Climate Change: A great side-by-side comparison of both sides’ views
One of the great challenges for an observer of public discourse these days is getting a clear, unbiased statement of both sides of an argument. People have powerful motivations to articulate only their...
View ArticleJohn Abraham’s Point-by-Point Rebuttal of Climate-Skeptic Monckton
To say that those who question claims of climate-change are “anti-science” or to call them “deniers” (as if their challenges were somehow akin to denials of the Holocaust) is disingenuous and...
View ArticleWhy Climate Change Is Controversial — or Is It?
My article at ThomasNet last week generated some controversy — see “All This Wrangling Over Climate Change – What’s Up With That?” Commenters on multiple ideological sides of the debate chimed in with...
View ArticleThe Climate Change Controversy – What’s It Really About?
Recently I’ve been writing a series of columns on climate change over at ThomasNet Green & Clean. Although I do talk about the scientific arguments around human-caused global warming, I’m also...
View ArticleWhat the Climate Change Controversy Is Really About
I’ve discussed this question before over on ThomasNet Green & Clean — see my piece “The Climate Change Controversy — What’s It Really About?” However, I’m meditating on a somewhat different way to...
View ArticleClive Hamilton: Nature v technology: climate ‘belief’ is politics, not science
I very rarely republish articles from other writers verbatim here, but this piece from Clive Hamilton of Charles Sturt University in Australia makes some very good points about the true roots of the...
View ArticleClimate Scientists Flummoxed by Snowstorm
Egad! A snowstorm! Maybe global warming isn’t true after all. Oh, wait, it’s March in the Northern Hemisphere, so it’s still cold enough to snow. You almost had me there! Comic by Slowpoke Comics ARB —...
View ArticleThe Way Things Are, the Way Things Were, and What Is True
I think a lot about assertions, things that people assert as true, very often without acknowledging their personal bias. To be fair, most of us are so immersed in our ideologies that we’re not aware of...
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