Certainly there have been differences between the various inquiries carried out so far - notably (as Fred Singer correctly reminded me during the week) that they've examined
different areas of climate science.
Some 3 - 4 years ago I started looking at the CET in more detail, ever since Tony and I have exchanged privately views and opinions, not to mention occasional Tony's kind and helpful advise, despite researching in the two totally
different areas of the climate science.
Not exact matches
The reason that this happens is that
science isn't perfect, and someone may measure the nutrition levels
of a certain type
of conventional tomato, for example, compared against a
different type
of organic tomato, grown in a vastly
different geographic
area in vastly
different soils and
climate.
Watts described a friendly two - hour trading
of very
different views on many points
of climate change
science but also on at least a few
areas of common ground on pollution problems and energy choices, including on the value
of household photovoltaic systems, which both men have on their homes.
Even if I were to spend the next decade earning PhDs in two
different scientific disciplines, I'd still be unqualified to evaluate a dozen other
areas of science that play a role in the
climate change debate.
«These results indicate that varying geoengineering efforts by region and over
different periods
of time could potentially improve the effectiveness
of solar geoengineering and reduce
climate impacts in at - risk
areas,» says co-author Ken Caldeira, Senior Scientist in the Department
of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for
Science.