Global Warming Are We Paving the Way to Inaction? . Category: Commentary from The Berkeley Daily Planet

What will it mean to teach today’s students both sides of the “global warming debate?” Will this translate to a politically balanced and scientifically sound education? Well that is the consensus among members of California’s Los Alamitos School Board who now require the District to teach “controversial issues” such as global warming in a balanced way that presents both sides of the issue. Just because two theories surround an issue, however, does not make that issue controversial or mean that both theories deserve balanced attention. In the case of global warming, because theories surrounding the issue are not supported equally by the scientific community, these theories should not be given equal representation in the classroom...
“We define a topic to be controversial if it has more than one widely held view,” said Assistant Superintendent Sherry Kropp following the Board’s decision. This definition, however, ignores the necessary emphasis that should be placed on the legitimacy of a given view, whether widely held or not. That said, the contrarian view towards global warming is primarily shared not by climate experts but rather the general public as well as conservative politicians.

Urban Sun Corridor 4 degrees warmer?

a team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has established that local maximum summertime warming resulting from projected expansion of the urban Sun Corridor could approach 4 degrees Celsius. This finding establishes that this factor can be as important as warming due to increased levels of greenhouse gases.

In climate change, we are not to blame | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

We should not let the global warming alarmists who know little about how the globe’s climate really functions brainwash us into thinking humans have had a significant influence on the recent unusual weather-climate events the U.S. has been experiencing. Unusual weather-climate events have always occurred and will always continue to occur, irrespective of the amounts of CO2 we put into the atmosphere.

William M. Gray is professor emeritus at the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.