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Post by cjm on Dec 6, 2015 19:32:26 GMT
@liberty – Climate change science and the climate change scare24 November 2015 – “Our planet faces many environmental threats, such as over-fishing in our oceans and the devastation of wild animals in Africa. But man-made climate change is no threat at all,” writes engineer and energy expert Andrew Kenny in the latest issue of @liberty, the policy bulletin of the IRR.
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Post by cjm on Dec 7, 2015 11:08:37 GMT
Blasting Kenny... While the appeal by Frans Cronje of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) for transparent and robust debate is commendable, on the face of it, it masks the nature of the “policy paper” written by Andrew Kenny that was published by the institute. As it goes, the paper is largely devoted to rehashing deliberately misleading and poorly-informed pseudo-scientific positions, not policy responses to the science. In other words, this is not so much a policy paper as a paper designed to misrepresent the scientific consensus. Matters of policy should certainly be debated in the public, and in the case of climate change, the policy issues relate to the proposed interventions in and responses to climate change not the science itself. As an illustration of some misrepresentations of scientific evidence to make false points and delay certain policy options we put forward some recurrently recycled evidence denialists used to claim the contrary. ...
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Post by cjm on Dec 9, 2015 14:26:42 GMT
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