The Human Side of Climate Science - Ian McEwan

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/12/In_Conversation_with_Ian_McEwan

Ian McEwan, author of Solar, delves into the personal elements of climate change. McEwan says that while a science department "is as human and messy as any other institution," in the end "this is not about ideology or faith, it's simply about the facts."

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In Ian McEwan's new novel Solar, the best-selling author of Atonement explores the quest of one overweight and philandering Nobel prize-winning physicist to save the world from environmental disaster. - Los Angeles Public Library

Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including the novels On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; and In Between the Sheets. He lives in London.

David Kipen is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History, and translator of Cervantes' The Dialogue of the Dogs. Until January 2010, Kipen was the Literature Director of the National Endowment of the Arts, where he directed the Big Read and the Guadalajara Book Festival initiatives. He also served from 1998 to 2005 as book critic, and before that book editor, for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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[esmeraldabelgarde]

Excellent video

[mphello]

Lie: that US military soldiers have a "stressful" job.

In reality, they get rich from trillions of dollars in corporate-welfare.

Lie: wikileaks "hurt" anybody or put any soldier at "risk".

Lie: OJ Simpson "killed" anybody.

Fact: human-caused global warming is serious and happening now.

[tarfpir]

@aGlobalWarmingHOAX Thanks for your post. I am so glad to know that I can trust you, and not ANY Academy of Science on the planet.

[MazeleyFanClub]

If you would actually reject the liberal fanatics and really any leftist such as Al Gore, you may then achieve far more success at convincing people that global warming is happening. It is failing because it is seen as just another political issue, where people turn off their minds and start taking sides blindly, when it should not be a political issue at all. It's actually sad and very detrimental that Al Gore (a Democratic VP, and not well-liked at that) has to be such a visible part of it.

[abyssquick]

Clean out your system. Wheatgrass/spirulina juice +lots of fruit for a week. If you can stomach it (lost my tastebuds in the war). Then it's easy to get drunk on only little. Much less expensive.

[thesparitan]

@abyssquick Black & tan is great, I dont have it often I dont know why.

I happen to be a porter an myself but I cant get drunk on beer.

[abyssquick]

I'm a Guiness man. Stout, porter, black & tan. You know. Rich grain stuff.

[thesparitan]

@abyssquick I happen to be very drunk off of french wine SO, whatever I do what I WANT.

I fugured that actually, I knew no one was that stupid. Thank god I was about to go on a killing spree. LOL I get it now.

I am drucnk did I say that already, this is the part where I passt out, bye.

[abyssquick]

You have clearly missed the entire context. Of course we can, and should (and do) study all of those things. That whole part is intended as reverse psychology. I'm putting in perspective the ridiculous "well, it's all changing anyway" argument of jwka2001 - Go back and read our discourse up to that point. Then you'll see what you missed.

[thesparitan]

@abyssquick Are you joking or am I not understanding you, because you sound like the biggest moron even?

Why bother to study it, WOW. I really hope you are joking.