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In ordinary usage, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to look about, to consider) refers to
- an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object,
- the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain, or
- the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism that is characteristic of skeptics (Merriam–Webster).
In philosophy, skepticism refers more specifically to any one of several propositions. These include propositions about
- the limitations of knowledge,
- a method of obtaining knowledge through systematic doubt and continual testing,
- the arbitrariness, relativity, or subjectivity of moral values,
- a method of intellectual caution and suspended judgment,
- a lack of confidence in positive motives for human conduct or positive outcomes for human enterprises, that is, cynicism and pessimism (Keeton, 1962).
In classical philosophy, skepticism refers to the teachings and the traits of the Skeptikoi, a school of philosophers of whom it was said that they "asserted nothing but only opined" (Liddell and Scott). In this sense, philosophical skepticism, or pyrrhonism, is the philosophical position that one should avoid the postulation of final truths. Turned on itself, skepticism would deny that it is infallibly certain that skepticism is the only basic perspective.
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in ter est ing -- "Climate Change Skeptics Get to Say 'I told you so!'" http://bit.ly/5kWr1Z
bmay100 (bmay100) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:03:00 -0000
in ter est ing -- "Climate Change Skeptics Get to Say 'I told you so!'" http://bit.ly/5kWr1Z
Q: How many climate skeptics does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. It's too early to say if the bulb needs changing.
howiechong (Howie Chong) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:47:59 -0000
Q: How many climate skeptics does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. It's too early to say if the bulb needs changing.
I am so massively over climate change skeptics... Antarctica is disappearing while they concoct insane consp
Environmental Policy Project - Founded by atmospheric physicist and global-warming skeptic S. Fred Singer; press releases, news articles, scientific studies and other materials available.
Meta Description: [ a public policy institute promoting sound science ]
ACCF Climate Change Studies and Reports - Reports and testimonies before Congress on the economics of climate change policy from the American Council for Capital Formation.
Meta Description: [ The links below lead to ACCF special reports and Congressional Testimonies regarding climate change. ]
Bjørn Lomborg - Author of The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse.
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change - Skeptical of possible negative effects, the center is a non-profit organization specializing in the online publication of scientific research and education developments related to the rising CO2 content of earth's atmosphere.
Climate Change Menu - Questions if people are really causing climate change.
Competitive Enterprise Institute: Global Warming - Index of CEI research papers, opinion articles, speeches, and other publications on climate change, the Kyoto Treaty, and related topics.
Friends of Science - Offers critical scientific evidence, including a five-piece video, that challenges the premises of the Kyoto Protocol, and presents alternative causes of climate change.
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Global Climate Coalition - Lobby group formed in 1989 to provide a voice for industry - and in particular the oil industry - in the debate on climate change and global warming. Seeks to discredit human-induced climate change theories and argue against CO2 reduction.
Global Warming Hotline - National Center for Policy Analysis site contains hundreds of documents on global warming and the implications of climate change treaties.
Global Warming Lecture from the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine - A 52-minute video lecture noting the absence of deleterious effects due to global warming. [Requires RealPlayer 5.0 or better]
Meta Description: [ Global Warming Lecture ]
Global Warming Petition Project - Signed by over 19,000 scientists, this petition calls for the US government to reject the Kyoto Protocol.
Meta Description: [ Home Global Warming Petition We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals ]
GlobalWarming.org - Home page of the Cooler Heads Coalition, claims that myths and flawed analyses are presented by global-warming doomsayers.
Meta Description: [ Cooler Heads Coalition is an international group of non-profit organizations dedicated to smarter thinking on the subject of global warming and climate change ]
Guide to Global Warming - Questions and Answers on Climate Change - Questions and answers to basic global warming questions, from the George C. Marshall Institute.
Man and Environment - A short page which questions the harm in environmental change.
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Newsweek - The Cooling World - Newsweek article from 1975 on the dangers of Global Cooling.
Russia's Chief Economic Adviser Says Cost of Kyoto Too Great - ICCF - Dr. Andrei Illarionov, Pres. Vladimir Putin's chief economic adviser, delivers a presentation called The Kyoto Protocol: An Assault on economic growth, environment, public safety, science and human civilization itself.
Meta Description: [ Russia would have an economy the size of Estonia," Dr. Illarionov "added. ]
Skepticism - Global Warming - Links to articles and resources skeptical of claims made by environmentalists about global warming.
Still Waiting For Greenhouse - Non-believers in global warming present evidence to show that global warming has been grossly exaggerated.
The Global Warming Information Center - Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research; fact sheets, media kits, research, and links critical of the manmade climate change orthodoxy.
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