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Originally Posted by Ustwo
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In case some of you really DO want to educate yourself on what global warming is, the greenhouse effect, etc this is a pretty good primer.
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/ |
As Ustwo suggests...."In case some of you really DO want to educate yourself on what global warming is...."
I would only add that for a balanced perspective, consider other sites as well as his "junkscience.com" site.
Consider the source:
JunkScience.com is a website maintained by Steven J. Milloy, an adjunct scholar the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute - right wing think tanks with long histories of denying environmental problems at the behest of the corporations which fund them. Milloy is also a columnist for FoxNews.com.
Milloy defines "junk science" as "bad science used by lawsuit-happy trial lawyers, the 'food police,' environmental Chicken Littles, power-drunk regulators, and unethical-to-dishonest scientists to fuel specious lawsuits, wacky social and political agendas, and the quest for personal fame and fortune." He regularly attacks environmentalists and scientists who support environmentalism, claiming that dioxin, pesticides in foods, environmental lead, asbestos, secondhand tobacco smoke and global warming are all "scares" and "scams."
Milloy's attacks are often notable for their vicious tone, which appears calculated to lower rather than elevate scientific discourse
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...unkScience.com
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The Junk Science Page is not about junk science so much as it is about anything which does not support a conservative or libertarian political agenda for businesses and industries that do not like regulations that limit their ability to pollute or poison us or our environment. Milloy uses the term 'junk science' mainly as a political and polemical term. What the majority of scientists call sound science, Milloy usually calls junk science. And what he calls 'sound science', the majority of scientists usually call junk science.
http://skepdic.com/refuge/junkscience.html
A site that I recommend on the subject of global warming is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
http://www.ipcc.ch/
The IPCC "assesses scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change. " Its assessments are conducted by a large cross-section of international scholars and its reports are peer-reviewed.