Christian Science Monitor Coverage:
Amid charges of global warming hoax, new warning on climate change
(aka more pre-Copenhagen warm mongering)
Amid charges of global warming hoax, new warning on climate change
(aka more pre-Copenhagen warm mongering)
Excerpt:
What the controversy really shows is a desire on all sides to maintain a myth about how science is conducted, says Daniel Sarewitz, co-director of Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.
"Both sides want to maintain this idea that science is this pure thing, this source of clarity, exactness, and truth. Of course, it isn't," he says. "It's a human endeavor, a social endeavor. The people who do it are people full of imperfections."
None of that undercuts the weight of evidence on global warming, he adds.
(end excerpt)
Official: Obama going to Copenhagen climate summit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_copenhagen
"Both sides want to maintain this idea that science is this pure thing, this source of clarity, exactness, and truth. Of course, it isn't," he says. "It's a human endeavor, a social endeavor. The people who do it are people full of imperfections."
None of that undercuts the weight of evidence on global warming, he adds.
(end excerpt)
Official: Obama going to Copenhagen climate summit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_copenhagen
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