[snip] A time to worry. “I’ve been involved in a number of fields where there’s a lay opinion and a scientific opinion,” Princeton engineering professor Robert Socolow tells the New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert. “And, in most of the cases, it’s the lay community that is more exercised, more anxious. If you take an extreme example, it would be nuclear power, where most of the people who work in nuclear science are relatively relaxed about very low levels of radiation. But, in the climate case, the experts–the people who work with the climate models every day, the people who do ice cores–they are more concerned. They’re going out of their way to say, ‘Wake up! This is not a good thing to be doing.’”
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[snip] The last word on Dick Cheney. “It doesn’t matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously,” says William Schultz, the organization’s director. “He doesn’t take torture seriously, he doesn’t take the Geneva Convention seriously, he doesn’t take due process rights seriously, and he doesn’t take international law seriously.”
