Climate Change

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Attacking the Consensus on Climate Change

Posted by Michael Searcy ⋅ May 6, 2008 ⋅ 5 Comments

Science is not by popular vote. It is a refrain heard often in debates concerning climate change. A charge levied at supporters of the theory of anthropogenic global warming when the existence of a scientific “consensus” creeps into the discussion. The implication being that a simple survey was distributed to scientists with but a single … Continue reading →

So Much for the “Global Cooling” Consensus

Posted by Michael Searcy ⋅ February 27, 2008

How often have you heard a skeptic of man-made global warming dismiss current scientific conclusions regarding climate change by referencing a supposed consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was experiencing “global cooling”. The argument generally goes something like… “Thirty years ago, they were telling us we were going to freeze. Now they’re telling us … Continue reading →