Monday, March 31, 2008

The Two Theories of Climate Change

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Excerpt:
Over the last 20 years, a tremendous amount of effort has been used to define the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Theory of climate change, largely through the work of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This effort has been government sponsored and is largely based on science paid for with government grants.

The amount of money flowing into the study of man-made climate change has multiplied time and again over the years, solely because man-made climate change has been perceived as a crisis. The study of natural climate change, on the other hand, has not enjoyed a similar windfall. In fact, those insisting that natural climate variability is still dominant have had a very difficult time getting funding at all. Natural climate change is not considered a problem requiring a solution, so governments are not interested. Meanwhile, the scientific community has been downright hostile to those arguing against the AGW theory, for they threaten to kill the goose that is laying the golden eggs.

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