Botkin thickens debate
Daniel Botkin slips the veil on the global warming hysteria and exaggeration that has come to define the issue. He addresses statistics, crude computer models, and responds to the idea that fear is the only way to make people pay attention, also known as the raising awareness! exception. Oh, and he claims not to be one of those dastardly pollution-loving denialist’s either:
…I am a biologist and ecologist who has worked on global warming, and been concerned about its effects, since 1968. I’ve developed the computer model of forest growth that has been used widely to forecast possible effects of global warming on life — I’ve used the model for that purpose myself, and to forecast likely effects on specific endangered species.
I’m not a naysayer. I’m a scientist who believes in the scientific method and in what facts tell us.
Facts in a global warming debate? Isn’t that refreshing.