User:Ed Poor/warming

Comments by Dr. C which I ain't got around to addressing yet:
 * M&M specifically disclaim that their work is a reconstruction (likely because it does predict rather odd things if you take it literally). They do claim that their work is what you get if you do MBH "correctly"

Important people (scientists, writers, etc.)
 * Stephan Schulz - Wikipedia contributor
 * Stephen Hawking - theoretical physicist - "We have to reverse global warming urgently, if we still can."
 * Stephen H. Schneider - "scary scenarios" - scientist, author - Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University
 * In Schneider's opinion, scientists sometimes need to dramatize their data and discard the subtleties to sell a message. Jocelyn Kaiser Science 18 February 2000:Vol. 287. no. 5456, p. 1189
 * Schneider’s philosophy expressed in an interview with Jonathan Schell in the October 1989 issue of Discover: “We are not scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.” (Quoted by Richard Lindzen [ http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv21n2/read2-98.pdf])