Finding the Middle Ground on Environmental Policy
Opinion by Andrew on July 24th, 2009 with No Comments so far.On Wednesday in Seattle, Climatologist Patrick Michaels discussed the science and the politics of Climate Change at the Washington Policy Center’s 7th Annual Environmental Policy Luncheon and Conference. His qualifications include being a “research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” He knows his stuff and recently has published a book entitled “Climate of Extremes.”
He claims to operate in the middle ground of those in the ongoing debate over Climate Change and the policies that organizations around the world and in the United States that are currently determining. In his presentation, he pointed out the flaws from what the left would call “global warming deniers,” and also those who are sounding the alarm because of what they perceive as a crash course for planetary destruction. As a result, he angers both extremes.
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MEYERS: Global Warming Activists Ignore the Science they Claim to Support
Opinion by Todd Meyers on June 11th, 2009 with No Comments so far.When discussing global warming, one phrase recurs: “scientific consensus.” Environmental activists often cite “science” when arguing for far-reaching and costly responses to global warming. Ironically, however, those activists ignore the findings of that same science. The potential impacts they cite are based not on science but on speculation which contradicts the actual science.
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