When the warmest year in history isn't
When it comes to global warming, newspapers play up stories that reinforce the prevalent the-sky-is-falling belief that global warming is human-caused and catastrophic. But if a study or scientist does not portend the end of the world as we know it, it rarely rates as news.
In that spirit, many papers (including The Chronicle) have reported on a UC San Diego science historian who reviewed 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles on global warming ...
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I have generally supported a pro-active approach to addressing climate change issues while we can, as common sense suggests it's better to be safe than sorry. However, I am well aware that this is a very complex issue, which will take a long time to fully understand, and am cautious about forming definitive conclusions without sufficient data, particularly predictions based on notoriously unreliable computer models. It also appears that there has been an unfair backlash against some dissenting but thoughtful voices on this topic in recent years -- and I welcome reasonable discussions based on sound research. It usually pays off to keep an open mind about complex phenomena like these, in my experience.