Good editorial urging accurate science not evangelical fervor when discussing our constantly changing climate. -George Allen

Global warming debate depends on scientific data and fearless review, not intellectual warfare
Editorial
The Daily Press

Regardless of where one stands on the global warming debate, reasonable men and women should agree that no one has an ironclad claim on scientific “truth,” which is subject to adjustment as our knowledge and scientific tools advance.

Doubt is a fundamental tool of scientific progress, and incontestable certainty is suspect.

Not three decades ago, Carl Sagan was warning that the world was headed for another Ice Age. Early in the 20th century, many prominent Americans, including Henry Ford, were convinced that eugenics — denying the right of reproduction to anyone whose genes were “weak” — was the way to advance the human race. In the past few weeks, based on their reassessment of the scientific data, a medical advisory panel changed directions on when women should undergo mammograms for cancer prevention, prompting impassioned debate. Global warming, or mankind’s role in creating it, is an important subject for exploration and debate. It must be done with scientific rigor, not evangelical fervor.

Which is why it was alarming to see recent news reports surfacing from a hacker’s attack on the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in England. E-mails printed in the Wall Street Journal show that some of the scientists who believe the evidence points to man-made causes of global warming are guilty of near-dogmatic fervor against their skeptics.

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