Unimpressed by consensus science

[DesertFox]

Nick Shipley, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University freshman, had just spent a week of classes watching two films with polar-opposite conclusions about global warming.

"After watching 'An Inconvenient Truth,' I was relatively convinced," Shipley said one day last month in class. "(Al Gore) did a good job in presenting his points very methodically one after the other. They all build up to essentially prove his point.

"After watching 'The Great Global Warming Swindle,' my thinking completely changed," he said. "I kind of did a complete flip-flop."

College students aren't the only ones being confronted with climate change, its causes and what -- if anything -- can be done about it.

A Democratic Congress, an Academy Award for "An Inconvenient Truth" and continuing United Nations' proclamations have all contributed to the drumbeat for reducing carbon dioxide emissions as a strategy for fighting global warming. Some scientists are concerned the forces that are shaping debate and making policy decisions are not based on truths -- convenient or not.

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[DoctorDoom]

Fact is unimportant in science. Only agreement counts. Didn't you get the memo?

Penelope Canan, a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida, leans toward Gore's way of thinking.And who can argue with the views of a sociologist on matters of climatology? :rolleyes:

[Rhino]

There's a new report out From NASA saying satellites show massive melting in Antarctica. That should stimulate a new round of arguments.