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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
After that I do think that Alberta does need to move to a more forward thinking approach and that includes actually acknowledging that climate change is occurring, it doesn’t do us any good to laughably say that we should let the scientists debate the issue in perpetuity when it appears as though the scientific consensus is that climate change is a real issue.
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I've stayed out of the climate change debate because I'm not sufficiently educated to counter the position. But you only get contrarian positions from conservative news outlets. I know Rutherford has frequently brought in scientists with different points of view, and investigative journalists who have exposed academics who falsify evidence and academic journals whose peer review process in questionable. Funding plays a big role too and if the funding comes from a source that seeks to justify a certain answer, that's obviously problematic.
Some headlines from both sides:
Astronauts condemn NASA global warming endorsement:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politi...rsement/469366
Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate change:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...titute-climate
That doesn't mean I'm a climate change denier. I don't know enough about the science to have an opinion. Meanwhile I see scandals on both sides of the issue. Since it is now such a political issue, it's hard for me to know what to believe.