Science

[John Thornton]

I am not an expert on climate change but I was under the impression the
U.N's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was written by scientists
whose expertise was in related fields. I thought it was 'good science' for
the most part. And isn't consensus part of what makes good science good?

  John Thornton

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Heartfield" <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Science


>
> The 'consensus' on anthropic global warming was achieved through
> political fiat, most of the scientists signing the Kyoto declaration,
> not being experts in climate.
>
> Science is not decided by consensus. As Einstein said when a book was
> published 'Fifty Authors Refute Relativity', he said 'Why fifty, it
> ought to only take one?'
> --
> James Heartfield