Monday, October 03, 2011

physorg.com: "The public discussion on climate change has become so polarized that some scientists don’t even acknowledge there is a debate"

The climate change debate: Man versus nature
The public discussion on climate change has become so polarized that some scientists don’t even acknowledge there is a debate. Climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt, is one of those people.
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“There aren't 'two sides' to the science, nor to the policy response,” Schmidt said. “This implies that the whole thing is just a matter of an opinion – it is not.”

Another group of scientists would disagree with Schmidt.
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"We've won the public opinion debate, and we've won the political debate as well," Bast said "but the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration."

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