The peril to come
Published: Mon, Jun. 09, 2008 12:30AM
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closeCharles Krauthammer ("The Church of the Environment," June 1) and George Will ("Following bears out the window," May 23), two veteran climate change skeptics, should team up and run for president and vice president of the Church of the Marketplace! But they must first brush up on their science.
A scientist cannot find out how something works by deciding in advance the way he wants things to turn out and then twisting the data to support that desire.
Marketplace experts and fossil fuel advocates eager to preserve the status quo of the automotive, oil and coal industries cannot claim the trained eye of the unbiased scientist.
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Where do these hopeful skeptics get the idea that they are the only ones trying to find chinks in the body of climate change evidence? The real climate scientists make a living looking for alternative explanations (www.realclimate.org).
The scientific community has reached a consensus. Although we can and should argue about how to fix the problem, Krauthammer, Will and the rest of us ignore that consensus at our increasing peril.
Today's children and tomorrow's poor will pay the biggest price for our neglect, and they will know very well whom to blame.
We all need to wake up.
Denis DuBay, Ph.D.
Cary
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