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By Mark S. Lawson, published 7/6/2007Logic is never the aim in the climate change debate. The aim is to push the opposition to one side and get on with the politics.
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Posted by Videopen, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 7:41:36 PM
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The fact that the global warming debate has degenerated so fast into the banal ideological ping-pong that's today standard would be disappointing if it wasn't so inevitable. Climatology which relies on physics and chemistry and is the study of a non-linear system is far from complete as a scientific project. Most of us are incapable of judging whether or no the IPCC papers are a warning or not and we therefore default to our usual ideological positions, dig in and prepare to fight the 'wicked' others.
This is foolish. Nature does not care about our political beliefs and will do what she will regardless. Such a stink is likely to encourage people to endorse nonsensical, impractical or even harmful solutions (or equally harmful inaction) all in the name of winning the fight.
What we need now, more than we ever have is for science to attain as much as possible its much lauded, seldom realised, status as an objective disipline.
It won't happen.