From the newspaper SouthCoastToday.com
Our View: There is no debate on climate change
The “debate” over the reality and cause of climate change stopped being scientific long ago. Today, the “debate” is nothing more than a distraction that serves a political purpose for those who would stand to lose the most by policies that would curtail the release of carbon from its restful, stable location below the surface of the earth, in the form of fossil fuels, into our environment.
One hundred percent of the current and former UMass Dartmouth scientists participating in an editorial board meeting at The Standard-Times on Tuesday agree both that climate change is occurring and that human activity — particularly the combustion of fossil fuels — has a significant impact on it.
The point was made in the meeting that it is not typical that scientists would agree so broadly. There’s a reason for that: Theories aren’t agreed upon in the scientific community, but facts are.
Theories are debated. Facts are facts.
The UMass scientists were invited to discuss three undeniable, provable effects that burning fossil fuels has on our oceans: acidification, warming, and sea level rise.
Read the rest here: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140205/OPINION/402050305
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When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. -Christopher Dodd
Source h/t to WUWT reader “Vico”
Okay Antony
Just making the point about the media and public monitoring and necessary challenging all governments and all government policies.
Defend Democracy and Free Speech etc etc
Just before i go quick question so is using unsubstantiated DATA to deny the Developing World cheap abundant fossils fuels thereby not allowing them Industrial development unabled to lift themselves out of grinding poverty .Maybe another typical example of western arrogance as hitting the poor 3rd world innocent undervalued masses with “Vietnam Style” missiles from 10 thousand feet.
Antony take care .
Respect great as always
Linus Pauling was one of the the world’s most brilliant and respected scientists. If there ever was an example of a genius that was right about so much and smarter than anybody else for much of his life, that led to his demise, he was it………….
It would be good if you pointed out which Pauling error. I have used megadoses of vitamin C to combat infection. All I can say is that it worked for me.
I’m not going to slam the people of Southeastern Massachusetts (now called “South Coast”) since the comments from some of them in the link to the editorial pretty much match the ones here. But U-Mass-Dartmouth has become one of the premier campuses of the state university system, and it should be interesting what the university has to say about the controversy, since the poll of their faculty is at the heart of it. If it were up to the faculty alone, they would probably go all-in on the editorial policy, but I suspect there are administrators who have enough political acumen to attempt to separate the school from the newspaper’s action. HOW they do it will be the interesting part.
[Stop screaming, do not use all capital letters. Write clear sentences. Use facts. Mod]