[escepticos] los limites del debate cientifico

[jmbello]

Hello Carlos,

Monday, October 22, 2007, 1:08:23 AM, you wrote:

CU> Por si alguien llegara a leer lo anterior, me deje de poner las  
CU> causas por las que el Dr. Reiter abandono el IPCC:

Pusiste unas, que son las que dijo él. Pero es posible (casi siempre
ocurre) que haya otras que se deja en el tintero.

Por ejemplo:

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Paul Reiter

Paul Reiter, director of the Insects and Infectious Diseases Unit at
the Institute Pasteur, was identified as a "[b]iologist[]" and "an
active skeptic of global warming's effects." The article did not
report that Reiter also has extensive connections to the oil and gas
industry. For instance, he is listed as a member of the "Science and
Economic Advisory Council" to the Annapolis Center for Science-Based
Public Policy. ExxonSecrets.org calculated that the Annapolis Center
has received nearly $700,000 from Exxon Mobil since 1998, based on
ExxonSecrets.org analysis, the site reports, of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s
corporate documents and tax filings. The Competitive Enterprise
Institute (CEI), a conservative think tank, also lists Reiter as one
of the organization's "CEI Experts." As Media Matters has noted, CEI
is a conservative institution largely funded by the energy industry
and has received substantial funding from the fossil fuel industry,
including more than $2 million from the Exxon Mobil Corp. since 1998.
According to the weblog Think Progress, Exxon no longer provides
funding to CEI. On March 19, 2006, The Washington Post further
reported: "The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely
publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically
because of the burning of coal and oil, says Exxon Mobil Corp. is a
'major donor' largely as a result of its effort to push that
position."

Reiter has also been published in Tech Central Station daily, which
from 2000 to October 2006, was run by the Republican lobbying firm
DCI, and according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), DCI is
also a "registered ExxonMobil lobbying firm." UCS further reported
that "Tech Central Station contributors on the global warming issue
are the familiar spokespeople from ExxonMobil-funded organizations,
including Sallie Baliunas, Robert Balling, David Legates, Patrick
Michaels, Willie Soon, George Taylor, and others," and additionally
has received at least $93,000 in funding from Exxon. According to an
October 27, 2006, ABC News report, in a joint letter, Sens. Olympia
Snowe (R-ME) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) called upon Exxon to cease
funding organizations "whose public advocacy has contributed to the
small but unfortunately effective climate change denial myth." In
their letter, according to ABC News, "[t]he senators singled out the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, and the
Tech Central Station Web site as beneficiaries of Exxon's efforts to
sow doubt within the public about the scientific consensus behind
global warming." (For full report, please refer to the January 3 UCS
press release and click on "Full Report" PDF link.)

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Supongo que, como en la anterior ocasión, tampoco dirás nada de esto.
Simplemente, te quedas con los datos que te gustan y evitas los que te
resultan desagradables. Suspongo que así vivirás más tranquilo, pero
créeme si te digo que no es serio. Es bueno no olvidar que toda
balanza tiene dos platillos, y ambos deben ser usados. Si se quiere
llegar a conocer la realidad, claro.

Saludos

JM