Contributed by: filbert Monday, March 10 2008 @ 01:02 PM CST
EDMONTON – Only about one in three Alberta earth scientists and engineers believe the culprit behind climate change has been identified, a new poll reported today.
The expert jury is divided, with 26 per cent attributing global warming to human activity like burning fossil fuels and 27 per cent blaming other causes such as volcanoes, sunspots, earth crust movements and natural evolution of the planet.
(Yeah, I said “global warming,” not “climate change.” Anybody who grew up and spent 40 years living in South Dakota, as I did, is intimately aware that the climate changes all the time. Twenty years of dry, then ten years of wet, then another ten years of not-so-wet. Such is life on the Middle Border.
It’s much, much, much, much, much, much, much (yes, six degrees of much) easier to determine “the climate is changing” than it is to determine the root causes. The ecosystem is a marvelously complex system. The models which predict the most dire effects . . . aren’t. The scientists are divided, and there is no clear picture of what is really happening, and why.
More science, less politics, please.
Via the Heartland Institute[*2] .