This sums up the collective sentiment of the contrarians, mostly persons in
the back pocket of special interests that are financially impacted by calls
to reduce greenhouse gases. There is no mystery about this. There are
exceptionally few climate scientistst with the opinion that anthropogenic
climate change is not being caused by deforestation and higher rates of
greenhouse gas emissions.
jf
> I am chair of a science department that includes
> atmospheric science folks. It is my distinct impression that those who
> opposed the anthropogenic theory of climate change do so becuase of
> previous right-wing commitments. If you play around on the web you will
> find some sites and discussion of these issues, and I suspect there willl
> be connections between these "scientists" and right wind organizations. I
> heard one of these guys (always guys it seems) claim that the "global
> warming hoax" was a subversive attempt to weaken our economy perpetrated
by
> the evil international conspiracy. One example, in my view, of how
science
> is embedded in a social context, despite constant claims of pure
neutrality
> (or perhaps because of them) science often falls prey to the basest
> anxieties. I thought I would write these comments off-line, since they
are
> tentative and perhaps peripheral.
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