Tag: climate change
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Roundtable: In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
Global warming has become the stuff of history. While politicians and scientists hash out the details and jockey for authority, historians are beginning to integrate contemporary global warming into existing historical narratives. Granted, there have been climate changes in the past, and these have entered the historical record with names such as the Medieval Climate…
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Roundtable: Merchants of Doubt
In his Discourse on Method, René Descartes famously propounded that it was a greater perfection to know than to doubt. Though he acknowledged the value of subjecting any truth to scrutiny, he distanced himself from those who would “doubt only that they may doubt, and seek nothing beyond uncertainty itself.”[1] And yet today who doesn’t…
Jacob Darwin Hamblin 