User:Ed Poor/science issues
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On this page I examine whether Liberals or Conservatives are more closely aligned with what scientists say on various issues (mostly environmental ones).
Note that I place the United Nations' IPCC in the Liberal column, because they are not a scientific body, but a political group which is assessing information submitted to them by scientists. Perhaps the UNIPCC's standing is an issue in itself?
| Issue | Liberals | Scientists | Conservatives |
| 1996: anthropogenic global warming | the UNIPCC's "Summary for Policymakers" (SPM): "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." | ||
| 2007: anthropogenic global warming | the UNIPCC's "summary for policy makers": 90% chance that modern warming is mostly man-made | ||
| global warming | "scientific consensus" that it's mostly anthropogenic | "science is not settled" | |
| rising sea levels | Dire, according to Gore's movie | the best estimates of rising sea levels are far less dire than he suggests in his movie (Stephanopoulos, per Lindzen [1] | |
| sea level rise | proof that global warming is man-made | unrelated to human activity | |
| DDT | Must be banned; EPA head did ban it in 1970s | Ban responsible for millions of annual malaria deaths | |
| rising sea levels | proof that global warming is man-made | unrelated to human activity |
the UN climate panel's "Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which was approved by IPCC member governments in Shanghai in January 2001
