| Topic: | Re:cuts no ice | |
| Posted by: | Henry Beckett | |
| Date/Time: | 29/06/08 13:26:00 |
| Sorry Stewart, but you are conflating the science and the politics here. Taking the IPCC as the standard there's pretty much solid agreement that climate change is happening. There's agreement and with a lower % of certainty that global warming is happening. There's then still a solid majority who agree that the cause is humans, and again with a reduced % of certainty. All well and good and I think one has to be a scientist to really engage in this area with any credence. Then we come to the big questions - does it matter, what should we do about it, how should we organise ourselves in response to this data and should we spend x resources here or y there? These are all political questions. The problem is that some much green moral outrage conflates the scientific consensus with their political aspirations. See any of Stewart's messages (or Monbiot in the Guardian) for examples of this schoolboy error in logical thinking. |