Science and the media

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

I have not read these books myself but the arguments within them are familiar to me.

People are getting tired of gloom and doom predictions so perspectives of this book are appealing even if lacking in scientific facts.

The Skeptical Environmentalist

[url]http://www.csicop.org/scienceandmedia/environmentalist/[/URL]

Bjorn Lomborg
ISBN: 0521010683

Another book that lacks scientific facts.

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial

M. Mihkel Mathiesen
ISBN: 0595140661

 

[Phaycops]

Please, no.....not this again....

We've discussed these matters ad nauseam (sp?) around here, and you know, in the end we all just wind up going around in circles. What needs to happen, at least in terms of Skeptical Environmentalist, is someone else needs to look at the same data, then someone else then some other folks. Right now, it's just Wilson vs. Everybody, and nothing is getting actually found out. Like with most of reality, I'm assuming for now that the truth is somewheres in the middle, that both sides blew things out of proportion, etc.

I've not read or heard of the second book you cite, but I can tell you that with the global warming debate there is a lot of misunderstanding of the actual issues surrounding it. Part of this is the media's fault, as these guys aren't scientists; but part of it is the fault of people with agendas, who make definitive statements of fact where no such thing is possible.

Just my two cents. But beware the s*&tstorm you've started, PPG