Who is right about climate; a guide for non climate scientists
This was published a year ago, but went back to draft for some reason, so here we go again. The red neck remains not entirely convinced that one side or the other was right about climate. What swings me to the agnostic side are things like the University of Alberta's apparent firing (officially she resigned) of their Vice President of Community Relations for daring to suggest that global warming might not be all bad. To put this into context, the University of Alberta is located in Edmonton. Edmonton has the dubious distinction of being the farthest north city of more or less one million population in the western hemisphere. Winters here are long and cold, anyone who can flees south for winter, including many of our birds. Despite all this, Edmontonians in the public eye are supposed to profess that even here warming will be catastrophic or risk their career and reputation. Alberta also has oil and gas, lots of it, including the infamous tar sands. Alberta has long been