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Thanks for this important work. Your recognition that "duelling experts" don't represent the story here is of fundamental importance. Like National Geographic's bold stand on global warming, I applaud this work and hope that it awakens our populace to the menace, so that we can bring our prodigious resources and creativity to bear (pun intended).
I truly look forward to reading these stories! It is discouraging, though, that after posting your article only one person has commented (I am the second as far as I know). But this is what we're up against, isn't it? And why this kind of reporting is so important.
I saw the 60 Minute special last night on the Bush Administration's attempts at silencing James Hansen of the Goddard Space Institute. Maybe that will help get people interested as well.
It is a little difficult to see how “healthy scepticism” can be preserved about the premise of global warming affecting ecosystems and economic activity when the study to be undertaken will be working within the general premise that the consensus view that global warming is real and that human activity is a contributory factor. Furthermore, to choose a team of journalists rather than scientists trained in geography, geology or climatology, to report on these claims seems to be further damage the credibility of the stated claims about the objectivity of the study.
