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From: harriet wood <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2009/12/15
Subject: Re: THES Leader and article on sceptics and climate change
To: Jonathan Ward <[log in to unmask]>
and why is a program of three climate deniers, an economist, a banker
and an economist on BBC4 tonight called a "debate" and introduced as a
point of view that isn't often heard???
Harriet
2009/12/15 Jonathan Ward <[log in to unmask]>:
> see leader at
> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=409510
>
> and Martin Cohen's piece at
> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=409454&c=2
>
> I was not impressed by either article (I ended up going a little comment
> happy on the Leader story).
>
> It's strange how the mood at the moment suggests that those (normally non
> natural-science/climatologists) who oppose AGW are heralded as decent,
> reasonable and rational. Trying to bring back debate and save us from the
> eco-evangelists (their words not mine). Radicals against the orthodoxy.
>
> How did it come to this?
>
> Where has real scientific debate gone?
>
> Why aren't even journals such as THES exploring why this of all issues
> polarises us, and leads to such debased debate?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jon
>
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