A majority of scientists maintain that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. However, they must be prepared to acknowledge that there is another view, for which evidence can also be adduced, even if it seems to conflict with the received wisdom. The findings of the Oxburgh inquiry are not an excuse for again closing down the climate-change debate to the exclusion of those who take a sceptical attitude to what is arguably the most important issue facing the world.
Today I Learned
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"Beginning in the last decade of the 18th century, firewood output
increased from about 18% of GDP to just under 30% of GDP in the 1830s."
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