[beckett]

This guy Farrell is a newly minted (2000) Phd in Political Science! From the tone of his condescending skewering of Crichton you'd think he was a top rank scientist at the National Academy of Science for cryin' out loud.

If you examine what Farrell's said, he offers no real counter-argument to Crichton, and he establishes no facts. Basically all he says is that Bjorn Lomborg thinks global warming is real. Hate to clue Farrell in, but Crichton believes it's real too. Crichton admits that the average temperature seems to have risen .3 C in the last century. He simply disputes whether it has been well established that the rise is outside the normal variation of earth temperatures.

[CedarDave]

Global climate change is real. Global warming may be part of that change, but whether, as you pointed out, it is part of the natural variability of earth's climate is uncertain (remember the vikings called Greenland green land for a reason!). The jury (except the PC jury) is still out on what man's contribution (if any) is to global warming and/or change.

[LexBaird]

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.

This guy Farrell is a newly minted (2000) Phd in Political Science!

Things that make you say "hmmm".

[Post Toasties]

I'd say it'd be pretty well impossible to 'establish' that when global climatic change over the past millennium has swung more than a degree C higher and lower than it is at present.