The recent unauthorized release of emails from the Climate Research Unit shows how polarized we are on global warming.
“It’s becoming strikingly clear that one’s view of the (ClimateGate) issue is deeply colored by his or her incoming bias,” as Stephen Dubner writes in his “Freakonomics” blog in The New York Times.
Letting extremists on both sides shape the debate will get us nowhere. It never does.
It’s time for people who are in the middle — the open minded ones — to speak up and demand more of our elected officials and the media, not to mention the scientists.
To me, global warming has always been more about politics than science — arguing against global warming, so you could stifle government regulations, for example. It’s a debate buried in partisan politics. Do these people really care about the science?
Dubner’s reporting is here.
