Scientist warns against overselling climate change

Lenny Smith, professor of statistics at the London School of Economics, said that scientists risk "blatantly overselling what we know. That could bring everything down and cost the world valuable time". Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 4, 2008
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Dec. 4, 2008
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by Peter Henry - Dec. 4, 2008

I'm not sure why this very short comment on human-caused global warming was selected - there's not much here. One professor makes the eminently reasonable request that organizations interested in climate change stick to sober and cautious - that is to say, "scientific" - interpretations of the [rapidly changing] known science.

The problem is, global climate change is here, and local effects (e.g. island inhabitants having to move) are already being felt. Some future ... More »

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by Norman Rogers - Dec. 4, 2008

This is understated. Global warming alarmists exaggerate wildly and suggest confidence in their exaggerations that does not exist.

Unfortunately the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as many others completely misrepresent the degree of confidence that is ... More »

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