An excellent article in NYT by John Tierney "In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm" deserves to be read by everyone. As does Bjorn Lomborg's Cool It. It covers the media ignorance on climate change and some of the key misinformations. Including the non-disappearing polar bears, the growing glaciers on Antarctica, the falling sea levels, etc. It is no wonder that the business world, both culpable for the actual climate change happening and the hope for stopping future change, finds doing nothing preferable!
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Basically what we is seeing is the polarization of science by vested interests. What Bjorn is teaching us is that we have to develop a healthy skeptism of scientific reports. The attack on Bjorn Lomborg is just one example, but others include the Lancet magazine over estimate of the numbers of people that died in Iraq, which was 10 times what any other group estimated (see The National Journal) For my interview with Bjorn Lomborg see http://oxfordprospect.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/lomborg-interview-2008-%e2%80%93-europe%e2%80%99s-leading-realist/
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