http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/newinnsdl/2007/07/09/how-do-climate-scientists-know-theyre-not-wrong/ Information about collections recently added to the National Science Digital Library. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:07:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/newinnsdl/2007/07/09/how-do-climate-scientists-know-theyre-not-wrong/#comment-718 New in NSDL » Blog Archive » AMS Environmental Science Seminars Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:38:21 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/newinnsdl/2007/07/09/how-do-climate-scientists-know-theyre-not-wrong/#comment-718 [...] We might mark the June 22, 2007 AMS Seminar as the official end of the argument over whether or not people are heating up the planet. Dr. Naomi Oreskes, an historian of science at the University of California-San Diego, reviewed 928 articles published in refereed journals found none that disputed the theory of human-induced climate change. She showed how the theory has been supported by inductive and deductive methods, by the consilience of evidence from multiple sources, and by successfully withstanding attempts to prove it false. Like any theory, human-induced climate change is an inference, she said, but decades of research have established it as the best explanation. The disagreements scientists now have are over the pace of climate change,the ways in which it will occur, and what its effects will be.  For more on her presentation, see the July 9 post below. [...] […] We might mark the June 22, 2007 AMS Seminar as the official end of the argument over whether or not people are heating up the planet. Dr. Naomi Oreskes, an historian of science at the University of California-San Diego, reviewed 928 articles published in refereed journals found none that disputed the theory of human-induced climate change. She showed how the theory has been supported by inductive and deductive methods, by the consilience of evidence from multiple sources, and by successfully withstanding attempts to prove it false. Like any theory, human-induced climate change is an inference, she said, but decades of research have established it as the best explanation. The disagreements scientists now have are over the pace of climate change,the ways in which it will occur, and what its effects will be.  For more on her presentation, see the July 9 post below. […]

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