I'm afraid I get a kick out of this response, Bread. You've got the questions all wrong. I'm not trying to convince you not to read Murray. Go for it. In my view, you are wasting your time. But it's only, at least for this forum, my view.
I feel absolutely no obligation, moral or otherwise, to convince you not to read it. As for the academic response to his previous work, it was devastating. It left only, as I said, the ideologically committed to defend it. If you want to go read about all of it, the literature is very, very thick. Since I have no interest in trying to convince you not to read Murray's latest, I have no interest in convincing you about the past. I offered that information only to explain why I don't plan to waste my time. Until someone who has some serious reputation on the issue makes a case for the book; or until I'm in a doctor or dentist office, and it's on the table, and I have nothing else to do; etc.
If you've got someone who thinks it's a great book, offer a link and I'll take a look at what that person says. Not right away since I'll be traveling next week. But after that.
On the committee of scientists "to inform the Congress" on global warming, you and I live in distinctly different worlds. That issue has been so deeply politicized by the oil and energy interests, it will not happen. We are simply, at least at the moment, living out the very disturbing consequences of global warming. I'm not certain what the serious scientists on the topic say about whether it's irreversible yet or not. But I'm beginning to lose hope. I think our politics locked up, thanks to the Reps, at precisely the wrong time. |
