Sunday, March 25, 2007
Global Warming - Let the skeptics have at it
This author makes the most excellent point.
Unfortunately, most of those carrying the global warming banner are NOT scientists, and their claims are being trumpeted by those who are NOT scientists...
Unfortunately, most of those carrying the global warming banner are NOT scientists, and their claims are being trumpeted by those who are NOT scientists...
John Dale Dunn's comments will be in the April "Environment News", which is published by the Heartland Institute. Here's one of them:
"Scientific Method Ignored"
"Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, noted the irony of scientists calling for draconian reprisals against skeptics of global warming alarmism."
"The entire scientific method is built upon the enormous value of skepticism,' Burnett said. 'Good science depends on skeptical voices challenging the dominant belief until theory is proven to be fact. Until and unless all reasonable doubt has been removed from a scientific theory, scientific challenge and debate is essential to the scientific process and, ultimately, human well-being. History has certainly proven that over and over again."
"With this in mind, what they should be doing is stripping away the credentials of those who seek to stifle scientific debate. Those who seek to stifle scientific debate are the true enemies of science," Burnett added."
