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- From: jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Keywords: energy environment press
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.181222@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:12:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.191031.3316@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Rod Anderson) writes:
- # I really don't know why anyone would consider Greenpeace press
- # releases and research to be any less biased than R. J. Reynolds
- # studies that show cigarettes are safe. Greenpeace is a political
- # group that has made up its mind about the lifestyle all of us are to
- # follow. It then commissions studies and research to prove its
- # conclusions. I consider Greenpeace "research " to be on the same
- # level as "research" conducted by General Motors to show cars don't
- # cause pollution. I take "research" done by any political special
- # interest group like Greenpeace with a big grain of salt.
-
- Maybe. However the Global Warming Report was not actually researched by
- Greenpeace. It was commissioned by Greenpeace, and several scientists were
- asked to write sections in the report. The introduction, and the final
- chapter are written by Jeremy Legget the UK Scientific Director of
- Greenpeace. The section in the science of global warming was written by
- Stephen Schneider and draws mainly on the IPCC report on global warming,
- in short this is based on work already done and widely accepted in the
- field. Amory Lovins gave his expertise on energy matters
- to the writing energy efficiency essay. I have seen his research in many
- publications and have seen it confirmed independently by other people
- in other publications. I have no reason to doubt that the figures he
- gives are untrue. Most of the research in this report, is stuff that
- I've seen time and again in other reports from other organisations.The
- sources given do not seem to be biased towards environmentalist groups,
- and is very wide ranging and comprehensive. Each chapter gets around
- 70 odd references, many of which give multiple sources for their data.
- In short, this book at least provides credible sources for the data, and
- draws and the expertise of many scientists who are experts in their
- fields. The pinch of salt is not really needed.
-
- James
-
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