Goodman refers to the gaps between what she calls "Republican science and Democratic science," and is amazed that "23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe the warming is due to humans, while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it."Well, I hate to bring up facts in a good red-state, blue-state rant, but has she considered that the college-educated Democrats are MUCH less likely to have majored in math, science, and engineering? And, therefore, the college-educated Republicans might actually know something about the science involved? And that might be the basis of their "belief" (hate to use that word - faith is something you believe, no matter what evidence is presented. Science, on the other hand, is a working assumption, based on evidence. It is readily thrown out, if the facts justify it).
Oops! There's that naughty "F" word - FACTS!
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It's particularly instructive that so many meteorologists are skeptical of anthropogenic global warming. (Which is why Heidi Cullen needs to excommunicate the heretics from meteorology.) Meteorology is as close as you can get to climatology, without being part of the politics of climatology. Who's in a better position to judge?
I realize I'm risking the invocation of Godwin's Law here, but the parallels with "Jewish Science" and "German Science" are too obvious not to comment on.
good post :)
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