John P. Holdren, the head of Harvard's Program
on Science, Technology and Public Policy and a longtime advocate of prompt curbs in greenhouse gases, sent me a note about the reaction he received after the Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune published his
opinion piece earlier this month asserting that «
climate change skeptics are dangerously
wrong.»
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For example, the constant refrain about how «the consensus» was
wrong about plate tectonics is useful for «skeptics» to exploit - and then argue that the existence of a «consensus»
on climate change isn't meaningful - when they don't also consider just how pervasively we all trust the product of scientists» work, and by extension the power of shared
opinion among experts, as we live our daily lives.