Science and Politics: Global Warming and Eugenics
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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 proposition included a caveat, Stevens’ article did not. Stevens used as the basis for his article a draft of the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is still in review. Based on this draft, Stevens claimed a ‘consensus’ for the new view; a claim vigorously endorsed by Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund. What was remarkable about this claim was that it was accompanied by an admission that hitherto almost all climate scientists “refused to declare publicly that they can discern the signature of the greenhouse effect.” Oddly
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