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Temperatures rising
In climate-change discussions, two Princeton professors go against the grain
By Mark F. Bernstein '83
Published in the March 17, 2010, issue

The issue of climate change, or global warming, has become a rallying cry: The Earth's surface
temperatures are *rising due to increased levels of carbon dioxide and other *greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere, much of it produced by human activity. Unless action is taken, and soon, global
warming could cause crops to fail and sea levels to rise, leading to *widespread social disruptions
and endangering many species of life on the planet. President Obama, who has renewed the American
commitment to combating this problem, declared at the recent United Nations *climate-change
conference in Copenhagen: "Climate change threatens us all."

That's one thing scientists agree on, right? Well, not everyone.
In some quarters, climate change has become almost a civic religion. Like any religion it has its
priests - Al Gore, perhaps - and its holy books - think Gore's An Inconvenient Truth or his more
provocatively titled best-seller, Earth in the Balance. It also has its heretics - doubters - and
not all of them are outside the scientific community. Even among scientists, there are a few who
dispute the certainty that global warming is a looming catastrophe. Two of the most vocal
dissenters are professors in the Princeton physics department: William Happer *64 and Robert
Austin.

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http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2010...7940/index.xml

Temperatures rising
In climate-change discussions, two Princeton professors go against
the grain By Mark F. Bernstein '83
Published in the March 17, 2010, issue

The issue of climate change, or global warming, has become a rallying
cry: The Earth's surface temperatures are *rising due to increased
levels of carbon dioxide and other *greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, much of it produced by human activity. Unless action is
taken, and soon, global warming could cause crops to fail and sea
levels to rise, leading to *widespread social disruptions and
endangering many species of life on the planet. President Obama, who
has renewed the American commitment to combating this problem,
declared at the recent United Nations *climate-change conference in
Copenhagen: "Climate change threatens us all."
That's one thing scientists agree on, right? Well, not everyone.
In some quarters, climate change has become almost a civic religion.
Like any religion it has its priests - Al Gore, perhaps - and its
holy books - think Gore's An Inconvenient Truth or his more
provocatively titled best-seller, Earth in the Balance. It also has
its heretics - doubters - and not all of them are outside the
scientific community. Even among scientists, there are a few who
dispute the certainty that global warming is a looming catastrophe.
Two of the most vocal dissenters are professors in the Princeton
physics department: William Happer *64 and Robert Austin.
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