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This textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts and methods of global warming science, covering topics that they encounter in the news, ranging from the greenhouse effect and warming to ocean acidification, hurricanes, extreme precipitation, droughts, heatwaves, forest fires, the cryosphere, and more. This book explains each of the issues based on basic statistical
Controversy about evolution, it's a fact. and all reputable scientists in the world accept that. there is of course, the interesting controversy in science and it's important that children should be exposed to the fact that scientists don't always agree, sometimes the evidence isn't all in, that's fair enough. but as for teaching the controversy over evolution. what controversy? you might as well teach in addition to the sex theory of where babies come from, the stork theory of where babies come from. if you like, you could teach the creationists or so-called intelligent design theory. it woul...
There some percentage of the population that simply because of their faith tradition or the figures in authority that they trust as opposed to the figures in authority that you or i or some of the viewers may trust, are just not going to accept this. is this sort of the a battle that will never be won in your mind? >> ever since the 1980s, a gallup polls have shown that more than 40% of the american people believe that the world is less than 10,000 years old. that's an astonishing error. these people have the vote. these people are ignorant of science. and they are voting in politicians who ar...
Those bits of "science" that we haven't read up ourselves, we trust. because science has earned the trust. we know about peer review. we know that if a position has been argued in the scientific literature, it will be challenged, it will be tested. so there is a sort of robustness about scientific conclusion which science has earned. and theology, which is a total nonsubject, hasn't. in the case of climate change, it's not just genesis, it's revolution. we don't need to bother to have a good stewardship of the world, because jesus is coming back. and soon. i mean that's one of the dominant arg...
Hold to. and then of course there's a religious component to a lot of the disbelief as well. rick santorum is talking about climate scientists in the philadelph "philadelphia inquirer" op-ed. said that reassures us that global warming warming science is still settled. there's nothing to see here, move along. >> bob, how do you deal with the argument about skepticism that uses the open-mindedness in a liberal tradition, in a sort of jiu-jitsu move against itself. >> it's a challenge because skepticism is a good thing. and you should always up to a point question even what seems to be scientific...