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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (51291)3/1/2008 10:41:23 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543356
 
Below is an article that I think expresses our disconnect.

Interesting piece, nicely written and argued. A bit too political but not terribly so.

Best I can tell both of these folk are public policy experts, not global warming scientists. Pielke has a PhD in political science and Sarewitz writes only on policy questions. So they are trying to frame a debate, not be critical of the science. In fact, the following quote is attributed to Pielke in wikipedia:

The IPCC has concluded that greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity are an important driver of changes in climate. And on this basis alone I am personally convinced that it makes sense to take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

So, from even their point of view, the debate is not about whether human activity contributes to global warming but what are the best responses. That's all well and good.

But the paper itself undermines, ever so slightly, the persuasive power of the argument by its use of the ideal types, Cassandra and Dorothy. Any serious reader gets turned off by that.

And it's surprising from those two, given that public policy stuff is their field. You would expect them to be particularly sensitive on that score.

Bob, if you don't wish to discuss this anymore, that's fine. Been fun.

Do hang around.
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