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Poles Apart

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The effort by Gareth Morgan is relatively unique in the literature. He is a professional investor with the resources to actually obtain scientific advice from both sides, and he presents an entertaining explanation of the two "poles" of the anthropogenic global warming debate. Showing on the one hand, why there is trouble with the hockey stick and on the other, why there is no significance to the order in which warming and CO2 occur at the end of an ice-age. He balances the argument. In keeping with the author's apparent wishes, I will not reveal the conclusion he reaches.

I do however, commend him on the accuracy and simplicity with which he explains the most complex public policy problem in the history of the human species.

One point he makes which can be (I think) revealed is that the IPCC reports are not well written in terms of the average reader, and that there is no media entity or mechanism to make it accessible to them. His comparison is the Latin of the old Catholic church, spoken with the back turned to the congregation. He explains well.