[lbo-talk] climate change

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 04:20:07 PST 2009


As NASA climatologist Gavin A. Schmidt said the other day, "Science doesn't work because we're all nice. Newton may have been an ass, but the theory of gravity still works."

Which is not to say that science is a perfect, abstract process whose outcomes are immune to influence by assism, but unless you're prepared to allege that the entire climatological discipline is a sinister conspiracy of lying asses, that won't be the dynamic behind the global consensus on climate change.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

James, I double-dog dare you to critique the actual science of climate
> change, rather then quoting some guy's emails.
>

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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