When I saw the subject line I immediately flipped ahead to read what
was being said and in doing so I missed the line indicating who the
author was. However long before I reached the end of the opinion piece
I figured it was warren. Bringing up my browser with a window tab
containing to today's citizen I clicked on the opinion page and found
nothing by warren. Then I did a search of the citizen and nothing
turned up. Since IMO the citizen tends to be in fairly strong favor of
the AGW theory it appears that a good supposition is that it was pulled
for political reasons although they might have had legal concerns.
Unless it truly was legal concerns I find this rather concerning. I
just clicked on the list of columnists and then on David Warrens
picture and low and behold the piece is there after all, so they did
not kill the piece but buried it, of course it could also be a web
glitch which is not uncommon for our paper.
I did find one other site on the web that carried the article.
Even David Warrens own site has not been updated when I last checked,
with the opinion piece:
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
A few observations on Warren:
-he grew up in Pakistan, and as I recall knew one or two of the recent
leaders of Pakistan as children or at university
-he is a Christian (of the RC persuasion as of a few years back)
-he is one of the few columnists of his particular political persuasion
that regularly write for our local paper
Bill Powers summary of the pros and cons of AGW seems pretty good!
I think we need to wait for a better in depth analysis of the contents
of these emails before a real judgment can be made. Yes it looks bad
now but further analysis may change that judgment.
A few months ago it was reported that raw data was being denied to
researchers who do not support AGW. Normal science allows other
scientists to review the data and draw their own conclusions. As I
recall CRU was involved again and they claimed they were given the data
in confidence. Fine then to my mind at least the way to proceed is to
create a well funded group on the inside whose mission is to attempt to
prove AGW false. Maybe naive but I have seen a fair size division of
a large company whose mission essentially became that wrt a large
future development project.
Dave W
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Received on Wed Nov 25 11:23:52 2009