 2004 or 1997,
without the poster quite realizing that the paper in question has
already been discredited, and frequently the author has already
distanced himself from his own findings.

******end quote*****

Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com


DC wrote:
> http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html? id=c47c1209-233b-412c-b6d1-5c755457a8af
>
> This is getting interesting innit?
>
> DC
>

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