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Thanks for so nicely making Rick's point!
Bob at PC
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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu on behalf of Alfredo Louro
Sent: Thu 4/3/2008 1:17 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: 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This "paper" was not peer-reviewed (it was published in the Journal of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.
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