South Dakota Politics: The Science & the Politics of Global Warming

One of us, BB or myself, is wrong about science. He thinks it works like politics: count the votes and that is the right scientific conclusion. I think that consensus is largely irrelevant. What counts is not what scientists believe, but the arguments and evidence that they present. Is Bob Carter wrong when he says that it has frequently been warmer in the past than it is now? I have not seen any summary of global climate estimates over any defined range of time that contradicts him, and I have looked (see "evaluate and weigh the evidence."). If Carter is right, then recent global temperature trends are not at all out of the ordinary. That might matter.

I am also very skeptical about BB's 99% figure. Where, exactly, does that number come from? Apparently BB is also a trained demographer.

Protestors aim to disrupt climate change conference

Last Monday, activists from Greenpeace Polska clashed with miners as they attempted to launch a protest against Poland use of coal for energy needs. The activists were based at the Greenpeace Climate Rescue Station, which was set up some two weeks ago near the open-pit Jozwin mine, near Poznan. [Via The Chilling Effect]