GLOBAL WARMING: Natural Science versus Social Sciences Issues

2. Natural versus social sciences: on understanding in economics*

Half a century ago, Ludwig von Mises concluded an essay with a title very similar to the present one by addressing the proponents of mathematical economics thus: ‘If it may some day be necessary to reform economic theory radically this change will not take its direction along the lines suggested by the present critics. The objections of these are thoroughly refuted forever’ (1942, p. 253).1 Mis...

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Science and Politics: Global Warming and Eugenics

century exceeds natural variability, and thus some of it may be due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide (Stevens, “Experts confirm human role in global warming,” New York Times, Sept. 10, 1995, page 1). This weak claim, unfortunately, is based on the assumption that variability in models is the same as variability in nature. This is not widely believed. Although the scientific statement of this pro...

Global Warming Advocacy Science: a Cross Examination

Legal scholarship has come to accept as true the various pronouncements of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientists who have been active in the movement for greenhouse gas (ghg) emission reductions to combat global warming. The only criticism that legal scholars have had of the story told by this group of activist scientists – what may be called the climate esta...

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