[antimedia] antimedia: The rhetoric on global warming....

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The rhetoric on global warming....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1171758779.shtml


   ....is being racheted up these days, so perhaps it's time to highlight
   a voice of reason. [1]Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't
   exist. The article ends like this.

     I was greatly influenced several years ago by Aaron Wildavsky's
     book "Yes, but is it true?" The author taught political science at
     a New York University and realized how science was being influenced
     by and apparently misused by politics. He gave his graduate
     students an assignment to pursue the science behind a policy
     generated by a highly publicised environmental concern. To his and
     their surprise they found there was little scientific evidence,
     consensus and justification for the policy. You only realize the
     extent to which Wildavsky's findings occur when you ask the
     question he posed. Wildavsky's students did it in the safety of
     academia and with the excuse that it was an assignment. I have
     learned it is a difficult question to ask in the real world,
     however I firmly believe it is the most important question to ask
     if we are to advance in the right direction.
     Dr. Tim Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship
     Project, is a Victoria-based environmental consultant and former
     climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. He can be
     reached at letters at canadafreepress.com

   Read the whole thing.
   In many ways, global warming is symptomatic of a much bigger problem
   these days. Honest, open discussion is cut off by the strident voices
   of those who advocate a certain position. Rather than trying to
   convince their fellow citizens of the rightness of their position,
   they attempt to cut off debate and shove "their way" down the throats
   of those with whom they disagree.
   Emotional rhetoric has replaced reasoning, and we are none the better
   for it.

References

   1. http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm