you go, dot earth!
December 21, 2007
Anyone seen the backlash news from global warming skeptics, that the IPCC consensus on climate change supposedly recently got busted? For not just a response, but an incredibly cool take on the larger ebbs and flows of scientific thought over time, see Dot Earth’s take (NYTimes). Quotable:
“In science, what is more important than any individual study or collection of papers (particularly if assembled by someone with an agenda), is the trajectory of understanding. This is particularly true with a problem like the human-amplified greenhouse effect. Not only is it multidisciplinary; it is also not testable through experiments (we’re all in the test tube undergoing a one-time experiment).”
(When we all tend to hover at 5,000 feet and lower, a view from 20,000 feet at times definitely helps.)
