Kudo’s to Professor/Scientist/Physicist James Wanliss, who teaches a honors course titled “The Politics and Science of Fear” at Embry Riddle University. He has an apparently novel concept; show both sides of the debate. Of course, the Algore global warming believers think the debate is over and only neanderthals don’t get it.
Describing his concerns, Wanliss states,
“I fear that attempts are being made to purposefully subvert the public understanding of the nature of science in order to achieve political goals,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Science is not about consensus, and to invoke this raises the hackles of scientists such as myself. The lure of politics and publicity is no doubt seductive, but it nevertheless amazes me that so many scientists have jumped on the bandwagon of consensus science, apparently forgetting or ignoring the sad history of consensus science.”
After seeing both Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘ followed by ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle‘, one of Wanliss’ students freshman students, Nick Shipley comments,
“After watching ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ I was relatively convinced,” Shipley said one day last month in class. “(Al Gore) did a good job in presenting his points very methodically one after the other. They all build up to essentially prove his point.
“After watching ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle,’ my thinking completely changed,” he said. “I kind of did a complete flip-flop.”
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