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ROGER PIELKE JR.'S BLOG

Science, Innovation, Politics





10 DECEMBER 2009


GUEST POST BY JEAN GOODWIN: WHAT FIRM FOUNDATION?


Jean Goodwin is an Associate Professor of English/Speech Communication at Iowa
State University, and has provided this interesting guest post:


> When Sarah Palin avowed yesterday that she'd "always believed that policy
> should be based on sound science," she was only echoing the hope of many of
> those involved in the IPCC process itself--for example, WGI Chair John
> Houghton, in his preface to the First Assessment Report (1990):
> 
> 
> 
> I am confident that the Assessment and its Summary will provide the necessary
> firm scientific foundation for the forthcoming discussions and negotiations on
> the appropriate strategy for response and action regarding the issue of
> climate change.
> 
> After twenty years of research and reports, have scientists yet produced the
> "basis" or "firm scientific foundation" (one way or the other) on which the
> rest of us can work together to construct a policy response? Check the post
> counts on the New York Time's Copenhagen-related discussion boards, "Climate
> Change Conversations":
> 
> Clean Energy Technology (123)...
> 
> Putting a Price on Carbon (145)
> 
> Prospects for a Treaty (121)
> 
> Rich and Poor Nations (123)
> 
> Science of Global Warming (1153)..
> 
> What Individuals Can Do (201)
> 
> Science "conversation" is outnumbering solution "conversation" by about 2:1,
> and values "conversation" by close to 10:1--and that's among readers of the
> NYT.
> 
> 
> So when we look for a "basis" or "foundation"--something that will stop
> argument--we end up instead with more "conversation"--i.e., more debate. Why?
> Here's one possibility: To promise to provide a "basis" or "foundation" for
> policy is to undertake a very, very large commitment to defend your view in
> the public sphere. But promising to take on all comers only invites your
> adversaries to come out to play. Maybe those of us who favor doing something
> about climate change should admit that our policies aren't going to have a
> "firm foundation" in this, as indeed in most cases--and start arguing about
> values and solutions instead?




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