June 4th, 2007
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Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists—the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects—and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction. Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC, many say their peers generally consider it to have little or no credibility. In one case, a top scientist told me that, to his knowledge, no respected scientist in his field accepts the IPCC position. the national post via SDA
This is what happens when a journalist actually does his job – “When I began, I accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet.” Now, having interviewed a couple of dozen world class scientists,
Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists—the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects—and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction.
Poor Harper is going to look pretty silly having done the full green suck up when it turns out that the entire IPCC theory is at best, not proven, at worst simply wrong. So will Dion, Layton, Blair, Bush and, most of all Algore. Not that he will care as there is a chance he may be able to parlay his hysteria into the Presidency.
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