Peter Norvig: Global Climate Change Consensus

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I've read recently that this same study was repeated this year (don't have the link), and the result dramatically different given the recent findings on the solar impact of global warming.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.B... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030321075236.ht... http://www.aip.org/pnu/2003/split/642-2.html

Studies: http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=B18307... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801174450.ht... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801175711.ht...

Root problem: journalists are fucking morons who don't report important issues properly. And then they wonder why we don't read their blessed newspapers.

I'm not sure that journalists are that stupid. It's just that the politically correct ones who just repeat what they're told advance their career and the ones who seek the truth usually end up pissing off someone and being censored, harassed, etc.

It's the same pattern we see everywhere in our societies: if you act like everyone else, don't question authority and don't take risks, you won't have any problems.

The journalists you describe are just following the golden rule; make something people want.

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