viernes, 2 de noviembre de 2007

Sólo es otra opinión

Lo dice John R. Christy, miembro del IPCC, en el Wall Street Journal de ayer. Merece la pena leer el artículo entero titulado "My Nobel moment", pero para los más vagos, extracto los párrafos que me han parecido más interesantes.

The other half of the prize was awarded to former Vice President Al Gore, whose carbon footprint would stomp my neighborhood flat. But that's another story.
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There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don't find the alarmist theory matching observations. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyze at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming -- around 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit per century, if current warming trends of 0.25 degrees per decade continue.)
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I haven't seen that type of climate humility lately. Rather I see jump-to-conclusions advocates and, unfortunately, some scientists who see in every weather anomaly the specter of a global-warming apocalypse. Explaining each successive phenomenon as a result of human action gives them comfort and an easy answer.
Sólo es otra opinión.


1 comentario:

Anónimo dijo...

A la hoguera con el tipo ese!!