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MichaelCrichton.com | The Case for Skepticism on Global Warming
"What is wrong with us that we ignore this human misery and focus on events a hundred years from now? What must we do to awaken this phenomenally rich, spoiled and self-centered society to the issues of the wider world? The global crisis is not 100 years from now — it is right now. We should be addressing it. But we are not. Instead, we cling to the reactionary and antihuman doctrines of outdated environmentalism and turn our backs to the cries of the dying and the starving and the diseased of our shared world."
BBC News - Climate change - a story too often told the same way
Great article. Like Clive I am inclined to look to people like Lindzen for a more considered opinion.
Lindzen on negative climate feedback « Watts Up With That?
Relatively simple and persuasive argument that increase in CO2 in the atmosphere leads to negative feedback and not positive feedback.
CRU Emails - Searchable
Searchable database of the emails taken from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
The Greenhouse Conspiracy
1990 Channel 4 documentary.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | In praise of scepticism
"A conjecture can be dressed up as a dead certainty with enough rhetoric and protected against dissent with enough threatening language, but finally it has to meet the only test of science, which is that any theory must fit the facts, and the facts can't be altered to suit the theory. "
Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific American
Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages
Quackwatch
Quackwatch is now an international network of people who are concerned about health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant.
Why a cold winter doesn't mean climate change is behind us - Ars Technica
Good comment thread.
Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - environment - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist
Michael Le Page for the New Scientist attempts to explain climate science and provide rebuttals for many of the criticisms, or 'myths', made by AGW sceptics.
Plenty of good sceptical comments that add to the discussion - as well as plenty of petty and irrational stuff that does not.
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