More global warming debate, this time from James Glassman: Global Warming Extremists on the Run
They've failed -- largely because opponents like MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen, who has called warming theory a "religious belief" rather than sound science, haven't been intimidated. Now, a consensus is building to tackle global warming the right away.
What is even more mind numbing, from a scientific point of view, is that the following sentence needs to be written at all:
Meanwhile, there's important research to be done. We still don't know whether the rise in temperatures is natural and cyclical (it was warmer many centuries ago when the Vikings colonized Greenland) or human-induced.
That's right, we don't know why it has warmed up. Oh there are plenty of theories around. However, these are not theories in the "well established principles" vein, but theories in the "untested hypothesis" vein. Yet, for some reason, we are supposed to wreck our economy for a hypothesis.
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