Today's WSJ has an Op-Ed piece by former Delaware Governor Pete DuPont on global warming entitled "Don't Be Very Worried" The title is an obvious allusion to Time Magazine's recent "Special Report" on the same topic, entitled, oh so temperately: "Be Worried. Be Very Worried" (The Time Headline actually did have the "very" in red. Isn't that embarassing?)
The DuPont WSJ piece is actually an advertisement for a newly minted report on "Climate Change and Its Impacts" issued by the National Center For Policy Analysis, an organization DuPont himslef heads. I don't know too much about the NCPA, but a brief scan of their other postings makes it pretty clear that it is what the "Angry Left" would characterize as a right wing propaganda machine disquised as a "think tank." Still, the report provides an interesting counterweight to the overheated rhetoric of the Time article. So, if you read and were impressed with the Time article, you owe it to yourself to at least skim the NCPA report as well. It may not convince you not to worry, but it may convince you that it is a complicated issue.
My biggest frustration with the whole global warming debate is how difficult it is to get information that is not suffused with spin. Becuase of the ambiguities in the science, the debate is almost entirely political. As such, nothing you read in the popular press can be entirely trusted.
I'm going to start looking for more nuanced sources of information on this issue, and if any of you have some suggestions in this regard, please pass them on. Just please, please dont refer me to An Incovenient Truth as place to look for unbiased information.
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