on anthropogenic climate change
October 8, 2007 – 3:43 pm
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Naomi Oreskes published an essay which summarized her 2004 lecture on a survey she performed of 928 papers relevant to global climate change. Of these papers, 75% either explicitly or implicitly supported the theory that global climate change is man made. The other 25% of the papers took no position on whether climate change was man made, but they did not deny it. This paper is one of the primary sources cited as proof of scientific consensus on man made climate change.
This essay leaves one to wonder why papers by people like Richard Lindzen are not part of the 928 Mrs. Oreskes studied. Mr. Lindzen is clearly opposed to the theory of anthropogenic climate change, although he does accept climate change in general. Mr. Lindzen says of his criticism of the anthropogenic warming’s lack of an alternative cause, “The notion that if you’re ignorant of something and somebody comes up with a wrong answer, and you have to accept that because you don’t have another wrong answer to offer is like faith healing, it’s like quackery in medicine – if somebody says you should take jelly beans for cancer and you say that’s stupid, and he says, well can you suggest something else and you say, no, does that mean you have to go with jelly beans?”.
One Response to “on anthropogenic climate change”
I have read (but do not know for certain) that when others tried to duplicate Ms Oreskes’ study, she informed them that her data was lost (the dog ate her homework). More recent similar polls have shown a 50-50 split among scientists. The “consensus” argument for anthropogenic global warming is as phony as the rest of the governmnet pseudo-science scheme to rule the earth by over-ruling everyone’s use of energy.
By John Howard on Oct 10, 2007