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Re: [Phys-l] Is evolution something to believe in?



On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Rick Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu> wrote:
When
scientists question human induced global warming, the first (knee-jerk)
response from the 'mainstream' community is to attack the credentials and/or
the motivations of the critics. A good example is the mailing most of us
got a few months back. I searched online to find refutations for the
evidence presented in that paper (Environmental Effects of Increased
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Arthur B. Robinson et.al.) , and instead found,
over and over again, attacks on the authors' credentials. There are some
data presented showing that trends now cited as proof of (human induced)
warming, started well before any significant human contribution to
greenhouse gasses. While there may be something posted that deals with
this, I can't find it amidst all the character assassinations! ;-(


This "paper" was not peer-reviewed (it was published in the Journal of
American Physicians and Surgeons). You can read a review by climate
scientists here;
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/oregon-institute-of-science-and-malarkey/#more-480
. As you mentioned, it was mailed out to a bunch of people to promote
the infamous "Oregon petition", which you may recall was maliciously
set up to resemble a contribution to the NAS. If you're interested in
refutations of the data in that "paper", here's a source:
http://www.realclimate.org/wiki/index.php?title=OISM .

And of course, there is more than abundant scientific literature
showing that anthropogenic global warming, unfortunately, is real
enough.