This week’s Economist
has an alarming short article about the tremendous loss of ice in Greenland over
the past year. Well, maybe…. It seems
the Economist was a little selective
in what data they reviewed. Readers who
really care might want to read the article What the Economist Didn’t Tell You about Greenland Ice in the Cato Institute Blog. Links to the original Economist articles can be found in the Cato Institute blog posting.
And if the whole global warming issue is a concern to you, you might also want to read the article The Limits of Knowledge and the Climate Change Debate. And perhaps the article A Climate of Science Deception which refutes the government's claim, widely reported in the press, that Atlantic hurricanes have been getting worse, presumably due to global warming, a claim based on presenting a carefully chosen subset of the data. Also their white paper Climate Models and Climate Reality: A Closer Looks at a Lukewarm World.
The Cato Institute's position is that the world is indeed warming (they are not climate change deniers), and that human activity is certainly a contributor to this warming, but that the climate science is nowhere near as certain of the likely outcomes as the press releases would suggest, that the climate models and the economic models built on them, and therefor the policy positions advanced on the basis of these models are highly suspect.
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