May 16, 2011

Global Warming, Really?

A denier has reconsidered.  The Details:
http://www.slate.com/id/2293607

Science has decided.  Regarding the public's shifting view on the issue:
"... entrenched ideologies often simply trump facts. People are prone to what psychologists called "motivated reasoning"; we instinctively bend available data to support our preexisting beliefs. Which means that when confronted with facts alone, skeptics usually don't budge."

"Much of the ebbing and flowing of climate attitude … best resembles water sloshing in a very shallow pan," 

You decide:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/contents.html

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