Climate Change Skepticism
Here's the climate change skepticism talk that had me Tweeting so furiously (abstract here):
Ivar Giaever: The Strange Case of “Global Warming”
Here's the prebuttal (the talk before this one). Near the end, Mario Molina is very direct about the next speaker -- he makes it clear that he thinks the arguments are nonsense and coming from a non-expert, the word "ashamed" is used, and so on:
Mario J. Molina: The Science and Policy of Climate Change
See also:
Photosynthesis, Biomass, Biofuels: Conversion Efficiencies and Consequences, by Hartmut Michel (he ends up recommending photovoltaic cells and batteries to power cars rather than biogas or biofuels which are much less efficient)
and:
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene, by Paul J. Crutzen
(the last talk is a bit dry).
It's interesting to see Nobel Prize winners in physics accusing each other of engaging in religion/politics rather than science, etc., etc. It all sounds quite familiar.
[Update: More discussion of today's session here.]
Posted by Mark Thoma on Monday, July 2, 2012 at 03:24 PM in Economics, Environment |
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