Gerson: Whose war on science?

WASHINGTON POST, 12/11/2009 by Michael Gerson (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - "...the hacked climate e-mails reveal a scandal, not a hoax. Even if every question raised in these e-mails were conceded, the cumulative case for global climate disruption would be strong. The evidence is found not only in East Anglian computers but also in changing crop zones, declining species, melting ice sheets and glaciers, thinning sea ice and rising sea levels. No other scientific theory explains these changes as well as global warming related to the rise in greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution. Over millennia, the climate shifts in natural cycles. But we seem to be increasing the pace of change so rapidly that plants, animals and humans may not be able to adequately adjust. Read more at Washington Post...

JDH wrote: Scientists are in the business of creating knowledge. When they jump into politics, they loose their credibility as scientists.