Re New York Times defends hiring extreme climate denier: 'millions agree with him'

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] New York Times defends hiring extreme climate denier:
'millions agree with him'
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>


(for IP, if you wish)

This is not only incredibly tone-deaf, it's dangerous.  I've been
engaged in climatology self-education for the past 15 years or so,
attempting to leverage my science and engineering background into a
basic understanding of the field via books, papers, IPCC reports, etc.

I've lost count of the number of times a new paper or report shows that
previous ones erred -- and those errors are almost invariably on the
conservative side, i.e., newer work shows that the situation is worse
than previously thought.  The emergence of positive feedback loops
is particularly troubling; it seems like every few months another is
uncovered and found to be contributing to the overall trend.

The more I learn, the more horrified I become.

Albert A. Bartlett wrote that the greatest shortcoming of the human race
is man's inability to understand the exponential function.  We stand at
an inflection point on a curve, staring at the slope rising in front of us,
with limited time and resources to avoid the nearly inevitable...and the
New York Times is pandering to the scientifically illiterate for the sake
of some transient profits.  I would say that the judgment of history
will be harsh -- but I fear that few will be left to write it.

---rsk



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