tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post111505795393068960..comments2024-03-28T08:41:17.341-04:00Comments on <center> Ralph the Sacred River </center>: "The Curse of Akkad" and Global WarmingEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188482189638751204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1115237044453498322005-05-04T16:04:00.000-04:002005-05-04T16:04:00.000-04:00What should be most interesting to Bibliobloggers ...What should be most interesting to Bibliobloggers about this article is that the main "scientist" cited as challenging global warming is actually a "social scientist" with Exxon connections. Benny Peiser has written on the elimination of <A HREF="http://www.mucjs.org/Peiser.htm" REL="nofollow">blood sacrifice in Judaism</A> as well as the social impact of natural disasters, and contributed to a book partly sponsored by Exxon arguing that we should adapt to climate change, rather than try to moderate or prevent it. He does not do technical study of climate change in the way that any of the NYer scientists or historians do.<BR/><BR/>In upsetting the "fashionable wisdom" about the climate, the Telegraph failed to mention that for some reason.Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08812948018965798765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1115073590945406582005-05-02T18:39:00.000-04:002005-05-02T18:39:00.000-04:00I haven't read her article yet. But I did read th...I haven't read her article yet. <BR/><BR/>But I did read <A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/01/wglob01.xml" REL="nofollow">this</A> just yesterday, which tells me something about global warming and the orthodoxy surrounding it. <BR/><BR/><I>Two of the world's leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming.<BR/><BR/>A British authority on natural catastrophes who disputed whether climatologists really agree that the Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, says his work was rejected by the American publication, Science, on the flimsiest of grounds.</I><BR/><BR/>And so the article continues.Alcibiadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423547067133975294noreply@blogger.com