Climate Change

I don’t know if it’s the product of alarmists, but I can get for you astrophysicists at Harvard who could explain to you that variations in the earth’s temperature are very closely related to variations in the output of the sun
; and some of these people believe that what we have seen in recent decades is solar related; and even this cooling that we’ve seen recently in global temperature is often explained away as a reduction in solar output.

So it’s not just a matter of people calling each other names – there are very credible scientists at MIT and Harvard, and Stanford and elsewhere who are writing in a way that would put them in the skeptical camp, which is enormous by the way.

The most fundamental questions, like, is the planet warming – in reality there’s quite a debate about that very subject:

** Literally true, but false in any meaningful sense . There’s no longer any debate about it in the climate science literature, just among people who aren’t working climate scientists (plus a vanishingly small proportion of climate scientists – there’s a reason why the same 8 or 10 names come up over and over again

; as I tell people, you would just discover that the climate change issue is very much more complicated than it is often presented to the public. And that’s somewhat the message I have on the circuit, is that no matter what thing you ask about, you find out there’s an incredible story behind it and quite a debate going on in the scientific community.

** Again, not true, at least not in the sense that he’s trying to convey; it may look that way, but typically the things that *are* settled aren’t being debated in the scientific community, and so – unless there’s an industry-funded effort to make them appear unsettled – they’re not news.

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