On Being Ignorant AND Wrong

Published: Monday, December 27, 2010, 4:24 PM     Updated: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 9:14 AM

By Letters to the editor 
 
In Gordon Fulks' "In My Opinion,"  Climate science: The real reason we need to worry' - he enlightens us about his worldview that global warming is made up. In doing so he impeaches the majority of the world's climate scientists as scammers. By what credentials does he do so -- because he thinks so?
Without knowing it, he also impeaches over 100 Nobel laureates who, as far back as 2001, jointly published a letter warning of the dangers of global warming.
Four years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming is unequivocal and that human activity is the main driver. I could go on. Better just to say this:
Feeling strongly about something does not make you right. Opinion must be based on fact, not just conviction. Discovering fact takes hard work and preparation. Everyone has an opinion -- few earn it. Even fewer are right. Climate scientists have earned their opinions through years of education and hard work. Fulks has not.
And he is wrong.