Unfortunately, the way the climate change is portrayed in the media means
the nuanced, multifaceted nature of the debate is completely lost.
Apparently polemics are the new documentary.
Jon
>From: Nick James <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: swindle
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:36:06 EST
>
>_http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/_
>(http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/)
>
>Did anyone watch this?
>
>Environmentalists have been painted with one broad brush:
>We are anti-growth, anti-technology and dead against the use of fossil
>fuels.
>Now we are told by this group of scientists that CO2 related global warming
>is all one big swindle.
>
>Climate is changing, climate is unpredictable; there have been very warm
>periods (Medieval in Europe) and cold snaps (when the Thames froze).
>
>Professor Stott (a geographer) tells us excitedly about wine and riches
>when
>cathedrals were being built in the UK in the medieval days.
>
>It is surely the 'uncertainty' that prevails both in the science
>(incomplete
>knowledge and arguments about models) and in the social sciences
>(political
>and economic debates about costs, development pathways and the
>precautionary
>principle).
>
>To suggest that all environmentalists wish to stop 'development' in Africa
>is scandalous; Ecological modernisation theory (the main practical green
>orientation) can only be afforded in the North, so it is preposterous to
>suggest
>that Africa should be constrained by such a cost.
>
>Nick
>
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